I have family that is vegan and although she’s my cousin and we get along she is one of those OBNOXIOUS vegans.
I understand their thought process but to me it’s akin to the elitism of the ‘educated’ class, typically Democrats in the US. They are morally superior and anything besides their stance is wrong and reprehensible.
In our house we are mostly vegetarian which is I think the best of both worlds. Humans were not designed to eat only plant products, there are micro nutrients that we need that can only naturally come from animal products. That being said though we were also not designed to be eating large quantities of meat either. Colon cancer is a huge sign of this; in populations that eat excessive quantities of meat there is a substantial increase in colon cancers.
That’s where the happy medium I observe comes in; I will eat meat occasionally but I don’t seek it out every week. Our diet is largely plant based but we consume cheese and milk products as well. One because cheese is fantastic but two because there are good fats and nutrients in the cheese you can’t get from organic cashew cheese (disgusting, I’ve tried it).
This is where the elitism of vegans comes to play, they take the moral high ground and refuse to acknowledge there are things you can only get from animal products and is not attainable from plants.