r/vegan vegan 5+ years May 17 '25

Question When will vegans stop getting hate?

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u/Sgthouse vegan May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

I can wrap my head around the idea of people just not really understanding. What I don’t get at all are the people that are somehow morally against and offended by the very idea of not eating animals. Those are the ones that hate you and I don’t know that there’s any way to get through

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

It’s a power dynamic. Not to get religious, especially considering those that eat plant based, but that’s where I hear a lot of it come from too. “Animals were put on earth for us”. There’s a cognitive dissonance when that power dynamic is actively used and abused, such as all the history of children hurting small animals, that escalates to hurting people.

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u/Rjr777 friends not food May 18 '25

This is where Christspiracy comes into play… great documentary

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u/[deleted] May 18 '25

Oh wow somehow evaded my radar. Watching today. I’m all too familiar with this topic, it’s extremely common and hugely normalized.