Just wondering, have you ever managed to convert or convince a single person by acting like a stereotypical vegan?

If you're not going to judge people, then why bother at all?

How do you know if someone is a vegan?

Don't worry, they will tell you.

If the concern is just meat, why not go vegetarian instead?

Wearing this leather belt is what's causing my constipation.

Get a bigger belt, friend.

What kind of vegetarian? Some allow eating eggs and dairy. Some allow fish or even birds.

Because it's more about being an absolutist snob than anything. Vegans don't eat honey. If I have a pet hen I can't eat the eggs? Ridiculous.

There's absolutely no evidence that a vegan diet provides a benefit for gut health relative to a diet including meat.

I had the exact opposite experience. when I stopped eating meat I got worse. When I stopped eating vegetables I got better. I’m not saying you shouldn’t eat vegetables, I’m saying your claim isn’t as strong as you think it is and peoples gut issues are different.

A lot of people go all in on increasing dietary fiber and then experience gut issues and think it must be the plants when they didn't work into it slowly enough. It's like going to the gym and and feeling sore all over all the time or even getting injured and then concluding that going to the gym is bad when no one told you that you should start easy. In my opinion there's harm in how people fail to communicate how to get started on plant based diets when they miss important issues like this that can permanently put people off from it.

Am I misunderstanding or do you really not eat any vegetables at all, not even in a dish with meat?

Some friends of mine tried the carnivore diet for a while. From what I understood they did not eat meat dishes that included vegetables.

Some people have dysbiosis which makes it impossible to have most vegetables

People who have things which are exotic, rare, or complicated don’t present some kind of existence proof against advice directed at a general population which doesn’t have those conditions.

People that are healthy don't need probiotics either, sooo ....

Some friends of mine tried the carnivore diet. One thing they noticed was improved gut health.