I was only gone for a day or two...

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.

Don't even bother.

That person is so obviously full of shit, picking the most obvious and easiest strawman to beat on.

I am vegetarian and know many vegans.
None would even think about torturing our pets to death with food that is not edible for the specific species.

On the other hands I have heard multiple omnivores tell stories about how they "know" crazy vegans that would do shit like that.

There are some crazies (like in any big group of people) and I can't know if OP accidentally ran into one, but the way they generalize makes it clear to me that they are the one with issues, not every run of the mill vegan.

Vegans usually care a great deal about animals, including carnivorous animals. So fuck them right back for spewing their indiscriminate hatred.
Nah yo, fuck vegans.

Seriously

Every fucking one of them, idgaf if you think some are 'good' or 'nice' or 'just keep to themselves'

Fuck _ All _ Vegans
Then "most vegans" need to tell those vegans to shut the fuck up. Just like the Germans did the Nazis.

I'm stuck with a memory I can never get rid of because some piece of shit decided to do that to this poor animal. It couldn't even hold it's head up because it was infected so bad and didn't even have to the energy to live. I got to sit there and watch it's life slip from it's body and there was nothing I could do. It was withered to bones.

They never saw jail time or even punished in the slightest amount.

So don't come in here telling me to play nice.

Fuck.

Vegans.
- So... you had one experience and now you associate that with all people you think are the same?
  
  I dunno, seems a bit extreme.
  
  I'm am only speaking of the worst instance of things I've seen. I've been working with/around animals all my life.
  
  Dog breeders, dog fighters, people that get too many cats (or any animal in general) that they can't take care of, horses that have been whipped so much their entire bodies are covered in scars, and many of the other horrid things I've seen. Seeing the look on that cat's face hurt me more than anything I've ever experienced. He wanted to live, but couldn't because he was too weak at that point to fight. If he had been found a week earlier, he could have been saved.
  
  But you dumb fucks always think you're in the right because of your "morally superior stance" on all thing animals. Pushing your shit ideals on other creatures because you think you're right even though science will say over and over again that it isn't possible for a cat to survive properly on a vegan diet.
  
  Keep denying science all you want, but do it at your own cost, no one else's.
  
  I have had literally hundreds of irl and thousands of online interactions with vegans, every experience was horrible and toxic no matter how conciliatory I approach the discussion.
  
  So, fuck vegans
  
  Every fucking one of them
  
  You, conciliatory? I find that tough to believe. Are you sure you weren't yelling and screaming or otherwise hurling insults at them as you seem to be so fond of doing?
  
  The me you see now is bitter and disillusioned after 3+ decades of slowly degrading wide eyed optimism.
  
  It was a death by a thousand sneers and slogans, protests and coups and misplaced ideals.
  
  So I pretty much hate everyone now but this wasn't always the case, and in the course of my life the degree of bitterness I feel towards nearly every living human has barely been around 5 years. I'm also not sure this is the most misanthropic I will become and people like you test that limit with such blithe abandon.
  
  If I had to make a list that reflects my current spectrum of severe dislike:
  
  Fascists. Fuck fascists with every fiber of my being and hypothetical non-physical extension of my consciousness in whatever ether it originates in.
  B) Vegans. Fuck vegans, seriously. III) Nearly every other human that has ever existed.
  
  The people I do not harbor some degree of hate could fill a small college auditorium and I can guarantee there is no one on this site that is in that group at the moment.
  
  I engaged in sincere and respectful conversation with every vegan I could find at my university, and whenever I began to ask sincere questions, they ALWAYS responded with derogatory labels and for YEARS I did not and just figured I hadn't found the right vegan to ask and kept trying.
  
  When you go to a stone lined well and get poisoned water for 30 years maybe it's time to not go to any more stone lined wells, understand?
- If a sick cat upsets you so much, then watch out when you learn about the incredible suffering, misery and billions of deaths caused by the global animal industry. I'm vegan because I watched the videos most "animal lovers" refuse to look at. Unspeakable horror, 24/7.
  
  You know nothing of animal suffering at the hands of humans. "I watched a video once and it made me sad!" Call your local animal control and ask to go for a ride along. Only then will you understand what suffering really is.
  
  I've seen the videos, multiple times, and I only wish some of the animals I've seen were given such a quick suffer free ending.
  
  So animals living a happy life without humans making them suffer is good? We both want that, right?
  
  ^ THIS FUCKING THIS
  
  So many vegans claim to not understand why literally the entire world hates them, but then they constantly post whataboutism bullshit like this.
  
  How is this whataboutism? We're talking about animal rights. A sick cat and a billion suffering mammals are the same topic, no?
- It's not fair to assume a member of a population is guilty until they condemn/renounce the problematic members of their population. I remember there being a problem after 9/11 where some people expected individual Muslims to publicly condemn Al Qaeda or else be assumed complicit. If it wasn't alright there, it's not alright here.
  
  Every. Single. Interaction. I have EVER had with vegans was a shitshow, and I've been doing this for decades, IRL and on the internet.
  
  Out of 100+irl and literally thousands of online interactions, I know only one thing for sure about vegans: They are the second most obnoxious and ill-informed self-identifying group of people I have ever met, and since the first is LITERAL fascists, that's saying something.
  
  Don't bother arguing, you won't like where it goes.
  
  Wow you are angry. But I'm not easily offended and up for a debate, if you'd like.
  
  Have any good recipes?
- Let's try to sow unity instead of division.
  
  I've gone vegan before. Mostly because I think animals are gross and carry disease as opposed to doing it for ethical reasons. I also love steak and feed my snakes mice. Everyone is different. Stupid people will be stupid and people without empathy will be cruel. I grew up in a rough neighborhood where I knew of not one but two different men who beat their dogs and one, I believe, to death. Neither vegan as far as I know. Ostracizing a certain group will only make them band together more strongly. Empirically speaking. I know personal experience can make a ton of self-righteous hate. I can't speak to what you've seen. But the majority of people in any group are just normal folk unless it's religion or a cult. The broader the group the more normal people within it. You're criticizing a diet choice for fucks sake. Everyone is going to have different reasons. I know a very cool person (a practicing vet in fact) that is vegan because her body can't process fats or oils found in almost every animal product.
  
  If you really feel for animals that this happens to you should try to make change and be involved. Educate people. Fuck, there's no way you'd ever care to, but you could go to vegan events and educate people on why some animals cannot survive a vegan diet.
  
  Make the problem better.
  
  Or just keep spreading hate and exclusion and making the problem worse.

10+ years vegan here. You should not feed plants to a carnivore. Maybe in the future, but not today. I attended a PETA workshop about a healthy plant-based diet a couple years ago and everybody agreed on that. I met a lot of different vegans and not once have I heard this opinion.

Keep your goddamn morals out of other's lives. Especially an animal that has no say in the matter.

You are on to something here.

You should not feed plants to a carnivore

You can feed plants to a carnivore, just don't expect it to be enough.

My dog, for example, loves carrots and cucumbers. They make great treats for him. But please don't substitute real meat food that he has evolved to eat with carrots and cucumbers
- Dogs are omnivores like pigs or humans. They can get everything their body needs from plants. Cats are carnivores, their digestive system is completely different, they are designed to eat raw meat.
  We are not. If the meat is slightly too old, too warm, not well cooked we get super sick. Pigs eat a rotten squirel and be fine.
  
  .....
  
  Pigs evolved to eat meat?
  
  are you shitting me right now?
  
  Google search and your comment say they're omnivores. But given your comment they're still more resilient to meat than us?
  
  Can we even call ourselves omnivores at this point? We are so much worse omnivores compared to other omnivores, aren't we just herbivores with a tolerance to meat?
  
  You're probably right. I'd love to talk about that, but in my native language and face to face. This is exausting. :)
  
  19:30, lucerne main station. you're from feddit.org, you surely speak german.
  
  7 Stunden mit dem Zug. Ich melde wenn ich mal in der Gegend bin. :)
  
  You ever hear about how the Mafia uses pigs to dispose of bodies? It's cause they eat them up, bones and all. Pigs love meat.
  
  It doesn't mean they should have meat. Same goes for humans.
- Aren't dogs some type of omnivores instead of carnivores?
  
  well, my dog certainly isn't
  
  but yes, you're obviously right, they are generally seen as omnivore. Although they lean harder on the carnivore-side than the herbivore-side.
  
  Not general omnivores - there's a specific type for that category. I'm no biologist though so ill have to look it up and get back to you. I could be wrong. Don't trust a stranger on the internet lol
I attended a PETA workshop about a healthy plant-based diet a couple years ago and everybody agreed on that.

Yeah, PETA wants to be the only ones who kill housepets. If all the cats are dead from vegan diets, there won’t be any left for PETA to kidnap and euthanize.
/s but not really because PETA habitually steals pets and immediately euthanizes them before the owner can reclaim them.
- This was one incident a hundred years ago. Kinda strange, I have to admit. But do you know why PETA kills so many animals? And do you know that the whole story was published by the dairy industry?
- That did happen, but to call it habitual isn't fair.
Wow. If PETA think you're nuts, you're definitely nuts.

Vegans could just get an animal that can be safely put on a vegan diet. They could walk into a vet or animal rescue and ask about vegan animal diets.

Worse case they could get a miniature pony.

Good point. I'm going to release Mittens onto the street and get a brand new bunny rabbit instead.
- If you feel uncomfortable with properly feeding your cat then you shouldn't have a cat. I have actually met vegans with pet bunnies. They are trained to use a litterbox.

And also: Shouldn't forcing an animal to live you for the lulz be a problem in general for vegans? The animal didn't choose to live in your cramped studio apartment just to comfort you.

Animal ownership is, in fact, seen as unethical by some vegans.
- Sounds more reasonable to me than forcing unnatural diets onto animals that cannot consent.

Yeah I see no difference between militant pro-lifers and militant vegans. You don’t get a say in how I choose to interpret the information presented to me. But if you want to teach me things I didn’t know before or hadn’t considered I’m happy to listen. Just don’t tell me my choices are morally reprehensible when they’re my choices

It's not just your choices alone, you're ignoring something here: If the animal whose death you pay for every day could speak, it would object. If it could defend itself, it would fight against its death. It wants to go on living just like you. But you kill it anyway, against its will, because you can, because the animal is innocent and because you simply like it's taste.
In addition to this violence, animal agriculture is also causing great damage to our planet, so your personal choice affects the lifes of other people, living and yet to be born as well. I can hardly think of any parallels to the pro-lifers.
- Right and by even just existing as a human, you are making the world a worse place for every single other animal on the planet, yet you continue to keep living your life. You are currently benefiting from human slavery and suffering, so how much do you really care?
  
  I do and I try. Buying beans instead of meat and oat milk for udder milk is a really easy thing to do on a personal level, if you look at the damage you avoid by doing so. Some things can be changed easily, some take efford, some can not be changed at all on a personal level. Buying second hand stuff is rather easy for me as well. Giving up on my car would take much more efford, I'm not ready yet. Getting out of the firm grip of all fossil destroyers is nearly impossible. So, let's start easy when you shop for groceries next time. :)
- If the ~~animal~~feotus whose death you pay for every day could speak, it would object. If it could defend itself, it would fight against its death. It wants to go on living just like you. But you kill it anyway, against its will, because you can, because the ~~animal~~fetus is innocent
  
  I can hardly think of any parallels to the pro-lifers.
  
  Come on, now you are paying dumb! :)
  A foetus is not alive yet. It's own it's way, but it can not survive on it's own, if it could talk it wouldn't, because it has not a functioning brain, yet. It doesn't suffer, yet. Plus there is it's host, the mother, who's body is hers to decide what to do.
  Pigs, dogs, cows and fish, they are sentient beings who we share the planet with, different but equal.
  
  Pigs, dogs, cows and fish, they are sentient beings who we share the planet with, different but equal.
  
  i would not say you are equal to a fish.
  
  I took that last line to be sarcastic.

Yeah! Nobody should be making decisions for a helpless animal over what diet they think is acceptable. Anyone who kills innocent cows over their belief in meat eating should be locked up.

Not the evil cows, though. They know what they did.

My condolences but DAMN just look at all the asshole vegans downvoting you

Also: Fuck vegans