u/Peak-Legacy14

I want to see what vegans say to my point that I'm about to raise, and also l'll pose the question after you've read the whole point below of how/whether you believe buying whey is contributing to animal exploitation in the current market.

The point I want to bring up is that cheese can't be made without whey automatically being filtered out when cheese is made, regardless of whether the producers want whey to come out or not.

So when people buy whey, they're not contributing to more milk having to be produced from cows, since the milk is being used to make cheese, and whey just naturally comes out when cheese is made.
So isn't the demand for milk in that situation only coming from those buying cheese?

In some alternative universe where more people buy whey than cheese, and they were throwing away cheese because of how much whey is being sold, then l'd obviously say whey contributes to net-milk production and therefore animal exploitation because they'd be milking cows specifically for whey, but that's not the case in the real world, far more cheese is bought than whey, so they milk cows for cheese, then whey comes out and it then either gets wasted, or it can be bought.

So people who buy whey are basically just buying that which would've been thrown away when cheese is made, and the demand for cheese is coming from those who buy cheese.

So with that said, if whey is the only dairy one buys, how would you say they're still contributing to animal exploitation?

How would you answer this from your own personal perspective?

We’re not talking specifically about DNA percentages, as it’d be hard to quantity at what point someone is ‘white’ or ‘indigenous’ etc, so that’s why it’s gonna down to how you as an individual identify in this regard.

For example, someone may be 73% European (white) & 27% indigenous, but identify as white, but someone else may be 79% European (white) & 21% Indigenous, but identify as mestizo, so it all comes down to your individual self-identification.

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What’s your opinion on this?

How would you identify in this regard?

Of course most Hondurans have Sub-Saharan African DNA, but if it’s only a small fraction, so you may still identify as Mestizo for example, and maybe Pardo if it’s a relatively large fraction of your DNA, but it all depends on the individual’s identification.

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