- Joined
- Jun 4, 2012
- Reaction score
- 19,518
- Age
- 65
- Location
- I'm liek, in Cali, dude.
- Lifestyle
- Vegetarian
Not everything we veg*ans have experienced is a shared experience, but many are. Has this happened to you since you became veg*an? (Please note not everything has happened to me, but I've read enough to know that they've happened to someone, somewhere.)
You become pregnant, and everyone you know expects you to start eating meat again, "for the baby". They are all upset when you tell them you won't.
You have relatives visiting from out of town. You live in an area with good veg*an and/or veg*an-friendly restaurants with wonderfully creative menus you can't wait to treat them to - and they want to eat at IHOP.
Every year you keep getting Christmas and birthday gifts of soaps and lotions and candles from great-aunt Bertha that are not cruelty free or free of animal or other objectionable ingredients, because she's old and that's what she's been buying for decades and nobody else ever complained about them.
The server at the restaurant and the friend who hosts the dinner party you attend don't seem to understand when you try to explain to them that you don't eat anything made with chicken broth since that, too, comes from an animal, because according to them, "it's just a little broth. It's not the actual chicken."
You're asked, in all seriousness, if you can have a real Christmas tree in your home because that, too, was a living thing that was killed.
Nobody gets it when you point out the irony of an aquarium serving tuna fish in their cafeteria. Or, if they do, they laugh and go right back to eating their tuna fish and talking about wanting to see the sharks at the aquarium.
You're asked if you can eat ________ (fill in some random vegetable or fruit) because the person asking is confused about what veg*ans actually eat.
Someone tells you they knew you were a veg*an because you LOOK veg*an.
Someone is completely surprised that you're veg*an because "You don't look veg*an, at all."
Your mother insists on announcing to absolutely everyone, everywhere, that you're veg*an, despite the fact that you can tell people yourself, you don't want to make a big deal about it, and you don't think it's necessary for certain people to know about it.
Someone offers you something you can actually eat, such accidentally vegan cookies, and then suddenly changes his or her mind, saying, "Oh, I forgot, you don't eat these", without asking YOU if you can eat them. When you say you CAN eat those, they're completely confused.
You become pregnant, and everyone you know expects you to start eating meat again, "for the baby". They are all upset when you tell them you won't.
You have relatives visiting from out of town. You live in an area with good veg*an and/or veg*an-friendly restaurants with wonderfully creative menus you can't wait to treat them to - and they want to eat at IHOP.
Every year you keep getting Christmas and birthday gifts of soaps and lotions and candles from great-aunt Bertha that are not cruelty free or free of animal or other objectionable ingredients, because she's old and that's what she's been buying for decades and nobody else ever complained about them.
The server at the restaurant and the friend who hosts the dinner party you attend don't seem to understand when you try to explain to them that you don't eat anything made with chicken broth since that, too, comes from an animal, because according to them, "it's just a little broth. It's not the actual chicken."
You're asked, in all seriousness, if you can have a real Christmas tree in your home because that, too, was a living thing that was killed.
Nobody gets it when you point out the irony of an aquarium serving tuna fish in their cafeteria. Or, if they do, they laugh and go right back to eating their tuna fish and talking about wanting to see the sharks at the aquarium.
You're asked if you can eat ________ (fill in some random vegetable or fruit) because the person asking is confused about what veg*ans actually eat.
Someone tells you they knew you were a veg*an because you LOOK veg*an.
Someone is completely surprised that you're veg*an because "You don't look veg*an, at all."
Your mother insists on announcing to absolutely everyone, everywhere, that you're veg*an, despite the fact that you can tell people yourself, you don't want to make a big deal about it, and you don't think it's necessary for certain people to know about it.
Someone offers you something you can actually eat, such accidentally vegan cookies, and then suddenly changes his or her mind, saying, "Oh, I forgot, you don't eat these", without asking YOU if you can eat them. When you say you CAN eat those, they're completely confused.
