vegansexuals? please.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22164070-1702,00.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2007/08/09/2007-08-09_vegetable_magnetism.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB4/aamsz=300x44_MULTILINK/4147483a6009.html

i just read about this in rolling stone, today, and was pretty much really surprised and just disgusted.

like okay, if you personally decide not to date anyone who eats meat, because of personality or value/belief conflicts, than fine. i can even agree there. but to go as far as shunning these people, setting up a whole name and "sexual orientation", and putting these people down for their beliefs? c'moooon. talk about furthering prejudice in the world, jesus. that's no better than the omnivores who put as vegetarians and vegans down!

i myself have been vegan for the past 5/6 years now (occasionally bouncing back to vegetarianism as i see fit--though that's another story), and admittedly have given ex-girlfriend's a hard time in the past about their dietary choices. but, that was before i opened up my mind just that weeeee bit more, and realised that diversity and differences is what makes life interesting. also, i would never go as far as calling myself a VEGANSEXUAL and shunning anyone who isn't! fuck.

am i alone here? does anyone else agree? do any of you actually call yourselves a vegansexual and practice it?

 

i am not vegan or vegetarian but i do like difference and fuck those people who judge other people for a certain belief or choice.

 

or not...

 

i guess i did just judged the judgers in a way.

 

I think its pretty dumb too... I guess its sexy when people are vegetarians but I would never make it priority if I was dating. My boyfriend eats meat, and I don't care because he is a wonderful person, so why would I not date him just because of that? There are so many more important things to look for than what they eat. Caring about animals is a different thing though - and people can still care about animals and eat meat ya know whatever.

Yeah thats really just putting up a bad image of vegatarians... lame!

 

exactly. it's giving us a bad name. and as it is, we already do for a lot of people, already. i mean, if they don't understand the way we choose to eat, and all that, then fine...but now some of us are coming out and saying that we pretty much want nothing to do with them, because of their eating habits? pathetic.

 

how is that pathetic, because some people have morals? it would be the same as if you didn't want to associate with child molesters because of their sexual habits. who are you to care about who they have sex with... but most people do, and for a good reason. although i do associate with meat eaters often, i can see why someone wouldn't want to associate, or date them. some people value the life of an animal as much as the life of a human. i bet if you knew someone who ate human flesh then you would choose not to associate with them, and probably turn them into the police.

 

thank you. people don't really think about these things, huh?

 

I associate animals as people, and thats one reason why I don't eat meat. But I also realize that millions of people are raised to eat meat and believe it is a healthy lifestyle for them. Believe me, I wish the whole world would be vegetarian! But when I'm dating someone, I just feel like there a lot more important things to look for than what they eat. There are a lot of people that really care about animals but still eat meat because they like to or they need to. My boyfriend eats meat, but cares a lot about animals and people, which I think is a lovely trait. He went vegetarian once before I knew him but couldn't go vegan and didn't think that he was making a difference if he couldn't be vegan. So even though him and I might disagree on what makes a difference when you care about animals, thats not important to me. He's a wonderful guy and what, do you think I should break up with him just cuz he eats meat or something? Thats just dumb in my opinion. If someone cares about me and respects me and has a lot of good traits and completely connects with me, thats way higher than eating meat.

 

show someone videos of the dairy/meat industry. how can you KNOW this is how these animals are treated and still think it's alright?

i'm not like this, i still believe these people can evolve away from these things, but sometimes i just want to stick them in cages and see if they think it's alright

 

apparently i was too soft... this is what i was told for saying i couldn't work in a kennel seeing the looks in the eyes of these pets, these animals people refer to as their kids, their babies...

try putting your kid in a cage for a week and see how they like it...

 

Sex is a very important thing to a lot of people. To tell someone they are being judgmental or prejudice because they won't have sex with some who eats meat is wrong. Do you tell people that say they would never have sex with someone who drinks, does drugs, has bad teeth, smells funny, eat toenails, ect. that they are prejudice for not wanting to have sex with these people? No, you don't because its not your decision. People are always so quick to judge other peoples opinions and beliefs. So what I am saying is if someone does not want to have sex with someone else for any reason its not you place to tell them they are wrong. Move along..


P.S. I am 4 year vegetarian that is an equal oppurtuity lover. fyi


live and let live
peace&love
ryv

 

I told my boyfriend about this thread and asked him this question... now he wants to try going vegetarian again or only eat organic meat (and definitely organic eggs and dairy). He really does care about animals but I think he just doesn't like to think about it but he realized that he should help! I told him I believe that even if you can't go vegan, eating organic dairy and eggs isn't harming animals and eating organic meat is definitely better than factory farm meat and he agreed.

I've realized that by not pushing it on him and supporting him no matter what he eats really helped.
I'm not a vegansexual haha but when my boyfriend doesn't eat meat I think its sexy! And this just makes me joyful!

Sooooooooooo thank you dude =) I was really surprised that he said this and maybe it wouldn't have happened if I didn't bring up your post.

 

You're right. Refusing to date those who willingly pay for the torture of innocent animals is so mean! I don't think anyone who supports others' "right" to torture (And gets angered by those who refuse to support it) should call themselves vegan. If you feel its a personal choice, you obviously couldn't care less about the animals.

 

IMO
girls who eat healthy and take care of themselves are generally smarter people, and I like that.
I've also found that people who eat meat every day are smelly.
They tend to hide this with deoderant and perfumes and shit
and that just grosses me out.
The love of my life isn't a vegan, or a vegetarian, but she can play the piano like a god. ;]

 

thats not true. cow dont just magicly produce milk. they have to have a baby to do that. and that baby is called veal, and is sold as veal.

 

Magical Fire Lady, just so you know, organic means as far as ending cruelty. Organic is just no antibiotics or hormones. That means you are eating drug-free tortured animals (or in your case, the eggs and milk of drug-free tortured animals). Not to mention, as willy wonka posted, that you are supporting the veal industry.

 

im vegan but chances are i'd date a vegetarian, I just wouldn't like indirectly licking off a cows tit, or the fact that she's contributing to something that sick and fucked up.

But I could never give my heart to a murderer.

 

Those companies claim that they are humanely raised, they get to live their lives. I wish they could roam free and not be eaten believe me. But if they're not in cages and not being forced fed and all the other horrors about factory farms I don't see whats too wrong about it. You don't KNOW if they're tortured or not, neither do I, but they can't say they are humanely raised if they're not... thats my opinion!

 

Whether or not they can say its humane is NOT an opinion-based thing. They can say it, and they do. And you're right. You don't know if they torture or not. So you are gambling each and every time. And of course, when you gamble regularly, you loose regularly.