“You can eat meat…You can love animals. But you can’t do both.”

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“Becoming vegan wasn't, like, a huge deal for me because meat was never a thing in my life,” she added. “It wasn't like I missed meat — it wasn't like I had something to miss.”

I’d argue that being vegan is a privilege due to the fact that having choice over what food you consume is a privilege in itself. It also requires sufficient nutritional education to adopt a plant-based diet sustainably and healthily. However, when it comes to costs, studies have shown that plant-based, whole-food diets can be much cheaper than meat-based diets.