NEWS: The Mischievous Vegan: It’s Difficult Being A Vegan Warrior

This sounds kind of judgmental.

This statement

Does not mesh with this statement. At all.

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.

See, it's not judging to tell you you're wrong when you're actually wrong.

Well, it is judging... but if I've gotten anything from this thread, it's "making (informed) judgements is necessary and okay."

(He was being sarcastic.)

Yeah, a vegan judges the food industry. That's what this thread is about - the vegan movement. NOT the people not involved or not interested. Those are the people who start silly, pointless arguments about the inevitable aspect of judgementalness.

Ridiculous. Why do you think "No meat crashers" is there on the Veggie group? How about so that aggravated, argumentative meat heads with too much time on their hands don't come in trolling around with their stock pile arguments about OUR PERSONAL CHOICE. It's a nice group, all about vegetarianism, NOT ABOUT YOU.
^That wasn't aimed at anyone in particular.

Edit: redacted. I'm participating for the sake of what I see as an interesting argument, and that's not fair to people who actually feel strongly on the topic.

Actually it's been proven that plants feel too.

Ugh, I hate giving demerits to Cat Cora, but: DEMERIT! It was a bummer to see her dismiss the objection so blithely.

(This is coming from a guy who never says "no" to bacon, eggs, or cheese.)

Then why post it? The large majority of posters in this thread respect Malloreigh, her views, and her right to hold her views and make the choices she makes.

There's some expression of disappointment that she chose not to read the thread comments. There's some discussion/debate about "judgmentalism", but a number of us are pretty OK about all that. Many of us aren't that thin-skinned, you know.

I've no idea at all what contribution you think you're making to the discussion. I can't tell why you've even decided to involve yourself. It's as if you simply can't read.

The video won't show for me, but that sounds awfully disrespectful.

I thought that summed up this thread pretty well. I can see why Malloreigh wouldn’t want to read the comments if they go on for five pages and can be summed up in a couple of pretty gentle sentences.

I like anonmymouse's comments. They are fun to read. I dread the day her wrath is directed towards me.

The Ignore button = awesome.

It ain't easy bein' green.

To speak quickly to the idea of preachy vegans: yes, they are out there. Despite the tag "vegan warrior" I don't find Mal's articles taking on a holier than thou approach to her lifestyle choices.

I'm an omnivore and my wife is vegan. We have a very understanding, live and let live approach to our diets. I have learned a great deal about cooking vegan, and I find it a lot of fun to bake vegan for her. She feels healthier and can live her life best without animal products. She will even prepare me extremely tasty meals involving things she personally will not eat, because she respects my choice not to be vegan, rather than be interested in clinging to some "gold star" of veganism.

I also found Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" to be a spectacular read. (I look forward to starting another book I hear great things about, by the same author, titled "In Defense of Food".) Turning a deaf ear to those that live differently than you is no way to live. Even if you don't/can't subscribe to their ideals, it is very possible to coexist. That goes for a great deal of topics, even dietary choices.