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[iOS] Free - HappyCow (Vegan Food Near You) (Was $5.99) @ Apple App Store

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[iOS] Free - HappyCow (Vegan Food Near You) (Was $5.99) @ Apple App Store
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Taegukgi on 17/01/2021 - 13:44 apps.apple.com (2655 clicks)
Last edited 17/01/2021 - 21:48 by 1 other user

Something for our vegan/vegetarian friends. This app is free for the first time on the Apple app store.

Since 1999, HappyCow has helped users find vegan-options at 130,000+ restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores in 180+ countries. Now it's easy to find vegan food delivery nearby, or get takeout. Read 700,000+ reviews and see 850,000+ photos posted by our awesome community! With HappyCow, you can search for vegan-friendly bakeries, health food stores, catering, farmers markets, juice bars, coffee shops, or other types of vegan businesses and use filters for delivery and take-away!

► SEARCH:
• Filter by Vegan, Delivery, Take-out, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free, cuisine types, and more!
• Easily search near you, or nearby an address (perfect for planning a trip!)
• Order food for delivery and take-away via an easy link (within USA)
• Plan your travels by using our interactive map and saving places for offline viewing
• Find popular and undiscovered eateries with keywords and cuisine filters: perfect for foodie adventures and Instagram pics!
• See hours, directions, photos, and reviews - so easy!

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    • arcticmonkey on 17/01/2021 - 14:37
      +54

      Says the cucumber.

      • SF3 on 17/01/2021 - 17:23

        Of cos, it would rather not be eaten or want people to eat non-veg. 😂

        • giles on 17/01/2021 - 17:34
          +1

          Lettuce be happy it’s not us :)

      • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 20:24
        -8

        Aw c'mon… You can do better than 12 negs surely! Too weak to press the mouse button?

        • SF3 on 17/01/2021 - 20:36
          -1

          They maxed out their daily quota.

          • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 20:37
            -3

            @SF3: Of negs… or stamina?

      • Scantu on 17/01/2021 - 21:50
        +7

        Whatever you eat, you don't get enough to rub your brain cells together and open Google to find out its actually a better diet than yours of pop tarts and chicken fingers buddy ;)

        • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 23:35
          -7

          My diet is fine. I don't eat ANY kind of junk/sugar/softdrink/takeaway/processed anything at all. While it's completely normal to eat meat, it's almost impossible to get what your body requires without it, and (this is directly from a vegan) close to all vegans secretly cheat, most of those eventually abandon it entirely, leaving only a very few who continue with it for any significant amount of time.

          When you have to go to that extreme it's an obvious sign it's not 'natural' or 'healthy' to eat that way. Oh and as for that aspect of it ('natural eating'), many have to down vitamins, soy powders, supplements, etc. There's nothing natural or normal about eating powders and pills. If it were remotely natural then some vegan parents wouldn't be in courtrooms for malnourished children. It would be easy to follow, easy for those kids to appear healthy at least on the outside, because even kids who scoff chocolate bars and coke all day long look healthier.

          • Scantu on 18/01/2021 - 03:49
            +5

            @[Deactivated]: You're obviously too far gone, citing all of the well known and respected sources that it is a completely normal diet obviously will not dissuade your dogma.

            All of your "advice" is laughable and not backed up by science. So that means it is just your opinion - which is sh!t !

            • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 08:19
              -4

              @Scantu: LOL. You mean all the 'well known and respected sources' funded by people to produce whatever conclusion they desired? Like the 'well known and respected sources' who taught children for a few decades the food pyramid which is actually upside down? Or perhaps you mean the 'well known and respected sources' that told us yellow-coloured axle grease called margarine was better for us than butter? Or Vincents headache powders that caused kidney failure? Or the 'wonder drug' thalidomide that caused babies to born without limbs? Or the multiple negative health effects of soy products?

              Yeah, the 'well known and respected sources' never get it wrong.

              What I said holds true. If you have to eat powered soy beans, supplements, vitamin pills, add amino acids, etc to maintain healthy cell function, prevent muscle wasting, then it's NOT a healthy diet. If feeding a child the same way lands parents in court then it's not a healthy diet. If you have to turn nuts into fake 'meat' in a can and use 3D printers to imitate meat and fake blood so you can stomach eating that way without your resolve faltering because your body is crying out to simply eat some steak (no matter how much you deny it), then it's not a healthy diet. If most vegans cheat, and a little less give it up entirely because they can't cope eating that way for life, then it's not normal nor a healthy diet.

              Btw… Since you're such a proponent of 'well known and respected sources', you must agree with the majority of doctors who warn a vegan diet is not for children, and scientists of the CSIRO who designed the Well-Being Diet which includes meat. Nah, of course not… It's only the 'well known and respected sources' that match your opinion, dogma, and bias that are 'real' experts, right?

              I know whose brainwashing is laughable, and it's not the one who eats the way humanity has since day dot.

              • Boogerman on 18/01/2021 - 08:36

                @[Deactivated]: Lab grown vegan meat
                Welcome to the 21st century

                • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 08:46

                  @Boogerman: The more we 'go forward', the further behind we wind up. ;-)

                  • Boogerman on 18/01/2021 - 09:10

                    @[Deactivated]: Do you deny the science of anthropogenic global warming?

                    • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 10:21
                      -2

                      @Boogerman: Not sure why you're asking but there is no 'proven' global warming. The repeating of a claim over and over again doesn't make it so, but it's what passes as 'science' today. What does matter is data. Non-manipulated data. And they haven't been recording temperatures long enough to make any meaningful conclusions. Oh they do say it's been long enough but commonsense tells us that's nonsensical. e.g. If they had say, 400 years of data… how would they know any pattern they see continued for the 50 or 500 or 5000 years before that? They don't. It's disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst. They've focused in on a macro view on a mere pin head of time ripped out of a huge city-wide mural of Earth's history.

                      Earth has been BOTH hotter and colder in the past. I saw a detailed article on this a few months ago, which used the same data global warming proponents claim supports their bias, taken since temperatures were first recorded. I only glanced at it because it stated what I already suspected. But basically it showed the same raw data 'they' use, only with their rounding, extrapolation, and manipulation stripped out (back to the original data). Once reset to the original raw figures, it revealed no discernible variation.

                      The Earth goes through both consistent cycles AND sudden rare catastrophic events. For example there is evidence in the magnetism of rocks (I forget the name of the particle) showing the poles have reversed. More than once I believe. While it obviously hasn't occurred in 'recent' history, not since temperature recordings were first taken, some claim they've found 'historical geological evidence' of warming. But their are made meaningless by that simple preceding fact: that we know pole shifts have occurred. That is, of course you're going to see evidence of geologic temperature warming because one minute that location was a tundra, the next day the poles shifted turning it to desert. (An extreme example, but it illustrates the point.)

                      In short the cycles were there before measurements, and the cycles (cold, then hot, then cold again) will continue. They're looking at one point in a curve. Looking at the suds of one wave as it tapers out up a beach, then using its thinning out to claim there's a drought coming, while not seeing the rest of history… how waves pull back into the ocean, then come back up the beach again, then fall back again… millions of times over.

              • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 09:25
                +2

                @[Deactivated]: Imagine caring this much about what other people eat.

                For reference, I'm a fully healthy and functioning vegan. No soy powders (????). Don't need to eat fake meats. Only thing I need to keep an eye on is B12 as that's quite difficult to get from plants alone. Taking one tablet occasionally and eating whole foods the rest of your life is hardly the most unnatural diet you've ever heard of, surely?

                And fyi I'm very active and fit and rarely lack energy! Running every few days, team sports, swimming. No problems there!

                • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 10:49
                  -1

                  @[Deactivated]: Sigh. Where did I say don't eat whole foods? I said the opposite! And there's far more vegans concerned with what strangers eat than vice versa. When did a meat eater last trespass on a vegetable farm telling him what he could grow? Vegans are the ones trespassing on private farms, blocking traffic, lying by omission about studies, lobbying for the right to control what others eat, demanding vegan food that sits unsold until it expires increasing food costs for everyone, etc. No-one cares what they eat. It's the false claims, control tactics, and judgemental attitudes that come with it.

                  Oh and anyone can say anything online. Doesn't mean it's reality. And I never said YOU because I never said ALL anyway. I always make a point of saying some, or many, etc where it's the appropriate reality. Most vegans DO cheat in secret. Most then 'recommit' but then proselyte and judge others while constantly 'slipping' themselves. Again that's from the lips of a vegan. He admitted he cheats, said nearly all vegans cheat too, and most of those give it up entirely with only a few managing to stick it out for any length of time.

                  • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 10:59
                    +1

                    @[Deactivated]: I was talking about my diet not yours lmao. All I can say is ease up turbo, you might be taking life a bit too seriously.

          • simonbrads on 18/01/2021 - 09:40
            +2

            @[Deactivated]:

            While it's completely normal to eat meat
            What humans to to produce meat is anything but normal. Watch Dominion!

            it's almost impossible to get what your body requires without it
            False. Do some research!

            close to all vegans secretly cheat
            False. Probably true for some plant-based eaters, but that's not at all the same thing.

            most of those eventually abandon it entirely
            False. The vast majority of vegans (as opposed to plant-based eaters) are vegan for life.

            many have to down vitamins, soy powders, supplements, etc.
            False. The only supplement taken by most vegans is B12 (because we wash or vegetables). A daily squirt under the tongue is hardly a compelling argument against behaving according to one's moral beliefs.

            some vegan parents wouldn't be in courtrooms for malnourished children.
            Yes, there have been a few vegan parents who haven't properly fed their kids. Guess what? There's a much larger number of malnourished — and obese — non-vegan kids. A few terrible parents does not prove veganism unhealthy.

            • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 11:40
              -1

              @simonbrads:

              1. Not interested in conversion. Lived on a farm, know the reality. Mass-farming isn't always great but at the same time necessary because people are lazy or don't have the time to do it themselves, so they trade dollars for time. And the WHOLE truth is most vegans wouldn't be content with ANY animals being food regardless of conditions or treatment (even though they themselves would struggle not 'cheating' in secret).
              2. I was being accommodating (and factual) by saying it's extremely difficult to get all the body requires on a vegan diet. So if you disagree the only reasons left why most vegans cheat must be laziness or hypocrisy. I choose not to believe that. After observing for a long time I believe it's our body craving what it needs and nagging until it gets it.
              3. No, it's not false at all. I've seen it by vegans, heard it from vegans, read it from vegans. It may not be YOUR experience, and I never said it was. But it's sure been the experience of many vegans honest enough to admit it. No one ultimately cares what stands other people do or don't take, only that they don't be hypocritical about it while trying to convert others to some standard they struggle to meet themselves.
              4. See #3. Sorry, that's just not true. What actually happens is most drift in and out of veganism, eventually leaving entirely. Until then they practice cognitive dissonance when they 'slip'. (Excuse themselves in order to live with going against their own conscience.)
              5. See #3 & 4, and, nonsense. I've seen the shakers, powders, supplements, vitamin pills. Particularly soy based protein powders. Please don't attempt to tell me what my own eyes have seen in vegetarian and vegan homes didn't occur. That what I've also seen on youtube which confirms it wasn't real. And no one cares about vegan's moral beliefs. We'd just like the same in return. (But we don't get it, hence the constant ribbing they receive.)
              6. Only goes to proves my point!? That it's easy to be overfed not following a vegan diet. Conversely it's difficult to be so on one. And it's not terrible parents that proves veganism is unhealthy… my point was if it's healthy for an adult human, it should be healthy for a younger one. If it's not healthy for both (it is only food, after all), then it's not healthy for either. Second, it's the majority of doctors and the majority of diet throughout human history that shows it as odd. (In addition to the odd behaviour displayed by many converts.)
              • Scantu on 18/01/2021 - 13:39

                @[Deactivated]: You're too far off the deep end my friend. When are you going to be storming the capitol again?

              • simonbrads on 18/01/2021 - 17:21

                @[Deactivated]: (Apologies for the formatting of my previous comment. I didn't notice at the time.)

                I didn't mention conversion. Education comes first; everything else will follow. Mass (animal) farming isn't "not always great"; it's always awful. It's also completely unnecessary: everyone can eat plants, and it's far more sustainable to farm plants than animals. Of course vegans aren't content with any animal exploitation: that's the very definition of veganism! Why kill someone needlessly?

                On "cheating": You're making baseless claims, then using them as evidence for further claims. I know a lot of vegans, and, to my knowledge, none of them "cheat". It's extremely easy to be nutritionally satisfied on a vegan diet. If what you say is true, why is it "the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases"?

                I don't struggle to follow a vegan lifestyle. For the most part, I find it easy. After all, it stems from my moral beliefs. I don't believe that child abuse is a moral behaviour, either, and so it's easy for me to refrain from doing it. In any case, it's never hypocritical to point out facts. Almost all "true" vegans (i.e., those who are vegan "for the animals" as opposed to those who decide to eat plant based for health reasons, etc.) are vegan for life. The YouTube "celebrities" who ditch "veganism" were never truly vegan. (Kind of ironic that the carnist mentions cognitive dissonance in this discussion.)

                On supplements: Clearly, I can't speak for all vegan/vego homes. But I can speak for many vegans. Of all the vegans I know, the only common supplement is, as I said, B12. I am almost certain that, other than B12, supplementation is not more common amongst vegans than meat eaters. If you have stats for this (not anecdotes), I would be interested.

                Not sure what you meant about "wanting the same in return". You want vegans to respect your moral belief* that unnecessary killing is acceptable? That's clearly not going to happen: no vegan can possibly respect that claim. (* Almost nobody really holds this moral belief.)

                On malnutrition/obesity: A vegan lifestyle is healthy for anybody. So says the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: "[Vegan] diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes." They also go on to add that "plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products" and that "vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity".

                • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2021 - 18:39

                  @simonbrads: I'm not getting into this further except to say it's not 'education' when false claims are made. That's the definition of indoctrination. They begin with a bias, then cite some real facts (like 'bad' farming videos), but then extrapolate, manipulate, or just invent other info that only supports their bias (such as anthropomorphizing animal behaviour, selectively presenting studies supporting their view) while being careful to exclude and steer away from others which don't.

                  You also use the word 'sustainable' which is a classic tell. Of course the way things are today HAS BEEN and will CONTINUE to be 'sustainable', because it's been feeding everyone on the planet (in many cases OVER feeding) just fine for centuries. This word is used to induce some altered state of panic as if the entire system is about to collapse and we're all about to starve. It's intellectual dishonesty: blatant nonsense. When there's more people, more food will be required, so more people will farm, which produces jobs and income, which buys the increased production of food.

                  Next the too-large world population myth appears; or too-little farmland; etc. All are easily proven false. e.g. Just take a drive along the Sydney to Gosford to Newcastle freeway. Or head out of Sydney to the Blue Mountains. Hundreds upon thousands of acres of rolling green paddocks, running streams with Bluebells 'dinging', empty bushland that can be converted if the fantasy coming 'crisis' ever actually appears.

                  Next to pop up will be 'the hungry of this world'. They conveniently (intellectual dishonestly) skip over the fact that 'unsustainable agriculture' is not the reason these people go hungry. In most cases it's war, lack of opportunities or money, no ready access to WATER, which makes ALL food production expensive and therefore unviable. Yet THEY STAY PUT and HAVE FOR CENTURIES.

                  Furthermore, let's postulate the vegan utopia is gained, somehow usurped control over world governments and managed to outlaw eating meat… For the people in those same places they earlier and frequently cited to try and 'educate' it would be GENOCIDE. Because little to no vegetation grows there, meat is a major food source.

                  To deflect from facts like this until re-education is complete, ever-more whacky daydreams get pulled out of the hat like: 'we should all eat bugs'. And so it goes. Ok, so why are bugs less worthy to live than animals? If we can eat bugs just fine, why not chickens and cows and sheep? The metallic colours of cicadas are far prettier to me than rank billy goats who urinate on themselves which many Africans continue to eat after immigrating to Australia. And how can you possibly collect enough bugs to solve (supposed) world hunger once everyone is now searching for them as food which dramatically reduces availability; now the people they were so concerned about early on in the re-education process are back to starving again, no energy to collect bugs across miles of desert, and it's their 'solution' that caused it. But that's ok now… because animals = hugs and love, and humans = vile and little to no value as 'murderers' of our huggy hooved friends.

                  Those higher up in the movement are fully aware of all these glaring contradictions (and more) so quickly whisk new converts past these obvious conflicting facts and logic until they simply stop seeing it. It just takes more indoctrination for some people than others, to 'hate' (or 'like less' if you please) their fellow humans, but love animals in their stead. THEN it doesn't bother them near as much to hear of villages dying of hunger, because they've: a) succeeded in anthropomorphizing animals making them their 'humanised friends', and: b) instilled a misanthropic view of people turning them into 'animals'.

                  This is classic mind control and easily revealed. e.g. They will reel in horror over unwanted roosters sucked to an instant death in a fertilizer machine. But unlike those of us who haven't passed through 'education', then have no twinge of conscience when it's viable human beings (who would have played with friends, rolled their eyes at dad jokes, had their first kiss or owned their first car, could have given joy to childless parents, and of course the joy of having children of their own) instead having their skull crushed then torn into pieces with forceps and vacuums.

                  These are not traits of rational honest people.

  • Lizard Spock on 17/01/2021 - 13:49
    +1

    Yeah sure, why not?

  • luztra on 17/01/2021 - 13:54
    +29

    It’s worth the $5.99. I’ve used it when travelling overseas. Has come in handy.

    • XVX on 17/01/2021 - 14:14
      +11

      I have used it plenty for just travelling to new places in Australia and it is such a handy app to have.

    • fantombloo on 17/01/2021 - 16:46
      +3

      I've always just used the website for free.

    • YourMum69 on 17/01/2021 - 18:17
      +2

      I find when I'm overseas, my diet changes drastically and normally lacks vegetables and fruit so this will be quite helpful.

    • DragonautDruid on 18/01/2021 - 09:31
      +2

      It's a godsend. Especially in places with bigger language barriers.

    • Chazzozz on 17/01/2021 - 17:41
      +4

      Clearly, you’ve been using the wrong salad.

      • El cheepo on 17/01/2021 - 18:50
        +3

        Clearly a few sensitive vegans that don’t like the Simpsons reference. 😂

        Edit: must be because I quoted it wrong 😂😂😂
        https://youtu.be/kfwgbMrffOE

        • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 20:48
          -1

          Nope. It's the same reason the first post got so many negs. Whoosh! :-D

      • arcticmonkey on 17/01/2021 - 20:27
        -1

        He is an el cheepo. Probably thinks a salad is just lettuce on its own.

        • El cheepo on 17/01/2021 - 21:25
          -1

          😣 ouch

    • seeknsearch on 17/01/2021 - 17:48
      +2

      While Homer and Bart are dancing.

    • Trippelsewe on 17/01/2021 - 14:33
      +4

      Hilarious.

    • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 14:35
      +72

      How do you know someone is a sook?

      Don't worry, they'll make this joke every time the concept of eating less meat comes up.

      • arcticmonkey on 17/01/2021 - 14:37
        +10

        He uses MS Paint so he's probably stuck in the 90s.

        • Okayy on 17/01/2021 - 16:54
          +10

          Lol blame everything on sense of humour.

          • MS Paint on 17/01/2021 - 20:20
            -8

            @Okayy:

            Vegans are notoriously sensitive and very defensive of their lifestyle choices

            Source

        • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 18:59
          +13

          I'm not sure repeating a canned joke for the fifteen millionth time qualifies as humour, MS Paint, but hey - keep on doing you!

    • SF3 on 17/01/2021 - 17:24

      36 at least… still small fraction of OzB population.

    • BepisCola on 17/01/2021 - 18:09
      +5

      cringe comment

    • J6 on 17/01/2021 - 18:21
      +3

      Did you come up with this joke? It's so good and I'm surprised I haven't heard it before!

    • Boogerman on 18/01/2021 - 08:40
      +1

      Going by the invasion of comments of outraged snowflakes (aka meat eaters), I feel like my urine is being painfully extracted

  • smokenmirraz on 17/01/2021 - 14:40
    +4

    Hard to believe that they would charge for the app, especially since it looks like it's community content, but just downloaded it anyway.

    • twocsies on 17/01/2021 - 14:49
      +4

      Not sure how it works for iPhone, but on Android there's a free version and a full version.

      I thought that the free version was fine to use, but it does display ads and only shows the first three reviews. The full version has offline viewing (you can save favorites), an "open now" filter, all reviews, and no ads.

      You can always use the website for free in the browser, so the app is just for convenience.

    • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 17:02
      +10

      Sure the source of the information is crowdsourced, but should someone spend hours developing and maintaining the app and host it out of pocket so people can use it for free? This is a niche app with not that many users and therefore sales so $5.99 is a reasonable price given there is a free adsupported version.

      • YourMum69 on 17/01/2021 - 18:16
        +5

        I agree. Development takes a lot of time and should be rewarded accordingly.

    • Rev0lt on 18/01/2021 - 07:29
      -1

      They've got to pay for those supplements somehow.

    • djlongy on 18/01/2021 - 11:01
      +1

      Costs $140/year just to stay on the App Store. Unfortunately free apps aren’t free to list for the developers.

  • kurupted on 17/01/2021 - 14:41

    android?

    • twocsies on 17/01/2021 - 14:51
      +3

      I'm not seeing a price change for Android. But these are the links:

      Free version (ad supported)
      https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hcceg.veg.…

      Paid version ($3.99)
      https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sisow.hcvg…

      • Benjamin7711 on 17/01/2021 - 14:58
        +3

        Clicked on your paid link and it shows $5.49.. is the $3.99 US pricing?

        • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 17:05
          +1

          Yeah he must be on the US store, some apps are only on the US store so I used to be there too. However, they only let you change region once a year and many Australian apps are only on Aus store.

          • Agret on 18/01/2021 - 00:44
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: What I did was create a second google account on USA setting and then add it to my phone, it comes up in the top corner of the hamburger menu of play store as 2 circle icons for my different accounts and you just tap the circle to change store.

            Good for getting those free movies they giveaway in the US sometimes and apps not available in Australia.

  • Mahalo on 17/01/2021 - 14:47
    +6

    Thanks you so much! Didn’t know this existed. My daughter has dairy allergies and I have already found a few good stores near me that will cater for her needs. Will also use this when on holidays for takeaway food.

  • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 14:50
    +4

    This is also a vegan dating app. Use it to find food locations of vegans to find hot vegans.

    • kurupted on 17/01/2021 - 15:16
      +2

      good idea. similar to how I used "we chat" a chinese messaging and social media app to find my asian wife lol.

    • alanjo on 17/01/2021 - 14:53
      +28

      It exists, it's called literally any other restaurant finding app

    • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 18:10
      -1

      That should be: "SadCow" app… but since well-adjusted people don't anthropomorphize animals, it wouldn't be as successful as this one.

      • Huntakillaz on 19/01/2021 - 07:58

        "but since well-adjusted people don't anthropomorphize animals"

        So you've never seen cartoons or anime or played video games?
        Even movies, books, media?
        Never had pets?

        • [Deactivated] on 19/01/2021 - 17:56
          -1

          Never opened a dictionary? ;-)

          i.e. Your first two example groups are (mostly) a temporary pause from reality, solely for entertainment purposes (not a serious ongoing belief system). Whereas the human characteristics vegans project onto animals are things vegans actually believe (or at least want new inductees to until programming is complete).

          Not sure how pet ownership automatically qualifies as anthropomorphization. Whether that occurs would depend exclusively on the IQ of the owner. :-D

          • fantombloo on 19/01/2021 - 19:47

            @[Deactivated]: Vegans don't anthropomophise - they just realise animals are sentient beings and therefore have preferences, similar to humans having preferences.

            Nonvegans actually anthropomophise, specifically to make trivial their exploitation of animals, never showing the actual misery they go through for your fleeting pleasures.:

            Exhibit A

            Exhibit B

            Exhibit C

            You're a sad, duplicitous bunch.

            • [Deactivated] on 19/01/2021 - 20:41

              @fantombloo:

              Vegans don't anthropomophise - they just realise animals are sentient beings

              Right. So when revealed to be nonsense, the rhetoric gets backed off a couple of notches to just: 'sentient beings'. But when it's not being questioned, it's extrapolated into: "They think and feel just like we do. Eating them is murder." Got it. (Many times I've heard the term: "cannibalism" used.)

              Just looked at those BUSINESS LOGOS. LOL, that has to be the weakest evidence for a point I've seen for quite a while. These are mere representations/caricatures, not anthropomophization. LOL!

              • fantombloo on 19/01/2021 - 20:51

                @[Deactivated]: They do feel just like we do. When you mutilate their bodies they recoil, just like us. They flee harm, just like us. They seek pleasure, just like us.

                Murder is a legal and moral concept. No doubt you won't think of killing animals as murder since you don't include them in your sphere of moral consideration. That says something about you, not about any intrinsic value about the act of killing them. Killing black people 200 years ago was not considered murder by white people. Whatever. You go keep finding justifications for your douchebaggery.

  • Empharand on 17/01/2021 - 14:53
    +4

    I wonder why they haven't made the Android app free as well

    • hullohullo on 17/01/2021 - 15:12
      +4

      I'm not sure either but I ended up shooting them an email as I was curious and asked if they were planning to make the Android add-on free ($5.49) as I know their Android app is already free but is operating essentially as a 'lite' version.

      • Diji on 18/01/2021 - 20:20

        If you hear back, please update us!

        • hullohullo on 19/01/2021 - 10:53
          +1

          I got a reply back very early this morning!

          The promo is just for Veganuary today, but Apple wouldn't allow us to schedule 1 day only. Google on the hand doesn't have any option to charge $0 as far as we could tell, so we were unable to do the same for Android.

          • Diji on 19/01/2021 - 11:38

            @hullohullo: That's a shame. Thanks for the update. :)

  • eggboi on 17/01/2021 - 15:27
    +14

    I'm not vego or vegan, but I am trying to make healthier and more sustainable eating choices. This will be great to have. Without it, 90% of times I consider grabbing a vegan feed, I have no idea where to go to find something half decent, so I just default to 'the usual' of subway / sushi etc.

    • fantombloo on 17/01/2021 - 16:48
      +7

      You can ask any place to do something vegan. If they have a half decent chef / cook they'll look after you. Plus you are sending a signal of what you want which may shape their future considerations.

  • Deals For Days on 17/01/2021 - 15:52
    +3

    Cheers, appreciate the deal!

    I'm lucky as I live inner city so finding vegan places is very very easy but this will surely be of help when I'm out and about.

    • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 18:13
      -4

      One downvote corrected.

  • Elwes on 17/01/2021 - 16:16
    +1

    If I had to guess, I'd say the restaurant app that used a cow for its logo either specialised in dairy products or hamburgers.
    I suppose cows are themselves vegans, maybe that's the rationale.

    • AustriaBargain on 17/01/2021 - 16:23
      +2

      They could have started vegetarian dairy and then specialised in vegan after. The apps version history might give some clues, unless the app was resubmitted with the same name or just based on the domain name if the website used to be the only way to access the service.

      Logo reminds me of a cross between Laughing Cow cheese and Milka chocolate.

    • fantombloo on 17/01/2021 - 16:53
      +3

      The owner of happy cow is vegan and has been for a long while - I have conversed with him personally.

      The site has been around a long time, while veganism was much less known about and often seen as a form of stricter vegetarianism. This relic has sadly stuck around but is slowly disappearing. I expect in another 20 years it should be gone.

      Ten years ago happy cow had predominantly vegetarian members - these days vegans outnumber the vegetarians there (based on reviewers) for sure.

      • Huntakillaz on 18/01/2021 - 18:20
        +2

        People in india and countries around it have been vegetarian/vegan for centuries.

        It's just a new thing for western people.

        Hell there's vegan/vegetarian/plant based sports athletes that are much stonger than 75% of the people here.

        • fantombloo on 18/01/2021 - 19:24
          +2

          No. They have been various forms of vegetarian for hundreds or thousands of years.

          Veganism is a political and moral position that is recent. Even though some in history have been essentially vegan in behaviour (and good on them for doing what they did - they were ahead of the game) it was not underpinned by a philosophy of rights and equal consideration for all sentient beings. The earliest "real" vegan I've heard of is Al Ma'arri -who skirts philosophical topics that even today are common amongst vegans - especially rationalism and antinatalism - but he was a sporadic vegan rather than part of any common position or movement. Most other old time "vegans" that we know of we're influenced by ideas of personal purity or piety or (especially in India) class distinction - which is antithetical to the idea of veganism as espoused by the people who coined the word last century. Some like the Jain's were / are more animal rightists about it but even they lump their attitude towards other species with non-scientific ideas about life and "life-power" and karma. Veganism is a position that does not just rest on a philosophy of minimising harm like some old schools but also rests on an appeal to science (for defining sentience, for understanding human needs like nutrition, for employing technology to to vegan ends, etc). Veganism is a social justice movement, not a club for the elite or those seeking health benefits.

    • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 18:14

      I suppose cows are themselves vegans

      Only because they're really poor hunters.

  • Doy on 17/01/2021 - 16:21
    +4

    That’s awesome. Better than Google Maps for finding quality & niche options around. Been very helpful for travelling in unfamiliar destinations for many many years.

  • greater mimic on 17/01/2021 - 17:01

    Good app, has been useful even overseas

  • SF3 on 17/01/2021 - 17:26

    How come the cow is purple? Is this for kids?

    • [Deactivated] on 17/01/2021 - 18:15
      -4

      In, um… some ways, YES. ;-D

    • md333 on 18/01/2021 - 14:23
      -1

      The objective of vegans is to eliminate animal agriculture, so the only cows left will be happy purple plastic replicas.

  • Andard on 17/01/2021 - 19:05
    +1

    Wow don't make vegan jokes on ozbargain

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