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Input: Anonymous for the voiceless (Google them) were doing one of their protests in my city recently, and since I had time to kill before my train arrived I stopped to investigate.

One of the protestors struck up a conversation with me, and for the most part she seemed pretty chill. She talked about how we exploit farm animals, I talked about the food chain and human evolution, yadda yadda... and eventually I agreed that humans could live solely on plants if we wanted to, and that it would be better for both our health and the environment if we did.

She then asked me "So why aren't you vegan?" and I responded with "Because I don't want my friends and family to see me as a self-righteous snob."

Unsurprisingly she was quite offended, so I told her all about the things PETA do, about about all the times I've been called 'murderer' for eating meat, about the sort of things that vegans have a reputation for (you all know what I'm talking about) and I also told her the story of that bride who wanted a vegan-only wedding which made the rounds on Reddit not long ago. My explaining failed to un-offend her, so I said that I would consider being vegan if veganism ever fixed its public image, and went to catch my train.

This was last weekend and I still feel like I was a bit too blunt with my answer... Am I the asshole?






explaining to a vegan activist exactly why Im not vegan