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[quote=Anonymous]I was vegan for about a year and a half. I went vegan because I adore animals and didn't want them to suffer or die because of me. I felt great for about 6 months, then felt like crap until I started eating meat again. Nowadays I don't really like meat and I always feel guilty eating it, but it makes me feel so much better. The day I quit being vegan I ate a pound of bacon and a dozen eggs, and the mental fog I'd had for months immediately lifted.

I mostly kept the preachiness to a minimum but there was always a desire to "enlighten" people. I think the reason is that to vegans, eating meat is a social injustice as bad as racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc. If we saw someone mistreating/abusing/killing people due to their race or sex, we'd preach to them, right? Same sort of thing. Of course to rational people, mistreatment of animals and humans are on two completely different levels, but not to vegans. Especially since factory farms animals DO suffer. A lot. Society wouldn't tolerate dogs and cats being treated the way food animals are.

There's also an insane amount of competition on who can be the most ethical vegan and do the most good for the planet. If you order a supplement online, people criticize you because it has to be put in a box (cutting down trees) and shipped to your house (carbon emissions). I saw people who would only eat food they grew themselves or foraged, and criticized anyone who didn't do the same. Heck, I saw crazies who only ate fruit because the plant "wanted" the fruit to be eaten, vs a vegetable who is "killed" for the food. I really think a lot of that is just competition, not because anyone has actually thought these things through. 
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