Vegetarian at work buys chicken pasta but picks the chicken out??

[rhysella]

She claims she's a vegetarian for moral reasons but still BUYS the chicken pasta at work, but picks it out. I've suggested to her that she's still funding the animals death and that if she likes the chicken, she may as well have eaten that.. probably fairer to the chicken that died. She looked disgusted at me and apparently I don't understand vegetarianism and that she physically can't bring her self to eat "the poor animal that should never have been food". I fully understand why vegetarians have that view, I do. However, surely you don't then BUY chicken??

I know this is is pointless

I agree with EK. Throwing it in the bin is worse than just eating the meat.

I eat meat now, but have been a veggie and vegan on and off since I was a child. So I’m definitely not anti veggie or anything! Quite the contrary. But it really irks me when people want the label veggie / vegan and then make choices like this. There was a thread on here recently where a vegan woman said she thought she wouldn’t be able to breastfeed her baby, because she was vegan . It was just mind blowingly ignorant. Apparently not a hoax either.

Very silly. What happens when she encounters a bit she missed?

"god poor thing"
sounds like she's a 'performance' veggie - she wants you to tell her how marvellous she is. How much you admire her principles. How compassionate she is.

There was a thread on here recently where a vegan woman said she thought she wouldn’t be able to breastfeed her baby, because she was vegan

To clarify; she thought she couldn’t feed her baby her human milk on ethical grounds, because it wouldn’t be vegan.

Reminds me of Alison Steadman in Gavin and Stacey

Shipman, isn’t it? Coz the families all have the same names as notorious serial killers?

On the original question: She’s a fuckwit and chucking away meat is worse than eating it from a moral standpoint.

Most people respect genuine moral or religious principles, provided they are not preached at.

Many omnivores would be irritated by the hypocrisy and implied judgement of those who do eat chicken, i.e. referring to "the poor thing"

She's either incredibly thick and hypocritical .... or she's disguising an eating disorder via fake vegetarianism

Ignore her attention grabbing behavior. No real vegetarian will do that to food. At the end of the day food is food irregardless.

That's ridiculous.

I only saw the first half of your post title, and was all ready to suggest that maybe she was trying her best, and being 'almost' vegetarian was better than not doing anything at all.... but that is bonkers!
I'm a far from perfect veggie, and I do not preach or push my view onto anyone, but that chicken that she's wasting will be the cheapest, lowest grade meat available to the manufacturer. Agree with a PP - it does sound like attention seeking behaviour.

This is 'performance vegetarianism', which isn't vegetarianism at all.

I haven't eaten meat for a lot of years now, but a friend at work hadn't realised until very recently, when I (politely) declined some Iberico ham they had brought back from hols and was sharing around the office, because I just eat what I eat and don't what I don't and don't talk about it.

Your colleague, on the other hand, is a Class A raging attention-seeker.

It is the worst thing she can do. She's contributing to the meat industry but then deliberately wasting the food. It's not just about the chicken's life (although for me that's a big part of it). It's about the cost of producing the chicken, killing it, transporting it, cooking it. And then binning it? Ecologically, it's dreadful.

I'm quasi-vegetarian. I haven't eaten meat other than fish for over 30 years. I've recently cut down on both fish and dairy and will choose vegan options when available. I have in the past, when options are very limited. bought something with meat in and picked the meat out but I've always made damn sure that the meat gets eaten by someone, I'd never bin it.

You can't argue with batshit unfortunately. It might be worth just pointing out it's wasteful, but I wouldn't spend too much time on it.

It's far worse buying meat and then not eating it. Attention seeker.

I would ignore her.

This doesn't really impact on you OP.

what a knob!

Daft bint!

I'm a lifelong vegetarian and there's no way I'd go near a 'chicken pasta'. It's part of the dish and will have touched everything else she's eating

Tell her she's the one who doesn't understand vegetarianism - not you!

I think that's almost worse! The chicken died for nothing!

🤮 as a veggie, I won't touch anything that's been prepared or served on the same plate/surface or with the same utensils. And people have to wash their hands between touching meat/fish things and preparing mine. Which is why I don't eat at anyone's house! But I'm very particular about food hygiene and cross contamination.

I've been a vegetarian since 1974 and I would never buy food with meat in it. I won't allow it in my pot and pans etc at home.

I have known so-called Vegetarians who eat meat though. One woman was bragging at the table she was a veggie and then ordered a crab salad. Another lady asked her if crabs were vegetables, lol. Another woman I know picks the meat off pizzas.

But if she just sat and ate a vegetarian meal nobody would know that she’s morally superior because she doesn’t eat meat!

I’m not having a go at real vegetarians, just idiots like this woman who care more about getting attention than about their supposed principles

But if she just sat and ate a vegetarian meal nobody would know that she’s morally superior because she doesn’t eat meat

They might do. I'm not vegetarian, but I often choose vegetarian options when eating out because I like the food, or I don't like big slabs of meat and quite often people say things like 'oh I didn't know you were vegetarian' because obviously people only eat meals without meat in because they're vegetarian, never by choice .

It confuses them even more if we're together for multiple meals eg an evening meal in the pub followed by breakfast the next day and I have something vegetarian in the evening and bacon and black pudding for breakfast because apparently it's not possible to enjoy both spinach and ricotta canneloni and something as obviously animal as black pudding.

Is she perhaps incredibly dim and doesn't understand basic supply and demand and that shops, broadly speaking, only buy and stock what they will sell? Does she think if she doesn't buy it it will get thrown away anyway? I'd be tempted to be rude and reply that you understand vegetarianism perfectly but she doesn't understand sanity.

She's a bell end. An attention seeking bell end.

AuntBeastie

Either you care about animals dying or you don't

Love this.

If her reasons are related to the ethics of meat, they she's completely confused about her mission.

If it were related to health reasons, and let's say it was a fatty/unhealthy meat, she'd be merely an attention seeker. As it stands, she's at once contributed to the demand of meat and capriciously wasted said meat, which is pretty unconscionable.

Sounds like sil. “I’m vegetarian, but I eat bacon” 🙄

Also turkey every Christmas & both beef and duck at my wedding.

Fuckwit sums them both up.