#vegan hate

Unless you are specifically going out and hunting down animals yourself, this is literally not how it works.

That said, you know this isn't really the 'gotcha' you think it is, right?

Choosing to be more violent isn't a good solution for anything, but it's especially whack if your only reason is to try and spite a stranger on the internet.

You might want to do some soul searching to figure out why you're so angry and full of hate.

Lol, yes, tell me more about my OWN life, stranger from the internet =) 

I’m not really sure what being vegan has to do with how good or bad my life has been anyway ??? In fact, I would say because I grew up in a household being beaten and abused, and because I’ve been raped, and because I was homeless at one point and not a single “friend” cared about me, because of everything I’ve been through in my life, I fight even harder to save and protect the poor animals that the human race has condemned to lifetimes of misery, abuse, and rape. In fact, I know many vegans with similar stories - we feel such deep compassion for nonhuman lives because we’ve felt the sting of so little compassion for our own human lives. I’ve been through some shit in my life, but it doesn’t even compare to the horrors these poor animals face. Veganism isn’t some exclusive movement for rich people. I grew up eating many plant based meals, because meat and dairy are luxury foods that we couldn’t afford. I was accidentally following a plant based diet for many years after college because I was working minimum wage and couldn’t afford anything better than noodles, rice, and bananas.

I just saw someone on Instagram freaking out because they found a bit of cartilage in their Chipotle chicken and like y'all it made me SO MAD.

These meat eaters sit here and tell me my beyond burgers are so gross and disgusting. That my tofu nuggets are frankenfood, that it's "unnatural" to use vital wheat gluten and veggie stock to make a meatless chicken replacement, and then freak out cause the dead animals they insist on eating contains bits of animal they don't immediately recognize.

Fuck off with that shit!

So this is Cognitive Dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is when you're trying to hold two sets of values in your mind at once, like "I'm an environmentalist" and "animal agriculture is terrible for the environment, but I love eating meat and wearing leather". When this happens the feeling is so uncomfortable that you have to do something to release the tension. For example from "Very Well Mind: What is Cognitive Dissonance"

"Some things that a person might do to cope with these feelings include:

Adopting beliefs or ideas to help justify or explain away the conflict between their beliefs or behaviors. This can sometimes involve blaming other people or outside factors."

Personally, I've gone through this. Before I was vegan I was a vegetarian for the environment. When at a family reunion I told my cousin, an agricultural scientist and professor, that I was vegetarian and the reason's why she quite clearly told me that dairy is at least 1/3 of the problem.

This really bothered me. I saw myself as an environmentalist yet I wasn't limiting my environmental impact as much as I would like. So, did I immediately become vegan? Heck no! I continued to eat dairy and eggs, continued to wear wool and leather, continued to do things that I knew she had told me were bad because I wasn't ready to accept reality.

I argued with myself that wool and leather were sustainable (they're not). I argued that she wasn't even an environmentalist so why should I listen to her consequently ignoring her vast knowledge. I even dismissed her statements of fact out of hand because "why should I listen to a conservative about anything".

5 years later my arguments ran out and I went vegan. I could no longer justify my want for dairy and leather when faced with the very real reality that my choices were contributing to an unsustainable system and to the suffering and death of billions of animals and millions of humans. So, when people like this crop up calling me, a vegan, a person who has given up whole food groups and categories of fashion in favor of the environment, a keyboard warrior I don't sweat it. I know that they're just mad at me because my mere existence causes them discomfort, and that's okay. Either they'll figure out why they're really mad, or they'll find another way to cope and stop attacking internet strangers.