Why do people do this (bit of a rant)
Today I had to eat lunch with my mom at the retirement home where she and my dad live. (My dad is in the hospital for a few days - heart problems - and my sisters and I have to take turns looking after my mom because she needs care for everything). Anyway, this lady was sitting at the table and she's been a friend of my parents for years (these people are all in their 80's). I couldn't find much to eat other than a salad and a baked potato. When the woman heard I was a vegetarian she told me how her granddaughter used to be a vegetarian for years but now she's at school studying nutrition and has learned that it's not healthy so she's started eating meat (Huh?). I felt like asking her what kind of a nutrition school she's attending! I just said something like, "Oh, that's interesting". I get so tired of this kind of garbage. My one sister delights in telling me about people who were vegetarian and now eat meat. Who cares? I'll outlive them all!
Meh, they're all lame. As long as you know what the right thing is, try not to let it bother you. I love your reaction! :)
Lots of conversations like that have wound up with me telling people about the ADA's official stance on veg*n diets... as in, that they're appropriate and healthy for all stages of life. It's a nice way to put a stop to someone trying to appeal to the authority of nutrition experts against veg*nism... since the ADA is uncontroversially a better nutritional authority than any collection of anecdotes or testimony from a nutrition student.
i doubt that nutrition student has done any real research on the vegan diet. i am a nutrition student and, yes, the professors tend to be proponents of non-veg diets (yet they are big proponents of eating tons of produce, etc.) but the research out there touting how great a vegan diet is is astounding. read the china study, best way to scientifically back up veganism.
This reminds me of the article someone posted awhile back that had to do with Veg*ns leaving the fold for meat because it's "so good". I'll try to find it so y'all can read it if you haven't already...it's a load of BULL!
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/why-vegetarians-are-eating-meat
The woman who wrote that article sounds like a jerk.
I don't like the way she's using her husband's weakness of character to essentially imply that people who are vegetarians, child-free, or not interested in marriage are likely to change their minds. Not to mention the fact that she MANIPULATED him into changing his lifestyle. How is it any of her business if he chooses not to eat meat/ breed/whatever else?
The only thing this articles does is enforce a negative image of omnis, really.
i told my mom that i would most likely live a very long life since i'm so healthy.
and she simply replied, you could if you ate some meat every once in a while.
i told my mom that i would most likely live a very long life since i'm so healthy.
and she simply replied, you could if you ate some meat every once in a while.
whatevah.
i told my mom that i would most likely live a very long life since i'm so healthy.
and she simply replied, you could if you ate some meat every once in a while.
whatevah.
Yeah, what you need to say is "It's ma hawt bodee. I'll do what I want!"
hah. except my body isn't hot.
In reference to that article:
1. Why would they care if people are vegans; i.e., they'll "keep trying to change" minds.
2. They seem to have gathered tons of friends who are "ex-vegetarians" while I have never
met an ex-vegatarian. Do they advertise for them?
3. I guess as long as the animal has grazed on the wonderful grass, etc., it won't mind
being killed for food.
This article is demeaning and patronizing. She's an idiot.
2. They seem to have gathered tons of friends who are "ex-vegetarians" while I have never
met an ex-vegatarian. Do they advertise for them?
unfortunately, i have met TONS of ex-vegetarians! maybe it is a california thing, everyone seems to have been a vegetarian at some point. true, most of them are short stints, but there are a lot of them :-\
Yes, well, that explains it! I live in the midwest. It's rare to even FIND a vegetarian in pork country. Seems to me that lady had an inordinate amount of friends who were vegetarains. I can't imagine ever going back to eating meat. I would feel hypocritcal.
2. They seem to have gathered tons of friends who are "ex-vegetarians" while I have never
met an ex-vegatarian. Do they advertise for them?
unfortunately, i have met TONS of ex-vegetarians! maybe it is a california thing, everyone seems to have been a vegetarian at some point. true, most of them are short stints, but there are a lot of them :-\
Me too, Hespedal! I think it is a California thing. I think it's so sad that I've lived in CA my entire life and have exactly zero vegetarian friends (except for you all!)
2. They seem to have gathered tons of friends who are "ex-vegetarians" while I have never
met an ex-vegatarian. Do they advertise for them?
unfortunately, i have met TONS of ex-vegetarians! maybe it is a california thing, everyone seems to have been a vegetarian at some point. true, most of them are short stints, but there are a lot of them :-\
Me too, Hespedal! I think it is a California thing. I think it's so sad that I've lived in CA my entire life and have exactly zero vegetarian friends (except for you all!)
me, too! i do know a few vegetarians, but they aren't very cool. i think it might just be hip or something. no one really cares about it.
2. They seem to have gathered tons of friends who are "ex-vegetarians" while I have never
met an ex-vegatarian. Do they advertise for them?
unfortunately, i have met TONS of ex-vegetarians! maybe it is a california thing, everyone seems to have been a vegetarian at some point. true, most of them are short stints, but there are a lot of them :-\
Me too, Hespedal! I think it is a California thing. I think it's so sad that I've lived in CA my entire life and have exactly zero vegetarian friends (except for you all!)
me, too! i do know a few vegetarians, but they aren't very cool. i think it might just be hip or something. no one really cares about it.
Yeah, I guess I'm not considering those acquaintances that are "vegetarian" but don't feel the way I do about veg*nism. For one of them it's more of a religious/cultural thing and another does it I guess for health reasons, but won't let meat go to waste if it's in front of him and paid for.
Wendie, I'm with you. I tend not to go off on people in those types of situations because I always figure nobody twisted my arm to choose this lifestyle, how can I possibly change another person's feelings about eating animal products? I don't know how people like jenniferhughes and mdvegan managed to convert so many family members. Maybe I'll post a separate topic and ask them. :-\