Vegans!!

[littlemissgrumpi]

I have a friend I've known for years and years. She's great, but the following is recently seriously getting on my nerves:

Myself and DH are regular half marathoners / love exercise / athletic builds / no health conditions / omnivores. We eat lots of veg, chicken and fish about twice a week, red meat about once a fortnight. Cow's milk in coffee and tea everyday. Pretty average. Said friend has always struggled with being overweight, not helped by the birth of her DD2 and is currently quite overweight and doesn't like to exercise. No judgement, each to their own. She's recently become vegan and is obsessed with telling me how worried she is for my health because I drink milk and eat red meat. It's almost laughable because I'm the fittest I've ever been & felt! I don't comment on her choice of vegan cakes etc so I really feel this is unreasonable.

The other day on a walk, she was huffing and puffing walking up the hill whilst telling me how unhealthy it is to be drinking cows milk and I really shouldn't have the beef burger for lunch. AIBU to think it's ridiculous??

She is right in that cows milk and red meat are not good for you, but... as a fat, alcoholic vegan myself, I would not lecture someone else on their food choices.

[quote FireMeetGasoline]@DdraigGoch do tell me how often you use those eyes mounted on your face to hunt for your prey. It's possible that you do, and if that is the case, then good for you, but could you please enlighten me how often the general public use them to hunt their prey.[/quote]
Just because I don't use my depth perception to hunt as my ancestors once would, that doesn't detract from the fact that it evolved for that purpose. Trying to claim that humans aren't natural omnivores is batshit.

@Suzi888

Oooh another vegan bashing post

Here’s a novel concept, which you may not have come across. You’ll need to be quite adult to successfully execute it though. Neither of you engage in conversation about what the other sticks in their mouth. Voila.

Thank you for giving the heads up about the existence of vegan cake though, I’ve lost so much weight since going vegan- I was starting to worry.

@Suzi888 The OP (as far as we are aware) has been perfectly "adult" in her behaviour. She isn't the one constantly sniping to her friend about what her friend eats, so why are you trying to imply that there are faults on both sides?