I totally agree with you!
I'm a food blogger, too and I'm putting all of my time and effort into creating recipes and helpful content for others. And it's definitely not okay for someone to copy my stuff and make money with that.
What I find okay is, if someone gets inspired by one of my posts or recipes and writes a comment or a review about it and shares the link to my original content ♥
If done correctly we might get to travel but we're still stuck to the laptop daily and have to think constantly about new material etc. I have a whole storage in USA that I have all my plates, antiques, bottles, old cinnamon pots etc etc in. When I'm in USA I use that. I also have a bag that I take to America when traveling, America as in central and south. In Spain I have a collection and also in Italy. Backdrops, cutlery etc. That's work nobody even notices, I might hardly use them, but I need them just in case. As a vegan I can say I go through all this without earning anything simply because I want to spread the word. Yep strangely it's that important! I wrote a post the other day on my Instagram, I had an old school friend and he was told that he had another 3 months to live. So he went out and celebrated with some old friends, I was in Costa Rica at the time so I didn't go. Anyway after being vegan for 4 years, I've learned not to force veganism on others as they hate it. But I couldn't resist, I mean this guy had a few months left. So I wrote him a mail, sent him references, links, juice recipes. He answered "Thanks, I'll look in to it". I never heard anything more and then one day he pops up on my feed when in reality he should be dead! (sorry to be blunt). He wrote "it's so much fun being Vegan!". This guy had weeks to live, and he went for it, he opened his mind and blocked out the noise. He now has zero traces of cancer, he's the fittest he's ever been and is happy!!! That is the main reason why I do this. Yes sure in the future I shall be making money, but that is an exchange from the universe for doing good work. So if you are vegan do everyone a favour, promote it, promote the recipes, promote the good guys (Sorry #durian) and let's think as a team yes and spread the word. For every person saved through a vegan diet, whether they just have eczema or a bloated belly, it's a few animals more saved. Less animal flesh sold, less animals being raped. And when a few million are spreading the word, and bloggers like yourself are preparing nice meals for others to promote, then we shall gain momentum. Success is always the same, you have to imagine it as a concrete wheel. It's really frikkin difficult to get it moving, you have to put a ton of force in to it. But once it's rolling it's difficult to stop! A bit off topic but who cares #veganpower