You never heard the joke before? “How do you know if someone is vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you”
But in all seriousness now… every group out there, no matter how moral or good or whatever will always have extremists and people like this that will give the group a bad name. Unfortunately, veganism has a lot of these. Which is a shame, because we really need more vegans.
And it’s also evolutionary fortification that we make a choice that works out well for us through real metrics or confirmation bias and we broadcast it to everyone else.
Yeah, because calling everyone “meateaters” and pretending they’re all equal and that killing puppies to make make a movie and eating chicken is the same thing. Yeah, that’s a perfectly normal and healthy way to spread the message.
People would be a lot more open to discussion and change if you weren’t so confrontational. The fact that you felt the need to disagree with someone that said the world needs more vegans proves my point, I’m pretty sure, but whatever, you do you.
I’m sorry, but this is giving me massive “of course I support feminism, but <insert activist> goes too far/is too hysteric” vibes. You can suggest better communication strategies, of course (or better yet, use them yourself), if you think you know better how to convince people to stop killing animals. But only criticizing vegans for their tone, and then finishing with “I think the world needs more vegans” does not make you sound supportive at all.
I’m gonna ask the dreaded question then: If you think the world needs more vegans, are you vegan? And if not, would you be if vegans were less rude to you?
Heavily reduced meat and animal product consumption but not yet vegan, no. It requires more research and time and energy than I have right now to fully switch. (And a few more good recipes, because many are quite meh, for some reason) But I’ll get there eventually.
And vegans haven’t been rude to me, thanks for your concern. It’s not about that, even. But all those jokes that are floating around haven’t been created by the meat industry. It’s not some conspiracy. You know the phrase “you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”? That’s all I’m saying… and it’s not even about veganism… it’s about life in general. People are way too angry, especially online. Too quick to judgement and insults. They say the same thing about leftists… that they’re too busy fighting amongst themselves rather than focusing on what matters.
Disagreed with plenty of people in real life, but it’s never been like this. Never heard the phrase “meat eater” in real life, even tho I’ve talked with plenty of vegans. Same for “tankie” and a bunch of others.
I couldn’t imagine not killing baby boy chicks at less than an hour old in a masher, ALIVE. What would we do without taking a mother’s bubba from her in the dairy industry.
The meat eaters are not going to be happy with this comment. :^)
nah, it’s fine, puppies are too stringy anyway.
I don’t understand?
You never heard the joke before? “How do you know if someone is vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you”
But in all seriousness now… every group out there, no matter how moral or good or whatever will always have extremists and people like this that will give the group a bad name. Unfortunately, veganism has a lot of these. Which is a shame, because we really need more vegans.
And it’s also evolutionary fortification that we make a choice that works out well for us through real metrics or confirmation bias and we broadcast it to everyone else.
Yeah, because calling everyone “meateaters” and pretending they’re all equal and that killing puppies to make make a movie and eating chicken is the same thing. Yeah, that’s a perfectly normal and healthy way to spread the message.
People would be a lot more open to discussion and change if you weren’t so confrontational. The fact that you felt the need to disagree with someone that said the world needs more vegans proves my point, I’m pretty sure, but whatever, you do you.
I’m sorry, but this is giving me massive “of course I support feminism, but <insert activist> goes too far/is too hysteric” vibes. You can suggest better communication strategies, of course (or better yet, use them yourself), if you think you know better how to convince people to stop killing animals. But only criticizing vegans for their tone, and then finishing with “I think the world needs more vegans” does not make you sound supportive at all.
I’m gonna ask the dreaded question then: If you think the world needs more vegans, are you vegan? And if not, would you be if vegans were less rude to you?
Heavily reduced meat and animal product consumption but not yet vegan, no. It requires more research and time and energy than I have right now to fully switch. (And a few more good recipes, because many are quite meh, for some reason) But I’ll get there eventually.
And vegans haven’t been rude to me, thanks for your concern. It’s not about that, even. But all those jokes that are floating around haven’t been created by the meat industry. It’s not some conspiracy. You know the phrase “you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”? That’s all I’m saying… and it’s not even about veganism… it’s about life in general. People are way too angry, especially online. Too quick to judgement and insults. They say the same thing about leftists… that they’re too busy fighting amongst themselves rather than focusing on what matters.
Disagreed with plenty of people in real life, but it’s never been like this. Never heard the phrase “meat eater” in real life, even tho I’ve talked with plenty of vegans. Same for “tankie” and a bunch of others.
I couldn’t imagine not killing baby boy chicks at less than an hour old in a masher, ALIVE. What would we do without taking a mother’s bubba from her in the dairy industry.