A look at PETA’s tips for going vegan

The publication makes the usual three-part argument about why we should all stop eating meat – animal welfare (“why not stop killing animals for the fleeting taste of their flesh?”), nutrition (“why not stop clogging our arteries with saturated fat and cholesterol?”), and the environment (“why not stop supporting water and air pollution and the waste of resources caused by factory farms?”).  The kit also gives tips for going to parties, suggesting that if other guests seem annoyed by conversation about being vegan, it is just “a reflection of an otherwise kind person’s conflicted feelings about eating animals.”  How presumptuous to assume that the person has “conflicted feelings” – and not that they just aren’t really interested in discussing your new diet. It’s of course PETA’s goal to produce those “conflicted feelings”