The reason I’m vegan is to get other people to do it. This comm isn’t invite-only; carnists see it on Hexbear and in federated servers, and carnists come in and comment all the time. It’s fine that you personally are disgusted by the taste of flesh, but that has no moral weight. Transpose it slightly: a lot of tomatoes are picked by slaves. If we were trying to organize a tomato boycott we wouldn’t want “tomatoes taste like shit” to be widely agreed on by boycotters. In fact we would want to discourage that talk, to prevent people from saying “you guys don’t care about slavery you just don’t like tomatoes”. And it would be frustrating for boycotters to constantly hear others in the movement go on about how tomatoes are disgusting and how could anyone include that garbage in their meals to begin with, while they’re busy trying to make some pathetic bell pepper red sauce.

Idk I mostly want to uncouple the correct moral outrage at production from how stuff actually tastes. When carnists ask me if I miss meat, that’s an opportunity to say “sure, but it’s really important to not eat it” not “nah I never liked it anyway”. Maybe I’ll feel differently in a few more years; right now when I hear someone say they’re viscerally disgusted by like, seitan because it’s sort of vaguely like meat, I find it hard to believe.