[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

CalciumDeficiency@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 325 points –

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

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"do-gooder derogation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation

I think that hinges on them actually being morally superior, and for the rest of us it's simply not a moral issue.

It's not like all meat eaters are wandering about wring our hands like we know it's wrong but it's just so delicious. It's just food. There's no more to it than that.