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
I don’t hate veganism.
I just don’t like the militant and pompous attitude that some vegans seem to possess, that they feel that they have to flaunt their vegan lifestyles on others over.
Yes, go eat as many vegetables as you like, go eat meat alternatives and whatever. You do you, eat what you want. But I don’t want to ever have someone like that coming up to my face and tell me what I’m allowed to eat in their eyes.
I’ve seen more aggression about food choices from meat lovers.
And who, in your estimation, threw the first rock?
I fail to see the relevance of the question
If the question is why do people hate XXX, doesn’t it matter who is the first to critique? It seems to me that if you provide an unprovoked critique, unless the subject of the critique agrees with your perspective they are likely to… dislike said critique or the person providing it, yeah?
Hence the relevance of who provided the first critique: right or not, people might not like it.
So?