It's an interesting topic. Unfortunately, I'm not a vegan, so I can't present a new look on things. But I'd like to chime in regardless...
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Maybe it's the culture or maybe I just haven't been around in certain places, but I've never seen an extrimist angry vegan before. I'd like to. I'd like to "figure out" what lead to such an asocial behaviour
(extrimist and angry, I mean, not the vegan part). Often it's not the angry vegan but rather what happened before they snapped that lead to such a situation.
The ones I have seen have been intellectuals anyway... They say something along the lines that they're vegan. That I have seen. And others around are like: "Oh, cool." And that's it. Maybe they'll throw in a cool fact about it to win people over, kind of (at least this is how it feels, like they're slightly boasting about it, something like that they're lucky enough to be able to digest certain stuff most people can't from plants) and mention why they believe they can pull it off, too.
I think people here are smart enough to know when somebody is just ranting and looking for a target to get something off their shoulders. That's like a standard rationalization, because already being way too talkactive with complete strangers is considered to be a kind of mental disorder around here.
The way things are depicted over the internet is often fairly false, at least that's what I like to believe. A one sided story and biased movement around it leading to all kids of stupidities by stupid people. Unless you actively looks for trouble yourself, the other person has to be medically diagnosed with some kind of a mental disorder, in which case people around them are trying to be understanding of it and act accordingly for the most part (unless it's an immigrant, but we don't have much of them here - they'll leave our country to Germany and the likes, then get deported from the EU because they stayed away from our country, to which they were assigned, for too long...) So that's that.
The way I see vegans is that they're just people trying out new things. Not eating meat has to change the way one's organism functions somehow I'd imagine. I'd maybe try it out just to feed my curiosity, if I had the means and time to try that out, of course. I'd also imagine a vegan would do a SHIT TON of research about it, pick out the best route to accomplish a healthy way of living with it and carrying through with it. OF FUCKING COURSE you'd get pissed over time when time and time again some fuckwit uneducated drugaholic tells you based on sheep-mentaility what you're doing is not mainstream enough or something in a sarcasting insulting unthoughtful way. Pretty sure everybody has a limit like that. Only natural. Overall, still human...