I had cheese put into my food before, but now I was given meat-meat and not only once but twice (different places).
It wasn't even by people not understanding what veganism is, it was just a very blatant swap.
Sure, I got money back, but I'm wondering: has the acceptance of vegans gone down and malice towards us gone up? I would've thought it would've gotten better over time.
I'm asking because I'm so far removed from the vegan community I forget I'm vegan because the store being "empty" for me is the norm, as is checking labels etc; I've no clue whether other vegans are facing similar issues as of late.
One thing was premade meals sold by a company which solely sold vegan meals... Until it didn't. They swapped one of the meal, keeping it looking identical, same name and all, but now made it with meat. Listed with meat on the new ingredients: but again, same meal they sold, all vegan previously, now all vegan expect for this one meal, made to look identical to the previously vegan meal.
Another one was very clearly meat at a non-vegan with vegan options place where I ate previously so I know how their meat replacement looks (and I also know what real meat looks/smell etc like and it was very clearly actual meat) put into a box marked as vegan. If it wasn't put into the vegan marked packaging, I would've thought it was just a mistake during packing, but I know they prepare vegan food in a different section of the kitchen and they have different grills for it etc.
Feel free to tell me I'm wrong, but to me both of those feel like targetting vegans.