Have you ever had a similar-minded friend who suddenly changed? My ex-roomate used to go between being vegan/vegetarian and was always talking about animal welfare, animal rights etc, but then she started changing. She started eating fish and seafood again, despite the fact that she's watched documentaries about over-fishing and the like, and used to talk about how horrible and bad it was.
She also hated the horse-racing industry because of the terrible treatment of horses and because of the hundreds of thousands of horses bred and killed in the industry every year, then last year she went with a group of friends TO the racing. She kept coming up with all these excuses like "I didn't want to go, it was peer pressure, my friends wanted to go" etc and it all sounded like such bull**** to me. If you really were as against it as you said, then no amount of your friends asking you would make you go.
And to top it off, she changed her profile picture on FB to a photo of her at the races. If it really was peer-pressure and all of that, then she would have been ashamed/embarrassed of going and wouldn't be showing off the fact that she did go to everyone.
We have really drifted apart recently, even though we used to be close, and I'm starting to wonder whether I even want to try and keep the friendship going. I don't like to judge others on things like this, and I'm close friends with heaps of meat-eaters and people who unknowingly support cruel events, but they do it unknowingly. I think this effects me more strongly because she was so informed, watched all the documentaries, spoke out about it, always talked about how forward she was for animal rights etc, now she seems to have gone back on everything. At least my other friends who do those things never pretend to be anything they are not.
Has anyone else ever been in a situation like this?
She also hated the horse-racing industry because of the terrible treatment of horses and because of the hundreds of thousands of horses bred and killed in the industry every year, then last year she went with a group of friends TO the racing. She kept coming up with all these excuses like "I didn't want to go, it was peer pressure, my friends wanted to go" etc and it all sounded like such bull**** to me. If you really were as against it as you said, then no amount of your friends asking you would make you go.
And to top it off, she changed her profile picture on FB to a photo of her at the races. If it really was peer-pressure and all of that, then she would have been ashamed/embarrassed of going and wouldn't be showing off the fact that she did go to everyone.
We have really drifted apart recently, even though we used to be close, and I'm starting to wonder whether I even want to try and keep the friendship going. I don't like to judge others on things like this, and I'm close friends with heaps of meat-eaters and people who unknowingly support cruel events, but they do it unknowingly. I think this effects me more strongly because she was so informed, watched all the documentaries, spoke out about it, always talked about how forward she was for animal rights etc, now she seems to have gone back on everything. At least my other friends who do those things never pretend to be anything they are not.
Has anyone else ever been in a situation like this?