Refuting r/AntiVegan's "Evidence Based" Copypasta

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The Philosophical Vegan forum tries to establish itself as a forum that's open to people of all perspectives, whether vegan or not. Echo chambers are not interesting and typically lose membership quickly. The internet is full of such echo chambers, including vegan echo chambers, however non and even anti-vegans enjoy locking themselves in without any consideration for other arguments, the one in question being r/AntiVegan.

This article is not going to go discuss the subreddit itself, however, it will discuss the "Evidence-Based" copypasta that is pinned on the subreddit. The copypasta is pretty much nothing other than a gish-gallop and seems to serve no other purpose than for anti-vegans to copy-paste the thread onto some Vegan forum or Discord or what have you, to bring unsuspecting Vegans onto a gish-gallop of arguments that can't possibly be refuted within a reasonable time frame (thus, the anti-vegan will emerge victorious as not all of his or her arguments can be refuted).

Virtually all of the arguments presented range from strawmen to pseudoscientific studies. This article will refute each point made in the copypasta.


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