I think part of this insecurity is rooted in the idea that it has to be all or nothing. People feel like either they can acknowledge that animal products are the product of immense suffering and give them up completely, or they have to harden themselves against the idea and resort to emotionally defensive responses like mockery and anger.

The reality though is that you can acknowledge that there's something wrong with the way we treat other animals, make some changes that you're comfortable with, and still be doing a better job at reducing your complicity in suffering than if you did nothing at all.

I do think that there needs to be room for that approach, and I think there largely is, but I feel like for some people the defensiveness is so overwhelming that they themselves can't occupy that space and have to reject the information entirely and mock anyone who doesn't follow suit.

Probably the strawmanning

ask most people (non vegans) to imagine a vegan and they'll come up with the most annoying person imaginable. because that's the character the media has been pushing.

Like "how do you know someone is a vegan, don't worry, they'll tell you"...

while the vegans I know irl just want to eat beans.

is there any representation of vegans in public media? all I know is Beast boy, and they do make his veganism like half is personality.

FUCK, thought it was a question and not a link to an article.

too late to delete now.