In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

But sweetie, I wasn't lumping everyone together with blanket statements! I was just referring to a group of people who see their way of doing things as the only right way to do. And there are fundamentalists in every walk of life, christian fundamentalists, muslim fundamentalists, there are even BMW fundamentalists (yes BMW! who despise everyone who drives a different car, lol)
I am sure there are vegans out there, who have no problem sitting together and sharing a meal with meat-eaters and who would not feel the need to proselytize because they respect the others free will.
I was not referring to all vegans per se. Only that part that really fundamentalist about it. The part that would smash a butchers window and destroy the interior and smear their walls in red with the words "killer". Yes it has happened here. I do not think you would agree with their way, would you?
If you read again the statement by TN that I quoted, it is about FUNDAMENTALIST vegans. Not vegans per se.

Those who care about animals cannot just "respect the free will" of meat-eaters, any more than you could have dinner with a rapist and "respect his free will to rape women." That is the part the meat-eaters are missing in this conversation. It's not like respecting the free will to be a Christian or Buddhist. Would you be able to resist dropping little hints that maybe rape was bad, if you were having dinner with a rapist?

That is the part the meat-eaters are missing. They don't understand that the vegans are championing the oppressed. If they could understand this, they wouldn't feel so resentful; they would feel compassionate.

At any rate, there was no need to bring this up, in this thread. The thread was about allergies. We already have a thread about meat eating. There was no reason to mention vegan "zealots". It didn't add anything to the conversation. It was all needless. Which led me to conclude that there is an agenda to bash vegans at every turn. Why not just focus on the topic, which is allergies? Why the need to even bring up the "vegan zealots"?

It seems that there is zealotry about zealots!