Vegetarians Are STUPID

rshah, I think the author is on a holier than thou kick and deserves to have his/her words come back to haunt.
These kinds of mindsets are all or nothing. By attacking others in the veg*an community, the vitorol of the arguments might send the beginning veggies back to the steak house with a feeling of "I cannot go all the way so why bother?" which eventually undermines the writer's supposed goal: animals no longer used by humans.
This is fundamentalism: the same fundamentalism that brought us the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Salem Witch trial, the Shoah/Devouring/ Holocaust, the current wave of extremeism in the Muslim world (how difficult it must be to simply wish for Allah's peace amongst the screaming of the enflamed) and many other limitations on the human spirit.
It fades, becomes a laughingstock and the world eventually finds a balance.

I admire the writer's passion. I feel it is misspent.
Why run down people who are on the same path you are, if at a different degree?

if I were again 13 and starting on my path, and encountered this sort of tirade, I think it would have been the pressure that broke me. I became veggie in Texas, "Beef Country, land of veggie libel (much later). What are you a comie ya salad eater?"
We must HELP people who wish to open their lived to fleshless meals. And pushing a perfect definition is not helping anything. Except the meat, egg and dairy industries.

 

well, sniff, thank you A+O.
not everyone will be vegan. I still have dairy, and in some circumstances, don't sweat the ingredients of, say, bread.
does this make a lacto=ovo less of a human than a vegan? I so doubt it.
Does this make a vegan an innately better person? not if they are this cold and cruel to other veggies!
We are the same "team" : lessening the consumption of animals and raising the awareness that all eating takes life or potential life.