Hi everyone! Thank you for reading.
So, just this month I have decided to go completely vegan. I had already stopped eating most animal products, but wanted to take it all the way so I can 100% support what veganism stands for.
On Christmas day, my boyfriend and I usually go to his mother’s house for a Christmas breakfast.
As I have noticed from past years, this consists of lots of bacon, eggs, steak, cheese, sausages, etc.
Just the thought of it made me sick, so I prepared a large container of fruit for myself that I would bring along and eat – watermelon, mango, cherry tomatoes, nectarine, blueberries, etc.
Obviously everyone was asking me questions about my ‘fruit box’ -.-
My boyfriend’s mother asked me “but what about the babies?” Confused, I said..what babies?? And she said “the babies you’re going to have? What will they eat? How will they get all their nutrients?” Okay, BACK UP! First of all, I am 22 years old and I have no intention of having babies anytime soon. I have 2 cats. They are my babies. This made me a bit angry. The Earth has provided us with all of the nutrients that we need. I would have liked to ask her how she received any nutrition AT ALL in the bacon, eggs and sausages that she had for breakfast with the others.
Now, the one that made me really angry, was her partner. She told him “victoria isn’t eating meat anymore.” To which he replied, “why??! What’s wrong with MEAT?!” sounding as though I was some crazy freak.
I really wanted to ask him, WHAT ISNT WRONG WITH IT????
My boyfriend’s brother also said, “if you don’t eat meat, there’s something wrong with you.”
A girl I went to school with sent me a snapchat of her steak, saying “fk being a vegan, this tastes too good”. After I defended veganism on a rather rude facebook status she made, she blocked me…
I just cannot stand how people can just blurt out things like this and then try to defend their meat-eating habits.
