I am having trouble falling back to sleep. I know this is a bad habit, but I ended up checking my Google NewsFeed.
A couple of clicks later I found this article.
The author is that Vegan, Selene Nelson, who was in the center of that brouhaha over the firing of that editor in the UK. I didn't follow that story closely. I had heard about it - but it was just a blip over here on this side of the pond. But it was a "related story" after a pretty standard story from the BBC on Vegans.
I really liked this article and decided to share it. It did explain the whole series of events which I was just barely aware of. It also explained the reaction in the media that I was unaware of. And Ms. Nelson turns out to be a pretty good writer. And a pretty smart vegan. There are too many good quotes for me to put in here but if you have a couple of minutes you might want to give it a read.
So, "Why do people mock vegans?" Maybe the best answer came from Vice, " people see veganism as a threat to "their sense of identity, values and beliefs ..... partly because it challenges the deeply held belief of human superiority over non-humans. "
I did particularly like this line, "Vegans aren't an oppressed minority, and to suggest we are is absurd. But the way we see it, we are speaking for an oppressed majority: the animals, millions of whom, right at this moment, are being hung upside down and slaughtered."
A couple of clicks later I found this article.
The author is that Vegan, Selene Nelson, who was in the center of that brouhaha over the firing of that editor in the UK. I didn't follow that story closely. I had heard about it - but it was just a blip over here on this side of the pond. But it was a "related story" after a pretty standard story from the BBC on Vegans.
I really liked this article and decided to share it. It did explain the whole series of events which I was just barely aware of. It also explained the reaction in the media that I was unaware of. And Ms. Nelson turns out to be a pretty good writer. And a pretty smart vegan. There are too many good quotes for me to put in here but if you have a couple of minutes you might want to give it a read.
So, "Why do people mock vegans?" Maybe the best answer came from Vice, " people see veganism as a threat to "their sense of identity, values and beliefs ..... partly because it challenges the deeply held belief of human superiority over non-humans. "
I did particularly like this line, "Vegans aren't an oppressed minority, and to suggest we are is absurd. But the way we see it, we are speaking for an oppressed majority: the animals, millions of whom, right at this moment, are being hung upside down and slaughtered."
