Hypocrites!

[vagan]

Over Xmas we had a lot of visitors. We always try and accommodate dietary requirements and I have no issues with anyones personal preference for any reason.

I do however have a problem with spending hours cooking a 'vegan' meal only for the 'vegans' to eat the grated cheese I had put on the side for DS (not a fan of vegan lasagne), or the 'vegetarians' to ask if we minded them opening the smoked salmon I was saving for NYE. Another vegetarian child (parents ate meat) refused his veggie meal and asked for shoulder of lamb. He 'eats the better cuts of meat' apparently.

FFS!!!!

Why is there so much strange posturing around dietary choices?

Be a pescatarian, say you are eating less meat, say you avoid dairy but please don't say you are vegan and eat eggs, cheese, butter and milk in a 15 hour stay. I challenged the annoying vegan man who made a huge fuss before arrival and tucked into everything the second he's unpacked and his reply was 'I am about 80% vegan - said with indignant outrage! DD nearly fell off her chair. We don't eat meat in the week and would never call ourselves vegetarians. What rubbish!

Glad I got that off my chest

Opps - got carried away and forgot my AIBU!

I suggested to the second and third set of guests that they used the phrase "eating less meat and dairy" rather than vegan and veggie that I think are insulting to genuine veggies/vegans and FUCKING HYPOCRITICAL!

AIBU?

Certainly hypocrites, but also massively rude for putting you to the trouble of preparing special food for them.

What did you say to the smoked salmon "vegetarians"?

Good for you for challenging the man. Should you have them back again, I'd make it plain that no special diets will be catered for.

Yanbu

In the slightest

I said "Salmon is a fish, an animal" and did a Paddington Bear hard stare. She laughed and said she was 'trying to eat less meat'
Well FUCKING say that you massive dick.
Dear reader, she ate the salmon.

yanbu, that's so rude, selfish and hypocritical. It put you to a huge amount of extra trouble, which is really not on!

It also makes life harder for real veggies. I've been told things like 'it's just a bit of ham, you can pick it out', or 'yeah but you eat fish right?' a few times - and no bloody wonder.

exactly - hypocritical and insulting to real veggies - I agree

Also, I am an organic sheep farmer and we only eat sustainable meat which we have reared ourselves or swapped with others in our community (we swapped lamb for turkey for xmas for example).The smoked salmon was the only unsustainable meat we have bought in 6 months! Fucking annoying.

Why don't fish - fabulous sentient creatures - get treated as animals? I find it so odd some will eat a wild animal and not an animal specifically bred and raised by farmers for their consumption.

The male lambs I produce have no future. In the wild they would kill each other for mating access. Instead I 'prey' on them and sell the 'winners' as rams and the losers are eaten. Its harsh and makes us sad but we can live with it, the duality of our lives where we love them and cared for them but also make the choice of who lives and dies. I accept it. Why pretend to be something you are not? Who are you fooling? Yourself?