Why is there so much hate against Jehovah Witnesses?
It is because they come to your door, get in your face, and challenge your beliefs with an air of superiority.
Why is there so much hate against Vegans?
It is because they come to your place, get in your face, and challenge your beliefs with an air of superiority.
Vegans also have a very flawed view of the world and life.
And worse, they have a very flawed view of dietary needs.
Now, those last two sentences will make most Vegans see red.
Veganism isn't so much a diet as it is a cult.
It is a radicallized splinter group that broke off from the Vegetarian religion.
When discussing diet and nutrition, it should be paramount to find out what works best for that person. There should be no blame, no shame, no attacks. There should be muscle testing or blood tests (or etc.) to find the best combination of foods for that individual.
But, Vegans rarely start with nutrition.
They start with an attack of why aren't you Vegan?
And then look down their noses at you.
It is as though Veganism has no concern about you or your nutrition and health.
I rarely hear Vegans talk about getting a balanced diet from their limited food group.
Maybe they aren't even concerned about nutrition?
So, if they are not concerned about nutrition, than that leaves a diet only based on moral beliefs.
And when a Vegan gets up in someone's face, proselytizing Veganism, then they are attacking your beliefs. Just like a Jehovah Witnesses, but without any of the pretend niceness.
At restaurants Vegans demand special consideration from people who don't know what they are talking about. And, after a while of having their beliefs challenged, don't care about what they are talking about. It just becomes an annoyance you have to deal with as a waiter.
To people in general, Vegans are just really annoying members of a cult, that looks down on all those who are not indoctrinated like they are.
If you were looked down upon and bullied for something that was well within what was considered normal, would you get annoyed? Would you get angry? This is what Vegans look like to those not in the cult.
Now, for the part i hate. The second part of the question of the week was written by a Vegan and so they probably do not realize how angry it makes people. Or, in specific, the question is an attack, not a question.
"and why are those who eat meat and dairy so threatened by the notion of giving it up?"
Well, have you ever tried to help someone change their diet because they were an obese blimp? You know they have a dietary issue, they know they have a dietary issue, but how hard is it to get them to give up cookies? Eating less cookies is often a bridge too far.
And this is a dietary change where the person says they want to change!
You are what you eat. Or in other words, you eat what you are.
If you want to change your person, you need to change who you are at the core of your being, and then slowly change your diet to be the person you desire to be.
If you are an obese blimp, you first have to challenge yourself. What are the reasons deep within that shape your outer self? Usually they have things like low self esteem. Low self love. Needing protections for your weak emotions (yes, fat is an insulator for your emotions).
And so, to change your diet, you need to work on self love and handling the emotions of your daily life. Then you can begin to change what you eat. In fact, you will start to change what you eat almost automatically.
So, given this, what are Vegans asking for?
"Hey you, you should change who you are because i am upset that they are killing animals, and you should be upset to"
Next, people tend to like what they eat. Here in the developed world, we have all kinds of choices of things to eat. Most people eat what they want to eat. What tastes good to them. That is a combination of what they grew up eating, and their current tastes.
So, telling someone to become Vegan is to tell someone stop eating what they like, because muh beliefs.
Pretty flimsy argument for such a huge change.
The Vegan question above is ludicrous.
Making light of something that is world changing, dismissing someone's preferences as immaterial and then putting that person down for not getting with the cult.
Maybe the question should be pushed back to Vegans:
If life is so important, why aren't you a Breatharian?
If life is so important, why don't you only eat manna from heaven?
I mean, both of these are well within your ability. Why aren't you working on them?
And, any real Vegan should have a greenhouse where they grow all of their own food.
This is not an admonition, this is a warning for the coming ice-age. Get to it or you will be forced to stop being a Vegan.
I have nothing against Vegans (do what thou will), however it has been my experience that Vegans want to see me die.
So, i, as many others, see Vegans with a lot of deserved anger.