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

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Specifically the annoyingly loud, self-righteous, insists-everyone-must-join-them vegans.

    Unfortunately, most people only really see this sort of vegan

    If all you can see of a movement are the annoying loudmouths, it will quickly taint the overall image of that movement, regardless of goals of the the movement itself.