To ask why people are so critical/judgemental of vegans?

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Just wondering why?

Actually I’m my experience it’s the other way around. Did you see big brother the other night?

Are they?

It makes it difficult to cater for them or go out with them for a meal. Once you've added in all the other dietary requirements everyone might as well stay at home with a takeaway/home cooked dinner and communicate via MN.

I may not be being entirely serious above. But it is a pain trying to cater for lots of requirements when they are not health-related.

On the plus side, restaurants are getting better at catering for vegans so it's less difficult than it used to be to find somewhere acceptable for everyone.

Perhaps because they use language like “chicken periods” to describe eggs and “cow rape juice” for milk, and liken eating meat and dairy to slavery. And yes I’ve come across all of this personally.

Noone gives a fuck about vegans

Doesn’t bother me at all unless they are the type who judges anyone who isn’t

I have a few friends who are vegan and unless you eat with them you wouldn’t know, and that’s only because they pick the vegan option.

It’s the preachers people have an issue with

I don't give two hoots until someone tries to foist their opinions onto me.

At that point, hackles go up.

Like pps I am only really aware of admiration for vegans and their environmental stance. The only time I am aware of criticism is when there is an air of sanctimony .

No I didn't watch Big Brother, but aren't most BB contestants idiots and attention seekers anyway?

I hardly know any VEGANS - but know plenty of people who don't eat animal products.

If you label yourself and make a drama about what you eat/don't eat and virtue signal your way through every mealtime - you'll piss people off. If you just eat - as I do - no-one even notices.

I have no issue with anyone choosing to be vegan, would happily cater for them etc

I do have an issue when they lecture me on my choices.

I am not at all judgmental about vegans until they get judgmental about the fact that I eat meat. Then I will give as good as I get.

No I didn't watch Big Brother, but aren't most BB contestants idiots and attention seekers anyway?

Oh I see! You can be as rude and judgemental about people you don’t know, but you get pissy to those who aim the same behaviour to vegans? Gotcha!

People have a problem with preaching not vegans. If, as a pp said, you just eat, no problem.

I think some people are pretty judgemental about others' food choices generally. Check out the low carb thread. I eat what I like and am not even slightly bothered what other people eat. I have no idea why people get so het up about an issue that doesn't affect or concern them.

I’m not

As the joke goes how do you know if someone is vegan? They will tell you!
My experience is it’s dropped into every aspect of conversation relevant or not.
Eat what you want when you want don’t preach at others about food choices.

Most of us are unconcerned about people's choices, so if you are a vegan and find that people are critical of you, maybe look at what you are doing to annoy so many other people.

From my experience as a vegetarian, I found that people took my choice not to eat meat as an attack on their own food choices, so they would get super defensive.

There’s the old joke about how do you someone’s a vegan/vegetarian? Answer: don’t worry, they’ll soon tell you.
This is an issue as some non-meat eaters have a holier than thou attitude about it, and make everything about their choice.

Personally, I never bring it up unless I’m in a food related situation. Having said that, this week I was having lunch with someone I’ve known a while and when they spotted that I asked for veggie options, she made it out like I’d betrayed her for never having mentioned it before, then spent the whole lunch making “jokes” about me being upset at her meat based lunch. I wasn’t upset, but it has shown her in a different light and I don’t think we’ll be meeting up again anytime soon.

In my personal experience I’ve found it to be the other way around.

It's easier to eat out now in my experience, Bills, pizza express, wagamamas etc all have good vegan option meals. I think people see it as a bit awkward and attention seeking as you are choosing to have a special dietary requirement. It's worth it to me to not eat animal products but it becoming more widespread as a menu option will certainly make life easier when out and about and hopefully make it be seen as more of a mainstream choice.

I’m vegan and genuinely couldn’t give two shits what people eat. What I do find though is people say ‘ooh no I couldn’t be a vegan I love cheese’ or ‘ ooh don’t you miss steak’. Noones been overly malicious about it though

I'm not judgemental about vegans in fact I am impressed by them

What I am judgemental is faux virtue signalling militants who go out of their way to belittle abuse and villify anyone who doesn't agree with them because the only thing they have in their life is this one issue and they lack any ability to operate on a mature adult level so hide behind veganism to attempt to make themselves a three dimensional person and in doing so affect others.

Vegans I like

The vegans I have described in my second paragraph are embarrassing and are summed up by...if you want to be a dick be a dick ...dont hide behind veganism to do it

I admire the principles of a vegan lifestyle, but not the sanctimony that sometimes goes with it.

Ps I don’t bring up being vegan unless eating out or in a situation where I need to. I generally say ‘I don’t drink milk/eat meat dried dinv in the situ though rather than do the whole vegan thing cus then people start talking about my shoes and other shit that I can’t be bothered with