That's good to hear.

Yeah, kinda. He said that the ribs he ate were actually from a cow, and I guess that was supposed to be better, somehow? There is sometimes such a huge chasm between the way I think and the thoughts of the meat-eaters around me, even the ones I really like, that it leaves me feeling really confused.

I'm going to give you bad but friendly advice. Don't listen to that teacher. Don't tell your folks I said to do that.

I think you meant was, He "forgot" you were a vegan and was making a joke.

Ah, another day another insecure A-hole. What is it with all this "Meat is manly Bull ****" that goes around?

Today I was called "less of a man" because I don't eat the flesh of other living creatures. Apparently, eating a piece of murdered flesh makes one a "man". So, I kindly asked this "Man" if it was manly to bully someone for being less smarter than oneself. He of course said no, but the way he said it made me lose some faith in mankind. >_>

"No, but animals like cows and chickens would kill us if we didn't kill them".

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I couldn't slap my face any harder. In fact, I hurt my face from that slap though the pain of said slap was nothing like the pain of brain cells committing suicide.

So I simply told him that I, along with many others, choose to be the animals protector; not oppressor. He ended up just sucking his teeth and walking off.

I really, REALLY hope this guys way of thinking was just a singular belief. Thinking that Cows and chickens want to kill us is just....I don't.....I can't...O_o

C'mon, cows and chickens!

Chickens are deadly man ... you have to be careful.

So it wasn't someone saying it but while on Pinterest today, I came across a picture of a man decked in camoflauge head to toe holding up a deer head that said:

"Hey vegetarians, this ******* was eating your food. Don't worry, I took care of him."

I think it was supposed to be funny, but just came off as obnoxious and rude to me.

Maybe you should show him a picture of hungry people and then a pig, saying: "this animal is eating their food".


(Ok, ok, ok.... it is not as "funny" as the deer)

Much more accurate.

I hate the "cows and deer eat your food" joke. Humans can't digest grass. If anything, other primates are eating our food.

Something like this

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Cows and Chickens certainty do not want to kill us. I petted a couple of cows and they were very friendly and sweet. They actually seemed happy someone was paying attention to them :P




So I saw a comment online yesterday that there is nothing wrong with eating animals because people kill other people and the person began to explain how ISIL kills people and how other random groups of people and serial killers kill people. I couldn't get over the stupidity of that comment. The person then went on a rant about how vegetarians care so much about animals but not the Christians being slaughtered in Syria or the massacre of babies in doctors offices here.

I found this link advising to be kind to animals. I have no problem with being kind to animals, but this was the first thing that caught my eye.

BUYING HUMANELY RAISED PRODUCTS

I will seek out eggs, meat, and dairy products that are humanely raised, such as American Humane CertifiedTM products, helping to ensure the welfare of 10 billion farm animals.

Um, how about...not eating animals at all??!! Wouldn't that be kinder?

Dude, you're slapping the wrong face.

My ex posted this as a response to me and my boyfriend being vegetarians:
"If you say you love animals, but all you eat is the animals food, you're also disconnected from reality. There's a food chain. Humans are on top. If you choose to slide down, good for you, but don't be a righteous dick about it."

Glad he's your ex, I'll bet!

Just respond with appropriate comics:

You know, I'm saving this picture. Might use it for later~

I really need this on my facebook wall.

Omnivore "logic" when trying to argue pro meat AND pro exotic pet trade-

"We should breed exotic animals prolifically for pets [most people are unwilling/incapable of caring for]. Then they won't extinct AND we don't have to stop deforesting their natural habitat for meat production. Win-Win!".

Here's one from a site I go to. They are supposed to be progressives. From an article about what you do and don't like from the day and article:

Me:

Don't really like Greenpeace or most environmental organizations. They ignore the biggest contributor to global climate change: animal agriculture.

Jeers to Proctor and Gamble. They test on animals and use animal products in their products.
Jeers to McDonald's and eggs. Chickens are horribly kept, even in "cage free" facilities, they are bred to produce way more eggs in a given year than they do naturally, and eggs are just not good for you. And the baby boy chicks ...
Cheers to Bernie Sanders
Cheers to a beautiful day.
Cheers to veganism.



Others:


I get eggs from the orchard down the street

where the rooster is outnumbered by all the chickens to one, where they stroll around in the grass, and the baby boy chicks grow up to be handsome roosters, but only in suitable surroundings for such magnificent animals.

I love a lot of foods that aren't good for me.

Lots of breakfast foods are on that list, beginning with eggs. Then there's sausage, bacon, butter, cheese, coffee, sugar, jelly, scones, pastries... Mmm mmm mmm.

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OK, seriously!

The ominavore is also an idiot because the word "checkmate" LITTERALLy means endgame.
He means "check" if he was smart.

And fun fact: # means "checkmate" in chess notation.

Here is a *real* gem from the ongoing debate about phasing out captive pets on another forum I'm on (since pets are somehow better than preventing habitat loss for wild animals):

Ya, us vegans and animal rights activists really hate animals. You know, for wanting for them to be able to live a natural life in their natural habitat instead of only existing as captive pets... Because infringing upon your right to the consumeristic omnivorous lifestyle that contributes to habitat loss for wild animals just isn't going to work. And no one is suggesting discontinuing professional conservation programs geared toward species protection and captive breeding of endangered species for eventual re-release to the wild. This is WHY I rarely argue with meat eaters- they are SO *!#@$%!* stupid you'd have a more intellectual discussion with a tree.

When I lived in Japan I had a host family, didn't live with them because I was living in a dormitory, but sometimes we would meet up. My friend and I were supposed to go out with my host family once and the father suggested that we go to the zoo. I told him, you know, I don't like seeing caged animals, I don't like the zoo. He didn't understand at first, though I told him both in English and Japanese, also showed him on my dictionary, my friend also tried to explain to him, but he thought I don't like BIG animals. So after a lot more explanation, he finally got it, thought for a bit, then he suggested the aquarium. Now this is the point where I just thought of it as really funny, cause it's the exact same thing. So after more explanation, he just said okay, let's go to the beach side. And at the beach side, there were some merchants selling sea food, I had to explain to him AGAIN that mussels and whatever animal-kingdom-seashell-animals they had there are also animals and I don't eat them (told my family before that I don't eat meat), so he laughed, as if I was saying something crazy. I didn't want to be unpolite and tell him to check a biology book, but I did tell him that they are not vegetables, they live.

So okay, he didn't buy any for me, but then we went to the restaurant where we met with the mother. And I told them again that I don't eat meat, so they were trying to find something in the menu that doesn't have meat and at a point the mother just said "So no meat... but chicken is okay, right?" I was like what the hell, dude, again, a really funny situation I thought, cause to me it seems like a ridiculously easy to understand thing, but I guess it's the cultural difference. But I'll never forget the "no meat, but chicken okay" thing, it was hilarious.

This isn't really stupid but it just made me uncomfortable. I'm taking an Arabic culture class at my university and we were doing a unit about Arab hospitably and people were sharing stories about hospitality and they were all really nice stories. Anyway this one woman told how she was at party once and that a man slaughtered his PET horse to feed guests, and I think I was the only one that cringed on that and another story was about how a rich man had given a full sheep to each person individually at his party, I just couldn't imagine how much was wasted and how unnecessarily it was

That's awful! And quite frankly repulsive.


Today I went out to lunch with my family.
And the food was good, I guess. We had fried tomatoes.
Chef: how did you like the BACON Dusted green tomatoes?

And when I told him "I'm a vegetarian."

He made the worst comment: "don't worry. The one you're eating might not be bacon dusted."

*puke emoji*

No, I don't think it's a cultural difference, because it happens ALL THE TIME to me in the US. After many years of this, I've come to a conclusion about WHY people think chicken (or fish or turkey) is okay, but other meat (cow, pig, lamb) is not is this: they're thinking in terms of people who do not eat red meat for health reasons. They're NOT thinking in terms of people who don't eat sentient beings because we don't want to participate in the animal cruelty involved in 'harvesting' their flesh.

The one that really bothers me is when someone posts a photo of a ton of meat (steak, burgers, what have you) and say "THIS is why I cannot be vegetarian".

Yeah. You so can. You just choose not to. Lol.

Also I had one of my longtime friends almost delete me from Facebook because I went on a photo-posting tirade where I would post photos of animals in factory farms and say "THIS is why I don't eat meat". She complained that I was suddenly an "overnight vegan who is trying to shove it down people's throats" and say how it is "hard" for people to give up meat and I was annoying her. I told people that they should give up meat because they challened my vegetarianism. xP.

I've been vegetarian for two months. I am not vegan. It didn't happen overnight. I wasn't trying to shove anything down anyone's throats. I was simply doing what meat-eaters do, but in reverse.

Oh oh oh my FAVOURITE. People whining about that dog eating festival in China and how it was so inhumane and cruel, yet they still shove their faces full of cows, chicken, lamb, seafood, turkey, and other things. Hypocritical, much?