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I’m so fed up with all this vegan wankery

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TitaniaQueenOfTheFairies · 30/09/2019 20:48

To all you actual vegans, amazing, I wish you a long and happy life.

I am just so fed up with veganism taking over the world, when I have yet to come across an actual one. *edited to say that some places in the world don’t have a choice

Restaurants falling over themselves with vegan menus offering fake meat and plastic cheese.

Veganuary - people just going to the supermarket and buying fake meat, rather than actually trying to eat differently.

People eating ‘vegan food’. Just eat an apple, or a carrot with houmous or any other naturally occurring food that an animal hasn’t produced. It’s not hard.

And I can’t even begin with all the plant based twattery. Many people have been quietly eating less or no meat, fish, eggs & dairy for many years and have had no need to pontificate about it.

I know I am probably being unreasonable but I just need to say it.

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 30/09/2019 20:52

I'm with you on the fake 'meat'. What's the point of that? Why eat something that masquerades as something you won't/don't want to eat?

Chips and ketchup, that's vegan too.

I eat very little meat but eat a lot of fish. Not good for the fish. I don't talk about it, nobody cares.

I actually don't like any lifestyle that's proclaimed as the only one that is correct. Do what you like, find your 'tribe' if that's important to you, but leave the rest of us alone.

FreeSpiritJen · 30/09/2019 20:52

YANBU at all.

Genuine vegans are fine, and you rarely hear from them.

But I will be glad when this whole 'veganism' obsession is over.

I give it 5 years and it will be in the past, and most people (who started it in the 2010s) will be vegetarians or meat eaters again.

It's very hard to keep it up for life.

TheAlternativeTentacle · 30/09/2019 20:51

We may not have pontificated about it, but it really is bloody marvellous to know that, these days, there is a potential meal that I can eat if we go to a random pub for a meal.
For the first 30 years of not eating meat, it was literally pot luck.