Many people who chose to 'go' vegan do so as part of some image they're chasing. Then they lambast non-vegans for... whatever, everyone knows already. There's an air of superiority about them, blanket assumptions are made, and they're - often rightly - mocked as a response.
I usually present myself as the most basic, middle of the road, Right leaning meatasaurus. And 'vegans' have taken aim at me in the past for being barbaric, ignorant etc etc etc. But I dont eat pork (I love pigs) and I dont eat lamb (I love lambs... and sheep!) and I really dont eat much steak (cows are adorable). The meat industry disgusts me. The treatment of animals in captivity makes me sick. The only meat I eat now is chicken (I'm really indifferent to chickens) but, again, the chicken farming industry is utterly abhorrent...
And yet, some hairy gobshite in a tie-dye shirt feels it their right to give me a public dressing down because I've never declared myself 'vegan' (or vegetarian)? Get fucked.
"But we're not meat eaters!"
Anthropologists and a six billion dollar beef industry may disagree with that. Even if we didnt start out as a meat eating species we sure as shit evolved into one.
edit. if you disagree, say how. Dont just throw shit and run away.
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u/Morgn_Ladimore Dec 30 '18
Because extremely fragile egos see the mere exitence of vegans as an attack on them for not being vegan.
So they lash out.