Obviously, you know I'm a vegan. It surprises me just how hostile some vegans can be to other vegans. I have friends and family who are meat-eaters and vegetarians, and our different diets aren't an issue to us. I did get some teasing when I first went veggie back in the 1990's, but that was because I was the first among everyone I knew to do so. Now, others have joined me, and being vegetarian or vegan is not so out of the ordinary.

But, other vegans can be downright unpleasant to talk to. I had another vegan on here keep pestering me for a while about a year ago because I am tolerant of meat eaters. He likened it to me being tolerant of Nazis who operated the concentration camps, and said I had a responsibility to speak up about animal welfare. While animal welfare does concern me, it is not the only reason I am a vegan, and I know, as much as I hate factory farming, it isn't going to change just because a small handful of people want it to. Vegans are still the minority.

I tried to join a vegan group on FB recently, because it was about finding cheap vegan products. But, when I read posts debating what a vegan REALLY is, and people arguing that if you are only a vegan for health reasons and not animal welfare reasons, then you're not a real vegan, I left the group. That's a little too militant for me.

Live and let live, be kind to animals, speak up about outright animal abuse, and eat the way that works for you and your health needs and personal beliefs. As long as you're not eating human sacrifices, I'm good with it.