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This thread is full of armchair psychologists. I'm not sure why it's necessary to criticize what people do or do not eat. Frankly, I don't really care what other people choose to put in their mouths, and I wish other people would stop worrying so much about what I put in mine. Nothing diminishes my appetite more than sitting down to a meal with someone who would rather comment on the content of my plate than on being good company.
I spend nearly every holiday meal with an older relative who makes snide remarks about my family's food choices. I wish I could get it through her thick skull that every sideways glance and admonishment is slowly destroying her relationship with her only grandchildren. I wish she understood that these children she loves so dearly dread spending time with her because of the way she behaves. Every friggin' family meal eventually includes some nasty comment about why one isn't eating the meat and another hasn't taken a veg.
Here's my advice. Shut up about the way other people nourish themselves. Seriously. Just mind your own business, and focus on having a pleasant conversation when you share a meal with others.
And it goes the other way, too. Keep quiet about others' choices to enjoy the meat we were designed to consume and digest, and enjoy your veggies, and all is fine! Refrain from comments like the ones included in your post above, and you won't be the ugly table companion described in the post you claim to agree with.
I'll repeat what I said in the post you are referring to. "I don't care what you eat." I'd enjoy dinner with you in all likelihood and vice versa. Pork and beans, just on two separate plates. Merry Christmas.
And it goes the other way, too. Keep quiet about others' choices to enjoy the meat we were designed to consume and digest, and enjoy your veggies, and all is fine! Refrain from comments like the ones included in your post above, and you won't be the ugly table companion described in the post you claim to agree with.
But we aren't at a "table". This is called city data where registered users are free to express their views even though you may find it "ugly". Not the place to tell people to "refrain from comments like the ones included in your post above".
Back to the "ugly table companion"....you have a choice to eat/not eat with such a person that is making comments you don't agree with/get you flustered. If you are eating with such critical people/it bothers you so much, again, you have a simple solution at your disposal....don't dine/eat with such people. "Problem" solved! I think that you can also put certain users on "ignore" here on citydata if you find their views "ugly". Personally, my skin isn't so thin to be bothered about it all as you but that's how I approach life. I have friends who call me a "tree root eater" when they are eating what they eat and I'm eating what I eat. I just laugh. When people ask me what I feel are silly questions on what I eat/why do I eat the way I do, sometimes I'll joke and tell them I eat birdseed. And I'll joke right back to people like that and tell people who eat certain things that I hope they have a good cardiologist on their speed dial.
I don't see the need to insult people whether IRL or online. Its not right.
You've spent some time on this on-line forum. Insults seem to be the most common form of communication in internet forums
That said - insults float both ways from vegans and from meat-eaters, from Democrats and Republicans, from Working Moms and SAHM's, from Parents and the Child Free . . . . .
I would love to see these same people when they are in their 40s or 50s thinking about how stupid they were during their college years.
the angry vegans??
lots of young ladies are confused, misled, and short-sighted, they want to be well meaning not hurting any animal....
many college age vegans grow out of trying to be a vegan... my niece was one for a few months and had health issues, and started eating meat again and felt better
ive also seen kids of vegans go absolutely nuts when they go to college and indulge in meats/fast foods, all the foods they were shamed about
It's OK to suggest to people that contributing to the suffering of innocent animals and destroying the earth by "farming" them is NOT OK. Good grief, it's lunacy to advocate for such a thing. If someone want to kill themselves in the bargain, that's fine, more power to them, but stop killing the poor animals. People everywhere should speak out about this, and call out the ones that are creating horrible suffering through their ignorance and greed.
You've spent some time on this on-line forum. Insults seem to be the most common form of communication in internet forums
That said - insults float both ways from vegans and from meat-eaters, from Democrats and Republicans, from Working Moms and SAHM's, from Parents and the Child Free . . . . .
Speaking personally I try very hard not to insult others even when I disagree with them. I'd like the same respect in return.
It's OK to suggest to people that contributing to the suffering of innocent animals and destroying the earth by "farming" them is NOT OK. Good grief, it's lunacy to advocate for such a thing. If someone want to kill themselves in the bargain, that's fine, more power to them, but stop killing the poor animals. People everywhere should speak out about this, and call out the ones that are creating horrible suffering through their ignorance and greed.
No, it is not, not at the dinner table. Your agenda is inappropriate dinner table conversation. I have vegetarian friends and I cook for them if they are coming to a party at my house (see earlier posts) and my late best friend was a vegetarian (health reasons). However, if any of them had decided that it was "OK" for them to harangue (suggest to) other friends or me about diet, either way, mind, they would not have been invited to my house or to eat out with me and anyone else again, because they would have made it clear that they were lacking in the most basic of good manners and that it was, indeed, all about them in their mind and everyone else should emulate them.
That's not OK. Especially when it's based on a lack of knowledge.
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And I'll joke right back to people like that and tell people who eat certain things that I hope they have a good cardiologist on their speed dial.
