family

Hello, I am an Autistic young adult female. I have anxiety. Anyhow, I am now vegan and I have come home to hopefully enjoy xmas with my family. I really want to enjoy xmas. I am really anxious and upset about having to sit around and eat xmas dinner with them when there’s meat on the table...

I noticed that the meals I grew up with became normal in my own routine. What does a week of meals for you family people look like? A while back, for me, it was Mac n cheese, fried pork chops, mashed potatoes (change the meat and a lot of these), spaghetti, lasagna, etc. I am curious what...

Were they big time meat-eaters who would get defensive if you brought up veganism before? How did you convince your family to go vegan?

Hello 👋, I’m very upset at the moment. I just had an argument with my mum. She got really mad and I got really upset. Anyhow, so I posted something on Facebook about veganism and animal rights. I posted it in the wrong places, in a What’s On group for my village and in a Devon group. It...

Hello 👋, I’m Autistic. I went from veggie back to vegan again recently. I am extremely passionate for animals. I love animals (especially dogs, but I love and care about farm animals in general and as individuals, too, in particular Benji the bullock whom I encountered and named, the pigs at...

Hello 👋, I’m vegan, but my family aren’t. I really want to turn them vegan... Thanks to Earthling Ed, I have the idea of buying a vegan documentary/two/a few for them. However, I don’t do online shopping, so I would like to actually go to a physical place and buy the documentary/documentaries...

Since there is a thread about negatives about our fur family and friends, there also could be positives. I guess I wanted this thread, becauseI feel like an outcast at the Companion Animal Gripe Thread. So, what do you love about the companion animals around you? I could maybe start... The cat...

Hi all, I'm puzzled. Me and my partner have been vegans for 3 years now. His family has been very supportive albeit surprised. Mine, having come from a different country, lifestyle, and culture, not so much. I have been ridiculed, interrogated, and it hurt. We've been engaged for 2 years now...

Hi all, I live with my parents and younger brother, and we usually eat meat once every 2 weeks and dairy once a day. However I've recently decided to go vegan, and my family has been completely supportive (although they are still eating meat, dairy, etc). I have lots of vegetarian friends and...

Hello 👋, I’m mostly vegan. I went vegetarian at age 13, and “vegan” at 20. I am now 24. My family eat meat every day, often twice a day. They would claim to like/love animals (we have three cats, my mum and sister are cat people and often talk about/comment on animals, and my dad is a...

Hello 👋, As you may know from my other posts and profile, I’m an animal rights person. I’m semi-vegan. Anyhow, I’m against captivity for wild animals, including dolphins and whales, the exception being sanctuaries and rescues. However, my family would like to go to Florida next year. We’ve been...

My aunt gave me a few non-vegan xmas presents. She lives far away and I don't see her often. She's very nice and we get along, but because we haven't spent much time together, we aren't close. She comes from another country from me where vegans aren't very common. I was vegetarian for years...

Hi. This is the very first time I'm doing something like this so bear with me I'm not really sure how to do this. I'm 16 years old and last year I became vegan for various reasons (health, weight, animals, environment etc.) and quickly fell in love with it, felt overall better - in and out...

This will be my second Thanksgiving with my soon-to-be in-laws. They are always incredibly accommodating whenever we go visit them, especially considering they are "country folk" who grew up on farms and live off meat and potato diets. My fiance's mother went out of her way last year to make 3-4...

Hey there everybody, I'm a long-time reader of this awesome forum, however this is my first post, so nice to meet you all officially! I'll get straight to the point/question. After a slow transition (I'm an avid backpacker, outdoorsman, etc, so feeling satiated and physiologically fueled on a...

I am a vegan and I live with mom (newbie, came home from college where I lived in student dormitory and where I became a veggie). My mother doesn't take my choise seriously and makes food with meat forcin' me to eat it. I can't explain her that I can't eat such kind of food; I'm hurted eating...

I impulsively became a member of this forum, because this is the 3rd time I am giving veganism a try and this time I want to do it right. Take it slow, but steady. I need your help. Sooo, where do I begin... I tried veganism 2 years ago (I was already 1 year vegetarian) while I was a...

My fiancé has recently become vegan and is really invested in animal rights...overly invested. I tried talking with him about the recent news over separating families on the Mexican/American border. He instantly brought up the fact that this is already happening to animals all around the world...

There is a wonderful lady who had taken me out of a bad situation and helped me immensely, and is like the Mother I never had. She is in my life almost every day in some small form. She is a Non-Vegan and I have tried to tell her I am Vegan but whenever she visits she leaves dinners she's made...

Below is an example of how family affect vegans. I am being hindered severely in being vegan. My fathers sister lives on a farm where they raise cows for slaughtering, albeit treat them better than the norm. My dad works at a med-producing biotech firm; animals used as test subjects even...