For what meat-eaters do not like vegetable food fans - "Kill all the vegans"

Personally, I'm very positive attitude towards vegetarians. Man inherently free as the actions and preferences. Recently, an Italian chef and restaurateur Gianfranco Vissani said on national television that he would kill all the vegans. He is far from alone: vegetarians cause negative emotions in many people. But why is this happening?

Varieties vegetarians

For many, it is no secret that vegetarianism - a common name for various dietary restrictions.

Lacto-ovo-vegetarian - people do not eat the meat of animals (such as warm-blooded, and, for example, the inhabitants of the sea), but does not waive the milk, eggs and products of beekeeping. As a rule, talking about vegetarianism, have in mind such a diet.

There are also ovo-vegetarian (do not eat meat, do not drink milk, but eat eggs) and laktovegetariantsy (from animal foods can afford only milk).

Vegan - one who does not eat any animal foods (meat, fish, milk, eggs, honey).

If all these diets usually try not to eat those products, which includes components of animal origin (glycerin, gelatin, carmine).

Hatred Italian chef called vegans is the most ascetic of all "vegetarians."

"I mean, vegans and non-vegetarians. What would I do with a vegan? I want to kill them all, "- he said on a TV show about food Vissani. He explained that the lovers of vegetables and cereals associated him with the sect "Jehovah's Witnesses" because as fanatical.

Nevertheless, the majority of people does not decide who among fans vegetable diet it is unpleasant. They usually find it difficult to even explain the precise reasons for hostility. Science, meanwhile, knows the answers, because psychologists and sociologists have studied this question.

Blogger Vegan Chowhound tied ridicule vegetarians with defense mechanisms of the human psyche, which was first described by Sigmund Freud in "Protective neuropsychosis".

In the appropriate column the author suggested that all people in varying degrees aware that meat-eating - it's passive support killing animals and abuse them. But since the majority of homo sapiens tend to be good and kind, they unconsciously start to distort reality in order to justify themselves, and abstracting from the unpleasant facts.

This includes such protective mechanisms, such as denial (denial of unpleasant awareness information), moralization (find a way to convince themselves of the necessity of what is happening) and regression (including childishness, children's behavior).

Vegan Chowhound also notes that vegans, who number only two percent of the US population, only a minority today, which you can make fun of and insult with a calm heart, because intolerance of another race, nationality, gender and sexual orientation has long been considered socially unacceptable.