Can we clear this up

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  • FloraSin
    FloraSin Posts: 188 Member
    Thank you for making me laugh.

    I have vegan and veg friends and that's never been an issue so the whole message was (while very impressive and interesting to read) lost on me.

    Jerks are jerks. I'm tarring all jerky folks with the same jerk brush. :)
  • jwaitman
    jwaitman Posts: 367 Member
    I eat meat because I like it. Simple as that. I also like my veggies. As far as what other people think I don't care if they don't like it. I am not forcing anyone to eat it. Except maybe my kids! lol Of course if they don't want it then more for me!

    I too like the "crotch pheasant" Just hope I can remember it! The memory is not so good.
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    I seriously don't see the point in being a non meat eater, so since you made this thread, I would like to repeat your point to rogue vegetarians/vegans, stop trying to convince me to become one. But I don't care what you do and if you want to avoid meat, go for it, I am not going to tell you to eat meat ffs, so please respect my choices also! Yeah, you think there is animal cruelty, but then again, I feel that there is cruelty towards Africa, we have an abundance of food here while the kids there have very little, but I am not forcing you to put your time and money into helping Africa.

    uh a little hostility there? You must live in a concentrated area of summer's eve(see a previous post for proper word usage) vegans and veggies. Most of us could care less what you shove in your gullet. There are those few bad apples though
  • lmd172
    lmd172 Posts: 172
    lol, glad you got that out....

    I did some research to find that you can be healthy on a Vegan Diet and that some people are built for it. the evolution of the species stuff. most people don't really need meat to live as there are a lot of other ways to get what your body needs.

    I on the other hand am a meat eater, I've had some real summers eve vegan/vegetarian friends and some really cool laid back ones.

    I've found the diet that works for me as an individual and that's all that really matters to me.

    wait wait wait...."summers eve vegan/vegetarian friends"...is that the same as calling them "a douche"? if yes, then that phrase (along with crotch pheasant) are now going to be MY go-to phrases!

    ha...thanks y'all!

    Dang that summer's eve bit went right over my head..................Winning and using!


    yep, took me a couple of read-overs before i got it, but when i did....big LOL moment for me! (-:
  • jamiem1102
    jamiem1102 Posts: 1,196 Member
    my wife is a vegan and i'm a bodybuilder. i joke with her that for every animal she saves, I eat 3. But in reality, I respect her decision and she respects mine

    You are opening yourself up for a lot of immature jokes about tube steaks and vegan wives, but luckily we on MFP are too mature to be so inappropriate haha ;) But I think it is awesome that you and your wife make it work, love conquers.

    "Tube Steak" is one of my least favorite euphemisms for the One Eyed Monster. It for some reason makes me think of a huge thing of spam in sausage form. :noway:
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    my wife is a vegan and i'm a bodybuilder. i joke with her that for every animal she saves, I eat 3. But in reality, I respect her decision and she respects mine

    You are opening yourself up for a lot of immature jokes about tube steaks and vegan wives, but luckily we on MFP are too mature to be so inappropriate haha ;) But I think it is awesome that you and your wife make it work, love conquers.

    "Tube Steak" is one of my least favorite euphemisms for the One Eyed Monster. It for some reason makes me think of a huge thing of spam in sausage form. :noway:

    haha I used to think it was really a kind of meat,...uh I mean I know it is but I used to think it was the kind you cook up and eat lol ...............*looks off and remembers embarrassing moment at friend BBQ*
  • mixedfeelings
    mixedfeelings Posts: 904 Member
    Absolutely amazingly put, Thank you! :flowerforyou: :drinker:
  • pursuingexcellence
    pursuingexcellence Posts: 8
    love this! I eat what I want and could care less what others are eating. I'm sure not ever going to question a vegetarian, vegan or pescetarian as to their reasons. If I ask, it is out of curiousity, not disgust or judgment. I'm genuinely interested. I also wouldn't go so far as to say my lifestyle is healthier than anyone else's. To each his or her own. Happy eating!

    Next to 'Crotch pheasant', this was the best comment listed. Well that and the one about easy poop. Made my day!
  • Resalyn
    Resalyn Posts: 528 Member
    ROFL, thank goodness I am alone in the office today surfing MFP instead of working, cuz I just spit my water all over the screen - three times - at "crotch pheasant", "pigs don't listen", and my new fav "summers eve vegs".

    That's just funny *kitten*, people. Stop it, my stomach hurts from laughing too hard......
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    ROFL, thank goodness I am alone in the office today surfing MFP instead of working, cuz I just spit my water all over the screen - three times - at "crotch pheasant", "pigs don't listen", and my new fav "summers eve vegs".

    That's just funny *kitten*, people. Stop it, my stomach hurts from laughing too hard......

    I learned some things today too!
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    MEAT EATERS
    Ok so you eat meat and someone said something rude to you because they are a vegetarian, vegan or pescetarian, and you feel like they were looking down on you (honestly if they were rude about it then they probably were) Please don't tar the rest of us with the same brush because ONE rogue vegetarian/vegan butthead decides to be act like a crotch pheasant and put their nose where it doesn't belong, spouting what comes across like uppity views.
    On the flip side please don't ask a vegetarian and vegan why they eat like they do if you don't really want to know ,you just wanna be a prick, and ask a bunch of stupid questions like isn't not eating meat really what's cruel? How are you even healthy? and talking nonsense like I could NEVER give up meat because I have to have that classic bacon burger at Wendy's. Yes you COULD you just don't want to and that is just fine. Or saying stuff like god put the animals here for us to eat. All of this sounds stupid and it is not going to bring a vegan/vegetarian back from not eating meat, how they eat is not your choice or you business for that matter.

    Now onto the veggies

    VEGETARIANS/VEGANS/PESCETARIANS
    So people ask you questions over and over and over again and you know it's really just to get a rise out of you and try to make you feel like you are wrong for eating differently from them. F$#% em, unless they are sincere of course. Tell them you don't discuss your diet with others and don't play that little game.
    On the flipside Don't be one of those that acts like they are better than others because of the way they eat. I really doubt any uppity vegan, vegetarian or what have you who has gone around verbally looking down on others for their diet has ever done any good with converting someone. In fact that person probably went home and had a big juicy steak out of spite. You know people automatically think of vegans/vegetarians being like that because of the bad apples that went around doing that giving the rest of us a bad name, I have seen my fair share of them on MFP.

    To me people and their diets are similar to cats, you can't make a cat do something until it's the cat's idea to do it.
    oh and NO diet style is healthier or better than the other. All the studies you have read go back and forth and back and forth depending on which side is benefiting from them. Do what feels good to you and your body and the hell with everybody else.
    It's your life and your diet.

    Okay now I know this didn't really make much of a difference and probably won't change anything around here......................................but at least I feel better :)

    stop trying to kill the internet

    Oh man I didn't realize common sense and common decency were the internets kryptonite.................lol I should have been more sensitive to the needs and feelings of almighty internet..... I will do better next time ;)

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