ok so i don’t really understand the sj/feminist/whatever framework beyond what ive seen on tumblr and have no interest in doing so, so i might be using the words wrong
however
veganism/vegitarianism is not a privilege. it is associated with rich people, but it’s not actually expensive. grain is cheap, meat is $$$. veganism* can be human-capital-expensive; junk food is easier to procure and eat, etc., etc., but the concept of being “too poor to be vegan” is confused.
i am not a vegan because i am a moral nihilist and see no need to be. i would be willing to eat human flesh were it not socially unacceptable/psychologically a bad idea/likely to get me sent to jail
the idea of saving animals by being a vegan is basically homeopathy anyway if the counterfactual is buying meat from stores that buy it from larger suppliers that but it from… certainly if an animal is already dead and nobody will know you are of it no harm is done.
but anyway, if you think veganism is a moral imperative and aren’t a vegan, look into things like ordering grain in bulk online
I mostly agree on the privilege thing except it is true that being vegetarian has a social cost that varies depending on the community you’re in and that’s definitely correlated with wealth
as someone who’s tried to eat vegetarian at restaurants in rural Indiana and ended up eating salad and fries for dinner, I can see why someone from rural Indiana would get annoyed at someone from an urban Blue Tribe enclave being like “but it’s so easy to be vegetarian, every restaurant has at least five clearly marked vegetarian options!”
also being vegan doesn’t really save animals, I think the main reason to do it is if you think animals on factory farms have lives not worth living and you want to reduce demand for animal products thereby preventing some of them from being born in the first place
(main utilitarian reason that is, most vegans are probably so for non-utilitarian reasons)