[bjoli]

Are you thinking of "the Paris exemption"? The reasoning goes like so: if it is easier for you to be a 99% vegan if you every couple of months allow yourself to eat a fancy egg and cheese omelet in a Paris restaurant.

That kind of life is preferable to not being vegan. I think it is a realistic perspective instead of an idealistic one.

The same goes for meatless Mondays. If you get one population to eat vegan food on Mondays, it is as if you turned one seventh of them full vegan.

I have been vegan for 12 years, and telling people it is not about being 100% pure, but about striving towards 100%. That is probably that made me stay 99% vegan in bum-fuck-nowhere northern Sweden the first couple of years.

[FrustratedMonky]

Yeah. I often find this line of reasoning mostly on the Right/Republican. If someone can't be 100% pure, like 100% vegan, or 100% recycle, then just give up. IF you eat one hamburger a year, then you are at total failure and hypocrite, so just go ahead and eat a rack of ribs every day. Like there is no concept of just trying to be better, moving the dial even a few % is still better than nothing.