You do it so I do it

In the face of greatly differing views, we each seem implacable, vegans judging the weak ethics of non-vegans, and they judging us for our wackiness. Today perception rules … “okay!”
In all matters of food, omnivores support the status quo, and they have to. They don’t want to go down the path of boycotting things. That leads to a huge inconvenience - being consistent about what to be boycotted, with all the self discipline that implies, is difficult to contemplate.
Life’s a matter of fitting-in; if we don’t do things the way others do we look like weirdos. We’re outcast for it. Vegans want to alter things in a quite incredible way, so we’re seen to be people who want to deny others the simple pleasures of life; we’re seen to be persons obstinate to common sense (what’s so very wrong about a cheese pizza or a quiche?) That’s the accepted line. That’s the perception!
So, for starters, vegans need to point out, if we ever get the chance, that there’s such a thing as an imposed collective consciousness, based on an ill-informed or even pernicious idea of herbivorous living. It’s down to us, as vegans, to better inform people.
Vegans take an important initiative here. We’re pioneering a certain type of change, the sort of change that heads straight into the very core of perception: how we perceive things that are hardly ever thought about by the majority of people, who comply with fashion - you do it so I do it.