What I love about hippos is that they are too heavy to swim, they basically sink to the bottom where they walk and eat all the vegetation
Fun fact: weight isn’t what causes one to sink; density is
Tell that to my poor, fat, dumb, old mom… I found out from a concerned stranger that she was working at the m&m factory and lost her job! I should probably call her.
And they basically jump from the bottom to surface, which they can do very quickly
Honestly I think it’s usually just because you are getting in a hippo’s way and they get pissy but like 3-ton muscle chonk pissy. I’d imagine to genuinely be hated by a hippo you have to have way more dedication.
Wouldn’t they be vegan? I assume they don’t consume dairy or eggs.
Vegetarian is the dietary restriction, Vegan is more of a moral stance. As is, the definition of Vegan that most go by isn’t about not eating any animal products, but about reducing animal exploitation and harm as far as possible and practicable. I don’t think Hippos have any issue with harming anyone haha
Also, fun fact: The original definition of Vegetarian actually did exclude eating dairy or eggs. The Vegetarians that did eat those were called Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarian, but there were so many of them that the term got abbreviated to just Vegetarian, which basically made Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarians the default definition. Language is fun like that
But then the language also changed to vegan meaning no meat no dairy no eggs because it’s written on products meaning exactly this and not meaning a moral stance of the product or the producer.
Kinda! The Yellow V-Label actually does have more components to it than just what the food is made of. For example, coconut milk that is made from coconuts that were harvested by trained monkeys would not receive that label. Neither would products that use animal products in their packaging (like Casein-based glue).
The term a lot of labelling actually prefers nowadays is “Plant-based”. That term only refers to whether the product itself contains animal derivatives and nothing more and has much less legal protection.There’s also a weird bonus safeguard in place - Donald Watson, the guy who coined the term “vegan” did so specifically because he was pissed about Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarians changing the meaning of the word. Most vegans are aware of that, and do take care to not change the meaning any further
You seem to be wrong about the packaging criteria:
Packaging
The V-Label does not exclude products whose packaging contains animal-derived products. However, companies are encouraged to voluntarily avoid using packaging containing animal-derived products.
Oh, good to know! :o I guess I misremembered it
Hey I remember that!
Turns out I wasn’t crazy or had bad memory, it was the definition that changed over time 🤣
“Get out of the water, kids, the omelette is done!”
do vegans kill wantonly?
Depends on who is giving us unwanted health advice about our diet.
Herbivores*
How has no one said this yet? All this talk about what defines they eat and not one person who said the most obvious thing, something that everyone should know.
