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Vegetarians - Vegan's who try to make you feel bad for eating meat
I don't know if this is just a recent thing or whether its always been like that but I have seen on social media how some vegetarians or vegans try so hard to put down those that eat meat. Apparently I should have it on my conscience that I am ok with the killing of animals to eat meat. I accept and dont mind at all that they are vegetarians or vegans and don't hate on them, so why do those that do hate on meat heaters come across so bitchy and like its meat eaters that are whats wrong with the world. This doesn't go for all veggies or vegans as a lot of them respect other peoples wishes and don't push their views onto meat eaters who will never change their minds. Has this always been a thing? or is it just social media crap since FB started.
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What about the meat-eaters who go on about Vegans and Vegetarians apparently making them feel guilty about eating meat?
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What about the meat-eaters who go on about Vegans and Vegetarians apparently making them feel guilty about eating meat?
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what about the whatabouters who go on about the meat-eaters who go on about Vegans and Vegetarians apparently making them feel guilty about eating meat?
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Non smokers put down smokers Right wingers put down left wingers Slim put down the fat Workers put down non workers Mods put down Rockers Good spellers put down bad The world is full of put downers . Some vegetarians are no different from anyone else in the put down stakes. |
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Most of us are able to shrug it off and get on with our lives.
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Thats the thing its something you shrug off, I just see that some really go mental mad at others who eat meat. Preach to the undecided maybe you'll get them to go veggie/vegan but trying to ask a meat eater to give up meat is utterly pointless and getting confrontational or abusive just makes it all just silly. I don't go onto their groups or statuses and moan at them.
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People are always saying something that's incredibly important to them on Facebook.... and much less important to everyone else. Scroll past!
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I used to work with a militant vegetarian who would comment on meat eating. She used to make nasty comments about us eating jelly sweets too. If she'd been a meat eater she'd have been a pain in the backside over something else. She was just that kind of person.
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I used to work with a militant vegetarian who would comment on meat eating. She used to make nasty comments about us eating jelly sweets too. If she'd been a meat eater she'd have been a pain in the backside over something else. She was just that kind of person.
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Sounds similar to a couple of women on my FB, they went mental about the new fiver notes having traces of animal in it. I said yeah but no one eats fivers!
![]() I can just imagine her outrage
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Yes. That's exactly the sort of thing this woman would do her nut over!
I can just imagine her outrage ![]() if you want to do things properly just dont do it like that you know? how will it help your cause?
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Non smokers put down smokers Right wingers put down left wingers Slim put down the fat Workers put down non workers Mods put down Rockers Good spellers put down bad The world is full of put downers . Some vegetarians are no different from anyone else in the put down stakes. |
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I used to work with a militant vegetarian who would comment on meat eating. She used to make nasty comments about us eating jelly sweets too. If she'd been a meat eater she'd have been a pain in the backside over something else. She was just that kind of person.
I used to work with someone who became a vegetarian. She was a pain in the backside before that. She was a pain in the backside after that. The only difference was that she had one more thing to spout off about as she rode round on her high horse. However, I also worked quite closely for a number of years with someone and had no idea they were vegetarian because they never even mentioned it ... but they simply weren't the preachy type. |
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Same with meat-eaters putting down vegans/vegetarians. I see that a lot on these forums, for example. More than the other way around, anyway.
Have ten meat eaters up against ten vegetarians and I bet the numbers of aggressive complainers aren't much different between the groups. That's my experience in the real world anyway. |
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Same with meat-eaters putting down vegans/vegetarians. I see that a lot on these forums, for example. More than the other way around, anyway.
![]() ... it's cyclists who complain most. ... no it's car drivers. ... it's usually the religious types. ... atheists are worst. ... smokers are usually trying to make a point. ... nah, it's usually non-smokers.
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I couldn't live without bacon
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Spot on.
I used to work with someone who became a vegetarian. She was a pain in the backside before that. She was a pain in the backside after that. The only difference was that she had one more thing to spout off about as she rode round on her high horse. However, I also worked quite closely for a number of years with someone and had no idea they were vegetarian because they never even mentioned it ... but they simply weren't the preachy type. Rest of the people in the office accepted she was vegan, why couldn't she accept that other were meat eaters? the vegetarian was a quite person, just kept their opinions to themselves and ate whatever they liked for lunch. No one had a pop at them for it. |
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Same with meat-eaters putting down vegans/vegetarians. I see that a lot on these forums, for example. More than the other way around, anyway.
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I haven't eaten meat for nearly 30 years and I've never commented on anyone else eating meat and yet I've been laid into on many occasions about my principles and my apparent hypocrisy when all I'm trying to do is sit and have my dinner
By and large, I just get on with what I'm doing and let them whitter on to themselves. If that fsilsm, telling them to mind their own business and [insert word of choice here] remains an option. The same goes for any form of what might be termed "dietary bullying", irrespective of the direction in which it operates. |
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What about the meat-eaters who go on about Vegans and Vegetarians apparently making them feel guilty about eating meat?
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Same with meat-eaters putting down vegans/vegetarians. I see that a lot on these forums, for example. More than the other way around, anyway.
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I don't know if this is just a recent thing or whether its always been like that but I have seen on social media how some vegetarians or vegans try so hard to put down those that eat meat. Apparently I should have it on my conscience that I am ok with the killing of animals to eat meat. I accept and dont mind at all that they are vegetarians or vegans and don't hate on them, so why do those that do hate on meat heaters come across so bitchy and like its meat eaters that are whats wrong with the world. This doesn't go for all veggies or vegans as a lot of them respect other peoples wishes and don't push their views onto meat eaters who will never change their minds. Has this always been a thing? or is it just social media crap since FB started.
Your thoughts. Now of course they are not all like this but the stereotype of Preachy Vegans.Veggies has been around much longer than social media. I mean one of my friends is a Vegan and has brought her children up as veggies. However her eldest has married a meat eater. It's not a problem to her (though she takes the mick and vice versa). She's not the preachy type. |
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I have to say, since I was a teenager and everyone gets overly dramatic about stuff I haven't really experienced any of this. I'm a vegetarian, most of my friends and the people I work with eat meat, and some are vegans. It never really seems to be a problem. Most people just get on with their own shit, you know?
I've never given anyone shit for eating meat, nobody else has ever given me shit for eating cheese. TBH there's some joshing from people going "but BACON! BACON! MMM BACON!!!" but it's usually in good humour. |
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Well there's alot of hate from meateaters on social media against vegans too. So it works both ways.
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