Things Vegans Commonly Hear
blunder_bolt
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I'm English, so I love to complain about things. So I thought I'd start a thread for people to discuss the cliche questions vegans get.
"Where do you get your protein from" (Answer: from eating the flesh of people who wask me where I get my protein from)
"Don't you miss _____?" I CHOSE to give it up. If i had to give something up because I was allergic then I might.
"What about Bacon" Some of the phrases I hear about bacon (particularly when aimed at Vegans) make people sound like they're addicted. Try it next time you hear someone talk about how amazing bacon is and replace "Bacon" with "Cocaine" or "Booze"
Any more?
"Where do you get your protein from" (Answer: from eating the flesh of people who wask me where I get my protein from)
"Don't you miss _____?" I CHOSE to give it up. If i had to give something up because I was allergic then I might.
"What about Bacon" Some of the phrases I hear about bacon (particularly when aimed at Vegans) make people sound like they're addicted. Try it next time you hear someone talk about how amazing bacon is and replace "Bacon" with "Cocaine" or "Booze"
Any more?
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You don't eat meat? What do you eat????
I get asked this alllll the time. Of course, I also live in East Texas, land of the red necks and hunters. So I am kind of a freak show to most people!!0 -
Plants are livings things0
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"If we didnt breed animals for food, so many of them would never live. We gave them the gift of life"0
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"If we didnt breed animals for food, so many of them would never live. We gave them the gift of life"
Wow. Just WOW0 -
Plants are livings things
"and how do you know they dont feel pain too??"
plus all of the above including the argument that we put the animals here for us to eat.
currently i am tired of all the "carbs are BAD..protein and fat GOOD" arguments. and "meat and milk are GOOD for you"0 -
Plants are livings things
"and how do you know they dont feel pain too??"
plus all of the above including the argument that we put the animals here for us to eat.
currently i am tired of all the "carbs are BAD..protein and fat GOOD" arguments. and "meat and milk are GOOD for you"
"Because we know how nervous systems work in organisms that have them. Did you not pay attention in 10th grade biology?"
On that note, there was a study done with results published in Scientific American in 2009 demonstrating that fish experience and seek to avoid a range of discomfort and pain... for the "vegetarians" in your life who still "enjoy" fish occasionally.
I guess the biggest trouble I haven't isn't with all the same old stupidities thrown at us by people who are ignorant, hostile, or both.
It's actually with the amount of ignorance, mysticism and anti-social sentiment propagated by the so-called "natural health" and environmentalist communities, with which vegans are typically associated. There's a wide streak of anti-social sentiment that ends up being, perhaps unintentionally, quite backwards (e.g., people are a cancer on the earth, they need to consume less and/or die off, there are too many of us, etc.).
Not every vegan's an out-and-out deep ecologist but it's an influential set of ideas lately with the lack of serious political response to the economic and environmental crises.0 -
"I used to be veg*n, but I missed ________________ too much."0
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Plants are livings things
^^^^^^^THAT. Thank God I don't hear too much criticism but when I hear that, ESP from someone I had previously presumed educated and intelligent, it just frays my last nerve...0 -
I've never been a big fan of bacon anyway, so not a problem. I mostly miss FRIED stuff- fried chcken, fried fish, fried oysters, etc. Fried foods are not necessarily animal foods, so I can sub with something else if need be. Ironically, I recently "tested" myself with a fried oyster and found I did not even enjoy the taste anymore, so problem SOLVED
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1) "where do you get protein from" - my new response is where do elephants get their protein from, they just eat plants and seem to do just fine
2) "plants have feelings too" - dumbass, you eat plants too
3) "I could be vegan but I'd miss X too much" - ok, so why don't you cut out everything but X?0 -
If you're talking fried chicken like KFC style, try some popcorn 'chicken' http://www.ecurry.com/blog/starters-snacks/vegan-popcorn-chicken/ not diet friendly but SOOO GOOOODI mostly miss FRIED stuff- fried chcken, fried fish, fried oysters, etc.0 -
"WHAT do you eat?" and "I could NEVER give up cheese!". I hear these two things most often. Its astonishing how people live in fear of losing their cheese.0
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I really enjoy the what do you eat question because at least that one is interesting to answer as I am somewhat food obsessed. Protein and calcium questions are annoying and the whole plants feel pain too does do my nut.
Most distressing thing I have heard is my daughters friends telling me that their parents wouldnt let them become vegetarian. What the?? Sadly I know its true but really you have to eat dead animal bits and pieces how nuts does that sound.0 -
Edit: Forgot to quote: "If we didnt breed animals for food, so many of them would never live. We gave them the gift of life"
That has got to be one of the most ..assinine things I've heard. It's like saying puppy mills are great because those suffering animals at least have a life. What's the point of life if it's an existence not for yourself? Just wow.0 -
I remember the first thing my mother said to me when I became veg:
"If you don't eat meat, you're going to DIE!"
Decade later.. healthier than the lot of them and I seem to not have perished away. It must be magic.. lol0 -
I get a lot of eye rolling. I'm one of few liberals in my area, so I'm already considered a bit crazy. I recycle religiously, compost, eat mostly organic, and now I'm vegan. People here think I'm completely off my rocker!0
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I get a lot of eye rolling. I'm one of few liberals in my area, so I'm already considered a bit crazy. I recycle religiously, compost, eat mostly organic, and now I'm vegan. People here think I'm completely off my rocker!
Oh me too. I live in a small blue collar town in Quebec, Canada. I am definitely an oddity, people don't get it. That is ok. I live and let live... I get the odd ignorant comment but I try to inform and educate, some people really DON'T know where we get our protein, I like to think it is out of interest and education and not out of judgement when they ask me.0 -
I really enjoy the what do you eat question because at least that one is interesting to answer as I am somewhat food obsessed. Protein and calcium questions are annoying and the whole plants feel pain too does do my nut.
Most distressing thing I have heard is my daughters friends telling me that their parents wouldnt let them become vegetarian. What the?? Sadly I know its true but really you have to eat dead animal bits and pieces how nuts does that sound.
Thats what happened to my..I was not allowed to go veg as a kid in the 70's. Parents wouldnt hear of it. You can imagine how much distress it causes them that both my girls (ages 10 and 4) are vegetarian and my son almost veggie..and it was totally their choice! I hear all the time how I am probably not giving them enough protein...and mind you the 10 yo..who has been veggie since she was 8..is a competitive gymnast0 -
Weird thing that I have heard a few times "You know, vegetarians can be fat too."
I don't understand what the point of that comment is! Haters!0 -
I wasnt allowed to go vege while living at home because of protein and calcium hahaha, now my mother who cannot physically eat meat and struggles to get milk down comes to me for nutritional advice hahh0
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I get all of these!!! The ones i regularly get have already been listed.
I love getting this one: "MY food literally poops on YOUR food"
I always respond with "How did the cow get up to the top of the peach tree?"
or sometimes the more honest "Actually not, but YOUR food literally poops on YOUR food"0 -
"Do you just eat salads?"...which is what I've heard for the last two years and before going to a plant based diet, so I should be used to it.0
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"Do you just eat salads?"...which is what I've heard for the last two years and before going to a plant based diet, so I should be used to it.
I refer to it as "rabbit food" as a joke - like at work, since our company pays for lunch, I told them that I can't just eat rabbit food because I wont be getting enough nutrients so they now give me an allowance to go to Whole Foods (one of the major US natural food market chain for non-Americans out there!).0 -
I get all of these!!! The ones i regularly get have already been listed.
I love getting this one: "MY food literally poops on YOUR food"
I always respond with "How did the cow get up to the top of the peach tree?"
or sometimes the more honest "Actually not, but YOUR food literally poops on YOUR food" great comeback! 0 -
Weird thing that I have heard a few times "You know, vegetarians can be fat too."
I don't understand what the point of that comment is! Haters!
Ha, I feel like I say that a lot to non-vegans. Not all vegans are stick thin. There are ways to be a healthy vegan, or an unhealthy vegan.
I always get "so you eat, what, lettuce?" and I never know how to respond. Do you seriously want me to list every fruit / vegetable / and product made from edible plant matter?0 -
After I tell someone that I have been vegan for 10 years
"But you look... healthy... not pale and skinny"
Uhhhh... yah. Not all vegans are super skinny or unhealthy.
"Where do you get your protein?" <-- the average North American consumes 3x too much protein (a stat I learned in my university nutrition class) and excessive protein is hard on your liver.
"Well, you're vegan and that's your choice" after I've said that I can't go somewhere that doesn't have any vegan options. That one irks me a lot. I downplay myself because I'm also lactose intolerant (which I discovered once I went vegan), but I don't feel like that's even right either.0 -
The other day someone said well you know you really have to watch out for your protein being vegetarian and now that you are vegan.... I said well most carnivores get more protein than they need and studies show eating animal protein leads to many types of cancers... again, You know you better make sure you get enough protein...... I said I was vegan. I did not say I was a watertarian where I drink water and do not eat. SO I guess your whole life eating animal protein you forgot about all other protein sources because you were so busy chewing on dead carcasses... Please don't worry I am getting my protein :-)0
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The other day someone said well you know you really have to watch out for your protein being vegetarian and now that you are vegan.... I said well most carnivores get more protein than they need and studies show eating animal protein leads to many types of cancers... again, You know you better make sure you get enough protein...... I said I was vegan. I did not say I was a watertarian where I drink water and do not eat. SO I guess your whole life eating animal protein you forgot about all other protein sources because you were so busy chewing on dead carcasses... Please don't worry I am getting my protein :-)
I have all but given up on most of the forums here because of all the people screaming about how you need so much protein and carbs are so evil rhetoric...cant even have a conversation with people here about it because they are so brainwashed over it.0 -
My ex-father-in law--once speared a piece of steak on his fork-- and said
"come on ---take a bite---no needs to know--we'll keep it a secret..." :huh:
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my mom or others make a vegetable dish with bits of pork or simmering in beef or chicken broth
"It's vegetarian---just spit out the pork" :bigsmile:
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"here--- I'll just take out the beef bone---now you can eat!"
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If you vegan why are you overweight??? <<<<< really...I've been vegan for not very long dumb *kitten*. (About 3 months)
Where do you get your protein from????<<<< really??
Isn't vegan cost more than a normal meat eating diet? <<<<<< Face palm.....not really I'm also sugar free (minus fruit) and gluten free.
What do you eat???
But you're getting to many carbs!0
