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.

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    Jail should accommodate a vegan diet, but it also seems like they are to some extent. PB sandwiches are food. As long as he can cobble together a nutritionally complete diet, it isn’t cruel to have boring meals. Obviously JUST peanut butter sandwiches won’t do it but I have to think they have potatoes, beans, rice on the menu too, stuff like that.

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      1 year ago

      Just because they’re on the menu doesn’t mean they’re vegan. They’re often made with meat or meat stocks.

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      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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        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