lovelyrita:

All vegans seem like obnoxious zealots because the good-natured ones don't talk/preach about it all the time. Silent majority and all that.

Also: people love to label themselves, and love to worry about whether they perfectly fit the label.

How true... It's not so much feeling good about the choices you make, but rather, feeling smugly superior and blasting other people about the choices THEY make... I had a veggie blowhard sitting next to me in a restaurant one day, and politely told him to get the hell away from me... He wouldn't. I subsequently called the waiter and manager, and had the jerk thrown out. Five people around me all applauded. Life is sweet...