Not vegan but vegetarian, I recognize the anger and I regularly have people getting hostile and telling ‘last week I had a bbq and at 5 kilos of pork in one ser

Not vegan but vegetarian, I recognize the anger and I regularly have people getting hostile and telling ‘last week I had a bbq and at 5 kilos of pork in one serving’ as if that would set me off or something. And it happens a lot (at least once a week in the summer). People are so crazy about their meat (I have seen people on HN say they would rather die than never eat bacon again...) and I guess they are afraid it will all end or something or that vegan or vegatarian-ism is contagious. The more educated of my meat eating friends raise their own animals (some slaughter them, some take them to the butcher), or, if they cannot afford that and cannot afford free range meat, when asked about animal suffering, say they just cannot care about that because they cannot live without meat. Same like people who smoke, drink, drive sportscars or gasguzzlers, eat sugar etc; they know it will kill them and/or the world, but they just cannot care about it. But personally (anecdotally) I do not see people so enranged as they are about meat eaters (in vegan circles: like I see in Berlin) or about vegan/vegetarians. I just see the reason vegans are angry about meat a lot more than the other way around.