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Used to live near someone whose car was covered in "Meat is Murder - Animal Holocaust" stickers.
I bet the pig butts guy is more pleasant.
Eh, anyone who goes out of their way to shit on other people's dietary preferences is unpleasant in my book.
It's not even like the vast majority people who refrain from gluten just because they don't like it or think it's healthier. It's because they can't tolerate it. This car reads to me like someone ragging on people who have peanut or shellfish allergies.
To give the dude some credit, a while back it was kinda in-style to hate on gluten or think you're intolerant to it, so maybe this is just a reaction to that?
No, he's a gluten for puneshment.
Yes, the root of the “backlash” was people avoiding gluten after it became somewhat of a health fad. Somehow it became perceived as an elitist affectation, like “they think they’re better than us! They’re too good for our regular food!!”. I don’t really get why people care so much about what other people don’t want to eat though.
If we were placing bets, I would put money down that his love of pigs is to shit on the Muslim community. I don't have any hard evidence to that effect, but I dunno. I just have a feeling.
I have a shellfish allergy and I rag on me all the time. The one that really sucked was developing an egg allergy. I love eggs (and before someone suggests duck eggs, they were the initial trigger. I was probably somewhat intolerant before because they gave me heartburn and some digestion issues, but 3 duck eggs caused projectile vomit, and I haven't been able to eat eggs since).
No the vast majority do it for a health fad
Celiacs are very minimal and you can look at how impossible it was to find gluten free food until it became a health fad as evidence
As someone who can't eat wheat, I hope it continues. My life has improved dramatically since it got popular.
Umm, source?
There was certainly a fad for going gluten free as a fad there for a while, but I haven't really encountered any of that crowd in a bit. However, I definitely have friends with celiac disease and/or gluten allergies.
While any sweeping claim is better when backed by data that supports it, I dont think this particular case is a hill I'd die on.
What if my dietary preference was cannibalism? Then would it be okay to shit on my dietary preference?
Not eating animals isn't a dietary stance, it's an ethical stance.
What's this ethical stance about?
Is it about what you eat?
Is it an ethical stance about what you eat, and therefore a dietary stance?
You really chose the person saying "vegans aren't assholes, it's the preachy people who are the problem" to get preachy at didn't you?
I'm not a vegan, and I'm also not a fan of vegan preaching, but veganism extends beyond diet to include other products like clothes and makeup. So it's not entirely a dietary stance, that's just where it gets the most contention. Most people are mostly vegan outside the dietary sphere, so there's not much fighting to be had there.
Yes, I do know what veganism is. But in this case we're talking about food, and in that sphere veganism is a dietary preference. That it also has other lifestyle implications isn't really relevant to a conversation about food.
I am more than happy to be preachy about ending the suffering and abuse of literally billions of animals.
Listen, I appreciate someone who is at least not hostile towards vegans, but I hate this whole "I respect what vegans eat, so they should respect what I eat". Sir, you are eating an animal that was most likely tortured and abused its entire life up until the point it was murdered
It's just about the timing and choice of person you go preachy on is all.
I do not give a damn about your dietary preferences. At all, in the slightest.
And so who do you choose to annoy? Obviously the person saying vegans aren't the worst, but just "people".
It's like you're trying to persuade people that they're wrong when they say that vegans, like all people, have a range of "chill" to "insufferable".
Don't worry though, you have not shaken my beliefs. I just think you in particular are insufferable on this topic.
"meat is murder" is directly attacking other's dietary preferences. The person in the picture looks like they are sharing what they love with the world.
If one feels attacked over what someone else loves, they probably need some self reflection.
I mean, sure. Theoretically.
Same as how "meat is murder" isn't actually an attack, it's just sharing their thoughts on ethics passively on the back of their car.
Realistically, we can probably guess that the person with a lot of "meat is murder" stickers is probably about as likely to be the sort of person to say something shitty to someone eating a burger as this person is to loudly proclaim they eat twice as much meat a day to cancel out a vegan, and that people who are gluten free are just following a fad or attention seekers eating fake bread.
Beet is burder.
I would probably road rage if someone was talking smack about beets.
Any of my root vegetable homies.
Settle down, Mr. Shrute.
They don't love gluten. Good dough, sure, but I've never gone "man, that gluten is unreal".
I love seitan, as do many people, which is just wheat gluten.
But you wouldn't call it gluten. You'd call it seitan, like you just did.
I actually do call it gluten IRL.
anyone who is that passionate about shitting on others will be insufferable tbh