Maybe behind the mockery and hatred of vegans lies a much deeper fear. The fear that they are on the right side of history. | COMMENT by Simon Castles
Many people will have a vegan Christmas lunch this year, and how you feel about this probably depends at least in part on your own dietary position on a continuum that stretches from “full vegan” to “hold the green stuff and just shove animal flesh into my face”.I’m not a vegan, something it feels necessary to point out straight away, lest this be read as just a defence of what I like or choose to eat.
Yes, there are annoying vegans. But so what? That’s no more telling than saying there are annoying Virgos, or annoying cat owners, or annoying meat eaters. That’s not really what this is about. The vegan, just by turning up, calls the bluff, and we hate them for it. They make manifest the cognitive dissonance that allows the carnivore to love animals in the abstract even as they eat them with relish . They touch off a defensiveness that sits just below the meat eater’s skin.
Talk of a tofu future can feel like a rebuke to the roasts your nanna made , to the ham sandwich in cling wrap at the bottom of your school bag, to the turkey at Christmas that stretches down through the years until it disappears like a mirage into childhood.
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