Regular readers to the Grumpy Vegan will know that The Graun notwithstanding its liberal, left of centre pretensions struggles to deal with vegan/vegetarianism and animal welfare/rights. Now the US-based monthly political magazine The Atlantic is featuring a blog by one of its writers about being a vegetarian. There’s the usual confusion and muddle-headed thinking but at least there’s some honesty from the vegetarian writer in a piece called “The Fervor of the Vegan.”
Facing this basic contradiction of vegetarianism made me recognize a weight I’d been carrying ever since I gave up meat: I resent vegans. I resent that their mere, if rare, existence calls attention to the hypocrisy underlying the vegetarianism so central to my daily life.
