My roommate (thank God it is the end of the school year and we'll no longer live together) insists on proving to me why a vegan diet is a bad idea. Her first words on my stating that I was going vegan: "you can't do that, you need milk to survive!" Subsequent protests include the religious ones I spoke of in another post, the essence of which is: "God put them here for us to eat."
Now she's sent me this sweetheart of a website:
http://www.westonaprice.org/myths_tr...tarianism.html
which also includes links to some more wonderful sites about why vegetarianism and veganism, in particular, are a load of...ahem...animal wasts product.
I am getting so annoyed. My family has mostly been good about it; aside from some good-natured teasing they've been quite supportive.
I've done my research - I can refute nearly anything thrown at me, especially when the majority of it contains logical holes big enough to drive a truck through. I try not to force my opinions on anyone else; in fact, I studiously avoid it unless asked. But when they DO ask and I DO explain, half the time they act like I'm ATTACKING them.
I am the only vegan I know besides you guys. I guess I just need to hear that this is not futile and I am not crazy.
Now she's sent me this sweetheart of a website:
http://www.westonaprice.org/myths_tr...tarianism.html
which also includes links to some more wonderful sites about why vegetarianism and veganism, in particular, are a load of...ahem...animal wasts product.
I am getting so annoyed. My family has mostly been good about it; aside from some good-natured teasing they've been quite supportive.
I've done my research - I can refute nearly anything thrown at me, especially when the majority of it contains logical holes big enough to drive a truck through. I try not to force my opinions on anyone else; in fact, I studiously avoid it unless asked. But when they DO ask and I DO explain, half the time they act like I'm ATTACKING them.
I am the only vegan I know besides you guys. I guess I just need to hear that this is not futile and I am not crazy.