He's always been into healthy eating and working out...it's part of his personality. Fine.
But...a friend of his (big into uncovering government plots and all that...lizard people you know)
Well this friend sent DH a copy of something called The China Study which is a big expose on our food chain etc.
All this happened BEFORE the horse meat thing.
DH is now vegan. He's constantly asking me to read the report...telling me things like "When meat protein mixes with milk protein that is what causes some cancers"
And the latest is that cheap peanut butter has mold in it...which causes cancer.
So we can only buy organic.
He won't eat any processed foods...we hardly have any anway! As a family we didn't eat a lot of meat...one roast chicken a week which we got 3 meals out of...and maybe a bit of bacon.
That was it...no red meat really as we're on a small budget.
I'm frigging SICK of hearing it all!
he's now on Skype with his paranoid mate and they're discussing the evils of that fake meat...what's it called...you know soy stuff.
I cooked a chicken yestersay which I ate with the DDs...he came in from work and asked me to cover the chicken up...I suspect because he was tempted.
AIBU to be bored and a bit annoyed?
AIBU?
To be bothered by DH's new "food militancy"??? He's turned vegan and gone a bit nuts really.
MrsMushroom · 24/02/2013 23:38
If he cooks for himself I wouldn't see that as a problem.
Being nagged about how you should go vegan, and cats-bum-mouth type behaviour like asking you to cover up meat, though, is maddening. I know vegans who pointedly and with an air of martyrdom open the window or leave the room if there's a hint of meat in there, and vegans who eat what they want, will share a room/dinner table with meat and meat-eaters and get on with it.
Guess which ones I find more irritating. 
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Tell him that he's actually fallen for a conspiracy theory double bluff.
That the reason he is looking and feeling all pale and pasty and unhealthy and [insert whatever you can here to make him wonder what you know, even if he claims he is feeling healthy] is because of the veganism.
This is because 'they' (the people creating the conspiracies) want to neutralise the effect of the people that notice the conspiracy theories and bring them to our attention, they want to minimise these people.
Veganism does this very well - it's a group that is already seen as being a little crackpot and unorthodox. Plus those eating a vegan diet can be pretty unhealthy and feel pretty rubbish so it reduces the chance of them being able to actively promote or draw attention to their theories.
OK so I know that being vegan is not necessarily unhealthy, but there are also plenty of reports around to show that pretty much anything is unhealthy. And that it is also healthy (chocolate, red wine spring to mind 
) . But being drawn into believing conspiracy theories is not good - especially as others have said when it comes above your own family. So fight fire with fire and just be very dismissive of him falling for the beginner's conspiracy theory and not seeing the bigger one behind it, and maybe it will start to get him questioning beyond the basic box he is in at the moment.
Oh and leave the chicken out too!
(If he'd gone veggie or vegan for a good reason then I would support my dh quite happily, even if it was a pain. but this sounds like it is something completely different and that if the report had told him to sleep with his feet on his pillow and cavort naked in front of the full moon after eating a large steak he'd have done that too, it's not the vegan-ism per se that's the problem, which is why I would feel, like you, significantly less than sympathetic!)
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