Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    What “other side”?

    Non-vegan

    I don’t believe the people who aren’t vegan view their choice as a moral decision

    • SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Many people who aren’t vegan still choose free range eggs, organic beef, fair trade coffee and chocolate.

      The 500 mile diet is absolutely a moral choice, even if it includes meat.

      Albertans preferentially eating large amounts of Alberta beef is viewed as a virtue there. Veganism is viewed as immoral, unalbertan (amongst some communities).