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Post by Tiggerwoos on Apr 27, 2006 10:38:29 GMT
We've all heard them and either laughed at them or got annoyed by them, but lets hear them all. Am sure we can come up with a list as long as erm......erm....... well very long anyway.
I'll begin:
You're vegan, eh? So what do you eat, vegetables?
Who's next?
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Post by chenli on Apr 27, 2006 14:49:02 GMT
I've had the "do you just eat salad everytime?" one said to me...when I was ordering chips...¬_¬
"I could never give up meat/eggs/cheese/etc."
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Post by fezzarooooo on Apr 27, 2006 17:48:18 GMT
I'm very lucky, none of my omni friends have said anything annoying to me so far, uninformed comments maybe but nothing I'd get upset about... I suppose I don't mix with enough people for there to be much of a chance.
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Post by tabitha on Apr 28, 2006 20:46:06 GMT
Same here. Its just the usual "so what exactly do you eat". Then they say "Ah but you wear leather!" (I dont). "Whats wrong with cakes then". etc. "Why cant you drink milk, the cows havent been killed". I like telling them that theres legally allowed to be l per cent pus in milk and theres probably a lot more, along with anti biotics and other crap. I particularly like showing them the picture of the guy in the suit underneath the cow drinking milk from the cows udders. That shuts the buggers up.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on Apr 29, 2006 10:34:14 GMT
I get loads of grief at work, but then again I'm one of the only females working in a male dominated environment working with the sort of people that their lifestyle involves....... big mac and coke, 20 B and H and 10 pints of lager for their eveining meal! Plus the fact I'm half their size, half their age and their boss probably doesn't help.
Ever had the one "what about the poor carrots?!"
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Post by Gliondrach on Apr 29, 2006 10:43:29 GMT
No one talks to me so I don't get any comments.
But, years ago, I was delayed from turning vegan by a work colleague. I was a milkatarian at the time. We went to the canteen and I must have said something about giving up milk. Because the calfs are taken away from their mothers, etc. This chap said that he used to work on a farm and that the calfs are given milk substitute. This, as I said, delayed me turning vegan. I think he also said that the milk is just a by product that would be thrown away if we didn't drink it. And that the calfs were bred for meat so the mothers' milk would go to waste. It was a long time ago and I was only aged about 65 at the time.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on Apr 29, 2006 10:46:53 GMT
No one talks to me so I don't get any comments. . Yes, they do........ we all talk to you........ we're all mad here, but we're all friends!
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Post by tabitha on Apr 29, 2006 12:29:43 GMT
I imagine Martin to have a very straight face when hes talking....Im thinking Jack Dee. Big hugs to you Martin. You sound absolutely gorgeous, inside and out.
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Post by fezzarooooo on Apr 29, 2006 22:18:07 GMT
True tabs, maybe a lil touch of Eddie Izzard too.
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Post by tabitha on Apr 30, 2006 9:05:41 GMT
Have you got "Glorious" on dvd? If not - get it! - Eddie Izzard will just make you cry with laughter when hes talking about the Grim Reaper.
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Post by Gliondrach on Apr 30, 2006 12:24:34 GMT
Thanks, Tabbs. I am gorgeous.
Eddie Izzard!!! I don't wear makeup. Well, perhaps a bit of rouge, but that is only to give me a bit of colour.
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Post by Wabbit on May 13, 2006 18:37:40 GMT
Oh I'v had many of these comments too ; others included "but your food must be very DULL tasting" as if eating dead animals had any taste to it... grrrrrr.... or " your food must be very boring, not many choices"... the "why not milk" is a common one... even had "why don't you wear these shoes, you don't eat them ?! " (speaking about shoes I had been offered years ago & didn't know were leather ; once I found out, stoped wearing them). "I never could give up... " " I'd find it too hard to go veg coz ... (one or all " too old to change" / " Can't imagine my life without..." " oh but that's how GOD created the world/ animals / humans to eat the animals, it's WRITEN in the BIBLE/ CORAN/ ...." etc etc... "it's NATURAL/ human's have been eaten animals FOREVER, must be ok" "humans are SUPERIOR to animals - says so int he BIBLE, they don't have souls, they don't suffer, GOD said it was ok"... got many others... will think & come back after dinner...
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caprita
Vegan Munchkin
Green and Grey
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Post by caprita on May 14, 2006 17:16:55 GMT
Replies from my meat-loving deskmate, when I told her of my decision: "Sophia, do you realize you're gonna die because of this?" [Die? Yes. Because of going vegan? No.] "I hate vegetables, and I hate soy products too. I could never go vegan. There would be nothing for me to eat."
A friend: "You should go vegan after the exam. Right now you need meat to sustain yourself." (the exam is in like 6 weeks) Dad: "I assume you want to go vegan to gain more energy for the exam, right? And then you'll quit, right?"
[What connection is there to the exam anyway?]
Mom: "But don't plants feel pain too?"
Grandma: "This diet won't do you any good. You'll lose your memory." [I'm really not dieting =p]
Grandpa supports me. And so does my cat.
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aliswonderland
Vegan Munchkin
conquering Finland, one moomin at a time
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Post by aliswonderland on May 23, 2006 16:49:37 GMT
I had a bit of a flap yesterday- somehow a conversation got onto veg*nism, and an 'acquaintance' (i.e. a friend of one of my best mates, who i cannot stanndddd) put in his two centimes :
'oh, come on, vegetarians are basically just fussy eaters, and vegans are just vegetarians with an eating disorder ' (my hand was very nearly lunging at his face at this point) 'i like all meat, myself, but i don't eat chicken wings- they remind me too much of the chicken' ......friggin hypocrite
I'm trying to make my 'rents think more about whaqt they eat (starting with meat)- give the meat names and whatch them squirm as they put 'daisy' or 'freda' into the oven, i say
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Post by bunny on May 23, 2006 19:04:01 GMT
"oooooh you're one of those weird vegans.. you don't look pale..."
The thing I absolutely hate the most is when they ask why you don't eat animal products, so you start to tell them and then you get
"oh no! Don't tell me! I'd never eat meat again!"
Grrrr! MY POINT EXACTLY!!!
*smile and nod, smile and nod*
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Post by Wabbit on May 25, 2006 22:18:27 GMT
all that is so frustrating... like the other day when my coworker saw i was being delicate with the door, he said "you should eat some meat, you'll have the strength to close it" yea right... i'm just being araid i'd break it so i go easy, sometimes, too softly & it won't close.
he can't think of going veg, ever... well i did understand why.. his wife's dad was a butcher.. yacka yacka
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Post by squirrel on Jun 28, 2006 11:19:09 GMT
I had the bizarre experience yesterday of getting into an arguement about milk with a vegetarian (a hare krishna devotee). He was coming out with utter tripe about cows and milk and I wasn't going to let that pass. He finally shut up when I said that if we were meant to consume milk we'd still be suckling from our mothers and not from another species! ;D
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Post by bobbywomble on Jun 28, 2006 11:28:13 GMT
there a menace have these people never heard of soya??? the womble is dissapointed
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