Why do so many people criticise vegans?

In general it really is easy, but nobody has to be a martyr - if everyone just consumed a bit less meat and dairy it would be a massive improvement.

All the time. Not to mention "where do you get your protein from?" and the evergreen "what would happen to all the poor cows if we stopped eating them?" .

It's endless. It's hardly ever the vegan that starts it, and we just want to eat our bl👀dy dinner without an inquest or comment about it.

All the time. Not to mention "where do you get your protein from?" and the evergreen "what would happen to all the poor cows if we stopped eating them?" .

It's endless. It's hardly ever the vegan that starts it, and we just want to eat our bl👀dy dinner without an inquest or comment about it.

How many vegans doing all of this have you personally come across in real life?

But what if one or more of those children found a way of doing something really beneficial to the world?

Well, we are morally superior though, aren't we, by simple virtue of not subjecting living creatures to pain, fear, and death purely because they taste nice, damaging the environment in the process?

We're seen as odd and different, and that always generates hostility from the masses. Same as when I was a punk and was often physically attacked for having coloured hair.

I've been vegan for years. I've never 'lectured' anyone and don't know anyone who has. I try to set a good example by keeping in good physical shape and having a good sense of humour. I will, however, explain why I'm vegan when the inevitable questions appear from meat eaters as to why and what. I generally start with saying "Ethical and environmental reasons", expanding if appropriate. Ethics are fairly subjective, so I rarely go far down that route, using objective facts about the environmental damage caused by meat and dairy instead.

People have odd ideas about us. The most prevalent seems to be that 'vegan food' is made thus by adding some weird 'vegan dust' to ordinary food (Look at the recent furore when the National Trust revealed that most of their fruit scones have been vegan for years 😃). Either that or we all live on avocado and fake steak. The fact that 90% of what most people eat is 'vegan food' seems to be overlooked; A recent study found that people would actively avoid food labelled 'vegan', while happily eating the same food labeled as 'healthy option.

People also love to try and 'catch us out' by trying to find some instance of us using animal products.

It has to be said, however, that veganism can attract the unhinged 😱

“I recognise not everyone can eat this - but of course we all know deep down you should”

this with bells on as I’ve been told repeatedly that there is no medical reason to eat meat and I’ve refuted it. But they still come at me.

@Sasskitty I've never used it. It was a Christmas gift from my sister. I'm sure oat milk will make it stay hotter for longer though 🤣 - no evidence to back this up though

It is quite funny yes, and I can take jokes and have a laugh as a vegan, just as when I ate animals. The only thing is is that we hear the same thing day in and day out, and it does get boring. We all know we are deficient in protein, calcium, iron and B12, we are that deficient that we are all actually dead, but we want to annoy omnivores so we are now ghosts pushing our superior morals onto all you meat eaters.

As a vegan, I've been to a thousand deserted Islands and have only had a pig as a friend - we remained friends and I didn't eat him/her.

I wasn't fast enough to chase down a deer, and so my canines were inadequate to do anything else, I couldn't catch it, nevermind rip it to bits with the canines I was born to kill with.

I do love animals though, and so do so many others and that means that I wake up every day knowing I'm not alone.

I think a lot of people find that even when they aren't being pushy about it, many vegans seem to have an air of moral superiority about their diet. A kind of - well, I recognize not everyone can eat this way, but of course we all know deep down you should...

Which most people don't actually think is a valid assessment or the vegan diet.

It rubs people the wrong way. The vegans that really don't feel that way get tarred by the same brush.

here's one: how do you know if someone has a boring sense of humour? if they find out you're vegan and then claim their same old "jokes" about vegans are "hilarious". 😘

I never said I was original… still funny ..
ps. That mug looks too wide to keep a drink hot enough.

@Sasskitty we've all heard this before, please be more original. I even have the cup 😉

I think the point she was making that you seeing a carrot isn't going to make you feel ill. Unless you have some horrible traumatising carrot phobia. Where as seeing dead animals (which is how they can appear once you stop eating them and an aversion develops) on TV at Christmas...not particularly joyous.

Don't worry, people making the same joke over and over thinking it's original and funny, as if vegans have never heard it, make it SO much more interesting. 😉

Ads do the veggie and vegan options at Christmas too or did you miss them

what?! Have you never watched TV adverts at Christmas? Carcasses everywhere!

or because many of them don’t live in communes and need tech for their jobs?

It’s possible to try to change some elements of society whilst having to live in it, generally.

It's clear to see that the old adage that meat has allowed us to become smarter, also another cliche thrown at vegans, hasn't really worked well on you dear.

Do you know most vegans? How many are you basing it on?

😂 sorry (not sorry) for not reading the full dull thread. Are you vegan? (Rhetorical)

I get that you have 2 brain cells fighting for 3rd place but that clearly says most of them not all of them but like I said if the shoe fits Cinderella.

Because most of them are self righteous knobs.

This was your opening comment, so I'll leave that with you.

Allergies so can’t take a supplement 🤦‍♀️ my B12 deficiency is shot to shit hence the meat so not a weird one at all. See told you I’m a strange case well I think I’m an amazing one cos I’m alive.