I am new to this part of Y!A but.....?

Question

do i detect a vegan vs. vegitarian rivalry going on?

Answer 1

A little, but it is this is mostly a place for vegetarians and vegans to share advice and recipes.  Unfortunately there are a lot of extremely rude people that are not veg who like to horn in and say awful stuff.

Answer 2

yep yep yep!

unfortunately everyone belives they're doing the right thing. same thing going on between meat eaters and vegs.

whatever you are i suggest just staying out of it.

sorry but one person won't do much good.

just a lot of trouble.

Answer 3

Nope.  The rivalry is between veg people and meat eating trolls.

Answer 4

Somewhat, but it's generally civil.

It's the anti-vegetarians who do the real trouble making.

But if you want to see real hate; go the the Religion and Spirituality forum. It's much worse than here.

Answer 5

There's to much drama going on in here most the time. I'd like to see more recopies, since this is the Food Section and less: animal rights, PETA, etc.

I'm a life long vegan. BTW

Answer 6

There is so much drama and conflict in this section! So welcome to the soap opera! If I wasn't a vegan i'd still come here to see all the bickering and arguing done here! And its ashame because alot of people don't understand how dumb and unintelligent they sound, and I mean vegans, vegetarians, and the meat eaters! But seriously yes there is alot of rivalries here.

Answer 7

hi there

the only bad part about this y!a section is the people who eat meat and reply to questions with statements like

"i love meat"

and

"who cares? it just a cow!"

i have had both, and it reqally made me angry

Answer 8

Not on my end.  I'm vegetarian and fully support a vegan lifestyle..it's just not for me.

Answer 9

Sometimes there is some rivalry. We both have different beliefs and they come into conflict at times. The biggest one is Vegans are by definition animal rights (PETA) types; while vegetarians have many different reasons for not eating meat, and we don't all support PETA. I'm a vegetarian medical student, so my views on animal rights aren't black and white like some people who post here.

Answer 10

No. A couple of the immature ones may be trading barbs but everyone is secure with themselves.

Answer 11

Not really. There are arrogant and narrow minded people everywhere and it just so happens, some of them are vegetarians or vegans or meat eaters. They would be in conflict with other people whatever the topic may be. There are also a lot of kid here. converets and thefore quite fanatical about theri approach. I argue with a lot of people here but I also very stimulating  discussions with some very smart people through email. You wold be surprised who they are becasue they come off as fanatics somethimes but are really quite sensible in private.

Rivalry is not necessarily a bad thing. It sometimes encourages each "side" to do better.

An open forum is just that. Anybody can post anywhere about anything. some peole seem to be under the illusion that this forum is "theirs".