Another vegetarian dilemma...

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If they're staying over night, do you make them sleep on your normal feather pillows with your fetahter duvet or do you provide synthetic equivalents?

Depends on whether they suffer from asthma .

I remove the leather sheets, personally.

Are they picky, fernickety types or won't they care? Feathers would bother me because they're just gross and all feathery (yuk, yuk, yuk) and I hate birds and their flappy-ness in general, but not because I am a vegetarian.

Just to clarify, I did this for years with veggie friends and then thought "I wonder if they object..."

Ask them?

Really, soup? Thought you were joking. Have to say it's honestly never occurred to me.

ask the bedbugs to shove off for the night too

depends if they're vegan or not. most veggie accept animal farming (dairy products) which doesn't kill animals. feathers therefore ok if naturally collected from live animal. not if bird killed for the making of the duvet.

Well, they are stuffed with the remains of dead animals...

I didn't let it bother me, mind you. Still made them sleep on feathers.

Never crossed my mind, God I thought I was doing well asking guests what they ate, can't cope with asking for beding preferences too!

What a sweetie. I bet it's a delight to stay at your house if you are so thoughtful of your guests' preferences

up to 10% of most older pillows is made of human dust mites and bits of dried human skin. Which is not very veggie at all

I have laether placemats too, perhaps veggies shuld be offered a plastic version???

I don't think you get that quantity of feathers from live birds!!

I guess if you have served them meat for dinner they may resort to chewing their pillows out of hunger though, so I think it's very relevant.

human dust mites and bits of dried human skin don't require an animal to be killed so are perfectly acceptable to veggies.

Veggies don't eat animals that have died naturally, though...

Would never have thought of it!

My favourite is getting a veggie meal great then being offered gravy made with the meat juices!

I once got asked by FIL what part of turkey I wanted on my plate on Christmas day and when I replied "I don't eat meat" he looked at me and said
"But it's CHRISTMAS!"

hehe

Ha ha ha Bibi - does he know my Grandma...on being told I was vegetarian she said 'ok I'll make her something special'...and promptly came back with her own version of Kentucky fried chicken. When my mum pointed out that she'd made chicken, my gran said 'well that's chicken, it's not meat is it?'

Have to say never worried about what I was sleeping on!

and as the older generation have remarked many a time when I was younger 'you'll eat meat when you're married!' and this from innocent looking aunts

Been veggie for 18yrs and this has never occured to me (in fact some of our pillows are feather)!

I'm a strict veggie, and we don't use feather pillows/duvets in our house at all. If someone gave me some (it's the sort of thing my mother would do just to annoy me), I'd give them to charity asap.

If I was visiting someone, I would desperately hope not to sleep with feather bedding, but I wouldn't ring in advance, and I wouldn't say anything if it was already on the bed. But I'd probably cry myself to sleep! (And it would play havoc with my asthma too!)

And I individually pick bed bugs out of my bed so that I don't hurt them.