In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

ohoh... meat eaters and rapists.
I am out of here now. Wish you well!

It's just an analogy, nothing more. I've gone to great lengths to explain why meat-eaters are NOT the same as rapists! You know this. I am simply trying to make a point, and I don't know how else to make it. Those who continue to label vegans as "zealots" and insist that they "respect the free will of others to eat animals" continue to miss the point, which is that vegans are trying to help oppressed entities.

If you were trying to help oppressed humans, you would speak up, wouldn't you?

Why, then, does it bother you that vegans speak up?

Again, I'm NOT comparing meat-eaters to rapists!!! So please don't go there. I'm comparing the tactics, that's all. The tactics. Someone championing the oppressed animals, will behave similarly to someone championing oppressed humans. That is the only point I'm trying to make. I am trying to elicit some compassion for what you and Tenet consider "zealots". I'm trying to put it in terms you can relate to...I'm trying to find some common ground.

I feel that vegans, as a group, are misunderstood. They're being unfairly labeled and categorized, with very little effort to understand why they are the way they are. And yes, it seems to me that there is a prejudice here, with jabs being made towards them every time there is an opportunity to do so.

This was a thread about allergies. Allergies! Vegetarianism, much less raw vegan, wasn't even brought up by the original poster! There was no need to start attacking vegans.