In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

All those who claim raw vegan is the ONLY valid way of eating. The fundamentalists that TN seems to refer to.

Can you see how such a statement is reminiscent of whites saying about blacks: "They are all like that...they belong to gangs...they drop out of school and become criminals." Who is 'they'? A blanket statement is being applied to an entire group of people.

I know lots of raw vegans and they aren't zealots at all. They are just offering and sharing what has worked for them, in a spirit of helping others. If they've had a really positive experience and really believe in it, what's wrong with sharing it?

Would it be STO if they had a cure for the big dreaded diseases but didn't share it?

I invite you to rethink your disdain for vegan 'zealots' and reframe. See it from their point of view. They want to help others. They see rampant suffering with epidemic diseases, and they have what appears to be a solution.

I ask this: If they didn't share what they know, would that be STS?

I see a lot of disdain for vegans because they are passionate about the positive changes they've experienced. I see very little understanding of what drives them: caring for other humans, the animals and the planet.

Maybe if an effort was made to view the situation from their point of view, there wouldn't be so much resentment of them.