At the London event, he wore a black vest emblazoned with the slogan: “Veganism = Malnutrition.”The war on vegans started small. A charge commonly laid against vegans is that they relish their status as victims, but research suggests they have earned it. In November 2018, Good Morning Britain hosted a debate titled “Do people hate vegans?”; the political website Vox tackled the question in even more direct fashion a week later, asking: “Why do people hate vegans so much?”These recent displays of enmity towards vegans represent a puzzling escalation in hostilities, just as a consensus is starting to form that eating less meat would almost certainly be better for everyone – and the Earth. At the same time, a similar transformation was happening to the food vegans were eating. Why do people hate vegans so much?

Source: The Guardian October 25, 2019 04:52 UTC