thats why they are banned from german prisons since they kept leading to false positive tests.

doesnt feel worthy for this sub though. Thats just regular news.

I think its part the stronghold of religion and part the lack of confrontation. Fear (and nothing else is having a negative view onto a whole group of people) is mostly not rational and comes from a lack of knowledge. The more you dont know the more you can potentially fear.

Also I think religion is a particular interesting subject since those 3 religions (Islam, Judaism and Christianity) are siblings and much more simular than different when compared to other big religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism. It is well established that familiarity may lead to animosity. In most murder cases a family member is the culprit. Or look at Harry and William - the british princes etc.

So in the end I think its a mixture of closeness and strageness. Close enough to be involved with each other but too distant to be united.

are you telling me cocks dont have cocks?

makes sense. Including Nr. 2 for each of the continents probably wouldnt hurt - I feel there is enough space.

you got any insight in why precious metal / pearls/ jewelry are such big items? Is that a specific thing for India because of maybe religious reasons?

is there a reason for 2 asian countries?

I feel like were talking at cross purposes. I never said anything about you. I made an assumption on how vegans behave on twitter and why (which is the purpose of this thread).

Your friends are obviously nice people (and your boss isnt) - but that doesnt really apply on twitter where you interact with strangers. People on twitter care about being recognized as vegans, while they dont care too much about being recognized as vegetarians - thats what the data suggests and what we should discuss about.

To me your experience of getting hate from meat-eaters while your vegan friends dont care was a good example of how even in the best case (the best case being you in a progressive circle of friends) you dont gain anything by self-describing as vegetarian. Then I transposed your real life scenario onto twitter and my argument was that twitter just makes everything worse - so your experience of being a self-describing vegetarian on twitter would be even worse than it is IRL.

As were both vegetarians with a big circle of vegan friends I think were allies here and shouldnt get on each others throats.

btw I have a very good recipe for vegan german potato salad (the one with vinegar/oil) - basically from my grandma but changed a bit to make it vegan (she didnt taste the difference and if grandma doesnt taste it nobody does) if you are interested.

I am not going to argue that obviously more harassment comes from meat-eater side (which makes sense as they make up about 90% of people). But your experience still pretty much proves my point that there is nothing to gain by self-describing yourself as vegetarian on twitter. Even in your progressive bubble you got asked about it - you can imagine that itd happen more often on an anonymous social media plattform then in your circle of frends. So nothing to gain as a vegetarian --> no self-disclosure. Why do people self-discribe as vegan? For the clout. No clout - no self-description.

The meaning of self-descriptive is serving to describe oneself : being or providing a description of oneself.

How is writing it in your twitter profile not "providing a description".

Also one glance at the actual data wouldve solved this missunderstanding. Pointing on others who made the same "mistake" is also a very weak excuse. You make a wrong claim on something that nobody asked for and now you want to push away responsiblity.

So id rephrase and say that you misslead yourself by assuming things before commenting while you had the possiblity to avoid this.

thank you for not missing the point like half of this comment section.

I agree that its a very interesting graph and I agree with your assumption.

I think the main issue is that there is a part of vegan movement that is very exclusive (like people only wanting to date other vegans, only live in shared flat with vegans etc.). So there is an increased need to recognize each other.

As a vegetarian youd probably get attacked form both sides - the hard core meat-eaters asking why you are condeming their lifestyle and the hard core vegans wondering why you dont pull through. So you dont really gain anything from that except possible backlash.

so what

it speaks of self-described vegans. It doesnt want to find out how many vegans there are it wants to find out how people behave on social media concerning this topic. Anybody who misses this should just leave the subreddit cause its sad.

wanna be smart ass

if op wanted to answer the question "how many vegetarians/vegans do we have" you might have a point but obviously thats not the case.

This data explores how people display their lifestyle. It finds that there are differences in how people use social media. Its a totally valid display of data with its own fields of appliances.

the "/s" is the cherry on top - how can you miss the point this hard?