Why do people mock vegans?
It may be different in different parts of the world, but where I&#x27;m from vegans tend to be middle-class&#x2F;upper-class people who are blissfully unaware of how class barriers dictate the way you eat. And instead of trying to engage with it meaningfully (i.e. understand and propose ways for poor people to live on a vegan lifestyle when $$$ is tight and calorie intake needs are bigger) they just believe that anyone can live the same way they can afford.<p>My personal pet peeves are that a) some of the arguments for veganism try to convince me that I should not eat animals because they&#x27;re sentient beings and since the 70s we&#x27;ve started to see evidence that the concept of &quot;sentience&quot; is very very ephemeral and that plants also exhibit intelligent behaviour. I think this argument is incredibly homo-centric and I honestly find it a bit insulting to my own beliefs.<p>b) the concept of going vegan being environmentally friendly is fine to me, but it&#x27;s not just about not eating cattle. It&#x27;s also about reducing carbon footprints of industrialised food production (i.e. going back to eating seasonal veggies!). Most vegans just eat whatever has the &quot;vegan&quot; label (i.e. quinoa) regardless of the fact that for it to get to their hands it had to be transported in a non environmentally friendly way.<p>c) the biggest environmental offenders are companies. Instead of focusing on who&#x27;s eating meat I&#x27;d rather start prosecuting companies with large carbon footprints.