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THIS.

I'm not vegan but I am vegetarian. I do it for ethical/environmental reasons but I don't judge anyone's diet, or try to convert anyone, or whatever. I don't lecture, but I explain my reasons if asked (without being too preachy).

But the moral backlash is astounding. I feel like people want to compensate for the fact that they don't want to be vegetarian by trying to prove how horrible vegetarianism is? As though this were a battle of political parties or something, it has suddenly become unethical to not eat meat? Like, what?

I agree there are some crazy militant vegans. I get it. But seriously, there is nothing unethical about not eating meat - you could make an argument about ethical consumerism, and how we shouldn't buy food from X, Y and Z sources, etc.

But it's not hypocritical to not do everything. Like, how dare you donate $10 to this charity for poor people, but not give your entire paycheck! What a hypocrite! If you actually cared, you'd give all your money until you had nothing left. Etc... that's the reasoning to me.

Me? I love vegan food, I love vegetarian food, and I'm still an omnivore because I also love bacon. I have a troubled relationship with food as is, and I just don't want to risk straining it further by trying to restrict my diet. That said, if I see an appealing vegetarian option, I'll take it.

But that's me, with my budget and my health and my circumstances.

If there are options to be morally "better," does that make me a bad person? I don't think so, but a lot of people seem to feel compelled to deride any moral choices they don't choose to make to feel better about their decision.

I guess it's a kind of coping mechanism to deal with the cognitive dissonance of "I'm a good person, but I do this bad thing".

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