It seems to me like you are equating “vegan” with “aggressive proselytizing jerk.” Wouldn’t the scenario work as well with any other cause? Say, a commited Afrocentrist who won’t shut up about everything having been invented first in Africa, or a committed fundamentalist who won’t shut up about saving your soul, or a Freeper who won’t shut up about politics?
No, it seems like he’s equating “aggressive vegan” with “aggressive prostelytizing jerk.”
But the OP specified that this vegan is an aggressive jerk.
On the other hand, they’ve got the “aggressive” part down pat.
My only experience with a proselytizing vegetarian has been male; don’t know if he was vegan or not, but he was the most annoying proselytizer I have ever met, including the proselytizing atheist and all the religious fanatics.
Due to the low availability of non-vegan food in a reasonable chunk of the US and the fact that folks who are obsessed with one thing only are pretty annoying, I’d go with the pregnant lady. We’re not told whether she’s the Only Pregnant Woman Ever syndrome type or not, but she certainly has potential for thoughts outside of “OMG, there’s an awesome thing growing inside of me” and may have some fun stories about the horrors of pregnancy to tell. If she goes into labor, we can figure it out.
Most of the respondents, however, are focusing on the “vegan” part and not the “aggressive” part. A lot of bottled-up hostility is showing.
No, one of them was a vegetarian his whole life.
“Shields, whose parents are vegetarians, grew up on a meatless diet, never wavered, and is in large part the catalyst for the trend.”
I’m sure Oakminster could terrify anyone who was an actual vegan, but if one of those vegetarians was in there I’m sure he’d end up offering to toss the salad himself.