Why are vegans so preachy?

[Anonymous]

I think that anyone who adopts a type of lifestyle outside the norm and therefore has to spend a lot of time a LOT of time preparing for that likes to talk about it a lot because it is usually their biggest hobby.

It is also likely to come up because at social events people talk about what they eat/drink/do in their spare time.

Vegans, crossfitters, marathon runners, paleos, gamers, whatever, if you spend almost all your time building your life around something most people don't do, then you're going to be thought of as someone who talks about it a lot IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with above poster. Many vegans have IMO an eating disorder.

Vegans tend to be thin, while the majority of vegetarians I have met are fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

[Anonymous]

I'm mostly vegan. I subscribe to the Mark Bittman way, which is "Vegan Before 6". The idea is that you're vegan for breakfast, lunch and snack and then for dinner, if you want to eat dairy or animal, that's your one meal a day to do it.

I often mix things up and may let lunch be my one non-vegan meal. This makes it easier for me to deal with things like work lunches that I have to attend. I like this method because it leaves space for urges for specific food.

I never talk about it with anyone unless they tell me they're vegetarian or vegan first.

[Anonymous]

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold."

- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

[Anonymous]

I hate vegans and they are preachy
and fat

[Anonymous]

Survival of the fittest. If it means I have to eat meat, I will eat meat!

I do feel I'm stronger if I eat meat but if I don't eat vegetables I feel weak. There has to be a balance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold."

- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

That guy is a pompous ass. I don't really care what he thinks about ... anything, really.

[Anonymous]

I actually saw a Chevy Volt with DC plates "GO VEGAN!"

Seriously? Can you get any more smug and sanctimonious??!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

Yet you can cite none whatsoever. Lots of people are vegetarian or vegan. They do just fine. It's needless. Listen, I'm not a vegan. But I'm not so delusional that I pretend that I HAVE to eat meat or meat products in order to survive. I eat cheese and eggs because they taste good. I ate meat for most of my life because I enjoyed it. But I never needed it for survival or for health. That's just the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold."

- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

I love him! Ha!

[Anonymous]

I know some vegans. I don't know any preachy vegans. None of them have ever commented on what I eat; they just inform me of what they eat. I've never asked them about their decision or tried to defend my choice to eat meat.

For the people who say they are preachy, how does this occur? Out of the blue? When you ask them questions? When you try to explain why you are not vegan? When you try to convince them to eat non-vegan food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know some vegans. I don't know any preachy vegans. None of them have ever commented on what I eat; they just inform me of what they eat. I've never asked them about their decision or tried to defend my choice to eat meat.

For the people who say they are preachy, how does this occur? Out of the blue? When you ask them questions? When you try to explain why you are not vegan? When you try to convince them to eat non-vegan food?

Mostly, yes.