Anyone can be arrogant. However, there are those vegetarians and vegans that do walk around with an “attitude”, and can be quite obnoxious when speaking to those that aren’t. Although I’m vegetarian, and make sure a large proportion of my meals are vegan, I have been on the other end of these obnoxious people, and it gets my back up. They aren’t willing to hear anyone else’s “side”, nor acknowledge anyone else’s opinion. Imagine how well that works out when speaking to meat eaters. How many will listen to them once they get an earful of attitude. But like I said at the beginning of this post, anyone can be arrogant.
Agreed about the faulty logic. And, whilst eating primarily vegan meals and snax, I’m not a vegan, I agree.
It’s akin to people thinking vegetarians eat fish and chicken. Ive given up telling folks that a ‘real’ vegetarian doesn’t eat flesh.
Alas, I do have a hard time being totally vegan all the time.
But, I’m not gonna beat myself up over it. And I will enjoy that football icecream cake that friends and I will enjoy in a couple weeks! Though we could care less about football.
In a perfect world, I’d be happy to be vegan all the time. I enjoy the soy icecream ive had. But many niche market products cost the earth and my being on an income of less than 10,000 usd yearly, those items are a luxury. (I also love the meat analogues I eat, such as tofu pups, etc.)
Would that all food would be sourced from plants, I’d be happy.
Yeah, freegan-ing is good. Ive had many a great food find! One time, years ago, at a regional fair, some one threw out a platter of tempura. I recede it from atop the pile of food in a trash can. Saved myself a lot of $$, as those can be pricy!
I meant ‘rescued’, not receded. My iPad will intuit what it thinks I want to write, and if I’m not careful, I miss mistakes. I can’t correct the bottom paragraph as I can’t scroll down that far.
Oh, yes, and I also wish death to any critter such as mice that get into my apt. ( I hadn’t had any in many years, but recently had seen one in my livingroom. suffice it to say, i dont go in there anymore and kind friends moved my love seat and tv table into my bedroom. Ive stuffed under the livingroom door, which ive closed and locked, with rags).I hate and fear them greatly! They reproduce big time, too. So, I have no ‘soft’ feelings for these horrid things. They cause much damage and have been known to carry disease. Also, the knots they leave everywhere is so unhealthy. I’d read a ton of comments on a blog about mouse infestations and one college kid reported that a mouse got into his bed and bit him. How chilling!!! He had to get a tetanus shot and a course of antibiotics. Mice can also cause fires, too, as they’ll nibble electric wiring inside walls.
Well put! People who behave like this I call ‘vegan facists’!
geeze. that’s plain vanilla subservient speciesist rhetoric and obtuse doublethink. it is never all-right to kill an innocent non-human animal.
^ eh? Talk about rhetoric: your response was chock full of the same. All that sloganeering gets old and screams ‘lunatic fringe’ to boot. Man, you come off as a major whack job. Speaking like that to people will hardly convince them to become vegan.
To your point about 'speciesism: yes, it does make me a hypocrite to be sure, but most of us are thus from time to time. I’m sorry if I don’t want my apt overrun with mice. You’re welcome to them. Feel free to come and capture them, honey, and take them home.
I dunno, I think she makes abundant sence, really. I think it’s a great term for a person who eats a primarily vegan diet, but who does make some exceptions. We all do what we can. Some people can go ‘whole hog’ ( pun not intended, lol!!) and others perhaps are '80%-ers, like myself. Making any effort at all helps. Sure beats eating the whole hog( pun INTENDED).
and snog you come off as a “sour grapesian” bootlick, it doesn’t surprise me you are only able to mount an incredibly shallow and insensible ad hominem strawmen attack to make your rather naive point. i can has some realworld critical thinking skillz, your DUMBYist “canned” rhetoric is truly an eyesore. as far as convincing people to go vegan, i’ll take my chances with the truth.
who let the dog out who who
A tomato grown in a hothouse has half the vitamin C content as a vine-ripened tomato.
I don’t want to eat animals, because they have feelings.
Why don’t you post something like" Killing vegetable for our sake? they do breath, we can’t hear them or see then breathing doesn’t mean they are not alive.