What Vegans Actually Believe

At left is another good example of a “straw man fallacy,” one that occurs “when someone misrepresents an opponent’s argument in order to make it easier to attack and refute. The person using the fallacy pretends to be arguing against their opponent’s original position, but instead creates a distorted version of it that is easy to rebuke.”

Those who use the straw man fallacy, like the author of the meme here, are intellectual cowards.

No one, vegan or otherwise, believes that nature is always kind and gentle; we learn the truth on this matter by the time we’re four or five years old.

Vegans refrain from killing animals for food and clothing because they refuse to commit what they deem to be unnecessary cruelty to animals, and for accelerating the environmental degradation of the planet.