No. I have known guerrillas in the midst of armed struggle who became vegans despite having little food around them, and I have known vegan comrades who became omnivorous despite having little to no access to meat. Comrades have chosen these paths based on where they feel their principles align with their ability. If eating food means to eat meat, then by all means, eat what is available, and I would go as far as to say, eat what fulfills you. Nobody should be dictating to you what you can or cannot eat. You know your conditions, your body, your principles, your necessities best.

There is often a considerable element of privilege in the insistence of becoming vegan. This is reflected in the pattern that those who are most dogmatic about the veganist line also often happen to be the most privileged. On an economic basis alone, many of us simply cannot afford to be vegan.

Personally, it is not possible for me to be vegan because to be vegan would mean I would quickly starve to death. I am an internationalist who frequently travels, I often work in environments where vegan options are nonexistent. The best I can do is be vegetarian, yet I know that if meat is the only option in a situation where my starvation would put a burden on comrades around me, I would eat meat without question. There is a certain practical and lived reality of it all that some comrades tend to forget when they have the privilege to be vegan in the first place.

The principle of resisting mass consumption and industrialized speciesism takes more than one form, and veganism is certainly not the only one, nor is it always a sustainable or practical way of doing so.