YANBU I'm sick of the preaching. I'm amazed that people are asking why meat eaters are complaining. Go check out social media and see the demonising of people who eat meat or wear leather. See the farmers being threatened. Read the snarky, rude, egotistical comments. Some of it is very cult like, people who were once vegans have reported being harassed after eating meat again.
There have always been vegans, always. I have met a fair few in my life, and they genuinely could be persuasive. But this new strain which is based on a so called attempt at 'saving the planet' is filled with a lot of people who seem to lack the ability to think critically as evidenced by the responses on this thread that if only the entire population of the world eat vegan, well then problem solved! No thought to how this will work on a worldwide scale, work for people who cannot tolerate a plant only diet, people who are sensitive to grains, work in terms of water poor countries like Australia for e.g. The impact on soil diversity, insect diversity, air miles, fertilizer use, mono crop impact on bees, poverty etc etc. And as i understand it no culture has ever been wholly vegan ever in the history of mankind. One would think for a reason.
However fair play to the modern food industry, because they are laughing.
You can imagine them in the boardroom.
"I think the future is fake meat"
"That's a ridiculous idea, it will never work, people aren't that stupid, it would be like selling wool to sheep, besides polls show an increase in whole foods trends"
"Oh just give it a few more years, the green debate is heating up, and we've successfully fooled everyone into avoiding eggs with are natural sources of B vits for breakfast and eating our sugar based cereals that we have to add artificial B12 and Vit A to for years"
"True, true"
The modern education system linked with a barrage of post modernist leftist propaganda has done it's work and now big corporations can sell us anything under a trendy guilt inducing/morally aggrandising slogan and we just lap it up.
Governments can also use it to get us to vote against our own interests.
Meanwhile some of the healthiest people in the world with the longest lived populations carry right on eating a meat based and fat rich diet.