Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL
Because the Internet makes it easy to more forcefully express strong opinions, from both parties.
It’s very easy to run into vegans on the Internet who will call you an unethical monster for eating meat, which if you don’t think of yourself as an unethical monster, can be a bit offensive.
You also run into non-vegans who can’t get it through their heads that that’s not every vegan on earth, or even just the Internet or likely even that conversation.
It’s much harder to call someone an animal hating monster or a pretentious condescending asshole face to face.