The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Jail should accommodate a vegan diet

    I think that should go without saying, and the real question is why isn’t it the default? Why are we bothering to give prisoners (inherently relatively expensive/less sustainable) meat or dairy to begin with?

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      1 year ago

      Because meat isn’t taxes properly so that having a decent meat based diet is cheaper than having a decent plant based one

      Sure there are a lot of cheap vegan meals, too, but some of them are harder and/or take longer to prepare than cheap meat-based food

      I’d guess the dairy/meat lobby would complain a lot of they didn’t have people forced to eat their stuff in prison

      Id guess it’s a very nice baseline of product-sales