Nearly every vegan I’ve met has been a sanctimonious prick.
Isn’t that the actual point of going vegan, anyway?
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I thought veganism was supposed to function as “virtuous dieting to avoid fatness.” Is there a single culture or cuisine or food tradition which is vegan? I can’t think of any off the top of my head. Cuisines which don’t use dairy at all or sparingly use other animal products, and even most Jains use milk. A strict Jain diet is incredibly restrictive but it allows dairy.
I’ve never met in the US a vegan who chooses that diet for the sake of thinness (though I am sure they exist, but prob. in limited numbers).
I’ve only met what I call the “ethical proselytizing vegans” who attempt to shame you and excoriate you for not being vegan. These seem to the dominant type in North America.
This article I happened to find incidentally in the course of other reading shortly after I posted this discusses the same phenomenon.
I don’t really care what anyone else eats. It’s when they start calling me a murdering scumbag that I do care, at least a little — enough that I want them to stay far, far away.
See that’s why I called it “virtuous dieting to avoid fatness”. Every “ethical proselytizing vegan” I’ve met does it to avoid being fat or lose weight, even if they don’t specifically state it. Just look at the entire Skinny Bitch and PETA pitches. PETA is very much about fat-shaming. Most of the vegans I’ve known drop the diet when they don’t lose weight (or enough weight) and move on to other orthorexic regimes. The amount of heavily processed expensive food they promote is unsustainable at an individual level. The only people I know who assiduously rely on non-dairy substitutes in everything have food allergies or have to make food for someone with food allergies.
I thought veganism was supposed to function as “virtuous dieting to avoid fatness.” Is there a single culture or cuisine or food tradition which is vegan? I can’t think of any off the top of my head. Cuisines which don’t use dairy at all or sparingly use other animal products, and even most Jains use milk. A strict Jain diet is incredibly restrictive but it allows dairy.
I’ve never met in the US a vegan who chooses that diet for the sake of thinness (though I am sure they exist, but prob. in limited numbers).
I’ve only met what I call the “ethical proselytizing vegans” who attempt to shame you and excoriate you for not being vegan. These seem to the dominant type in North America.
This article I happened to find incidentally in the course of other reading shortly after I posted this discusses the same phenomenon.
I don’t really care what anyone else eats. It’s when they start calling me a murdering scumbag that I do care, at least a little — enough that I want them to stay far, far away.
See that’s why I called it “virtuous dieting to avoid fatness”. Every “ethical proselytizing vegan” I’ve met does it to avoid being fat or lose weight, even if they don’t specifically state it. Just look at the entire Skinny Bitch and PETA pitches. PETA is very much about fat-shaming. Most of the vegans I’ve known drop the diet when they don’t lose weight (or enough weight) and move on to other orthorexic regimes. The amount of heavily processed expensive food they promote is unsustainable at an individual level. The only people I know who assiduously rely on non-dairy substitutes in everything have food allergies or have to make food for someone with food allergies.