Lackadaisical Vegans
By freak369
@freak369 (5112)
United States
February 15, 2016 7:25pm CST
I am always amazed at the ignorance of some people. Several of my friends are vegan meaning they do not eat anything animal based (meat) or anything made from animals (butter, milk, eggs, cheese etc). That's a pretty strict diet and if you don't know what you are consuming it could be extremely easy to screw your body up from a lack of protein or vitamins / minerals.
When I saw one of the vegans eating Tootsie Rolls I asked her when they started making a vegan friendly version and immediately she stopped chewing. With probably five or six of the midgees in her mouth she asked me what I meant. Tootsie Rolls contain milk (condensed skim milk) so for her to sit there and eat them was kind of funny. Don't lecture me about eating me and how horrible animals are treated when you can't even flip a bag over and read the ingredients.
One of the absolute best 'vegan moments' came when another friend was sitting at her desk eating a Jell-O gelatin cup. All gelatin contains collagen which is procured from the bones and marrow of animals (mainly cows). I've known for years what is in gelatin and how it is made so for someone that claims to love animals so much that they pass on anything made from animals or animal by-products to sit there and eat gelatin – it's pretty hysterical. On a side note, flan is also a non-vegan friendly food since most recipes call for condensed skim milk, eggs and evaporated milk.
There are numerous websites that people can go to and read massive lists of foods that are not allowed if you are following a vegan diet so there's really no excuse. Claiming "I didn't know" isn't exactly applicable when websites and other resources exist to check the ingredients of food and products.
Do you have a special diet that you follow?
Are you a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore?
Would you convert to veganism for your spouse?
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
16 Feb 16
I am a vegetarian, not a vegan, and have been all my life. My wife of 30 years is not a vegetarian and we get on just fine, I also get on fine with all her family. That said I do not criticise what other people eat, no matter what they declare themselves to be.
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
16 Feb 16
My former neighbor was a vegetarian and his girlfriend (then wife) was not. They did eat a lot of tofu but when I was throwing something on the grill I could see her practically slobbering in the window of her kitchen. I always offered her a burger or beef hot dog and she never turned it down LOL
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
16 Feb 16
@freak369 Personally I do not like Tofu, for that alone I am glad I am not a vegan. I have been vegetarian since the age of 3 so have never known anything different. I do eat fish and always have as a means of eating protein. You could offer me a burger of hot dog (unless it was a veggie one) and it would not interest me, it really only interests those who have eaten meat as an adult.
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
17 Feb 16
@pgiblett I could eat tofu every day; I add extra cubes to my miso soup and bread it and fry it to make my own version of tofu in garlic sauce. I guess if you were raised not eating meat then there wouldn't be an appeal to it. Do you eat chicken too or just fish?
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
16 Feb 16
There are times when we don't have meat but its never something that I plan, it just sort of happens. When I go on a salad kick everyone else has to deal with it or fend for themselves. I will buy a pound of ham, turkey and roast beef and have the deli slice it into four slices per pound then when I get home all I have to do is cube it and put it in a divided container so everyone can pick what they want in their salads (I do the same thing with cucumbers, carrots, beets, corn etc)
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@rebelann (117224)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Feb 16
I was born an ominivore and see no reason to change that. No I don't eat meat or fish everyday, but I do love cheese, sour cream and milk. One thing I have done is put myself on an all ORGANIC diet, at least these animals were treated humanely.
I do sometimes wonder if it wouldn't just be better to let cattle roam free and become wild so that all those "men" with their toys can go out and hunt them down, hunting afterall is an age old method to gain meat, of course we'd still need some way to get the milk for cheese and sour cream.
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
16 Feb 16
If I had to wait for a man to go out and hunt something for dinner, well, I'd be eating a lot of salads. Sadly I am / was the hunter of the family but it will be a while before I can head back to the woods in stealth mode
@freak369 (5112)
• United States
16 Feb 16
It's the cool thing - to sit there and announce that you are vegan and want to make sure that there's no meat in whatever you are ordering. If you are going to be a meat nazi with the intent of impressing people it isn't going to happen with me. I respect everyone's right to choose but when parents force kids to eat vegetarian or vegan and they have NO clue what a kid needs nutritionally then I see it as nothing more than child abuse
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
16 Feb 16
@JudyEv At fifteen he's gotten the nutrition needed to grow strong bones and provide the vitamins, minerals, protein etc needed for brain development and muscle growth. I tried being a vegetarian when I was a teen and that lasted about four days. Then again, I also tried not eating and that lasted about four hours LOL
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@JudyEv (382021)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Feb 16
@freak369 Our son became vegetarian at about 15 but he had done all the research about nutritional needs. He eats meat sometimes now. I agree with you that parents should not be forcing their kids to be one thing or the other while they're growing up. At some point they can choose for themselves.
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@teamfreak16 (43586)
• Denver, Colorado
16 Feb 16
Vegan is just too strict for my tastes, so it would be very hard to switch for anyone. I did once stop eating red meat for six years, why I did this I have no idea.
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
16 Feb 16
Maybe it was love LOL. A lot of the people I know that are vegan or vegetarian are reluctant and complain about it but do it to please their significant other. Why make yourself miserable - you will probably end up resenting the person because they 'made' you give up something
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