Why do people go to the vegetarian/vegan section to trash vegetarians?

First off all, the intruders are close-minded immature brats. They just cannot stand the fact that not everybody has the same lifestyle they have.

Secondly, they believe that their fatty, filthy, unhealthy junk is the way to go. They believe that by clogging their arteries, they will live a very long time.

Thirdly, they believe that they are masters of all the animals on earth. They thrive when they brutally torture, abuse, and kill animals. Some do it for pleasure. Some do it because they feel that they need the flesh for nutrition.

Fourth, they feel that they can "convert" some vegans/vegetarians into meat-eaters by telling them how unhealthy their diets are. They leave stories behind that go something like this: "I was once a vegetarian. I gave up meat. I got really sick. Lost a lot of weight. Went to the doctors. The doctors told me that if I don't eat meat, I will die." Same old story.

Fifthly (long list, isn't it), they believe that by eating meat, they are helping the environment and don't understand why vegans don't want to join in their "cause." They feel that by eating meat, they are saving the plants (the ones their dinner once ate) from dying.

Lastly, most of them are just jerks. They have no life, no desire to have a life. They hang out here just to create a scene, to show other meat eaters who uncoperative, and how unfriendly vegans are.

Some of them come from the Yahoo Answer main page.

You would not find me in the vegan section normally but it happened to catch my eye on the main page. So some of drift in by accident and do have an opinion about things we normally would not try to answer.

Of course there are always some people who just want to harass other people. It does not matter if you are a vegan or hunter trying to get real questions answered, they will track you down just to tell you how stupid you are!

Unless there is some type of moderator, there will always be some of those people in every group. Just ignore them.

I'm not really sure; I've been veg for 20 years and have never judged, criticized or insulted meat eaters. I think it's a choice a lot of people don't understand and they are defensive and fearful because of that. Why they need to go the extra step of seeking out vegetarians to bash is beyond me, though.

I think they secretly are curious about becoming vegetarians or vegans. Then they realize they don't have the strong will to do it and decide to trash talk instead.

P.S. I'm not a vegan yet, I'm seriously trying to convert though.

Actually this is the first i've seen of any meat / veggie flame wars here. Why the fighting? I'm a "Meater" but i don't think there is anything wrong with Vegans. I would even consider giving exclusive veggies a try, but i wouldn't even know where and how to start, besides - my meat "fix" is too hard to kick right now. Cheers.

They do it to feel superior. To many people have too many personal issues. I am not a vegetarian, but I don't run around slamming them or their choices. I respect their choice and ability to stay the course. I really do think it's an issue of insecurity and immaturity. I am sorry if it has caused you any trouble or pain, it's just plain rude.

Because they have nothing exciting going on in their life and they think that just because they are "On top of the food chain" that they are so high and mighty above everything. That really pisses me off. They get their daily dose of excitement from trying to make people feel bad about their choices. I think they're jealous because we have something that we really believe in. And they have no morals. Its like why are they even in the vegetarian section if they aren't? If they're just going to bash us? It's dumb. I don't go to any other sections and bash anybody. Dumb..

Probably as payback for those vegetarians who come over to the other groups and trash the rest for eating meat.

I agree, both actions are childish and do no good to promote the other's point of view.

Because anything that is not their lifestyle is stupid....ignorance. I am not a vegetarian, but my best friend is, and has only been that way since marrying her Hari-Krishna husband. That is a personal choice she has made and as long as she is healthy why should I care what she eats?

Look you veggie hippies, I am a meat eater like my God wanted me to be, but I aint got no problem with you eating your stuff as long i can eat mine. I mean its getting doggone rediculous here. i went down to the store the other day and there was this bunch of veggies in front of the meat counter i went to go get me a big ol roast for a damn good yankee pot roast my girlfriend cooks up. Any way at the meat counter these damn veggies were asking me, "ohh how can you eat that" you know the kind of questions that get people shot in other countries for asking. so i get my roast and head out side some veggies followed me to my truck and kept harassing me about my meat, so i did the logical thing, and mind you this was last november, and pulled my tailgate down and in my bed was a nice 8 point buck that was 190 pounds gutted hell of a nice deer, anyway and them sonsa bitches had the nerve to ask me all kinds a stupid questions like, "how can you possibly hunt, killing a poor innocent deer?" i said, "its easy just pull the trigger much like im bout to do if ya damn hippies dont leave me alone" so that is why we, the meat eaters hate your veggie ways, because of jackasses that ruin it for all of us human beings. Them of you who look down upon us with your nose so high ya cant even smell your own **** need to pulls the stick out of their *** and be people well accept ya if ya can be personable and nice. Go up north to van buren maine and take some niceness lessons from them folk nicest around the world aint never met no people nicer than up there.