I donāt hate vegans or veganism - if you want to be vegan, thatās cool. Sometimes it genuinely is better for people and works for them and thatās great!
My problems are with common attitudes and rhetoric that many vegans spread. Particularly false propaganda, shaming people, outright lying, putting down animal welfare, doing things that truly hurt animals, and refusing to listen to or consult people who actually have studied and work with animals. These are the things I criticize when I criticize veganism. Some examples:
-spreading just blatantly untrue things about animal agriculture (āits standard practice to break sheep legs during shearingā)
-purposefully doctored footage to solicit unpleasant emotions (that video of a dairy cow going to a very quick and peaceful slaughter with sad music and words about her ābeing dried up and no longer usefulā when she has a full udder and clearly a severe leg injury)
-the ALF just released thousands of game bird chicks from a farm. the chicks died of dehydration.
-shaming people for the food they eat (this shit literally fuels eating disorders)
-racism (being especially volitile towards Asian people/countries because of the dog meat trade in a few countries, overlap of white nationalists and veganism)
-saying all farmers/zookeepers/etc lie about animals and should never be trusted as a source about animal behavior or welfare, despite us spending years studying and 24/7 working with animals, while many vegans do not have the knowledge or hands-on experience we do
-supporting sanctuaries blindly, even when there is clearly poor welfare and accusing anyone who points out bad welfare of being a āshill for big agā (Skylands Sanctuary and that extremely underweight cow)
-saying shit like āanyone who was unhealthy on a vegan diet did it wrongā and pretending no one can genuinely have health issues with veganism (again, food shaming and in some cases literally dangerous)
Iām genuinely happy to talk to people about agriculture and what happens to animals. And itās fine if not everyone is comfortable with animal death or eating dead animals. But when y'all insist that a) people like me are capitalist idiots (when most farmers are making jack shit and arenāt saving their business with arguing with people on the internet) that can NEVER be listened to and b) outwardly shaming and othering people who canāt or wonāt prescribe to the same diet as you, thatās when I have a problem. And a lot of online vegans fall into that group.
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