Confederation and meat consumption

[Diana]

There is something I am going to attempt to articulate, though I'm not optimistic I will do this effectively, but here goes.

The idea that vegetarians, and especially vegans, think they are superior because they do the "more evolved" thing when it comes to food, is not true, at least for the members here who have attempted to be in the conversations. This is my observation.

I can only speak for myself. While I do think the vegan approach is more evolved and compassionate (my perception, regarding all the aspects of food production and consumption: health, ecosystem, politics, alleviating suffering etc.), I do not think I am more evolved or more compassionate than anyone else, or "right," or a better person. This is because I am flawed and distorted in many, many ways—ways in which someone else may be really balanced or more evolved. Every single day I observe myself doing, saying, and thinking things which DO NOT line up with who I think I am and who I want to be. I do a forehead slap all the time, cringing at the way I dealt with this or that. So the overall idea here is that as a vegan, I do not see myself as any better than a non-vegan because we are all working on refining our selves in different ways. This is why it is NOT personal, and why posting facts is not done (at least here) with the superior feeling that "I know better and you don't."

I imagine I may be allowed to think what I will, just as meat-eaters are allowed their free will. The word, "evolved," has connotations beyond the esoteric one. Would anyone claim that slavery is more evolved than freedom from slavery; or that female subjugation is more evolved than societal equality of gender? 

I hope I may have shed some light on a misconception regarding "vegan superiority" in these B4 conversations.