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

  • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
    96·
    2 months ago

    This is pretty much why people get mad and argue, along with many other posts from vegans in this thread. The very obvious disrespect and talking down to, insults, accusations of being bad people.

    • Kacarott@feddit.deEnglish
      63·
      2 months ago

      I think part of the issue is people tend to conflate “does something immoral/less moral than an alternative” and “is a bad person”.

      I think most meat eaters would acknowledge that meat is inherently worse for the environment, and also less moral due to more animal suffering, than not eating meat. Doing so does not make them bad people, just like owning an iPhone doesn’t make someone a bad person, etc. And yet when the topic of "meat is immoral " comes up, people very quickly seem to think it is an accusation of them being a bad person?