Did they not realize redditors will do it for free, le epic bacon style

Vegan bashing has always been significantly more cringe than anything vegans actually say. This news certainly entrenches it.

This piece evokes in me vacillating layers of frustration, amusement, and admiration.

The whistleblower has chosen to stay anonymous and says they signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement, so they can’t reveal the company’s name. This means there’s no way to to independently verify whether the story is true.

The whistleblower themselves reminded readers:

“You don’t know if I’m telling the truth. That’s part of my point. Be skeptical of everything online and consider sources. Are they credible? You have every right to be skeptical of me. If you are skeptical of me, and others, then I have done my service in making people smarter and better protected from scams and frauds.”

I have my suspicions that this was well-crafted agitprop by one or more clever vegans, but I’ll never really know. I’d think that the work would have been farmed out to somewhere for less pay. But online disinformation campaigns absolutely are real, and the tactics they claim were used sound very in-line with corporate disinformation tactics, and we’ve all heard them used before. It’s some of the same tactics that carnists will use without anyone paying them, because they have their own intrinsic motivations to disparage veganism.

In the end it doesn’t much matter whether the story is true because it may as well be true. It went viral on a vegan blog and not some corporate media body with a reputation to protect (though honestly their reputations are already shot).

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Most major industries are doing this to discredit their opposition. You’ve simply gotta think for yourself and assume most of whats out there is bullshit.

My personal conspiracy theory is that the gluten free craze a couple years back, where they tried convincing everyone regardless of Celiac status to go gluten free for their “health,” was the meat and/or diary industry feeling threatened by seitan being a thing and trying to paint it as evil and nip any ideas of it being someone’s actual primary protein source in the bud.

Same with the “soy makes men grow boobs and become feminine” thing.

Can’t have people realizing that plants are also a source of protein and have been throughout human history. Gotta keep up the illusion that animals and protein are synonyms.

Fair enough, I usually get 20€/hr to promote it, hehe

Beat you to it for once, @Shailu45@lemmy.world

How do u even get a job offer like this ? 8chan ?

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