People trying to make you vegan

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I read my city is apparently where the most Vegan people live, recently.
And it has been Veganuary as well.

Getting a bit fed up of people pressuring me to be Vegan too though. Fair enough the posters and choice of foods on shelves etc, but just last week SIL gave me a Vegan cook book and went on about how I should try being Vegan as it has helped her etc (but I worry as she has an eating disorder it might trigger that)

Even in Lush today was simply buying my Ultrabland cream, and got this pushy Vegan sales girl telling me 'if I want a vegan one' to try this other one as it doesn't have honey in it. Argh, now they try to make you feel guilty about using honey!

At least it may settle down now I suppose after the Veganuary thing.

Is it just me or have others been bothered by this too?

Not sure how to explain. I make a conscious moral choice not to go a day without eating mammal or bird, but I would not push my views on others.

I eat meat but this makes literally no sense. It's not a moral choice unless you have a rational reason why it's morally better for meat to be consumed every day and I doubt you could find one.

I eat meat but this makes literally no sense. It's not a moral choice unless you have a rational reason why it's morally better for meat to be consumed every day and I doubt you could find one.

The only one I can think of is that maybe the poster is trying to support the farming community?

I'm having to distance myself from a mate who went evangelical vegan. It's sad but her life revolves around her diet and it bores me to tears.

Not sure how to explain. I make a conscious moral choice not to go a day without eating mammal or bird, but I would not push my views on others. This is quite possibly one of the oddest things I've read on here. How is this a moral choice, who benefits from this apart from you?!

OP - no one is forcing you to go vegan, eat what you want.

99% of vegans were once meat eaters. Now they know what goes on and how the animals are exploited just for meat/dairy etc and the environmental impact it has they don’t go back to contributing to it. Most were once one of those ‘I couldn’t live without cheese!’ Or ‘mmm bacon tho’ (🙄) people. They were them because they didn’t know the severity of what happens to get that meat on your plate, now they can offer information that you won’t seek out yourself to see why contributing to that industry is so horrendous - a matter of ‘the less I know the better’ or as the saying is, ignorance is bliss. Cutting out meat and dairy only benefits you and the environment... you don’t have to cut it out completely just cut down and you’ll notice a difference. So I don’t think people try to force it upon you, rather than give information they know has helped them for the better

@notagoodname 100% agree with you

It is actually worse the other way around.
My granddaughter has been vegetarian for a year now and she and my daughter went Vegan for January and both Hagee decided now to follow a mainly vegan diet. They aren't bothered by what other people choose to eat. It's a personal choice for them.
Their friends have laughed at them, called than crackpots, tried tempting them with bacon sandwiches or meaty snacks, asked them what they are trying to prove?!

Both Vegans and meat eaters should mind their own business.