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Did you know that vegans are hated on par with drug addicts? Perhaps. Did you know that people who consume a plant-based diet for their health or for the environment are hated much less than people who are vegan because of concerns about animal welfare? I think that's interesting. People feel judged by the mere existence of ethical vegans. And I think you are demonstrating how those feelings of being judged are expressed as defensiveness and "hatred" (though I know that language seems strong in this context).
Oh take the back of your hand off your forehead. That's just fucking ridiculous. You know you're not purple, right? You don't glow in the dark? How the fuck could anyone know that you were a vegan other than you telling literally everyone you speak to that you are? It's like that fucking cross-fit and spin crowd. Literally no one would care if there weren't extremists out there harassing restauranteurs and butchers to try to bully them into not serving meat. If vegan extremists didn't lecture, harangue, and shame anyone who eats meat then no one would care. If you're hated it's because of your behaviour and how you treat people, not because you choose not to eat meat.
No one cares what you eat or why. They only care how you act and how you treat other people. Have you tried being nicer to people?
It has nothing to do with ethical veganism and everything to do with harassing, intimidating, bullying, shaming, insulting, labeling, haranguing, etc. people to try to get your way.
It is how you act, not what you eat.