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<h2>People love to hate vegans.</h2><p>At best, vegans are doing what they can to protect animals, the environment, and their health. At worst, vegans are judgmental preachers trying to ruin your 3 AM fast food snack.</p><p>While there are plenty of wonderful things about a vegan diet, it&#39;s never a good idea to attack someone else&#39;s dietary choices. Most of the time, regardless of how convincing your argument is, you can&#39;t break someone else&#39;s habits.</p><h2>Usually, the vegan versus meat-eater argument goes this way:</h2><p>Vegan: I&#39;m a vegan.</p><p>Meat-eater: That&#39;s not healthy. How do you get your protein?</p><p>Vegan: Actually--</p><p>Meat-eater: Look at our canine teeth!</p><p>Vegan: *walks away*</p><h2>Or, it goes this way:</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><p>Meat-eater: *minding their own business*</p><p>Vegan: You really shouldn&#39;t eat meat.</p><p>Meat-eater: Um, I didn&#39;t ask--</p><p>Vegan: You&#39;re a bad person.</p><h2>However, a particularly unique vegan conversation was shared on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cringepics/comments/7po5h3/tofu_is_only_for_vegans/">Reddit.</a></h2><p>This is one for the books.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img src="https://i.redd.it/7mf9fvk20g901.jpg" alt="Remote file" width="750" height="745"></div></figure></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>WHAT?</h2><p>This person is clearly the world&#39;s worst vegan, because any vegetarian or vegan should be happy and grateful that meat-eaters occasionally choose plant-based options. Any contribution to the cause is a good contribution. Shaming other people for &quot;appropriating&quot; a vegan dish? Nah.</p><p>Unfortunately, this story ends on a cliffhanger but we can only assume the non-vegan won. If you&#39;re someone who eats meat and wants to try plant-based recipes, I give you my full permission and support as an 18-year vegetarian to go right ahead.</p><p>In the comments, things got heated:</p><h2>[deleted] wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>Someone should tell that vegan she&#39;s appropriating East Asian culture by eating tofu (where it&#39;s very much it&#39;s own thing and not a meat substitute at all)</p> </blockquote><h2>&quot;LazyPizzaSunday&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>All these meat eaters stealing our valuable veggies. Possessive much?</p> </blockquote><h2>&quot;EnchantedEmpress&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>Appropriating Vegans. New band name, I call it.</p> <p> </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>&quot;JohnnyLube&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>As a vegetarian, I&#39;m thrilled that veggie burgers, tofu, seitan, etc. has become more popular. It means more and better tasting options are available. It also means that if I bring vegetarian dishes to a gathering, they aren&#39;t just a meat alternative, but a tasty dish on it&#39;s own that everyone enjoys.</p> <p>Also, nobody ever thought eating tofu makes you cool. It&#39;s fucking tofu, not water skiing over a shark.</p> <p> </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Vegan tells non-vegan she can't eat tofu because it's 'appropriation.'

People love to hate vegans.At best, vegans are doing what they can to protect animals, the environment, and their health. At worst, vegans are judgmental preachers trying to ruin your 3 AM fast food snack.While there are plenty of wonderful things about a vegan diet, it&#39;s never a good idea to attack someone else&#39;s dietary choices. Most of the time, regardless of how convincing your argument is, you can&#39;t break someone else&#39;s habits.Usually, the vegan versus meat-eater argument goes this way:Vegan: I&#39;m a vegan.Meat-eater: That&#39;s not healthy. How do you get your protein?Vegan: Actually--Meat-eater: Look at our canine teeth!Vegan: *walks away*Or, it goes this way: Meat-eater: *minding their own business*Vegan: You really shouldn&#39;t eat meat.Meat-eater: Um, I didn&#39;t ask--Vegan: You&#39;re a bad person.However, a particularly unique vegan conversation was shared on Reddit.This is one for the books.WHAT?This person is clearly the world&#39;s worst vegan, because any vegetarian or vegan should be happy and grateful that meat-eaters occasionally choose plant-based options. Any contribution to the cause is a good contribution. Shaming other people for &quot;appropriating&quot; a vegan dish? Nah.Unfortunately, this story ends on a cliffhanger but we can only assume the non-vegan won. If you&#39;re someone who eats meat and wants to try plant-based recipes, I give you my full permission and support as an 18-year vegetarian to go right ahead.In the comments, things got heated:[deleted] wrote: Someone should tell that vegan she&#39;s appropriating East Asian culture by eating tofu (where it&#39;s very much it&#39;s own thing and not a meat substitute at all) &quot;LazyPizzaSunday&quot; wrote: All these meat eaters stealing our valuable veggies. Possessive much? &quot;EnchantedEmpress&quot; wrote: Appropriating Vegans. New band name, I call it.   &quot;JohnnyLube&quot; wrote: As a vegetarian, I&#39;m thrilled that veggie burgers, tofu, seitan, etc. has become more popular. It means more and better tasting options are available. It also means that if I bring vegetarian dishes to a gathering, they aren&#39;t just a meat alternative, but a tasty dish on it&#39;s own that everyone enjoys. Also, nobody ever thought eating tofu makes you cool. It&#39;s fucking tofu, not water skiing over a shark.   

People love to hate vegans.  At best, vegans are doing what they can to protect animals, the environment, and their health. At worst, vegans are judgmental preachers trying to ruin your 3 AM fast food snack.  While there are plenty of...