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I agree they're an asshole. But I do want to say I've been vegan off and on for... Jesus 17 years. Anyway, there's this thing I noticed in some members of the community (not that guy) where their experience is so insular that they think everyone in the world knew 20 years ago that factory farming was environmentally disastrous but they just ignored it.
So they're so burnt out on it that they become these crazy screaming judgey assholes. Then, add to that, that there really are the most remarkably assholish omnivores at almost every social event involving food. I was 22, and I got cornered at a work pot luck when a man found out I was vegan (I never ever mentioned it, I brought food! But someone finally dragged it out of me when I had to explain I couldn't try their fried chicken) and he spent forteen minutes lecturing me on how not eating meat was an "insult to God" and how he'd eat twice as many animals because I was there.
...I was young and used to be too polite to get away from assholes like that. I'm better now.
My point here is, spending years and years of that makes you angry and bitter if you let it, especially if you're a self-important jackass with a savior complex.