Traveler was denied vegan food, stayed hungry during flight
I came through a news recently a passenger who was a animal rights activist was flying for some meetings to and fro.
During the to flight the menu had Vegan food and it was all normal but suddenly in fro flight the menu was changed.
Airline says they stopped serving vegan food due to less demand and have only Veg and Non - Veg.
And the passenger raised the issue at many platforms saying he had to stay hungry and faced health issues due to this.
I am just curious what would have you done in this case, and do you think they over-hyped the matter to promote vegan food ?
With very strict dietary needs, I always bring food with me wherever I go.
However, being vegan is more of a social statement. Where, for the most part, vegetarian is fine (close substitute) to maintain one's health. So, this person purportedly jeopardized their health for a statement. A statement that most around them probably ignored.
To some people, animals are people.
Thus, to own an animal is to own a person.
If you knew a product was made with slave labor, would you want it?
If it was made from the corpses or body-fluids of enslaved beings, would you want it? Or would it be immoral?
I think it's a battle that shan't be won, for we must eat something, and all beings, plant, insect, mammal, or fungus, or anything else, they all have a will to live.
To violate a being's desire to live is normal.
It's normal to eat living things, so I don't think this issue means very much, except that people are ok with violating other people's moral codes, as well as ok with enslaving intelligent animals, as long as they are less intelligent than a human.
I dunno much detail about this particular incident. Can you give more detail like the name of airlines and the route? Since vegans are a small minority at present, such discrimination and insensitivity towards them is quite common. It's very wrong ...or rather criminal on the part of airlines if it commits to serve vegan meals and put it on its menu but then refuses to serve it.
What kind of society are we heading to? The people in the hospitality industry are unable to offer food to hungry human beings despite being paid for it! Raising such issues can not be termed as a hype, in fact these should be raised and discussed widely. Such insensitivity & cruelty towards a fellow human shouldn't be tolerated at all!