Being Spanish this is specially true. "My" traditions are of torturing a bull inside a ring in front of an audience, so FUCK those traditions.

Just gonna casually use this moment as an excuse to show off my people's traditional foods

Manoomin (wild rice)

Three sisters, squash, and

Capitalism, colonialism, and wars of aggression are all core pillars of American culture, but nobody on Hexbear would say you're obligated to respect that.

It makes sense to me that, as someone with no context for someone else's cultural practices, I'm probably not the best person to advocate for change in that specific situation.

The most prolific forms of animal agriculture are obviously more destructive to culture and human life than almost anything on this planet. "The west wasn't won on salads" as they say. So anyone in a moral panic over culturally insensitive vegans doesn't actually care.

I always found this argument silly because there has never been a truly vegan culture in this planet's history anyway.

Even if there were, what this post is saying applies.

If it's a sustainable practice that is in balance with nature, I keep my mouth shut. It's incredibly rare and only practiced by small groups who are almost always disadvantaged afaik.

If the "family traditions" are simply exploitative and unsustainable modern animal agriculture, then I tend to feel fine speaking up.

I've seen attacks on indigenous practices that I don't agree with - I figure, why not go pick on mass ag instead where the suffering is unfathomable. (edit: but I won't tone police others.) On the other hand, I've also seen people claim the modern WASP diet of farmed steaks 5 nights a week is their ancestor's typical diet.

I don't want to play judge so I just focus on the immorality and unsustainability of exploitative mass animal agriculture and leave it at that. I figure it's hard to be insensitive to long-standing traditions when I'm only criticizing a development that occurred in the past 100 years.

Good faith question: who is quoted saying culture dictates morality?

I've never heard of this actually being said by someone arguing with a vegan in good faith. They always say "so are you going to tell the native Americans to stop their cultural hunting practices?" when I'm asking a fellow to please just buy beans at Walmart instead. They point to like a single person on Twitter who comments about Inuit seal hunting and think that means vegans are targeting indigenous groups in any sort of coordinated campaign.