The crux of the matter is, veganism is a consumer activity. It is ultimately an attempt to change capitalism and human civilization through the exercise of one’s privileges as a consumer. This is an impossible approach.

Are there really all these vegans who presume their choice is going to change the food economy? For me, its a choice (one which obviously takes a significant amount of privilege to make) to not participate in a particular facet of capitalism (the meat and feminized animal product industries) because I find it particularly despicable. I am not under any illusions about the wider effect of that choice. Its not an environmentalist choice, and its not an activist choice. It has nothing to do with the morality of animal product consumption in any other context.

I find the anarchist critiques of vegetarianism and veganism fairly dull/repetitive. Which is not to say that they aren’t useful anyway.