i have a friend who calls herself vegetarian and rants about how much she luvs animals and is against animal cruelty and turns her nose up at people who disagree with her.....but it turns out she is not vegetarian.....on several occasions i hav seen her eating meat.
im just wondering if anyone else has a friend like this.
its her choice what she eats altho i disagree with it.....but it bothers me that she puts others down for eating meat cheese etc wen she does it herself.
the way she speaks to ppl about this kind of thing is very nasty and i think its abit wrong for her to make others feel bad then go out and buy a burger or meat pizza.
i am vegan but i don't try to push my beliefs on anyone and i certainly don't say nasty things to ppl bcoz they don't feel the same way i do.
she upsets ppl & i just wish she wouldn't.
I know what you mean. Whether or not someone is veg/vegan, it is never effective to criticise others.
I've met plenty of people who are angry about how animals are treated (which is understandable) and who direct that anger at the people around them who don't know what they know. This is much more likely to turn someone off, than inspire them to make compassionate choices.
We can be much more effective advocating for animals by being upbeat, positive people, and by being supportive and encouraging of choices that help animals.
there are alot of people like that.
maybe ask her if she is vegetarian when she talks about it to others
or when she eats an animal simply show her a leaflet of what that burger was before it was a burger
We can be much more effective advocating for animals by being upbeat, positive people, and by being supportive and encouraging of choices that help animals.
I soooooo agree with you here, Jesse.
But yeh, in regards to your friend, I would just let her know that if she ever wanted to talk about being vegetarian/vegan, you're always there to talk about it and support her. You could even initiate a conversation by saying something down the lines of "omg! i think i have officially found the best vegan recipe ever! what's your favourite?" or something like that at least.
I work with a girl who calls herself vegetarian but she eats lollies and other foods that contain animal ingredients. When we have afternoon teas or when someone brings in lollies she says "you can't eat those can you" while scoffing her face. I almost turn around to say 'neither can you' but hold off.
I guess some people can be more ignorant than others when it comes to ingredients.
I work with a girl who calls herself vegetarian but she eats lollies and other foods that contain animal ingredients. When we have afternoon teas or when someone brings in lollies she says "you can't eat those can you" while scoffing her face. I almost turn around to say 'neither can you' but hold off.
I guess some people can be more ignorant than others when it comes to ingredients.
And ultimately our efforts are better put into informing others who haven't even considered what they eat. If that girl doesn't eat meat she is obviously a caring person and is already well on her way. There are so many other people who haven't even made that connection between an abused animal and the meat on their plate...
just this weekend gone my cousin said she was vegetarian and that she 'only eats chicken'. I had to laugh. It still suprises me that people think they are vegetarian even though they still eat meat.
Its often a hard thing to talk about with others, and trying to push your views doesnt help that much either, as we all know. I agree its often best to let people open the discussion with you. Ive had a few friends and family come up and ask me about such things since they found out im now Vegan, and we happily sit around talking about the benefits. Education is the key.
I agree with what Jesse and Matt are saying, and that we should be opening new eyes and being supportive, but I wish these people would stop calling themselves vegetarian - it gives the rest of us a bad name. They like the social benefits of being vegetarian but not the behaviour expected of one.
Ive had a few friends and family come up and ask me about such things since they found out im now Vegan, and we happily sit around talking about the benefits. Education is the key.
I have a girl at work who when she found out I was a vegan asked me that many questions it made me laugh. "What do you eat?" ummm a lot of things? LOL. Every day she sends me an email "what's for lunch today?" which is just usually a salad, so nothing exciting, but when it's something "different" she's very interested. It's good to have people who are actually interested in veg*nism... it' also a very sad day when people say they are vegetarian then chomp down on a hamburger or something >_>
Oh I agree Jesse, I'm happy that she doesn't eat meat but I guess I find it a little hypocritical when I had pointed out that alot of the food she's eating contains directly sourced animal products and that the point of being a Vegetarian was to not eat these especially as she's doing it for moral reasons.
I just find it very frustrating when people get so confused about what I can and can't eat because their brothers girlfriends cousin eats fish and they think it's the norm for Vegetarians and Vegans because they call themselves that. it's like saying you're Catholic but don't believe in God or the Bible.
