Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL
Some ideas on the topic.
I’ve only met vegans on social media. The vocal minority preaching vegan lifestyle is delusional. Outside of it, it’s still corporations doing their best to make a profit. The regular person just eats quietly and lives their life. The requirements and costs are pittance only in their idealistic view of the world. “If only people would just …” No. They won’t. We are where we are because people don’t. Everyone wants the world to go their way and we kill each other for it.
As an omnivore animal, I eat what my budget allows. Sometimes it’s meat, sometimes it’s vegetables and sometimes it’s cardboard. Just like the wild life, eating plastic bags because they taste yummy. Social media vegans seem to be either the ones that can afford to be picky or can’t afford anything else.
Simple truth is that life can always be better, people can always do more and most of us simply don’t want to.
The vocal minority of any group is delusional
The woes of true believers.