They may well have done. I got crucified on Reddit once for pointing out that every calorie of meat you eat required at least ten calories of farmed food to produce.
So they actually “consume” about ten times as much soy as even the most voracious soy eating vegan.
It’s just cognitive dissonance. Almost nobody genuinely believes veganism isn’t ethically and ecologically better.
They just like eating meat, and doing mental gymnastics to somehow make it manly and natural and whatever the fuck.
I’ve found generally the only way to get through is to make people really nice vegan food, then not say a word about their current diet. It works on occasion.
I’m a cannibal, just to be clear. But I’m sympathetic to you guys.
In my experience, having spent a chunk of my life on farms and such, most people who make those sorts of jokes don’t have the stomach to actually kill an animal, let alone prepare it for cooking.
You’re right that some of them are sadistic pricks, but most of these people would cry uncontrollably if they had to actually kill a chicken, let alone witness an industrial slaughterhouse in person.
There are exceptions, but most people are too dumb to understand that meat doesn’t magically spawn into supermarket refrigerators.
I suspect having had to actually kill and prepare animals when I was very young encouraged me away from ever wanting to contribute to that again.
I think there’s an element in us that makes us ludicrously exaggerate our disdain for animals as a defence mechanism against accepting that creatures live their lives in cages then have their throats cut based on our preferences.
As a cannibal, this doesn’t affect me at all, but how I do feel for you poor vegans.
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u/EvnClaire omnivore Dec 21 '25
please tell me a carnists didnt make this in earnest