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In reply to the discussion: Do People Hate Vegans? [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)of them are very quick to point out how the rest of us are wrong. Not all of them, but a lot. And far more than 2% of the people I know are self-proclaimed vegans.
The way so many of them go on and on about how all the substitute meat they eat is delicious, or how the non-dairy version of sour cream or yogurt is so tasty, reminds me of most dieticians I've known. The dieticians will, with an absolutely straight face, tell you that no-fat yogurt is just as good as full fat sour cream. These are people who don't have very many working taste buds.
Some of them are quite nice. I figured out that an acquaintance of mine is vegetarian, possibly vegan, when I was at her house and for lunch she made up some veggie burgers. No apologies, excuses, or explanations, that was just what she fixed.
And this will probably get a lot of hostility, but I've also noticed that a surprising number of the vegans and vegetarians have lots of health problems.
We really did evolve as omnivores, and our bodies have not changed substantially since then. We do NOT have the long digestive tract that a pure vegetarian species needs. And there are lots of sub-groups of humans who've adapted to different sorts of diets over the years, centuries, millennia.
I'm glad that you've never met a hostile or preachy vegan, because I have. Maybe the next one I meet I should send over to talk to you.