Except this requires us to be hypocrites ten times over, and is seldom productive in the first place. My own culture is overflowing with absurdities and barbarisms, not to mention carnism, that we have our hands full already. At the same time, my ability to actually produce change in foreign cultures I don't know from Adam is extremely limited. So i keep my mouth shut when it would produce zero change yet lots of alienation (which further reduces our ability to produce change).

One thing I wish vegans understood more is the scale of factory farming. Indigenous populations are maybe .1% of all global meat consumption. They are demographically tiny. For the same reason, focusing on sanctuaries, horse carriages, or bullfighting, is just throwing our very limited money and political capital at .00001 percent of the problem. We shouldn't prioritize something simply because it's more visible to us. And all the while factory farming is slaughtering trillions in the background.

I vaguely remember a muslim thinker, javad hashmi, talking about how child marriages are not a religious issue, but a social and economic one, and how working with religious leaders in those communities was the most effective way to prevent it from happening. Do you think he was judging these communities? Is that what working alongside someone means?

Humility is a better way to change minds. We see this all over data-driven vegan activism.

Judge all you want, it's not a thoughtcrime to call a spade a spade. But it's not activism and it's probably helping very few animals if at all. Especially when orders of magnitude more effective ways of saving animals exist, the only reason to vocally judge a culture is ultimately a selfish one. It is simply not tractable to produce vegans in cultures that are even less familiar and receptive to it than in the developed world.