Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL

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    5 months ago

    I don’t think you get to make a black and white, general argument about this. How about this: if a person raises and cares for a chicken, giving it a charmed life it would have otherwise never had, but takes and eats its unfertilised eggs, then that’s not morally wrong.
    It’s just not as obvious as people think, and your first sentence is a naive oversimplification and a great example of the kind of lazy argument I’m talking about. But I don’t want to get into it with my friends since it’s such a touchy subject, and I’ll never get a decent conversation about it online.

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      5 months ago

      You were talking about eating meat and I clearly mentioned eating meat in my response. Eggs is a different topic

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              5 months ago

              Talk about a. Gets response to a. Responds about B. Gets upset when it’s pointed out that a is not B. Crows about being proven right. Whatever

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                5 months ago

                Veganism IS morally correct

                ~that’s you. That’s you talking about veganism.

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                    5 months ago

                    Eggs is a different topic

                    ~again you, saying that eggs are separate from veganism.

                    You appear to be disagreeing with yourself, never mind me.