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US-taxpaying vegans are forced to finance livestock subsidies. Has there been any effort to counter that? (self.vegan)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by activistPnk to c/vegan

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If you’re a vegan in the US but you pay tax, part of your tax contribution goes toward livestock farming subsidies. So in effect you are forced to support unethical treatment of animals.

So I have to wonder-- have vegans attempted to fight for the right to be fully vegan and thus requested to opt-out of those subsidies? In principle, it seems a vegan should be able to tick on a box on their tax forms saying “I was vegan this whole tax year” and the result should be a tax credit that reimburses their share of the livestock subsidies the gov pays every year using public money.

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[–] activistPnk 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think a lot more political debate similar to this has been voiced and argued about parentless adults being required to pay taxes to support schools.

I would not imagine they would be able to counter the point that they themselves had a right to attend school and so it would be a bit rich that they attempt to defund something that they at least had the option to benefit from (and likely did go to school in most cases).