Trena Berum: Why do some meat eaters call all vegans and vegetarians hippies? Why do some christians call people who are in the military baby killers? Why do some people try to force kids who dress gothic to dress normal? It's all a matter of preference, etiquette, and the ability to communicate. Personally I don't like to pressure people. I think it would be great if everyone were vegetarian or vegan not just for animals but health reasons as well but I know if you pressure someone they will either lash out in defiance or retreat and associate everyone with whatever crazy idea they have of you. Now if someone asks about me being a vegetarian I will politely answer any questions they have. I will occasionally cook vegetarian or vegan items for my friends not to convert them but because I feel like sharing. Sometimes it gets misconstrued especially if people aren't used to being around vegetarians. For example a friends child offered me an onion ring one night and! I declined. He asked if I liked onion rings and I said yes, they are good. Someone made a comment about "the vegetarian" trying to corupt an innocent child. The parents got upset and everyone around started yelling at me simply because one person took a conversation the wrong way. It's not about who is right or wrong but how we communicate and accept each other....Show more
Lizzette Wendroth: Its because what you are eating is murder, man. But its not just murder, its also torture. Its the destruction of our planet and its also taking our tax dollars for subsidies to aggribusiness.I, as a vegan, want You, as a person who eats meat, dairy and eggs to realize What it is you are eating and contributing to. As a vegan who once ate like you, I can tell you that a vegan diet is better all around and it tastes great.Google Vegetarian Environmentalism to see what your food choices are doing to the planet....Show more
Patricia Bolduc: i never judge someone by what ! they eat or for anything else for that matter
Libby Berk! ovitch: Can I then kill a person and say it's my choice and you can't tell me what I did was wrong?
Noah Deni: im just fed up with the people at my school i guess. i never tell people im a vegetarian (except on the internet) because they always make a big deal out of it and ask me stupid questions. most people have figured out by now that im a vegetarian and they always say stuff like vegetarians are unhealthy becuase they dont get enough protien or plants have feelings too or animals were put on this earth for us to eat. it drives me crazy. im just wondering if anyone else gets offended or annoyed by these comments from SOME meat eaters....Show more
Mel Crapo: Don't plants feel pain too?
Rena Pepe: The question that kills me: "What about the plaaaaaannnnts?"The remark that kills me when I'm with my family: The suggestion that I just have a salad when they're dragging me to a vegan-hostile place. Normally, I don't mind salads too much, but if I'm going t! o a restaurant, I don't want to have to subsist on a pile of iceberg lettuce with a few shreds of carrots and some wimpy tomatoes topped by a clot of dressing.
James Langmyer: let me clarify... i was referring to oil as in the stuff you pump up from the ground. the black gold? what dinosuars are made of????sorry about the confusion.i know you can use natural cooking greases to fuel your car but you dont get near the mileage... and the fuel they make corn out of is actually more expensive to produce and the waste involved is greater... from what i have been told. just curious about your thoughts... and where some people draw the line....Show more
Jorge Gerrero: btwim not saying that all meat eaters have said ignorant thingsim just asking the ones who have said ignorant or offending things what was the worse thing they've said
Samatha Nicar: I agree in a slight way. My best friend is a strict vegan who loves animals more than humans. She knows I eat meat but! she does not lecture me or call me a murderer because she knows being ! an idiot like so will not change my mind and only give me a negative outlook on vegetarians/vegans. She just ignores it. I don't eat meat when with her though or talk about it...though it's not a touchy subject either. I love animals- not as much as her, and have considered going vegetarian because of her. But I couldn't do it Hahah. It's really only *some* vegans that do. I think more so the ones who don't think often of what they are saying...no matter how many times they say it or call you a retard or monster it will not change your mind and just brings a negative look on themselves. We choose our own diet and I think it should either be respected because we can't all have the same outlook or just flat out ignored....Show more
Ronald Moehr: Nice Boots.
Robin Marchione: I have yet to hear of a vegan who dives across the room to knock animal products out of someone's hand, or befits them with an ankle bracelet that reacts when its wearer ingests them. "Forcing! " someone else to adopt a complete lifestyle such as veganism is laughable.Libertarian arguments are only applicable when your actions only affect yourself.If you resent being reminded that your choices are dependent on death,maybe you shouldn't make those choices anymore....Show more
Janean Guz: I get fed up with people saying things too, especially since I am never the one to bring it up.I guess the most ignorant thing has been "It's a fad, it will go away soon." Then this ahole proceeded to tell me about how his gf who is becoming a doctor did surgery on a pig and accidently killed it. And laughed about it all.
Booker Moros: Some vegans encourage others to become vegan but not by force. So not all vegans are going to be like others.
Robt Betker: well im not an ignorant meat eater, but i will say that most vegetarians i know talk about the fact that their vegetarians way too much! to be honest it gets kind of boring, especially when you have to watch t! heir feelings when carving a nice piece of lamb.unfortunatley we live i! n a world where we are entitled to our own opinions and we have to agree to disagree.
Vince Delarge: Two points here.. One. Unless you are feeling some kind of personal/moral issue with your own meat-eating nature these remarks made by a vegan would not force you to be vegan, would they? Two. I usually only lay in to another person about their choice of eating meat and it's byproducts when that person chooses to give me some joke of an argument about how being vegan is bad for me. I then proceed to tell them things that may than be perceived as "telling them to be vegan". Does this help any? I would never walk by someone eating a steak and say "wow, so did you kill that cow yourself or did you go the rotting on the grocery store shelf route?" Fact is fact. Meat is a dead animal. End of story. It's your choice how you feel about that....Show more
Rona Espalin: People who bash vegans and everything related to meat never consider all the wonderful things there ar! e in the world to ingest besides meat...
Catheryn Barringer: Until we have a real alternative, we are stuck using fossil fuels for transport and electricity. Just because petroleum and the like are called "fossil fuels" doesn't mean they are made out of dinosaurs - they are made from all kinds of dead things that are millions of years old. From a strictly vegan standpoint, stuff derived from crude oil such as gasoline or plastic would be similar to something really old made out of leather - the animal is already dead and you spending money on the product won't (directly) lead to more death. However these resources are non-renewable so they will run out one day, not to mention all the crap that is pumped into the air when they are burnt.Ethically the oil industry is bad karma, but they don't enslave or murder animals....Show more
Julee Lanham: Perhaps you need a better social network. Dietary choice does not dictate weather someone is going to be a jerk. It all d! epends on the individual and you would have to ask each individual why ! they feel the need to do what they do. Some vegans may do that for the same reason that some meat eaters choose to impose their way of eating on vegans. Plain and simple, they lack the social grace that most people are taught in childhood.If I am eating with someone who cannot behave themselves properly, I choose to either talk to them about it, or not eat with them anymore. I have had a few meat eating acquaintances be obnoxious while eating meat(putting it toward my face, asking me if I want some flesh, telling me how wonderful it is, etc), or trying to argue about how unhealthy not eating meat is. I don't judge all meat eaters by these select few, or think that people that eat meat are all of one mind, and I can ask another meat eater why some choose to act as if they were raised without manners, and expect them to know(as if it is some meat eating secret amongst them). If I have a problem with a person and how they act, I confront their actions, or choose to not hang ou! t with them anymore, plain and simple....Show more
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Fannie Collingwood: Don't you hate that! I hate it when I'm sitting in the park looking at all those tasty animals running around and suddenly here come those skinny guys on segways wearing all man made fiber. Then its just horrible they hold me down and shove quinoa down my throat until I'm full and can't possibly eat meat.
Josefine Weekey: HEYY! GO YOU! i totally feel you! i dont go pushing my bliefs or diet on any one! mind your own buesness! i love meat. im no murderer. i donate plenty of my money to no-kill animal shelters. But i love a good steak!
Sunshine Holets: in my opinion，we should respect others eating habits ，to be a vegan or not is our freedom.
Betsey Muehlbach: a million. might you ever date a meat-eater? Or marry one? definite i might date a meat eater. of path i might marry one. 2. have you ever dated (or married) one? definite i've got dated one, no ! distinctive than dating a vegetarian/vegan 3. in case you probably did,! how did you take care of foodstuff? I dont techniques coping with or cooking meat in any respect. I do in simple terms no longer go contaminate the beef with the vegetables by skill of cooking interior the comparable pot one after yet another. Or i might in simple terms prepare dinner my foodstuff first. as far as eating out, particularly much each and every Asian and/or Spanish resturaunt has a vegetarian/vegan meal. i will constantly discover steamed vegetables or a vegetable/tofu platter at an Asian resturaunt. At Spanish(frequently Mexican) resturaunts i will constantly takeout the beef, cheese, and bitter cream and nonetheless have a reliable vegan meal with in simple terms the beans, guacamole, tomatoes, and rice. The chips and dip are often vegan, made out of corn, and that they do no longer use buns so i do no longer could desire to agonize approximately eggs and dairy being in there. maximum resturaunts use corn tortillas because of the fact they are greater low p! riced, so those are vegan too :)
Omar Phipps: Most mean well and have good intentions while others are mentally unbalanced. Some people tend to get obsessed whether it be about diet, religion, or whatever. Some people are control freaks and feel the need to convince everyone of their personal beliefs. On the other hand we Vegans can ask why the meat eaters feel the need to berate, heckle, and judge us for our choice not to eat meat or dairy. I hate it when people insist that not eating meat with make my guns recede or even my teeth fall out and other ignorant stuff like that. I am beyond tired of eveyone insisting that I will get a vitamin deficiency or anemic from the Vegan Diet. So it goes both ways. The bottom line is that the world would be a better place if people did not try to force their beliefs and preferences on each other. It is not just Vegans that can be ignorant, meat eaters can be very controlling and pushy as well. People can get very obsessed with a! nything. I believe that ALL people need to quit being ignorant, control! ling, and pushy and respect other personal choices and beliefs....Show more
Janita Tetlow: when i say hard core vegan i mean people who are the philosophy not to use any animal products whether in consumption of food or buyng animals products... like leather... like jello... like certain kinds of make up.oil is an animal product right?thoughts?...Show more
Isreal Kochheiser: I don't force anyone to do anything. I strongly encourage, but I'm no evangelical about it.I simply feel that you should be aware of the effect you have on the entire planet when you consume animal products and the world you are creating for your children. No, I won't force you to change your diet. I simply want you to be free to make an informed choice about it, as opposed to simply following society's conventions....Show more
Russell Mckinzie: maximum vegans who have not been raised to that nutritional habit undertake vegetarianism out of the two a ethical or wellbeing motivation. In! the two circumstances, what you have are people who've embraced certainly one of those ideology that is composed of suggestions and physique - and springs from deep own conviction. What do you think of motivates missionaries? the comparable issues. some human beings basically could have a "reason" of which they're SO confident they experience REQUIRED to go out and tell the international with each and all of the persuasion they could muster. "I actual have got here across the certainty! it incredibly is astounding previous imagining! Come, do as I do, think of as i think of, you, too, will own the certainty!" in specific circumstances i've got faith like telling those evangelists - ALL evangelists - to pass homestead a at a similar time as and cope with their insecurities. in line with threat in the event that they did, we could all appreciate slightly peace....Show more
Lonnie Jehle: It may be the 'holier than thou' syndrome. They want to think they are a better pe! rson for being a vegan. And perhaps they are. But - you can be a vega! n and be quiet about it.
Delora Struzzi: My friends once told me:"If you were in the wild, and if you stumbled upon a hungry animal, that animal wouldn't even think twice about eating you. So why won't you eat meat? Be careful, that can affect your health"I just stood there speechless...becoming vegetarian was the BEST decision that I have EVER made! :)
Rick Duchane: Hi i eat meat and i can sympathise for both sides...unfortunately there are ignorant ppl on both sides..us meat eaters will tend to say ur not getting ur protein and we were meant to eat animals as our strong points and vegetarians will tend to say not eating meat is healthy and animals should not be killed...there are arguments for both sides and sadly most of each sides arguments are false...meat side for instance...u can get complex proteins from non meat sources which are just as good as meat....then the veg side...we were build to eat meat and vegetables...doesnt mean every1 has to though its u! r own decision i mean we can drink alcohol but not every1 does it...doesnt mean we shudnt though.
Kris Bozelle: honestly... i've been a vegetarian my whole entire life, and I can completely relate to how you're feeling. Yes, I've had quite alot of people being quite shocked at the fact that I am a vegetarian. I've met quiute a bit of ignorant people in my lifetime. There was this one time, when i told someone that I was a vegetarian, they just looked at me.. and said.. are you kidding? Too bad you're missing out on the juicy baby cows! I replied saying "thats exactly why i'm a vegetarian!" At the end of the day, I'm quite proud that i'm 20 years vegetarian and I"m not afraid to tell someone that i'm a veggie just because i'll get stupid comments like those. Whats there to be scared of? People like to know the unique side of you! Express yourself!
Agustina Stimmel: glitchy, no , my meat eating habits do not bother me in any way, but i do get pissed off when peopl! e call me a murderer or a retard or something for my diet. im sure you ! would be pissed if i called you a pussy because you were vegan
Cuc Gire: my all-time favorite: "what, isn't that unhealthy?"yeah, because i'm wasting away in front of your eyes, can't you tell?and actually, being a vegetarian is HEALTHIER than eating meat. also: "God put animals on this earth for us to eat." don't even get me started on that one.
Chet Nozick: Give me one example where a vegan has supposedly forced another person into being a vegan. I can promise you that I've never1. Held a gun to someone's head.2. Shoved tofu into someone's mouth....Show more
Maria Bengston: Why do you feel this sort of frustration? Do you have vegan parents or guardians who refuse to let you eat meat in their home or something? Or are you referring to vegan kidnappers who only feed their captives plant foods? If not, then I don't see how anyone could be forcing you towards veganism.I do get the animosity, because I feel it often, too. Many vegans - as you said, thoug! h, not all - are very militant and condescending in the apparently misguided hope that it will win hearts and minds. Instead it inevitably has the opposite effect. Did you hear about the assault on author Lierre Keith last month? A bunch of vegan hoodlums hit her with pies - not just ordinary ones, mind you, but those filled with cayenne pepper. They may as well have punched her or hit her with pepper spray. And many of the vegans in the crowd cheered! Instead of winning sympathy, events like this tend to polarize public opinion against vegans. Unfortunate since these were a few bad apples, but not enough vegans appear to be expressing outrage at such tactics. I do have a little life tip for you. If you air out what angers you on an internet forum, or even a more intimate setting, then you can bet that many will be pushing that button on a regular basis....Show more
Olen Penhallurick: good point
Derrick Smsith: well some people can't drink beer because ! they are either under ageor are pregnant!
Julieta Suleiman: Gday ! mate, Most vegans that i know dont do that, firstly no ever changes because u attack them and secondly they would probably eventualy lose all there friends.The thing is, its hard to be a vegan and believe that eating animals is causing alot of unnecessary suffering yet not be able to do anything about it because society doesnt feel the same way. Sounds like ub met some total wankers (which is more likely if ur contact with them was online) but by far the majority of the vegans that would want to convert others are just trying to ease the animal suffering. Also despite wat some people said above, in society we are taught to impose our beliefs on others, i could give a bunch of examples but im pretty sure we have a whole legal system which includes punishments for backing up my point. Its just that the lines are murky between wat is considered imposing beliefs and standing up against injustice. If my neighbor was trying to light his dog on fire i dont think people would say t! hat i was imposing beliefs if i stoped him - im not saying that its equivalent to eating meat but its somethign to think about. Overall point is that if your unhappy with a vegan telling you to stop eating meat its probably not that hes an egotistical elitist wanker, they probably just disagree with you about where the line stands between standing up for things that cant deffend themselves and imposing there beliefs.....Show more
Elden Bardach: mmm, yes.i'd rather be an alcoholic than an omnivore any day!
Coleman Coscia: Because they have managed to fool themselves into thinking that vegetarianism makes them a morally superior human being, and they therefore feel it is their moral obligation to convert the rest of us, which they attempt to do using insults, lies, and criticism. Much like the Christians have tried to do with native cultures around the world.
Dionna Doyel: Things like, "animals will become extinct if we don't raise them for food"; you'll ! get sick and anemic"; "you need protein to live (as if there was no pla! nt source for protein)"; "cows are pleased to give us milk"; "God meant us to be meat eaters"; "but meat tastes delicious" "vegetables suffer too" and so on...Edit: Yes I'm surrounded by ignorant people, I'm glad I'm not one of them...and many of the things above I have read here on Yahoo answers...
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