Going “I am a lacto-bovitarian for the animals because of the inherent uncertainty of nutritional science I’ve calculated that this is the best way to maximize my impact” sounds more like a ACX bay area house party story than something that will make the average person question their own impact.
You don’t really have to explain in this much detail. I was vegan with some exceptions for a while and mostly didn’t bother explaining the exceptions to people (for example, if my mom got eggs from one of her friends’ back yards to make Thanksgiving pie). A friend still tells people he’s vegetarian because it’s not really worth the effort to explain all of the weird edge cases.
This makes sense honestly. I guess you would still run the risk of a non-vegan seeing you do these things and going “ha! hypocrite!” but I don’t know how real that risk is honestly.
Yeah, my friends who knew about the exceptions didn’t care at all. The only case where I think it would be a problem is hiding your exceptions from someone you’re trying to convert. If you don’t actually eat a fully vegan diet, convincing other people to do that based on your example is misleading. But that’s presumably a less common thing where explaining the details and why is worth it (and will likely help you convince people since it shows you’ve actually thought it through).
You don’t really have to explain in this much detail. I was vegan with some exceptions for a while and mostly didn’t bother explaining the exceptions to people (for example, if my mom got eggs from one of her friends’ back yards to make Thanksgiving pie). A friend still tells people he’s vegetarian because it’s not really worth the effort to explain all of the weird edge cases.
This makes sense honestly. I guess you would still run the risk of a non-vegan seeing you do these things and going “ha! hypocrite!” but I don’t know how real that risk is honestly.
Yeah, my friends who knew about the exceptions didn’t care at all. The only case where I think it would be a problem is hiding your exceptions from someone you’re trying to convert. If you don’t actually eat a fully vegan diet, convincing other people to do that based on your example is misleading. But that’s presumably a less common thing where explaining the details and why is worth it (and will likely help you convince people since it shows you’ve actually thought it through).