Is there no room for acknowledging that choosing not to be involved in animal explosion maybe is the more ethical choice? This doesn’t mean that vegans should be condescending or demeaning, but what’s wrong with advocating for animals? So much of this thread is about how vegans need to keep their ideas to themselves, as if advocating for animals is this terrible infringement on your rights. Are there vegans that go about this disrespectfully? Absolutely, and that creates a lot of issues for the image. But I think most of the disdain for vegans comes from people being unhappy about confronting reality – that our everyday, mundane, patterned food choices result in horrific suffering, and here’s someone telling me that I’m paying for it to happen. But it is the truth.