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why do you bash on vegans? why does there lifestyle upset you so much? why cant
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Emily chan
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I don't bash on vegans, I am a vegetarian lol. Maybe some people do because they think it's weird, I don't know. But I see no reason to.
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Wiccan
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I never bash any VEGANS? What is a vegan????????????????
You're right about people being mean when they patronize someone who's different. However, that's the way people are, and even while I'm writing about those mean people right now, I realize I am one of them from time to time as well, so I guess I'm sort of hypocritical in my remarks. Oh well, we're only human.
But let's talk about your point. First of all, I assume you're from the U.S. or some Western Country. If that's the case, you ought to realize that we here in the West live by Christian values, mostly. In the Bible, people it meat. It says that you can eat whatever God put on the earth from you, with a few exceptions, like the Jewish religion, which restricts pork.
So, eating meat is a huge part of our culture, and it's even a religious part to many. Not eating meat would mean not being grateful for an important food source God provided for us (according to many Christians, for example). Thus, veganism would be considered an insult to God on some levels.
Also, meat is associated in our culture (and many others, in this respect at least) with strength. That is to say, the eating of meat is associated with our early ancestors, fighting and hunting and capturing the wild animals in the forests and jungles. So, eating meat conjures up a picture of strength and courage, no matter how false that is today in light of "cowardly" ways in which animals are kept and raised and killed before they're eaten.
So, not eating meat means disconnecting oneself with the "warrior or "great hunter" way of life of our ancestors. As a result a person who doesn't eat meat may be considered a kind of weakling, or wimp, or any other related terms of which there are numerous synonyms.
Then there's the argument against veganism based on a nutritional value sort of argument, but I'm no expert in that field at all.
But all in all, I think the biggest criticism against vegans is stems from a religious-cultural-masculine attitude that is deeply embedded in our ideology and thinking in the West. I suppose that if you went to India, where a great part of the Country is vegetarian, you wouldn't find the least bit if trouble as a vegan. Their culture and outlook on what is strong or masculine is different from ours here in the West.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Hope they help!
But let's talk about your point. First of all, I assume you're from the U.S. or some Western Country. If that's the case, you ought to realize that we here in the West live by Christian values, mostly. In the Bible, people it meat. It says that you can eat whatever God put on the earth from you, with a few exceptions, like the Jewish religion, which restricts pork.
So, eating meat is a huge part of our culture, and it's even a religious part to many. Not eating meat would mean not being grateful for an important food source God provided for us (according to many Christians, for example). Thus, veganism would be considered an insult to God on some levels.
Also, meat is associated in our culture (and many others, in this respect at least) with strength. That is to say, the eating of meat is associated with our early ancestors, fighting and hunting and capturing the wild animals in the forests and jungles. So, eating meat conjures up a picture of strength and courage, no matter how false that is today in light of "cowardly" ways in which animals are kept and raised and killed before they're eaten.
So, not eating meat means disconnecting oneself with the "warrior or "great hunter" way of life of our ancestors. As a result a person who doesn't eat meat may be considered a kind of weakling, or wimp, or any other related terms of which there are numerous synonyms.
Then there's the argument against veganism based on a nutritional value sort of argument, but I'm no expert in that field at all.
But all in all, I think the biggest criticism against vegans is stems from a religious-cultural-masculine attitude that is deeply embedded in our ideology and thinking in the West. I suppose that if you went to India, where a great part of the Country is vegetarian, you wouldn't find the least bit if trouble as a vegan. Their culture and outlook on what is strong or masculine is different from ours here in the West.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Hope they help!