This is an extremely “EA” request from me but I feel like we need a word for people (i.e. me) who are Vegans but will eat animal products if they’re about to be thrown out. OpportuVegan? UtilaVegan?
If you predictably do this, you raise the odds that people around you will cook some/ buy some extra food so that it will be “thrown out”, or offer you food they haven’t quite finished (and that they’ll replace with a snack later. So I’d recommend going with “Vegan” as your label, for practical as well as signalling reasons.
This is an extremely “EA” request from me but I feel like we need a word for people (i.e. me) who are Vegans but will eat animal products if they’re about to be thrown out. OpportuVegan? UtilaVegan?
Freegan
I think the term I’ve heard (from non-EAs) is ‘freegan’ (they’ll eat it if it didn’t cause more animal products to be purchased!)
This seems close enough that I might co-opt it :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism
If you predictably do this, you raise the odds that people around you will cook some/ buy some extra food so that it will be “thrown out”, or offer you food they haven’t quite finished (and that they’ll replace with a snack later.
So I’d recommend going with “Vegan” as your label, for practical as well as signalling reasons.
Yeah this is a good point, which I’ve considered, which is why I basically only do it at home.