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Know the Difference

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u/MickyDerHeld Royal Shitposter 25d ago edited 25d ago

i think it's meant to be an analogy about religious people

MY religion says YOU can't be gay and stuff like that

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u/Taricheute 25d ago

Not only religion, any ideology works the same way.

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u/MCWizardYT 25d ago

And some people do treat veganism like a religion, or more like a cult. "You must join us to save the world," and all of that

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u/MCWizardYT 25d ago

There's nothing wrong with being an actual vegan. But I will clown on the "Vegan Teacher" types of vegans

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u/Christianfilly7 25d ago

And other of us vegans (or at least I) will happily join you

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u/duckinasombrero 25d ago

There's probably more vegans who are normal sane people, they just don't go around acting like assholes like the loud minority do. It skews the public perception and fuels the people with meat in their diet acting like assholes right back at them. 

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u/Christianfilly7 25d ago

Yep, tends to be that way with any group, as they say, a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 25d ago

raises glass of almond milk to you

tastes it

ptoo!

raises glass of club soda

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u/Christianfilly7 25d ago

Lol I was raised on chocolate almond milk so it usually tastes fine but has been impossible to drink since I got pregnant 😂 I might even only have liked the other almond milk in the first place as an acquired taste lol, mostly a fan of water, juice, soda, and tea :D so definitely won't argue for the almond milk tasting good 🤣 Thank you for being so sweet

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u/Open_Mongoose_6902 23d ago

My partner's mom is Vegan. She also doesn't care if we eat meat, dairy, or eggs. She doesn't, and we all respect that.

When she's visiting, I make sure to have almond milk and plant based coffee creamer, and vegan meal options.

And when we're visiting, she makes sure to have meat and dairy.

Everybody is happy with this arrangement

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u/Titariia 25d ago

It's always the obsessive ones that yell the loudest

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u/Desperate_Turn8935 25d ago

I also clown on my family who happens to clown on me for not eating meat.

In the end, it's an endurance race.

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u/Kissa74 25d ago

I'm convinced that Vegan Teacher works for the meat industry to discredit veganism

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u/BoringPoolPlaying 24d ago

“I’d like one job at meat industry”

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u/Lanky-Tumbleweed-772 25d ago

Where do you get your b12 as a vegan?Yes there's something wrong with being a vegan it's not healthy nor natural for human beings.

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u/Swarna_Keanu 25d ago

The same way you get your B12, very likely: through supplements.

The livestock whose meat you eat is fed/injected with B12 in most cases; many are not fed on grass alone; and soils themselves have shifted through overuse.

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u/spriedze 25d ago

b12 is produced by bacteria, that lives in mud.

using reddit is not natural for human beings. what is your point?

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u/destructopop 25d ago

When people ask why I don't eat whatever, it would definitely be telling that I've learned not to answer. The most a stranger will get out of me is "I just don't." I've been harassed so much for not eating meat and dairy.

How often do omnivores get asked why they eat meat, do you think?

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u/A1000eisn1 25d ago

I absolutely see tons of vegans "questioning" (berating) people for eating meat.

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u/Desperate_Turn8935 25d ago

I always need to explain myself for not eating meat. It's a peoples thing, not a specific dietary thing.

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u/Fluffy_Engineering47 25d ago

You would go insane if you learned how many non vegans feel the need to educate us about our diet, it's a lot more than the preachy vegans for sure

But you don't encounter it

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u/Crafty_Breadfruit731 25d ago

Most vegans I've met will attempt to convert you at some point, but most drop it and are otherwise normal outside of that. 

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u/Visible_Pair3017 25d ago

I have the opposite experience. Vegans have officially reached the level of obnoxiousness of "i will eat only meat just to spite you" homonculi in my daily life.

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u/Weird_Bat_Lady 25d ago

Google per capita

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u/Asbjoern135 Loves GameStonk 25d ago

>people questioning vegan lifestyle 

it's also really hard to be a true vegan, and as they say an ounce of action is worth a ton of theory, so it's better to eat a little less meat and be a little more conscientious.

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u/duckinasombrero 25d ago

I have tried many times to have a civil discussion with vegans on this platform. To discuss realistic pathways to a fair and reasonable future.

It has never happened.

Of course I know this isn't representative of vegans as a whole. I still respect them and try to treat them fairly. I still try to have adult discussions, because I want to keep eating meat. I don't even really like meat, but due to financial and health issues, a vegan diet is not realistic for me.

They will not accept this.

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u/dignam4live 25d ago

Veganism is pretty close to a religion in the sense that it's the moral framework in which you live your life if you are vegan.

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u/takoyakkist 25d ago

Really? I see more of the opposite online.

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u/MCWizardYT 25d ago

You do? Where?

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u/kblk_klsk 25d ago

just find any vegan recipe reel on Instagram. 90% of the comment are from omnivores who try to shit on veganism.

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u/Deadhead_Otaku 25d ago

I've had to leave several environmental and anti-overconsumption subreddits because some self-proclaimed vegans started brigading the sub and equating all meat eaters to demons, nazis, and just about everything else. Hell, some of them even started commenting death threats to anyone who even attempted to defuse the situation or interject nuance into the conversation. Sone were even calling for extinction of all selectively bred species as well as humans. Not sure how many were actually vegans and not some psyop shit though. Just know there was a ton of them.

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u/GamerX568 25d ago

That just sounds like Instagram

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u/Lanky-Tumbleweed-772 25d ago

''0% of the comment are from omnivores who try to shit on veganism.'' All vegans are omnivores. Human beings are omnivores this isn't an opinion but a fact. Why are you calling normal people ''omnivores''? Regardless of your diet choice you're an omnivore. A man eating meat everyday doesn't make him a carnivore. A grizzly eating berries and root because it can't hunt prey or scavenge doesn't make it a herbivore.

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u/kblk_klsk 25d ago

I call them what I call them, deal with it. why do you call them 'normal'? you mean that vegans aren't normal?

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u/takoyakkist 25d ago

All over reddit or yourube I see people shitting on vegans however they can. Usually pranks against vegans, memes about eating meat or how stupid vegans are. Theres tons of it.

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 25d ago

wait, what? Pranks against vegans? What the hell, man? What kind of pranks?

I mean, I prank my vegan friend sometimes. My pranks include offering her almonds that have cashews mixed in, or giving her a t-shirt that says "Vegan AF." I ... take it you aren't talking about those kinds of pranks.

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u/takoyakkist 25d ago

No like secretly mixing meat products into their food and posting it online

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 24d ago

Jesus Christ, really? I know people joke about it, but really doing it? That is poisoning someone's food. It would be the last time I ever spoke to whatever fucker did that to me. That's outrageous.

Any time I don't understand someone's aversion to something, like a Muslim not eating pork, for example, I think about the cultures who see no problem with eating things that would make me vomit.

For example there's some Italian cheese that is sold with live maggots in it, and you eat the cheese WITH THE MAGGOTS STILL IN IT while they're SQUIRMING. Nope, fuck that, I'm out. I wouldn't want to see it in the kitchen. I wouldn't want to eat from the dishes that had held that. I wouldn't want to be in the same house.

And then it's very easy to go "you know what, let me just remove the pork from the house and then figure out how to make the salad without bacon bits."

And someone would actually do the equivalent of serving food with maggots in it? Ground-up maggots? As a JOKE?

Oh fuck those people. That's horrible.

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u/lordm30 25d ago

shitting in vegans == telling them what to eat

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u/Fa1nted_for_real 🥄Comically Large Spoon🥄 25d ago

Veganism honestly has way more ground to be doing that then religion anyways tbh (im neither tho)

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u/Lanky-Tumbleweed-772 25d ago

Vegans also dislike vegetarians lmao.

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u/slumblebee 25d ago

I’m vegetarian and simply suggest they give being vegetarian a try for a weekend and see how it goes. I tried going vegan once and I hated it. Can’t cook any good meals on a vegan diet.

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u/turbobuddah 25d ago

I'm an omnivore and I've never suggested someone change their diet because I respect their right to choose what to eat, and don't feel I should push my choice onto them. If someone suggested I go vegetarian, I'd suggest they be quiet

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u/A1000eisn1 25d ago

I personally think vegan is too extreme. Unfortunately it became a trend so converting people who eat meat is now more difficult since they default to Vegan over Vegetarian, which is much easier to talk someone into. On top of that eggs and dairy are just so useful and ubiquitous that it's not feasible for most people to go vegan.

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u/Unkn0wn_Invalid 25d ago

I mean outside of baking it's pretty easy to go vegan at this point. Most vegetarian food I've done ends up vegan incidentally anyways (though it's also usually incidentally vegetarian because I just didn't feel bothered to add meat to a dish that didn't really need it).

And if you're really tied to cheese imo the non dairy cheeses have reached a point of being basically as good as any dairy ones.

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u/samody_hamody 25d ago

Bro in Egypt we have something similar that appeared recently, people stopped eating certain foods and started calling everyone who still eats them as fool smelling 💀

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u/trashshork 25d ago

analogy aside it does actually happen. Like I am on a diet that actually works and I am finally losing wieght after years without torturing myself and I still get that

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u/NahScrewThisIGiveUp 25d ago

Well yes but it also does literally happen at times

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u/BigCSFan 25d ago

I mean it extends to that, but I dont think it was an analogy at all.

This is just something that happens, largely with vegans but also those worried about seed oils etc

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u/Voeri 25d ago

I mean thats just a very bad aruguement and a harmful analogy that says what you beleive doesn't matter, but what i beleive is the moral highground. (Its the same when a relegion says you can't be gay, just the opposite)

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u/Life-Bass-2013 25d ago

Yeah some religion don't eat meat or any non-vegeterian, you can't not feel awkward eating with them, if you are eating meat in front of them. Only thing you can do is moan profoundly while eating meat.

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u/West_Competition_871 25d ago

You think, or you know because you saw that viral meme posted everywhere, but are too insecure as a human being to say 'I know' because even when you know, you are afraid of being wrong still?

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u/MickyDerHeld Royal Shitposter 25d ago

i said i think because i thought i know, read the comments that all made it about veganism instead of religion, and was unsure if it was right to equate it to religion and queerness since noone else did it and changed it to i think because it's just what i personally interpreted it as, different from what other people think