Types of Vegan

The Misanthrope

These cunts are really just more cringe than anything else.

As activists, we are completely sympathetic to the frustration you feel when you see your fellow human beings who are SUPPOSED to be intelligent and understanding, trot out idiotic and ignorant arguments so they can justify to themselves consuming animal products, something that has no place in the modern age.

Where these guys go wrong however, is when they completely give up on humans and don't have faith anymore in order to help the movement. Better that humans all be dead than even be Vegan.

The main problem with this type of thinking is that it lacks nuance. Humans are not the evil, cruel, heartless monsters that they make them out to be. Most humans are not bad, they are otherwise decent people just doing a bad thing, and admitting to yourself that you're doing a bad thing is a challenge, even for the best of us.

If you're just going to give up on humans helping because you think we're a lost cause since we're too selfish, how would that NOT be ignoring all the other battles for justice that have been won? The battles that have been fought in the name of anti-Slavery, civil rights, anti-poverty, medicine, technology, science, humanitarianism, democracy, human rights and a million other things? Most people DO care about animals (which is why they get defensive when the immorality of meat-consumption is brought up), they just don't feel as though it's something they can do.

The Leftist

Leftists either tend to reject Veganism (as explained in the corresponding section of our Types of Anti-Vegan article), or embrance it either out of wanting to be more consistent with their left-wing values, or think that Veganism is some sort of stance against capitalism.

We will say this as many times as need be: Veganism is NOT a political ideology, nor does it have anything to do with being a stance against capitalism. If you want to be a leftist AND a vegan fine whatever, but PLEASE do not make it out as if you HAVE to be a leftist if you want to be a "true" Vegan (otherwise, you're just plant-based or whatever bullshit pejorative they've come up with, even if you are literally paying for zero animals to be abused).

Political polarization is already a big enough problem, and we're already concerned about Veganism being viewed as a symptom of the "Woke" crowd. We want EVERYONE to go Vegan, regardless of their political affiliations. When you make it this thing that only leftists can do properly, you're cutting off the overwhelming majority of society from doing this (Hmmm, not sure how that helps animals all that much).

It's one thing for a leftist to be Vegan since they understand it's rather hypocritical to be oppressing other sentient beings and releasing greenhouse gas emissions needlessly, when your whole ideology is about fighting oppression and ensuring the well-being of the environment (in the same way a Libertarian may feel hypocritical by denying the freedom of animals and violating their respective rights), it's something completely different to then attempt to coopt what Veganism is really about and attempt to shoehorn it into whatever ideology you like and try to claim it for your own.

While it's possible and has many examples of happening with other ideologies trying to claim Veganism for themselves, it seems to be most common amongst leftists (especially since Veganism is widely understood to be better for the environment, a value supported by them).

To those we are criticising here: Veganism isn't about YOUR political goals; It's about relieving the suffering of billions of animals, and you don't need to abolish capitalism to do that. While it MAY be true that animals are treated worse when there's a profit incentive, that doesn't change the fact that regardless of what system we're under, people are going to want to eat meat. Animal agriculture is not going to magically disappear if we institute anarcho-communism or (insert leftist ideology here) When there's a high demand and a need to keep up with that it, corners will be cut.

If anything, capitalism might be one off the best chances we have of achieving a vegan world. By encouraging the production of Vegan alternatives, companies will have an incentive to transition their product lines to ones that require no animal to suffer and die. Oh wait, but these jack offs also oppose buying Vegan products from otherwise non-Vegan companies (something they label as "Plant-based Capitalism," a term so fucking idiotic I physically recoiled in pain just typing it). Fucking hell.

Which is worse? The leftist who can't accept that they're hypocrites for eating meat and will shield themselves under any excuse that's tantamount to "Capitalism fault no me", or the leftist who is hurting more animals by trying to conflate their ideology with Veganism? We don't know.

The Fruitarian

This is someone who pretty much makes the same fallacy as the Carnivore dieter, just in the opposite direction.

The Health Vegan

These ones may be otherwise easy going or absolutely insufferable. We are going to be covering the latter here, mainly because it's more entertaining.