Vegans

I had no idea about the horror of the dairy industry a few years ago and I am happy now to be more informed and I can make more informed choices. We should all be educated about the meat and dairy industry.

but you cracked on eating meat and dairy?

Same people wittering on about school gate cliques, narcissists and NC with 90% of the people they seem to know

You should introduce the people in your life to some of the posters on here who are apparently surrounded by people who won't stop wittering on about how they don’t eat meat or dairy and how they feed their DC a vegan diet.

Me too.

I do enjoy chicken though!

I just can’t get my head around how this issue seems to be so dominant in people’s lives on this thread. In RL, no one seems to give even one shiny shit either way

It’s like the old joke - how do you know if someone is a vegan? They’ll tell you

Same here.

Of course it doesn’t. I am not a vegan, but eat a mostly plant based diet. I believe even small changes people make can make a difference.

Of course it doesn’t. I am not a vegan, but eat a mostly plant based diet. I believe even small changes people make can make a difference.

But that education falls flat presumably? Given you’re not a vegan

I am not a vegan, but I witness how people
react to vegans and often in quite aggressive ways.

A lot of people just react very emotionally to people being vegans and see it as a personal criticism against their own meat eating. Personally I am happy to listen and get educated. I had no idea about the horror of the dairy industry a few years ago and I am happy now to be more informed and I can make more informed choices. We should all be educated about the meat and dairy industry.

Omg I literally said it’s a joke. You’re not doing a very good job of dispelling the myth that vegans are uptight.

As yes, as @ShetlandishMum said, some do. I had a work colleague like it. Any opportunity wittering on about how she doesn’t eat meat or dairy and how they’re bringing their daughter up vegan

Do they? Completely out of context start lecturing you about veganism? No they don’t unless you know some very strange people.

Do they? Completely out of context start lecturing you about veganism? No they don’t unless you know some very strange people.

It’s like the old joke - how do you know if someone is a vegan? They’ll tell you

If they wanted to share the reality and be listened to they would do it in a different way. The way they go about it shows they are fuelling their own egos

I expect they’re sharing the reality of meat and daily farms to stand up for animal rights, not to fuel their own egos 🙄

People can make decisions without all of the facts.

We do it all the time.

Theres a wealth of information easily accessible to everyone 24/7 so if someone is choosing not to get that information first, that's their right. It's not up to some random on the street to be issuing leaflets about rape and murder in order to fuel their own ego.

Vegans have taken the time and trouble to find out what is done to living creatures before they end up on your plate. You're free to stay ignorant, but far from "meh" vegans have a conscience and live by that. They're admirable.

I find them a bit meh. I'm happy for them to do their own thing if they leave me alone. I think this is overstepping. Do vegans not have pets? After all, keeping pets is just forcing animals to live and be controlled by humans.

BBC News - Darlington birds of prey event cancelled after vegan groups' concern - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6214l61604o?app-referrer=deep-link

I raised my children as vegetarians. Both still vegetarian. One vegan.

'A complete non-comparison. Smoking is unilaterally bad for you. I know some vegans like to claim that meat is bad for you too but it just isn’t the case '

It is bad for the animals though, suffering horrible deaths and people should see that suffering before they eat their burgers and pies. If they don't care, well that says mores about them but a lot of people have a total disconnect between the cute lambs and cows in the fields and how their body parts ends up on their plates.

No one is saying that - it was just an example of when vegans have been far less of a bore

You really don’t want to elaborate on your own situation do you @Gloriia . Like whether you raised your own kids vegetarians , whether you made your disgust on meat eaters apparent to them, and whether they are still vegetarian.

So I’d be confident the answer is
Yes you raised them vegetarian
yes you made you disgust for meat eaters abundantly clear to your children

and no… they are not vegetarians as adults!

Just to be clear @BakedPotatoBeansCheeseColeslaw if someone can't take the time to get my drink right - black would do if you don't have plant milk - I've got to consume a drink I don't like which is going to give me an upset stomach and make me fart?
People take you take the full-of-palm-oil biscuit 😡