Is the message of Veggie Pride aggressive or intolerant?
Saying to people “animals are killed so that you can eat them”, is not about attacking these people, it’s about refusing to lie to them, it’s about considering that they are capable of understanding everything we have already understood. Through Veggie Pride, we simply want to express publicly, collectively, frankly, without exaggeration or censure, what we think. We no longer want to have a choice between hypocrisy or marginalization. We consider it to be both our right and a mark of respect towards those who surround us. Questioning what people eat is often seen as a sign of intolerance, an encroachment on an area of purely personal choice. However there is no reason to grant such an exceptional immunity to dietary choices. The legitimacy of the act of eating animal flesh, and therefore of causing suffering to and killing animals, is an ethical question, and can as such become the subject of a debate at the heart of society, just like any other ethical question. It is, on the contrar
