Vegans are often disliked. That's what I read online and I believe there is an element of truth to it. However, I eat a largely[1] vegan diet and I have never received any dislike IRL for my dietary preferences whatsoever. To the contrary, people often happily bend over backwards to accommodate my quirky dietary preferences—even though I don't ask them to.

Why is my experience so different from the more radical vegans? It's very simple. I don't tell other people what to eat, and they don't tell me what to eat. Everyone on Planet Earth knows that there people from other cultures have strange, arbitrary dietary guidelines. And by everyone, I mean everyone.

I read a story about two European anthropologists living among the hunger-gatherers of New Guinea. One anthropologist was French; the other anthropologist was English. Meat was precious in the jungle, so the locals honored [...]

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