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Common vegan fallacies

What do you folks think about making a sticky with common vegan fallacies, to help others in
shooting down bogus arguments?
I want to work on a comic as well, should be pretty easy since the comedy writes itself.
There was a silly vegan who accused me of not knowing what a fallacy is. Well, a fallacy is defined
as: a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument. The following are absolutely
fallacies.
Anyway, some common vegan fallacies I can think off are:
1. People being hostile to vegans is a defense mechanism to deal with their own guilt - This
is very much true. I've seen Earthlings(A very one sided propaganda piece) and all the kind
of propaganda they love to push. These things are very one sided and not at all objective,
and exist sole to push an agenda. Those movies are an argument against current farming
practices, not against eating meat. I think it is absolutely fine to eat meat, and don't feel guilty
about it at all. Thankfully most humans agree.
2. Vegans are healthier and live longer. - This is nonsense. Nutrition is still far from being
very well understood, and a lot more study needs to be done to assert something with such
confidence. Most studies overwhelmingly show that a Mediterranean diet is the
healthiest, followed by a vegan/vegetarian diet, coming in at second. Will provide links later.
3. Vegans are just regular nice people who don't do anything that would make people
annoyed at them - This is very much wrong, and shows just how deluded they can be. A
quick check over on r/vegan will show most vegans defending and justifying behavior that
includes brigading other subs, defending preaching to people who don't want to argue both
online, and in the real world such as when enjoying a meal. They simply can't comprehend
that. They will often invoke fallacy #1 to try and defend their behavior here.
4. There is no way to humanely kill an animal - This is false, there are various humane
organizations that advocate for humane killing of animals. Humane killing of animals involves
killing the animal in such a way that it does not feel fear or pain before it is killed. A common
method involves electric stunning. Vegans say that there is no humane way of killing
because they confuse the reason for killing with the method. The fact we can put down pets
in a humane way shows, beyond no doubt, that there are humane methods of killing.
5. Animals don't want to die - This is a huge thing vegans tend to argue, and it has no basis.
Some animals are advanced enough to have wants and desires, like dogs and pigs, but
most are not. Vegans tend to anthropomorphize animals and give them attributes that they
simply do not have. A fish for example is simply not advanced enough to have an
understanding that it is even alive, and certainly not advanced enough to have a desire to
not want to die, aside from following it's basic instinctual programming to get out of danger.
6. Vegans are scientific - This is a pretty sad claim they love to parrot, but fact is they very
much cherry pick key studies and papers that support their agenda, and are not objective in
the least. Part of being scientific is being objective, which they clearly are not. There is little
evidence for much of their claims, and they tend to ignore claims that make them
uncomfortable, such as the increasingly large body of research showing that plants can
sense pain and communicate it to other plants. This gets dismisses and mocked, dare I say,
as a defense mechanism?
7. It takes no extra effort to be vegan - This is very much false, unless you are lucky enough
and rich enough to live in a first world country that offers supplements or processed vegan
meals that include the necessary nutrients. A vegan diet alone is not sufficient without
ensuring you buy fortified foods and take appropriate supplements. Sure, it's not that much
harder, but to say it is not harder at all is simply false and an outright lie.
8. Veganism is not a religion - Perhaps not, but to most they have taken it upon as one, and
it is not as far as you may think. It's also not surprising most vegans seem to also be
religious in the traditional sense, or at the least 'spiritual'. They have a central dogma,
embrace pseudoscience that supports their narrow views, and try to convert people while
mocking sinners or 'carnists'.
9. Vegans have a moral edge because they do as little to harm animals as they can - This is
false. They do as little to harm 'cute' animals that they like, and feel no qualms about killing
mosquitoes, or rats, or roaches. Rats especially are an interesting example given how
intelligent they are and the strong bonds they can create. Given that it would be entirely
possible to catch rats, sterilize and release them instead of killing them, why is no one
advocating for this? Oh, because rats are inconvenient and not 'cute'. Hard not to see
hypocrisy here. Not to mention doing unnecessary surgery to animals and keeping them in
doors or fenced in a backyard their entire lives.
10. Vegans have existed for thousands of years if not longer - This is straight up nonsense.
Humans have been omnivorous throughout history, the ratio of plant to meat depending on
region and belief, on what was available. Vegans are very much a privileged, first world
phenomenon, first being introduced in recent history around the time of the hippie
movement.
11. Vegans are justified in annoying and preaching to meat eaters at ANY time - This is
something thankfully most vegans do understand. It's mostly the college kids who take
philosophy who don't understand boundaries. They try and make it analogous to speaking
out against slaves being whipped or something equally absurd. Eating a burger is not the
same as raping a woman or whipping a slave, since the harm has already been done. It's
fallacious to compare it to a situation where someone is currently being harmed and will
continue to be if you don't act. Speak out against it sure, but do it in a polite way while
respecting boundaries. More flies with honey than with vinegar etc.
I think I have covered a lot here, and will add more as I think of them, along with sources and
references. I would love for anyone to suggest some more, and I look forward to making some
comics illustrating common vegan behavior showing these fallacies used in practice.

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