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He didn’t conflate anything. He said “I’m vegetarian.” You are the one who is making ethical assumptions on his behalf. He can state he is a vegetarian and t

• hammyhavoc 4y ago
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  • indigodaddy 4y ago
    He said nothing about vegans. He is only talking about himself. You are making assumptions about what point you think he is trying to make, and/or belittling his own personal ethical stance on things, just because he is vegetarian. What you are doing is wrong. But you are correct that I’m projecting a bit. This is because as a vegetarian, I’ve seen so much vegan arrogance, condescension, and outright aggression toward vegetarians that I am indeed particularly sensitive to it. So if I see it I call it out. In my experience, an average vegan has more hostility toward a lifelong vegetarian than they have toward a lifelong meat-eater (granted that most vegans hold no hostility at all— so this would be a smaller subset of vegans that do hold hostility— a great many can be seen on any random Facebook vegan group).
  • wongarsu 4y ago
    As a meat-eater I agree with you in spirit, though imho that doesn't invalidate what the original poster said. "I don't eat meat for environmental reasons, but would prefer traditional farm-animal-meat to this" is a valid opinion. It is also easy to confuse with "I don't eat any animal products for ethical reasons, but still find eating real meat better than this", which would be much more surprising and interesting, but is not something expressed here. It's important to note the difference, though let's avoid judgements to avoid descending in a flamewar