Why do people mock vegans?
People mock vegans because of the sanctimony you often hear as the justification, and because of perceived superficiality.<p>If you hear someone is vegan because of some religious reason, there&#x27;s a long cultural tradition behind that and there&#x27;s a degree to which people cannot escape their culture.<p>But the vegans that are mocked are typically the upper middle class urbanites who<p>- Have no idea what they are actually eating instead of not eating meat<p>- Would like to signal to the world how good they are<p>- Have no real time &#x2F; money &#x2F; convenience constraints on whatever ethical choice they decide to choose<p>- Seem sort of juvenile in that their deeply felt convictions may quickly change to some other deeply held position<p>This is not to say all vegans are like this, or that veganism itself is actually wrong, but the caricature is the stuff of comedy. Who doesn&#x27;t have a friend that&#x27;s dabbled in some ethical choices that only they could see the necessity of?