Refusing plant-based food to inmates is a way for the state to scare people away from practicing civil disobedience, to say: laws matter, ethics doesn’t, and we’ll force you to do unethical things just to punish you for interfering with us doing unethical things in a way we codified as the law. Denying temporarily incapacitated people (students, inmates, patients) plant-based foods is also a way to put pressure on them to conform and not question any unethical decisions made at the top of the hierarchy; you don’t conform - we punish you by making it impossible to eat together with your peers multiple years in a row. It can’t even be explained post factum as a cost-cutting measure, because the state heavily subsidizes people breeding animals to kill and eat them; it’s either a conscious or an ignorant (which is inexcusable for public representatives, as it’s their job to learn and support the needs of everyone they represent) decision to bully certain groups of people whom it’s socially acceptable to bully.
Refusing plant-based food to inmates is a way for the state to scare people away from practicing civil disobedience, to say: laws matter, ethics doesn’t, and we’ll force you to do unethical things just to punish you for interfering with us doing unethical things in a way we codified as the law. Denying temporarily incapacitated people (students, inmates, patients) plant-based foods is also a way to put pressure on them to conform and not question any unethical decisions made at the top of the hierarchy; you don’t conform - we punish you by making it impossible to eat together with your peers multiple years in a row. It can’t even be explained post factum as a cost-cutting measure, because the state heavily subsidizes people breeding animals to kill and eat them; it’s either a conscious or an ignorant (which is inexcusable for public representatives, as it’s their job to learn and support the needs of everyone they represent) decision to bully certain groups of people whom it’s socially acceptable to bully.