Things meat eaters say and do

[veganblue]

Jobey - those were classic... the only trouble is some if not all were sincere.

It is rude to laugh at ignorance but is it okay to laugh when ignorance is self imposed?

[Korn]

One of comments that I find most amusing are 'You would need to eat *** bowls of spinach every day to get enough B12'. Another. less amusing one, is 'Each to their own', which obviously doesn't include taking the freedom of the ones they choose to eat into consideration.

[PinkFluffyCloud]

The latter REALLY makes me incredibly mad. :mad:

[Aurora]

Yes.........the times I have heard "Each to his own". :mad:

[Camyle26]

ahhhhh I heard SO MANY "Oh they are just showing you extreme its not like that. its just some activist trying to make it seem like its bad. but its not. that is an EXCEPTION" !!!!!!!! :mad:

Hmm...what else have I heard.... "Why do we have the teeth we do if not meant to eat meat?!" ... which is BS too....

"We were meant to eat meat."

"You NEED meat in your diet to be healthy."

"The animal is dead anyway. Some ones gonna eat it." :eek:

[Camyle26]

oh and this was the best, "they were born to be slaughtered."

[Camyle26]

...and "plants were once alive, too, you know?!"

[l337_v3g4n_1]

ah, the old classic plant one.
How many times have I heard that one....
From a kid at school:
"You know that when you grow up and have a child you can't make your kid vegan, cuz that's pushing your beliefs on him/her."
o_0

[feline01]

And the perfect response, "isn't forcing them to eat meat pushing your beliefs on him/her?"

[Hasha]

Exactly! Some of my worst childhood memories have to do with food, and most of those have to do with meat. :rolleyes:

[l337_v3g4n_1]

And the perfect response, "isn't forcing them to eat meat pushing your beliefs on him/her?"


t's what I said ;)

[Tigerlily]

I never liked meat as a kid but I still ate it. My mom always managed to put it in something. She'd say, "Just a little bit won't hurt you..."

Haha, glad I told her upfront about my veganism. She no longer does it except for the odd time when I refused to eat something she cooks (non-vegan thing) and she says she's so worried I'll end up in the hospital sick.

WTF?

[Imapeach]

Oh I do hate saying mean things about friends.... but.. well, I enojoyed this one :p :
I went camping with three typically omnivorous friends recently and we decided to do a 3km hike up and down some rather steep terrain. I, being the bunny i am, bounced and ran almost the whole way there and back, waiting at least 30 minutes for them to return behind me at the end. Now, I'm not superfit, but my energy has rather significantly increased since i found veganism. When we had finished they were half-dead, sore and complaining and were in pain for the next 2 days, sucking down medications and nursing their aches that were caused by the exercise. A few hours later they decided to argue with me about veganism and one of them dared say:

"But if we don't eat meat we'll die out as a race"

My response?

"Do I look like I'm dying to you? You're the ones in agony" They had NO comeback!

I felt bad about it straight away though and apologised. :o

[feline01]

Great story but you shouldn't have apologized. It was a perfect situation to expose the health differences between a vegan diet vs an omnivorous one.

[l337_v3g4n_1]

great comeback!But next time don't apologise, as feline said;)

[Gorilla]

i read something stoopid the other day (sorry if something similar has been mentioned before).

a local newspaper printed an article from a columnist who had tried to go veggie for a month, as part of Animal Aid's Go Veggie month. on the front cover it says 'Veggie Size Me' and he's shown with his mouth stuffed full of baby sweetcorn, like Morgan Spurlock does with fries on the cover of Super Size Me. he said being veggie was next to impossible for him, and that all veggie food is dull, and the only good thing about the diet was that he didn't overeat because he didn't like what he was eating.

then i noticed the letter from the editor on the contents page. he started his piece by saying he'd been a veggie for 20 years. but as i read on i saw further down that he said he eats fish about once a month. why? - because if he didn't eat fish occasionally, he would be too 'dogmatic', and he believes it's healthy to question your beliefs and not stick too closely to rules. :confused: not only that but he says he practically has to force himself to eat it, as he doesn't think fish even agrees with him and his body has trouble digesting the 'alien material'. :mad:

maybe that explains why the columnist said he 'didn't realise he wouldn't be able to eat fish' if he was being veggie, and moaned about supposedly not being able to get any omega 3. :rolleyes:

[Kiva Dancer]

It wasn't stupid, but I thought it was pretty funny.

My guy, trying to explain vegan food to his parents (he was telling them about a vegan bakery we once went to): "it's vegan, which means it's vegetarian which means there's nothing unhealthy in it." :D

I liked that comment so much, I put it as my signature.

[feline01]

My coworker thought the same thing, was telling everyone that they couldn't get a vegan cake for my baby shower because vegan cakes have no sugar in it, taste horrible because they're healthy. Gee, I guess that's how I keep my svelte physique :rolleyes:

[piecebypeace]

when i cut cheese out of my diet and began eating a very healthy vegan diet, a friend of mine said, 'you're not losing fat, you're losing bone mass. you need the calcium from dairy. you have to get off this diet you're on.'

i'm still pissed at her.

[Miel Miette]

Oh.... I could never be vegetarian. I hate brown rice!

[Shisha Fiend]

The whole 'you can't impose your beliefs on your children' this especially makes me laugh when it comes from religious people who plan to bring their children up with regular visits to church or mosque or whatever. Whenever I argue they just say 'Ohmigawd your poor (hypothetical) kids. I'm gonna feed them meat whenever they come round.'
Me: fine but I'll teach yours to say 'motherfucker'.

[gertvegan]

And the whole 'you can't impose your beliefs on your children' this especially makes me laugh when it comes from religious people who plan to bring their children up with regular visits to church or mosque or whatever. Whenever I argue they just say 'Ohmigawd your poor (hypothetical) kids. I'm gonna feed them meat whenever they come round.'
Me: fine but I'll teach yours to say 'motherfucker'.
Lol. Thanks Shisha Fiend. Have you been asked back to baby sit ?

[Shisha Fiend]

Yeah but only cos I do it for free.

Anyway I haven't taught them to say motherfucker.
Yet.

[l337_v3g4n_1]

LOL!

I got a boring one yesterday after we were learning about Hinduism and "how they respect all things, that's why most of them are vegetarian" (that was in the video we watched about it) Well, anyway, the kid goes: "I respect animals, but I don't think there is anything wrong wth eating them


idiot.

[DoveInGreyClothing]

Omnis, when I was vegetarian, argued the hypocrisy of drinking milk. A good pro-vegan argument if ever there was one, spurs me to go all the way. Now these selfsame people, when they discover I'm vegan say that it is a bit extreme... but they can kinda see the point in being vegetarian and just not eating meat
:confused: