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This isn't an unpopular opinion. In fact, it's an extremely popular one. Every corner of the internet goes out of their way to say they hate vegans, This isn't even remotely original.
I'm not interested in changing your mind. You do as you like, and frankly it seems like you are just venting, so rock on. But if you are intersted in fact based discussions, I think you need to move past your the stereotypes, assumptions and flat out falsehoods.
No vegan thinks it is. I would kill an animal to save a human.
Snuggling my non-vegan cat right now.
Crazy people of every community exist. Without question the overwhelming majority of vegans do not support the behavior of a few that have done this. That is exactly as fair as me saying carnists practice cannibalism because of the handful of psychopaths to do so.
And the rest of your points fall under the "no ethical consumption under capitalism" good place type arguments. However, I find it particularly egregious to say vegans don't mind slavery. If a human slave in involved in a plant based food, then it isn't vegan.
Also, the argument of "but what about the exploited workers in the fields ?" is one of the weakest that's always thrown around. Do they realy think that everyone working for the meat industry are all treated fairly ? All those fields of corn/soy that are used to feed the livestock, guess what, they also need workers.
Also, this is indeed not even an unpopular opinion. Vegans/vegetarians are all around some of the most hated groups of individuals. Source : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1368430215618253
Also omnivores aren't carnivores. I do eat meat but not mostly meat, I don't think most people eat mostly meat. We are all eating a lot of the same food as vegan people. When my vegan daughter hosts dinner she serves things I make too. You aren't going to get out of eating these slave grown vegetables by eating meat, unless you exclusively eat what you grow, forage, and hunt yourself.