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Vegans

343 replies

Theyreeatingthedogs · 11/07/2026 12:55

I find them a bit meh. I'm happy for them to do their own thing if they leave me alone. I think this is overstepping. Do vegans not have pets? After all, keeping pets is just forcing animals to live and be controlled by humans.

BBC News - Darlington birds of prey event cancelled after vegan groups' concern - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6214l61604o?app-referrer=deep-link

A bird handler is holding a hawk on his gloved hand. A blurred crowd is stood behind him. The hawk has food clasped in its beak.

Darlington birds of prey event cancelled after vegan groups' concern

Hopetown Darlington stops the event, which had been planned for 31 July.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6214l61604o?app-referrer=deep-link

OP posts:
SqueakyFromme · 11/07/2026 20:06

@Werhere i have found the same too, in ‘real life’ it’s just on here there are always high emotions and drama on Vegan threads, with non vegans being insulting and disparaging though usually

marantz · 11/07/2026 20:08

NoCommentingFromNowOn · 11/07/2026 17:38

There is a vegan board isn’t there?

I mean if there is maybe people should use it. MN has so many boring tropes about ‘ranting’ vegans.

WhenYouAreReady · 11/07/2026 20:12

marantz · 11/07/2026 20:08

I mean if there is maybe people should use it. MN has so many boring tropes about ‘ranting’ vegans.

Goady anti vegan people have even post on there with their anti vegan stance, piss taking emojis, telling us we look old and ill, writing ‘what about bacon sandwiches’ etc. Pathetic really.

SqueakyFromme · 11/07/2026 20:15

@WhenYouAreReady oh yes ‘mmmm bacon’ as desperately old and unamusing as the ‘burn the house down’ on a spider thread.

Pollyanna87 · 11/07/2026 20:23

I’ve never, ever once encountered one of these supposed preachy vegans in real life. People love moaning about them, though.

Wynter25 · 11/07/2026 20:54

WhenYouAreReady · 11/07/2026 19:23

It definitely wasn’t nothing.

I am vegan and was on a lot of vegan threads that she was vile on. I remember it well as I’m sure many others do @Midnighttilmorning. A friend of mine actually deactivated her account due to that poster.

Alright then 🙄 i call bs

WhenYouAreReady · 11/07/2026 21:06

Wynter25 · 11/07/2026 20:54

Alright then 🙄 i call bs

Being as you have said you didn’t do anything wrong yet you were banned, you’re the one full of BS.

Your posts make it very obvious each time you come back with another account or username. You are a pbp with yet another account. One of the threads was very dramatic with loads of your posts deleted because they were horrible, before they finally banned you. People don’t forget stuff like that.

HobgoblinNorFoulFiend · 11/07/2026 21:06

Gloriia · 11/07/2026 15:30

We should all strive to be vegan or veggie. Eating animals is not ok. I don't preach but I do judge those shoving pork pies or bacon butties in their faces.

Concern with the welfare of birds being used for entertainment is not the same as having a rescue pet.

I don’t agree. But I give not a single fuck for your judgment

HoppityBun · 11/07/2026 21:14

morselover69 · 11/07/2026 12:57

classic, i have yet to meet a reasonable vegan

Hi x

FunnyOrca · 11/07/2026 21:22

Kokonimater · 11/07/2026 13:09

I have family members who are plant based. They don’t talk about it or act remotely superior. It’s a private thing that matters to them. They care deeply about how animals are farmed. And live their life with as much integrity to their beliefs as possible. They did have a rescue cat that was found frozen in snow as a kitten and had life long breathing problems. They went without themselves to pay for vet bills. The cat lived for 15 years on special diet and an inhaler. Don’t judge. Many vegans are quiet and private about it.
they are good people. I wish I could be so disciplined.

Yup, not all vegans are loud. You will always hear about the most extreme, as with every group.

I also think when it comes to pets, vegans with carnivore pets most really care to be able to feed them meat.

Gloriia · 11/07/2026 21:32

HobgoblinNorFoulFiend · 11/07/2026 21:06

I don’t agree. But I give not a single fuck for your judgment

Good for you. Why don't you care that animals suffer horrifically and are slaughtered so you can eat pies and burgers though? Don't you agree a better diet and ending animals suffering are good things?

Werhere · 11/07/2026 21:43

Gloriia · 11/07/2026 21:32

Good for you. Why don't you care that animals suffer horrifically and are slaughtered so you can eat pies and burgers though? Don't you agree a better diet and ending animals suffering are good things?

Did you raise your kids as vegetarian
or vegan @Gloriia and, if you did, do they remain as such as adults? Did you voice this opinion on those that do eat meat to them?l

and you mention burgers and pies etc
what about chicken salads - same disgust?

JustForAMomentLetsBeStill · 11/07/2026 21:49

Animal rights group writes a letter to express concern for animal welfare. The business they wrote to has taken the concerns on board and cancelled the event. All perfectly reasonable.

Your OP doesn’t seem relevant to the article really, but I suppose it was just to get people moaning about vegans.

Wynter25 · 11/07/2026 21:55

WhenYouAreReady · 11/07/2026 21:06

Being as you have said you didn’t do anything wrong yet you were banned, you’re the one full of BS.

Your posts make it very obvious each time you come back with another account or username. You are a pbp with yet another account. One of the threads was very dramatic with loads of your posts deleted because they were horrible, before they finally banned you. People don’t forget stuff like that.

I wasnt horrible at all. People were dicks to me.

JustForAMomentLetsBeStill · 11/07/2026 22:01

Wynter25 · 11/07/2026 21:55

I wasnt horrible at all. People were dicks to me.

Another vegan who remembers you. Your attitude towards vegans and some other women about their babies was appalling. A lot of your goady posts are still there to read for anyone that knows your past usernames, although a lot was deleted.

I’d give it up now because if you are reported, you’ll be banned again. You’ve admitted you’ve been banned before and they get rid of reported pbp. Your choice I suppose.

Werhere · 11/07/2026 22:02

Wynter25 · 11/07/2026 21:55

I wasnt horrible at all. People were dicks to me.

You were banned

Were they?

tygertygers · 11/07/2026 22:05

Do you know who is more insufferable than vegans? People who go on about vegans. And I say this as a carnivore. Get over it.

JustForAMomentLetsBeStill · 11/07/2026 22:16

I have been vegan for a long time and I’ve never meat a preachy vegan. I have come across lots of shitty meat eaters who make animal noises at meals, question me when I order a vegan meal, make a point of telling me how tender the lamb they’re eating is, tell me I’ll be ill and unhealthy, ask me if I think I’m better than them, try their ‘gotchas’ of what about the bees, avocado, almonds and water usage etc. I’m not interested in discussing veganism with people like that, I haven’t pushed anything on them, but they feel they can say what they like. When I have answered back, I’m preachy.

There are lots of threads on mumsnet where meat eaters have been the ones being preachy and behaving like arseholes.

JustForAMomentLetsBeStill · 11/07/2026 22:23

met not meat….ironic typo. 😂

Werhere · Yesterday 06:10

tygertygers · 11/07/2026 22:05

Do you know who is more insufferable than vegans? People who go on about vegans. And I say this as a carnivore. Get over it.

You only eat meat @tygertygers ?

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · Yesterday 06:13

AlgaeDreams · 11/07/2026 13:05

I couldn't care less, I'm yet to meet a vegan who announces it.

Surely the protest was about animal/bird welfare and they happen to be vegan.

I was vegetarian early 90s for over 15 years. My food was naturally vegan because there was no Quorn or meat substitutes.

I don't recall annoying anbody, but I think if I came across you, that you'd annoy me regardless of views.

Edited

I am surprised you say being vegetarian made you naturally vegan as lots of vegetarian food contains eggs, cheese and other dairy products.

WonderingWanda · Yesterday 06:17

I know quite a few vegans and I have to say the majority just get on with it and don't make any fuss. I know one who is of the virtue signalling sort who had become quite insufferable and I now keep my distance but I suspect they are just an annoying person. I also know a few men who are really quite dull when they start droning on about how they cook their meat on their Kamado Joe BBQ and how no other BBQ will do. Some people are just twats.

Werhere · Yesterday 06:19

This is all quite strange to me… I eat meat, my best friend of 30 years has been a vegetarian for two decades, my other close friend is vegan, most of my other friends eat meat. My family is mainly meat eater with a few vegetarians….

and we never talk about it, aside from factoring in restaurants with good vegetarian options when we eat out.

SummitWrong · Yesterday 07:16

We know why some non-vegans get their knickers in such a twist about vegan choices though, don't we?

Its cognitive dissonance.

Not that they'd ever admit it.

And just like the preachy vegans, the goady, questioning non-vegans are a loud voice of a very small minority, but that doesn't fit their rhetoric.

Just have a vegan nugget and calm down 😊

Wynter25 · Yesterday 08:28

Werhere · 11/07/2026 22:02

You were banned

Were they?

Yep some were.

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