So I have recently gotten interested in home plant based meat substitutes like seitan and this guy pops up every time I look for recipe guides on Youtube and I have noticed a few red flags. As an example, he has like 20 different hamburger recipes that all use wildly different ingredients while claiming they are all better tasting than Impossible meat. And of those recipes, most use highly processed or sponsored ingredients that are difficult to get.
I mean if you want the movement to die then go right ahead, because that applies to all influencers and professional advocates.
We as a community (this lemmy comm is for a discord server) are staunchly against all influencers, celebrity worship and businesses who would use veganism and animal rights to grow their businesses to support non vegans. Celebrity worship is toxic. This includes by extension plant-based meats by meat companies. Come into the discord server if you want to learn more about how these companies use marketing and horizontal segmentation and how it works to grow the consumption of animal products with vegan brands. We do not support any businesses here and use generic names as much as possible in our posts for this reason.
https://stevebizblog.com/how-to-crush-the-competition-with-horizontal-segmentation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VeganForCircleJerkers/comments/q5hkq2/comment/hg63z3b
Which movement? Plant based capitalism or veganism? Veganism will do just fine.
Veganism is more than just not eating animal products. If it’s not anti-speciest, it’s not vegan.
Hamid’s reply has some good information in it. If people find his videos and recipes useful, then great! But I certainly don’t hold influencers in high regards. Their job is engagement and selling.