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>Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food.

Or you can just ostracize them. Saves lots of emotional turmoil in the long run, as the vegan friend telling everybody about their dietary choices quickly takes its toll on adults...

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Adults generally dont suffer emotional turmoil when someone else talks about their food.

If others do it on every opportunity, with a smug holier than thou attitude and needless detail, they do...

In fact studies have shown it can drive a person insane...

If you frequently go to places to eat, I think it’s entirely reasonable for a vegan friend to tell you what their dietary preferences are. Other than that, it looks like your problem is with a specific person.

the toll of eating meat on environment is far greater than your concerns over your feelings. choose the lesser evil

Have vegans given up their cars yet? Veganism is a nice gesture, but really vegans need to step it up and ditch the cars if they care about the Earth.

They're doing a lot better than the people who eat meat and have cars.

also doing better than the people that have ditched cars and continue to eat meat

Eating meat is better for the environment in the long run.

If human population drops to zero due to climate change (which meat consumption contributes to), then the environment will be left alone and do great on its own! It wont even take more than 1-2 millennia for recovery, which is nothing in geological terms!

Compared to that eating vegan is just a feel-good half-measure.

Hmm. Meat eating is better for the environment because it'll see off humanity faster? Presumably along with driving the least economical car you can find, etc?

I see the point. I don't think it's the answer most of us prefer though.

I have only seen evidence to the contrary. can you provide anything to back up what you are saying

Your argument is that meat is better for the environment because it will cause humans to go extinct due to global warming so the planet can recover? That's absurd

Or just go to a place offering vegan alternatives and there will be no fuss?

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