[jamesgagan]

I have been actively trying to reduce my ecological footprint because I believe climate change is real. I don't feel it's a matter of "personal choice" at this point. The way we live has a profound impact on the planet, and we all need to try and reduce that impact in any way we can. I realize this is a message people don't want to hear, but I believe they need to hear it. Going vegan and flying less are two of the biggest changes an individual can make.

[malvosenior]

> I don't feel it's a matter of "personal choice" at this point.

Unless you're suggesting forcing people by law to be vegan, then it most definitely is a personal choice.

> I realize this is a message people don't want to hear, but I believe they need to hear it.

It's precisely that attitude that ensures no one will ever listen to what you have to say.

[NeedMoreTea]

Yet your diet isn't solely personal choice.

Was it your personal choice to cut down rain forest to raise beef cattle, or palm oil? What about air freighting in fruit and veg that common sense says comes on a ship? No?

Your diet is small part personal choice, within the far larger part played by cultural mores and market-led financial choices imposed by producers and supermarkets. You can't escape the part played by billions on advertising, and the choices of restaurants and supermarkets that led to your "personal choice".

"The market" is not going to phase out ecologically reckless methods unless people stop buying. Yet how can they when that detail, very intentionally, never appears on the label, and 365 day availability ensures almost no one remembers when things are in season any more?

So much for personal choice.