So, is it okay to buy a product if it is vegan but is owned by a company that isn't? Regardless, the money goes to the company, right? I just want to make sure..if anyone knows. If you buy a vegan product does it send a message to the company that the product is popular? Like "Oh, so maybe we should make all our products vegan if they're this popular"
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Sorry, I'm not very good at explaining things
I don't think we can get too extreme about it, like only shopping at organic vegan supermarkets (other than the radical ggrocery store tell me one?)...
We just have to think like we do abot veganism... if everyone went vegan how many animals would be killed... 0.
Just like say you only by plain smiths chips and everyone only buys plain smiths chips... smiths will either only sell plain chips or make all their flavours vegan.
ahh, i was just wondering this myself earlier...
i guess it comes down to personal choice really. personally i support buying vegan products from largely cruel companies, as it does show them that there is a (hopefully large) demand for cruelty-free products i think boycotting the entire company would be counter-productive in the long run.
apologies for my inadequate expression, i am not very articulate
I wouldn’t worry too much about buying a vegan product from a company that produces a non-vegan product. Companies rely on supply and demand; when the demand goes up for vegan products, so does the supply. If people only bought the vegan side of things, there would be no use for the non-vegan products, and so, the production of those non-vegan products would cease.
However, I think animal testing is a totally different issue, whether conducted by the company or parent company (e.g. body shop / L'Oreal). Like the Mars company, no matter if you buy a "vegan" product (keeping only to the diet sense of the word), you would still be supporting animal testing.
i think boycotting the entire company would be counter-productive in the long run.
