Why do meat-eaters get offended by vegetarians and vegans?

Food is a really emotional thing. I find that people get nervous when I say I am a vegetarian. "Aw, you're not going to ruin the night out are you?" was one response I got from a family member as we planned where to go for dinner. read more

Meat-eaters may get offended by vegetarians for the same reasons vegetarians get offended by meat-eaters. It is very unlikely that the entire world is ever going to be 100% vegetarian, just as it is unlikely that there will never be any people who don't eat meat. read more

But most people are just scared, because they think that going vegetarian/vegan is the right thing to do but they don't want to because in doing that you take on so many challenges and they just don't care ENOUGH to change their own lives to save someone else's. read more

Vegans are making a supposed "better" choice, and then it follows that meat eaters are making the "wrong" choice. And lets be honest, some vegans really are insufferable jerks, so there's that. read more