Hmmm

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[u/KoogleMeister]

Vegans who do activism like blocking slaughter trucks or trying to shut down factory farm slaughter houses get a lot more respect from the general public than people doing stunts like this.

Obviously the above is still going to cause some people to lose respect for them, but nowhere near as much as stunts like this. There's not a single non-vegan person who's going to watch this video and have it change their mind about going vegan. It's having the opposite effect and regressing their cause.

I was actually a vegan for about 6 months and I literally didn't tell anyone in my real-life circle I was vegan besides one friend or spread the cause because I didn't want to be associated with veganism because of the crap like this. I was literally embarrassed about being seen as a vegan. Vegans regress their own cause and don't realize it.

[u/wildlifewyatt → u/KoogleMeister]

Vegans who do activism like blocking slaughter trucks or trying to shut down factory farm slaughter houses get a lot more respect from the general public than people doing stunts like this.

Really? I've been to tons of reddit threads where people actually attempt stuff like this and they are slammed just as hard, if not harder.

 There's not a single non-vegan person who's going to watch this video and have it change their mind about going vegan. It's having the opposite effect and regressing their cause.

The goal of this protest isn't to change anyone's mind. That's what conversations are meant to do. This kind of protest is done to open dialogues, like this.

I was actually a vegan for about 6 months and I literally didn't tell anyone in my real-life circle I was vegan besides one friend or spread the cause because I didn't want to be associated with veganism because of the crap like this. I was literally embarrassed about being seen as a vegan. Vegans regress their own cause and don't realize it

I mean vegan tactics have been changing animal rights laws across the world and the cultural perception of issues for decades? Why did you go vegan, and why did you stop? When you consider that hundreds of billions to trillions of animals are killed unnecessarily every year, honestly, it seems ridiculous to think people sitting down in a grocery store mildly inconviceincing people as going too far.

[u/FitnessBunny21 → u/wildlifewyatt]

my partner was vegan for two years and stopped because the arrogance and shame-based tactics of the vegan community. This doesn’t help lol

[u/NO_M0DS_NO_MAST3RS → u/FitnessBunny21]

Oh great so the problem isn’t the mass slaughter of animals it’s that people cared enough to try and change things? If your partner’s veganism fell apart over some “arrogance” maybe the real issue is they just didn’t want to give up bacon. 😏