“How do you know someone is vegan?” Ho ho ho. “Don’t worry – they will tell you.” Ha ha ha. For many vegans this unfunny – and thoroughly unoriginal – joke is the bane of their existence. Partly because they have heard it a gazillion (or maybe even more) times, and partly because it simply isn’t true.
The idea that vegans somehow ‘shove’ their beliefs down everyone else’s collective throats is a common one. But just how true is it? Ok, we all know (ok, might have been) an overbearing vegan at some point. But this tends to be a short-lived phase that few people go through, and is generally fired by passion and commitment, rather than a desire to put other people down.