People are afraid to change. They turn a blind eye to the suffering of animals and the planet (willful ignorance) because they think becoming vegan would destroy their social life. They are afraid to stand out. What will happen with their relationships with friends and family. Will they be perceived as a hostile out-group? Or make life hard for everyone around them?

This is what I think is stopping people who can even agree with veganism philosophically. If they aren’t open-minded they will simply cling to the any justification for carnism possible.

The fears I’ve listed are not hard to overcome, it’s privileged and selfish to not even try. But the main point it’s social fears that’s stopping people.

Ok that makes sense. I see now that the places listed in Uddevalla have all been tagged as diet:vegan=yes by me on OSM, which I have not been equating with “vegan friendly”, it means more like 1 or more vegan item, or like can I visit this place and have some kind of valuable experience? Vegan friendly is kind of strongly worded for a lot of those places, which makes me consider using diet:vegan=limited but that tag is not very popular and a lot of people want to get rid of it. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:diet:vegan

I reread the OSM wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diet:vegan and it says for diet:vegan=yes “The establishment usually offers a decent amount of vegan products.” And by that definition I may have been mapping thing wrong, but I still want people to know that they can get at least SOME value out of some place. Maybe using the limited is a part of the solution, and maybe PlantsPack can be used to provide some nuance.

PS you should add directions for OSM linked alongside google maps and apple maps links.

I live in the small town of Uddevalla, Sweden. I was surprised to see 7 places show up, all added by PlantsPack Team. However I did not feel it was accurate and I wonder what data you’re based off? It sadly doesn’t seem to be openstreetmap data, which would have made the town 99% mapped because I have personally added almost every restaurant on there! I really think you should focus more on openstreetmap as the foundation, it is free and open and more empowering to the user than google maps.

Okay I see how that could be really useful! Especially for international communities.

What does it do? Is it like lemmy explorer?

It really goes well with popcorn i’ve discovered aswell. The other day I even put it on buttered bread instead of cheese, was super delicious actually!

Good to see. Coconut oil is in so many processed vegan products, so it would be big bonus for peoples health if it was replaced by something better.