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Vegetarians - Vegan's who try to make you feel bad for eating meat
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Funk You
04-12-2016
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.
Betty Middling
04-12-2016
What about the meat-eaters who go on about Vegans and Vegetarians apparently making them feel guilty about eating meat?
planets
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Betty Middling:
“What about the meat-eaters who go on about Vegans and Vegetarians apparently making them feel guilty about eating meat?”

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?
Betty Middling
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by planets:
“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?”

Yeah, but bacon though.
belly button
04-12-2016
Some :
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.
RebelScum
04-12-2016
Most of us are able to shrug it off and get on with our lives.
Funk You
04-12-2016
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.
D_Mcd4
04-12-2016
People are always saying something that's incredibly important to them on Facebook.... and much less important to everyone else. Scroll past!
venusinflares
04-12-2016
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.
Funk You
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by venusinflares:
“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.”

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!
venusinflares
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Funk You:
“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! ”

Yes. That's exactly the sort of thing this woman would do her nut over!

I can just imagine her outrage
Funk You
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by venusinflares:
“Yes. That's exactly the sort of thing this woman would do her nut over!

I can just imagine her outrage ”

I did giggle the other week when they went up to London with plackards pretty much in so many words saying your a bad person if you eat meat, they were not preaching to the right people either and apparently got a lot of abuse. They couldn't understand why then missed the last train home if you want to do things properly just dont do it like that you know? how will it help your cause?
Dan Fortesque
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by belly button:
“Some :
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.”

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.
coughthecat
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by venusinflares:
“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.”

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.
belly button
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Dan Fortesque:
“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.”

Of course you are right. However I would think you see it more because there are a greater number of meat eaters than vegetarians, rather than meat eaters are particularly more likely to be critical as a whole.

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.
coughthecat
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Dan Fortesque:
“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.”

Oh goody! I always enjoy a game of DS Top Trumps!

... 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.

farmer bob
04-12-2016
I couldn't live without bacon
Funk You
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by coughthecat:
“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.”

Quite similar when I used to work with someone like that, they were vegan and berated me for eating something meaty for lunch. They also used to moan that they were knackered all the time, others suggested she eat meat, she didn't want to (fair play) others then said ok take supplements and she wouldnt as she had some chip on her shoulder about that. So she was stuck as she wouldn't take supplements to boost her energy, but she had enough gob to keep whinging on about it. In the end she got sacked for mouthing off about something totally different but was a relief when she went. Even another veggie in our office said it was like no one could do anything anymore as she thought she was superior and everything anyone else did was so wrong.

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.
Blondie X
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Dan Fortesque:
“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.”

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
TerraCanis
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Blondie X:
“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”

There are two possible responses:

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.
cobwebsoup
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Betty Middling:
“What about the meat-eaters who go on about Vegans and Vegetarians apparently making them feel guilty about eating meat?”

I see that far more often than I see vegans or vegetarians trying to make meat eaters feel bad.
cobwebsoup
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Dan Fortesque:
“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.”

Me too. I see that happen all the time and then as soon as a vegan or vegetarian defends themselves or says something back, they get accused of preaching.
bryemycaz
04-12-2016
Originally Posted by Funk You:
“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.”

Don't think it's a modern thing. Remember the sitcom Just Good Friends. Penny's ex husband met her and Vince in a restuarant. He was a odious character and he proudly announced that he was a Vegan.

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.
stoatie
04-12-2016
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.
Harper_Milne
04-12-2016
Well there's alot of hate from meateaters on social media against vegans too. So it works both ways.
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