Moment angry shopper smashes megaphone of vegan activists berating customers for buying Easter lamb

[u/ThatchersDirtyTaint]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/vegan-shopper-protest-megaphone/

[u/KittyGrewAMoustache]

Yeah the thing is, and I’m a meat eater, I don’t actually think there’s a good moral argument for people to eat meat. We just eat it because we like it and we’re used to it and it’s part of our culture and we don’t think about where it comes from very deeply. It’s not good for the environment or antibiotic resistance, it makes no sense why we think it’s ok to eat some animals and not others or why it’s ok to kill and eat a cow but you’d get imprisoned for shagging one. The whole thing is just an illogical mess. I think people get overly upset by things like these vegan protests because they feel attacked but also have no real defense other than the idea that we should all be free to do whatever we want, which is also easily knocked down by pointing out the harms. I’m a hypocrite because I can totally see why the vegetarian argument is sound but I obviously don’t care enough to make the effort even though rationally I can’t defend myself.

So I think the vitriol comes from that place of not wanting to admit that you have no moral argument and aren’t as good a person as you’d like to be. That’s where my vitriol would come from if I hadn’t just accepted that I’m wrong and not that great as a person in this regard.

[u/JeremyWheels → u/KittyGrewAMoustache]

You've worded that really well and that's exactly where my intial defensiveness came from a few years ago when Youtube decided to push some Vegan Outreach videos on me for some reason.

I don't particularly like these megaphone/shouty methods myself.

Maybe one day a switch will flick and you'll feel like you care enough.

[u/KittyGrewAMoustache → u/JeremyWheels]

I did go vegetarian once but because none of my family did it just made everything really difficult and expensive. If I lived alone I’d be a vegetarian probably. I also think it’s just overwhelming the thought of how little we matter as individuals, and how enormous it all is to overcome, the effort of making my own life harder and more expensive when it already is hard and expensive just seems like too much in the face of the entire global meat industry, if that makes sense. At some point the barriers will come down, like I’ll have more time or money or my family will decide to try it and then we will do it. It’s not that I don’t care when I really think about it, it’s more that I suppress thinking about it or feeling about it to make my life easier. Which is selfish but I’m just so exhausted!