Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL

  • Feyd@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    1. This is completely besides the point, but I personally view factory farming as different than what happens in nature.

    2. This is also beside the point, but you are making some wild logical leaps here. The fact that I personally don’t want to support factory farming because I think it is cruel in no way means that I think other people “enjoy animal suffering” and assuming that is arbitrarily assigning thoughts I have never had to me.

    3. None of the above is really relevant because I should be allowed to go about my day without justifying my dietary choices just as people that eat meat should.