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    I haven’t seen them try to push misinfo. If anything, I’ve seen them post scientific articles supporting their claims and accepting that it’s an imperfect solution for an imperfect world.

    And yes, very radical people will have some radical fucking takes. Y’all are using this as a foothold to promote generalize anti-vegan hate in this thread. There’s no nuance anymore, just bashing.

    And yes, just trying to make people angry by painting all vegans as “let’s feed our cats veggies, YOLO” when their approach was way more careful and nuanced, is fucked up

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      I haven’t seen them push misinfo.

      I literally quoted one of them.

      If anything, I’ve seen them post scientific articles supporting their claims and accepting that it’s an imperfect solution for an imperfect world.

      You literally saw them remove articles to the contrary in the link provided.

      And yes, very radical people will have some radical fucking takes.

      Oh, okay, that’s alright then, if they’re radical, then they’re allowed to have dangerous takes and spread misinformation without pushback. Pack it up everyone, let’s go home!

      And before you try “I didn’t say there shouldn’t be pushback”, let me reiterate that this started because the c/Vegan mods removed an ASPCA link and argument they didn’t like.

      Y’all are using this as a foothold to promote generalize anti-vegan hate in this thread. There’s no nuance anymore, just bashing.

      Some vegan bashing in highly upvoted comments:

      For the record, cats can not be vegan. They can survive on it but they will have shorter more painful lives and they will go blind. There bodies start breaking down without the proteins and amino acids found in meat. I understand why vegans would be unhappy with that answer but it is the way it is.

      Interesting enough, that’s not the case for dog. You can put a dog on a vegan diet as long as you are very careful and are constantly monitoring. It isn’t for the faint of heart and can have very sad outcomes. It isn’t something you can arbitrarily do.

      Until I joined Lemmy I had no idea how militant vegans could be. I sorta just assumed they were a different brand of vegetarian.

      I’m not opposed to their ideaology in any way, but after reading the comments on a few posts that found their way into my feed… I had to block their communities. It didn’t seem likely that I’d be reading any productive discourse there.

      It’s so sad, because veganism is a good force in our culture. Look at all of the vegan meat alternatives and more and more restaurants that have to have at least vegetarian options in certain areas. That wasn’t a thing 20 years ago.

      Remember you’re only seeing the very online vegan.

      Whoah whoah whoah. Let’s chill with the general fuck vegans statement. Most vegans are just people. Now the psycho vegans who try to make their cats eat vegan. Fuck those people. But broad statements like “fuck this group” tend to stick in people’s heads and promote undeserved hate. “Fuck the Nazi’s”? Yeah. “Fuck Germans”? No.

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        Sorry mate, but there’s no point in talking to you anymore. All you do is trying to ragebait and win the internet argument and there’s no point in wasting time on that.

        I repeat that people should look for themselves in the discussions the vegans had in public and in their own threads where they didn’t have to be so defensive and adversarial in the face of rando hate. If you’re interested, see for yourselves whether they were unscientific or not but please don’t trust summaries like these.

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          They have been proving sources and quotes to back up their points. You have not. You just seen upset that people don’t agree with you lol.

          You keep saying people should look into it themselves. This guy did, he’s showing you what he found and you don’t like it.

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          Sorry mate, but there’s no point in talking to you anymore. All you do is trying to ragebait and it’s not gonna work on me.

          You first claimed that they were being reasonable; when faced with clear evidence of the mods having very unreasonable positions on vegan cat diets and on scientific evidence more generally, you shifted to the claim that the mods being unreasonable wasn’t the source of the issue (and was thus irrelevant); when presented with evidence of the mods putting up that selfsame unreasonable argument in the thread in dispute, you said it wasn’t misinfo and was scientifically supported; and now that it’s been pointed out that scientific information to the contrary was deliberately removed in that very comment thread by the mods pushing their view which, by both the material of the argument (appeal to common sense) and context, was founded on deeply unscientific positions, you say that all of that is well and fine, but people in this thread are just using it as an excuse to hate on vegans; when I display that the most upvoted comments in this thread are far from hating on vegans, you decry me as engaging in ‘ragebait’.

          You’ve come in determined to defend the c/Vegan mods, and the realities of the situation be damned. It’s a reflexive reaction, and it’s bullshit, and it deserves to be called out as much.

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            Are you done grandstanding? or should I get you a medal as well? It’s ok, you can now have the last word.

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              Your comments have had no substance and have devolved into straight insults while the other guy constantly puts forth well reasoned points, even if you don’t agree with them.

              You told him not to do the reddit thing but your interactions with him have been pure reddit quality.