Everybody Hates Vegans

But, are they as good as this? imgflip.com/i/zkezj

I only know one vegan. She has been my friend for a long time. She has had serious health problems and due to her health she switched to a full vegan diet last year. She says it helps her. I know from my own healthcare experience that controlling your diet can be very beneficial. I love meat myself and am going with some friends to a "wild game" dinner tonight.
All that to say this, I don't "hate" vegans. But I do detest anyone who thinks that they are morally superior to others because of their actions or lack thereof.

Just not for the reason you expected? ;-)

Wrong, ask any competent doc.

You can go in for a $75,000 cardiac surgery and be survival-marginal for the rest of your life, or you can change your diet healthfully, intelligently - and humanely too.

Lotta hard learners have already saved their @$$es the easiest way around.

More and more actual scientific studies are showing that what you eat has a lot less to do with the health of your heart than your genetics. You can make a stronger argument against type II diabetes but, there are some people like my 500 lbs M-I-L who just refuse to catch it even though they deserve it. Now, too much sugar in the blood will scar the lining in the blood vessels making it easier to clog the heart. But, type II diabetics don't need to be poor eaters or inactive to be diabetics. There's more and more discovery that it is actually a digestive disorder. When bypassing the duodenum and jejunum, diabetes as almost always cured. This is true whether done by surgery or just a plastic sleeve.

Then, there's the issue of vegans and reduced rates of reproduction.

Oh, and, if you ask any cardiologist, they'll tell you that they tell their patients to lose weight, not by eating vegan but, by eating meat and plenty of it.

Other way around, actually, as my experience bears out. Ask your own doc.

And the stereotype is bullshit, I don't push or announce myself, it's usually the carnists that get silly with the "what about the poor plants" stuff when they find out.

Other way around again. I think John Wayne, no one's vegetarian, had something like five or ten pounds of rotting meat remnant in his large intestine when they did his autopsy. Veggies clean you out instead.