Okay, but seriously, here's my beef with vegans (pun completely intentional you vegan assholes!):
I have problems with any group that wants to push their agenda on other people by taking the "moral high ground" argument. Look, they make some good points about the treatment of animals and such, but if we're going to start taking a microscope to the world, we'd all be living in caves living off of nothing but our own feces. (Oh wait, we might be displacing some bats by moving into the cave...shoot!!!)
I have a problem with extremism and, in my opinion, veganism is just another example of extremist thinking. I don't like extremism when it pops up in politics. I don't like it when it pops up in religion. And I really don't like it when it is hosted by Ty Pennington. Notice a pattern? I don't like extremism! Life needs balance.
Also, if we are worried about the well-being of other creatures, then we should pretty much just start killing ourselves because humans disrupt the ecosystem more than perhaps any other form of life. Yes, I believe in minimizing that impact as much as possible, which is why I consider myself a moderate environmentalist, but let's face it: we're going to do a lot of damage just by being alive. Why not try to reduce our footprint in several areas, not just in our diet?
Anyway, I guess this is just a terrible rant/bash against vegans because in my (albeit small) experience with vegans, they have always turned their nose up at me in disgust when I tell them my favorite food is a bacon cheeseburger. Look, I loves me a bacon cheeseburger, and I ain't giving that up, but you aren't exactly a saint neither; so stop being a hypocrite and accept that I choose to minimize my footprint in other ways.
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It's just as annoying for the quiet vegan who just does her own thing to have people constantly tell her how incredibly stupid and self-righteous it is.
I have some friends who are vegans and they are pretty cool people and have made some fairly convincing arguments. I've never felt like they've imposed their lifestyle on me. I think our feeling threatened by people who are overbearing really goes both ways for both parties involved, as it usually does.
Hey, I'm a vegan!
Extremism is bad in all of its forms. I always raise an eyebrow when I meet an extremist vegan; I don't think the lifestyle lends itself to self-righteousness. At its core it is just one of many lifestyle choices. Think Indian food, Buddhist food, etc...
You may have met someone trying out the label "vegan." Most vegans are "quiet vegans" who just want to live and let live.
I don't have a problem with you eating your bacon cheeseburger. To each his own. I believe that everyone has to listen to their own body and mind. Mine doesn't like to eat animal products. I can respect that yours does.
But can anyone respect that this woman doesn't?
Here's my rant/bash back...
Trust me, most vegans just want to eat their meal in peace. How many meals have you eaten where a vegan raised an eyebrow at you? Give this a quick thought, as a vegan (for 13 years now) I have been singled out at nearly every single meal I have eaten: every potluck, meeting, birthday, wedding, conference, lunch, dinner, the list goes on and on. I think I'm batting at around .900.
Scenario #1754: The lunch meeting at work.
Choice of food: Ham & Cheese, Roast Beef & Cheese, Roasted Eggplant & Cheese & Mayo & Lactose Intolerance Hell.
Ditsy coworker in charge of ordering food approaches, you've told her at least 5 times that you are a vegan and lactose intolerant...
"Hey Dawn, why are you just eating the top off your bread and a piece of lettuce?"
How should I respond?
a) Try to explain, again, that I'm a vegan and this "veggie" alternative is going to send me into diarrhea hell if I try to eat it.
b) Smile and tell her I'm just a loon.
c) Tell her to leave me the hell alone. It's bad enough I'm starving and she's left me with a crust of bread and a lettuce leaf to eat, now she wants to talk to me about it!
And this is just one of the oft suffered scenarios, not including...
"why are you such a wacko?"
"why aren't you eating the delicious cake I baked?"
*insulted look from afar from the person whose food you couldn't/didn't eat*
"it's only got cheese, can't you just eat it? why do you have to make such a big deal about it!" (uh, do I make you eat salmonella contaminated chicken, do I? 'cause it's got the same effect on me people!)
"why aren't you eating the lasagna, it doesn't have meat?"
"why aren't you eating the chicken, it's just chicken!?"
So, I beg you, don't hate the "vegan" in them. Hate the "extremist" in them that can't respect that you choose to do things differently.
How refreshing would it be for all of us if we could just respect people that do things differently!
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