I can strongly relate to this because in many parts of the world, when you say you're a vegan, many people have that image of an extremist animal rights activist hounding them at a restaurant or destroying non-vegan food items at a store screaming their lungs out about the animal holocaust and shaming people for their food choices.

That was never the original intention with which the animal rights movement started, yet here we are!

It also why I never claim that I'm vegan anywhere I go because I fear the backlash I might receive for the acts committed by some of these extremist groups.