Your a Vegan? What Can You Eat???!!!

I am so sick of that question, and I heard it from everyone i tell that I am a vegan. I feel like a broken record "uhh, grains, veggies, fruits, nuts, and some other stuff". Over and over and over again I say the same thing and i am sick of even talking to Omni's about Veganism (Unless they are Omnis with a very open mind and actually want to have a REAL discussion on veganism, as opposed to people with their jaws wide open, thinkign it's unbelievable that a person doesn't eat hamburgers and drink milk). I don't even mention that I am a vegan anymore unless someone asks. I am sorry about this post but I just had to vent.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

I am a vegan who happens to eat food. I don't know about the rest of you all... you tell me.

 

Ahh yes. I havent even told anyone I know in real life that I'm a vegan. They all think I drink milk and eat eggs. I don't need to be insulted and hear even more repetetive (sp) mindless insults. And I never bring up vegetarianism at all, yet I'm still attacked for my beliefs. And when I don't tell anyone new that I meet that I'm a vegetarian, others I know will just tell them instead. And then the stupid comments will keep on coming.
"How can you live without meat??" I've been living just fine for the past year.

But the one I loved the most of all, which I've restated many, many times on these forums, came from one of my friends.

"You shouldn't be a vegetarian because vegetarians eat too many healthy foods, then they get too healthy, then they get too skinny, then they die."

I'm healthy so I'm going to drop dead.

Then I'm tired of people knowingly trying to insult me.

"I hate PETA." thats great. I've never once mentioned PETA.

"Why are you a vegetarian?" I'm happy answering that one, but it doesn't make a difference as to how I answer. People will still be against me just because I've chosen not to conform, and not to eat dead animals that have previously been tortured. But then again, you can't really blame them. They've all grown up with the idea that cows and pigs and chickens grow up happily on Disney farms, where they all talk, sing, and laugh together. The female cows are happy to be milked, and the male cows are never slaughtered, their flesh just somehow magically appears in a hamburger. The roosters sound the morning alarm for the farmers, who treat them kindly and hold daily conversations with them, and the pigs roll freely in the mud, conversing with spiders and dreaming of rainbows and cotton candy. The chickens lay eggs in their cozy hay, and stitch together t-shirts and shorts for their chicks. Horses also exist on these farms, and are never ridden. The talk to the chickens mostly about how sunny it looks outside, and how they enjoyed those oats earlier that day. And fish live far away from farms, in the oceans and live full and happy lives. The fisherman board their boats, and cast the lines, and nemo finds his way home. Dumbo is happy in his circus tent, and his trainers treat him kindly. He soars through the skies with his humanely produced gigantic ears. Flying, flying soaring through the sky.

Now sit down. Shut up. And eat dead animals.

 

Maybe Disney should make a series of movies concerning politics... vegetarianism... etc... you know... tell them the truth of the real world before they find out on our own like all of ourselves had that the shit has hit the fan... or will those talking spiders, Goofy, and Nemo going to be the ones to reinstate the draft, ban homosexual marraige, and give Bill Gates our tax cut...I suppose there really is no such thing as a real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.

 

Hahaha... this post is the shizzle... If I hadn't already given you a good reputation comment thing before I'd do it again (hint hint everyone... and mike, don't you touch that comment button or I'll strangle you with your steak's intestines)

~ George

 

I especially like when I say I eat lots of soy products and people respond "soy, that has a lot of estrogen in it, you must have... breasts, low testerone, low sperm count ect..."

 

my sister asked me that the other day, she says "so becky, you're vegan... what do you eat?" and i gave her this look, she looks at me and, in all seriousness says "seriously, what do you eat?"



i eat carrot sticks and leaves

 

I think I'll go out to the back yard and heat up some pine needles for breakfast.

 

Let me get this right. You make an statisticaly unusual lifestyle choice. And you resent people noting that difference and expressing curiosity about it?


Hmmm....

Perhaps you should realize that people's reactions are part of what comes when you do anything (usual or unusual).

 

I don't get why they think MEAT is such a variety,,I mean most people eat ,,chicken,pig,cow. Ok that is 3 THINGS. Right? Oh and Fish ,,ok so 4.​

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Well a veggie has like 5-10 differant beans,,,,,5-10 differant lentils/grains,,, ​

5-10 differant rices ,,( and that is on the low end) prolly more that I don't buy or see ya know. OH anD how many differant veggies & fruite are out there? ​

TONS! ​

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In my opinion veggies have MORE variety to eat!​

 

its a fact ........

 

I totally appreciate people will comment, I'm also aware people smoke and voted in Blair. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

The comments just get very repetative and annoying. Thought people don't really make comments to me, perhaps because I just get on with it and the whole thing is no big deal.

The most frequent comment to me is actually addressed to my mother.
[Mum] Sage* is a vegetarian
[Them] Oh really.... does she eat fish.
[Mum] No (she's heard my reasoning)
[Them] some expression of suprise

*Well actually she has never addressed me as such, but you get the idea.

Such a conversation took place between my mother and one of her clients (she runs a beauty salon) and the client said her daughter in law was vegetarian but ate fish. Really had to hold my tongue then.

The other ones are...
'You don't know what you're missing.'
(Oh but I do, that's why I don't eat it)
and
'Oh I could never live without bacon/steak/whatever'
(I never [intetionally] challenge/question their diet, so why the justification [lame but honest])

 

I hear ya brother! I dont even say anything anymore unless someone asks or the topic somehow comes up. I cant help but chuckle though when someone tells me fish arent animals. That and my roomate today brought up the amazing fact that if animals werent meant for humans to control and eat then we wouldn't have drumsticks..........haha i guess i just cant argue with those facts. drumroll please

 

if you're feeling adventurous, i have a bottle of soy sauce

 

So wasn't there a thread on this before?
Can't remember if it was in the old forums...

Anyhooo ~ thought it would be fun .

What are your best come backs to questions.

"what do you eat" ~ COMEBACK - I like the pine needle comback mentioned in another thread!"

 

Have you seen Chicken Run? It's a British film and it's all about chickens trying to escape from the farm they're trapped on. It's a comedy but it does have a message.

 

I saw that in.... 1999(?) If I recall... I don't exactly remember. It may have been a bit later than that.

 

george i guess you aren't feeling adventurous...

 

Nah, i don't mean it like that. If i happen to bring it up and they ACTUALLY express interest, and actually start a conversation about it and bring up a question about my diet, i don't mind at all. It's when ignorant people are just like "What the hell, your a freak haha" and "I can understand not eating meat, but not eating diary is just unhealthy dude" and stuff like that, when they really don't know anything about a Vegan diet.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

I like to shut them up by feeding them homemade vegan cookies. Coconut-ginger trail mix cookies are particularly effective.