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In reply to the discussion: Do People Hate Vegans? [View all]Chathamization
(1,638 posts)give you nasty comments or glare at you if you wore it (not sure if thats changed much). Shark fin soup has a fairly large campaign dedicated to getting rid of it. Japanese whaling has been criticized heavily. I remember a lot of people criticizing the killing of that giraffe in a Denmark zoo. Animal experiments tend to be heavily criticized.
Further out there are things like dogfighting or eating live monkey brains, which many people find horrifying but some people have no problem with.
Youre correct that dietary habits dont tend to elicit this kind of attention, but issues involving humanitys relationship with animals do. Its not uncommon for there to be a fuzzy line with these things and for people to have very, very strong opinions about them and get pissed off by people who have different opinions.