It's About Time...Google Removes The Egg From The Salad Emoji To Be More Inclusive For Vegans
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In its latest move towards inclusivity, Google developers are ditching the egg in the Android salad emoji to make it more vegan-friendly. The company revealed the latest updates for Android P users today on its developers blog. The changes will include 157 new emoji, including bagels with cream cheese and updates to a few existing emoji, like the green salad, according to the Verge.
“There’s big talk about inclusion and diversity at Google,” Jennifer Daniel, head of design for Google emoji, tweeted today. “So if you need any evidence of Google is making this priority may I direct your attention to the emoji — we’ve removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad.”
Outside of the gender-neutral shift, there are many other changes coming for the next set of Android emojis. Some are just getting tweaked — like the salad emoji no longer containing egg as an ingredient in order to make it vegan — while others, like the pistol, are getting an overhaul to reduce emphasis on violence. (It’s been replaced with a water gun.)
Imagine this. Imagine that you’re a Vegan. Imagine everyone in a 1 mile radius knows you’re a Vegan, because you told them. You don’t eat any animal products because you are vehemently opposed to the commodity status of animals. You are specifically a “dietary vegan” meaning it’s not just meat that you refuse to consume, it’s eggs, dairy products, and animal-derived substances. You’re constantly on the toilet shitting your brains out because of all the fiber. Your phone vibrates – its your reminder to take your B12 shot to avoid a blood disorder and irreversible neurological damage because of the natural deficiencies in your vegan diet. Your stomach is a little upset from all the dietary supplements and fortified foods you shove down your throat.
Does that life sound awesome?
Hell yeah it does. But there’s a downside too. There’s a dark byproduct of this sweet animal free lifestyle that people don’t take into account enough.
Imagine you care so much about your choice of diet that you pull out your Android phone, go to text the cute girl you met about getting lunch this afternoon, decide to be a little silly and flirty and go with an Emoji instead of normal conversation, pull up the menu and see a salad…WITH THE ANIMAL PRODUCT OF AN EGG!!!!
Incredible. Would you have an offensive caricature of a Jew in there, or a racist depiction of an African American? No you would never. And Vegans deserve the same respect. Glad Google is finally joining the 21st century. A hard boiled egg is the swastika of a vegan salad.