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they often think they have the moral high ground for not eating animals and consuming instead food that is being mass farmed at next to no profit for the peasant workers growing it. save the animals though!
I don’t know they’re almost as annoying as the hydration folks that carry water bottles everywhere and kept telling you to drink water all the time. Every ailment you have is due to lack of hydration don’t you know. And don’t get me started on the anti-carb folks.
If meat is murder – which is the position that vegans tend to side with – then, obviously, people who aren’t murderers are morally superior to murderers.
Because they’ve made an easy choice that causes less suffering, is better for the planet and is better for your body. Everyone else looks kinda dumb when you’ve figured that out.
Because we’re living more ethical, eco-friendly, and healthy lives than the rest of you on average, without even dedicating all that much time or effort to it, while everyone else complains that it’s “too difficult” or makes up excuses, even those who are healthy and financially well-off. I don’t think it’s good to act stuck up, but the reason why some of us do this is obvious.
I’ve met some vegans who are very nice, but it depends on the reason why you are vegan, eg.religious reasons, preventing animal farming from escalating, or from health reasons.
I’ve met good ones and snobby ones , the good ones give you a fantastic recipe and tell ya just add meat if your a meat eater , the snobby ones gag at a table and give you a lecture over you ordering a steak and stating “you know I’m a vegetarian right”? Like just looking at it will make their bones melt or something
Perhaps they’re perceived this way because often they care about more than just themselves. They care about animals and the planet. Note: I’m not a vegan but know many. They’re not snobs, they’re great people.
Some of them are, some aren’t. People just tend to annoy each other – cyclists, vegans, anime fans, gamers… pick your poison.
The real question for me is why this specific group sets me off, and I try to look past the obvious stuff, because those first answers are usually just copes. Dunno just my 2 cents 😅
Because they deem themselves as being more morally superior because of their life choices. It’s narcissism. Same reasons why a lawyer might look down on a fast-food worker.
To be clear, the fast amount of vegans don’t go advertising it unless they’re asked about it or invited to a meal. Which they have every right to explain their preferences.
Hear me out, I’m not vegan or anything, but if the main idea behind veganism is “humans = other animals (in worth/value)” then vegans wouldn’t believe in superiority as a concept, right ? Not to say that ALL vegans follow the same philosophy, but thinking logically, those who choose not to eat animals to end speciesism would actually be placing themselves lower (equal to animals) on the pyramid of living species. In that sense, it would actually be us, meat and/or fish eaters, who see ourselves as “better than others”.
Now putting aside the loud minority of “angry vegans” online (and for your own sake, *please* look at the Internet as a fake place), I’ve been friends with two vegetarians in real life and they’ve been nothing but kind, caring, and educated people who have never once tried to “recruit me into their cult” or pressured me to change my diet. I think the “crazy vegan” stereotype that the Internet came up with is really unfair to this harmless majority of vegetarians/vegans.
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For a lot of them it’s not about being left alone with their personal choice. Rather they want to make others follow their animal avoidant lifestyle.
Because some of them pick it as more of a social status as compared to a dietary choice or out of genuine concern for animals/the planet.
The annoying vegans are also usually the fakest ones.
they often think they have the moral high ground for not eating animals and consuming instead food that is being mass farmed at next to no profit for the peasant workers growing it. save the animals though!
Annoying holier than thou that only makes people angry with them
Veganism can be used liberally as virtue signaling. Especially for those whose choice is moral rather than health related.
I don’t know they’re almost as annoying as the hydration folks that carry water bottles everywhere and kept telling you to drink water all the time. Every ailment you have is due to lack of hydration don’t you know. And don’t get me started on the anti-carb folks.
Because like a lot people into something like this they think they are smarter than people that eat meat.
It’s the other way around. Snobs who are vegan are very vocal about it, as snobs are always very vocal.
You don’t notice when somebody is vegan quietly for themselves, you only notice the ones trying to shame you for not being like them.
It’s a flaw in humanity – many people gravitate towards ideas that let them feel superior to others.
So you have it backwards – it’s not so much that vegans become snobs so much as some snobs are more likely to go vegan.
Because they know better than you and you’ll never understand because you don’t have their lived experience
Happens easily when being a member of an enlightened, exclusive club forms your entire personality
Because they’ve made an easy choice that causes less suffering, is better for the planet and is better for your body. Everyone else looks kinda dumb when you’ve figured that out.
Your title is a bit of an assumption. There seem to be plenty of vegans who just quietly go about their own business.
They feel morally superior. They probably are, but I don’t really care what they think
Only because they’re hungry most of the time.
I think most vegans are likely pretty normal, but a very loud minority skews public perception.
It’s just a vocal minority. I’ve met/seen more “herp-derp MUST HAVE MEAT at every meal” people than I have “snobby” vegans.
Because we’re living more ethical, eco-friendly, and healthy lives than the rest of you on average, without even dedicating all that much time or effort to it, while everyone else complains that it’s “too difficult” or makes up excuses, even those who are healthy and financially well-off. I don’t think it’s good to act stuck up, but the reason why some of us do this is obvious.
I don’t find this to be true anywhere except the internet, where everyone is kind of a snob.
We’re not snobs. We’re just actually better than you. :p
Because they think they’re better than everyone else. Very arrogant people.
I’ve met some vegans who are very nice, but it depends on the reason why you are vegan, eg.religious reasons, preventing animal farming from escalating, or from health reasons.
How do you know someone is a vegan?
They tell you.
You’re hearing from the loud ones. Those are the equivalent of the guys that make BBQ their entire personality.
They are bitter because they haven’t had a juicy steak in a while.
Because they needa Snickers they’re hungry.
Because they think they have the moral high ground.
I’ve met good ones and snobby ones , the good ones give you a fantastic recipe and tell ya just add meat if your a meat eater , the snobby ones gag at a table and give you a lecture over you ordering a steak and stating “you know I’m a vegetarian right”? Like just looking at it will make their bones melt or something
Because they dont have to be kind to make up for all the murdering
Perhaps they’re perceived this way because often they care about more than just themselves. They care about animals and the planet. Note: I’m not a vegan but know many. They’re not snobs, they’re great people.
I completely agree.
EDIT: I misread and thought it said nobs.
Yesterday, my vegan brother in law and I “I’m here to pick up my pork rinds.” “Ew.”
Because their shit don’t stink… mostly because they don’t eat meat.
Some of them are, some aren’t. People just tend to annoy each other – cyclists, vegans, anime fans, gamers… pick your poison.
The real question for me is why this specific group sets me off, and I try to look past the obvious stuff, because those first answers are usually just copes. Dunno just my 2 cents 😅
Because they deem themselves as being more morally superior because of their life choices. It’s narcissism. Same reasons why a lawyer might look down on a fast-food worker.
To be clear, the fast amount of vegans don’t go advertising it unless they’re asked about it or invited to a meal. Which they have every right to explain their preferences.
Because they view themselves as something akin to abolitionists and civil rights activists.
Lettuce poisoning!
Hear me out, I’m not vegan or anything, but if the main idea behind veganism is “humans = other animals (in worth/value)” then vegans wouldn’t believe in superiority as a concept, right ? Not to say that ALL vegans follow the same philosophy, but thinking logically, those who choose not to eat animals to end speciesism would actually be placing themselves lower (equal to animals) on the pyramid of living species. In that sense, it would actually be us, meat and/or fish eaters, who see ourselves as “better than others”.
Now putting aside the loud minority of “angry vegans” online (and for your own sake, *please* look at the Internet as a fake place), I’ve been friends with two vegetarians in real life and they’ve been nothing but kind, caring, and educated people who have never once tried to “recruit me into their cult” or pressured me to change my diet. I think the “crazy vegan” stereotype that the Internet came up with is really unfair to this harmless majority of vegetarians/vegans.