Vegetarian Hate

[BlaqueKatt]

OT.. btw.. BK - while I agree with the general thought of what you said, some of the examples you use aren't just about personal preferences... some are about serious issues that have to be decided in the law for the benefits of society as a whole, for the safety and security as a whole... but we've got those threads under way

They're just issues off the top of my head that I personally have had the same type of thing happen(most of them)-someone coming up and spouting off to me that my choice is somehow "inferior" to their choice, or coming up to me and telling why they couldn't do what I did-WTF? I don't know you why do I care about the decisions you made in your life? If you want to start a discussion, ad get information fine but don't attack me for my choices.

for example-I did have people ask me about how I could stand using cloth diapers(my son was allergic to something in disposables-and cloth was easier and cheaper for me)-I didn't stand around telling people-I was a better parent for using them-personally I don't care-you want to use huggies fine, you want information on how to purchase, wash and use cloth I have no problem with that. But just like the OP I had complete strangers coming up to me and bitching at me for it. Usually they got kinda sheepish when I informed them my son was allergic to disposables-maybe the OP could use that-say you can't properly digest meat-at this point you probably would have issues with it as your body is no longer used to it-and cooked meat is more difficult for the body to digest-you're not lying, and maybe they'll leave you alone.

[the_std]

say you can't properly digest meat

I dated a guy for a while that had a disease where his body couldn't digest protein. But this wasn't just meat, it was milk products and beans and stuff too. He lived solely on carbohydrates and some few vegetables, with a supplement shake he had to drink every day.

Yet when he asked at restaurants if the food was vegetarian (easier than saying, "does this dish have any protein in it?") he'd get snarky comments from random strangers about how being a vegetarian wasn't natural, he was ruining his life, etcetera. He had a great way of dealing with it, though. He perfected the deadpan stare and said, "I have [such and such disease]. If I consume the flesh you're eating now, I will die. Happy?"

He got so many terrified looks. It was awesome.

[Stormraven]

Count me in with the folks who don't care. Where I used to work, two of my co-workers were vegetarian. One for cultural reasons, one not. Neither had a problem with the omnivores and carnivores they worked with, and none of us had a problem with them. The most I'm likely to say if someone tells me they're vegetarian out of the blue is 'Great. More meat for me, then!'

[GothicSmurf]

I'm a vegetarian as well. I don't make a big deal of it, but next week, we're going out to dinner with co-workers as part of my new job.

If I can, I always look at the menu before I go. One place that was suggested had NO vegetarian meals at all. Nothing to even be altered.

The other one had one single salad.

So I did a quick search online to see what was in the area and I found one place. The girl who suggested the two resturants threw a fit and said that I should be more cultured and that the other place had a salad I could eat.

Yeah, gee thanks, I love eating salads for every single fucking meal. I wonder how she'd feel going into that resturant and only having one choice of a meal to eat... Hell into almost any given resturant and being able to find one meal.

I hate people like that...

[Slytovhand]

I'm a vegetarian as well. I don't make a big deal of it, but next week, we're going out to dinner with co-workers as part of my new job.

If I can, I always look at the menu before I go. One place that was suggested had NO vegetarian meals at all. Nothing to even be altered.

The other one had one single salad.

So I did a quick search online to see what was in the area and I found one place. The girl who suggested the two resturants threw a fit and said that I should be more cultured and that the other place had a salad I could eat.

Yeah, gee thanks, I love eating salads for every single fucking meal. I wonder how she'd feel going into that resturant and only having one choice of a meal to eat... Hell into almost any given resturant and being able to find one meal.

I hate people like that...

OMFG!!!! That's just.... OH!


I was going to post about a mate who is veg, and I was having my 30th in a chinese restaurant. I asked them what they had that was veg only and I got the standard - "well, there's the mixed vegetables, steamed rice ... or he can just pick out the meat"...

I hate that line (even though I'm omni..).

You're a frigging restaurant... you cater for it! Why not Mongolian Beancurd???

Bastards!

maybe the OP could use that-say you can't properly digest meat-at this point you probably would have issues with it as your body is no longer used to it-and cooked meat is more difficult for the body to digest-you're not lying, and maybe they'll leave you alone.

Or.. how about "Because I've made an informed conscientious choice, rather than been a sheep" (fight nark with nark :P)


Slyt

[Boozy]

I prefer "Mind your own business".

And that line works for both sides of the equation.

[BlaqueKatt]

Or.. how about "Because I've made an informed conscientious choice, rather than been a sheep"

because that will give them the reaction they're looking for-and validate their beliefs of "all vegitatians hate meat eaters and want to make it illegals-ZOMG!!"

Also it's stooping to their level

[Lace Neil Singer]

Also, sheep are vegetarian... so wouldn't you rather be a sheep? XD

[lordlundar]

I prefer "Mind your own business".

Meh, where's the fun in that? If they're not running to the bathroom to puke, then they didn't get their just desserts for bothering me.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow got a chance it'd eat you and everyone you care about.

XD

[BlaqueKatt]

Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow got a chance it'd eat you and everyone you care about.

And they do in the movie "dead meat"-chock full* of zombie cow goodness
And in "The Mad" starring Billy Zane-the hamburger patties and even a steak attack people(great movie actually-quite funny)

*OK so it's only a couple scenes-but it's totally worth it-plus it's filmed in Ireland so pretty scenery.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Vegetarian is one of the most unobtrusive things you can be. It has almost no effect on others, so there's no reason for others not to mind their own business.

It has no effect on others as long as I don't have to listen to how bloody, murderous, and barbaric I am because I eat dead things. Which I have had to listen to, with alarming frequency.

I don't have a problem with vegetarians at all. I have friends and family members who are vegetarians, and I am happy to cook special for them when they come over. In fact, there was a time when I considered it myself. I just have a problem with militant people of any stripe getting in my face because of MY dietary choices (or religion, or child-rearing, or what have you).