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US-taxpaying vegans are forced to finance livestock subsidies. Has there been any effort to counter that? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/vegan@slrpnk.net

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If you’re a vegan in the US but you pay tax, part of your tax contribution goes toward livestock farming subsidies. So in effect you are forced to support unethical treatment of animals.

So I have to wonder-- have vegans attempted to fight for the right to be fully vegan and thus requested to opt-out of those subsidies? In principle, it seems a vegan should be able to tick on a box on their tax forms saying “I was vegan this whole tax year” and the result should be a tax credit that reimburses their share of the livestock subsidies the gov pays every year using public money.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

I think you might be able to argue academically that vegans have a right not to subsidize livestock industries there, but let's be honest for a second and see that this clause is entirely violated every goddamn day in the US for many many groups of marginalized people.

And I don't see that changing very soon either.