PETA Is Not the Enemy.

[athena]

28. I agree that most vegans are not interested in promoting a plant-based diet.

(At least most of the ones on online vegan forums -- I don't actually know any vegans in real life.) As close as I am to being vegan, I don't call myself "vegan" because I am not vegan according to the 1944 definition. Vegan forums, for example, don't allow any discussion of whether it's really better to wear plastic shoes than leather shoes. They seem more interested in keeping people out than drawing people in.

However, the reasons to switch to a plant-based diet are too important to ignore. This issue is too important to leave to vegan organizations, precisely because those organizations don't usually do a good job of spreading the facts. People need to know those facts.

Some people have called me arrogant for assuming that people don't know where their food comes from. It's not arrogant at all to recognize that the factory farming industry has done an excellent job of white-washing itself and keeping the facts from the public.