Do People Argue With You When They Find out You're A Veggie?

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Dark of the Moon

I don't disagree; but still maintain that many of the comments are argumentative. And I'll leave it at that.

Well, ones person's argumentative can be another person's constructive insight. In the circles that I run in, it is a broad spectrum of diets and accommodations are always made for those with varying dietary restrictions and nobody argues. I imagine that if somebody pressed really hard one way or the other to the point of being obnoxious and in your face about it, there very well could be. Otherwise it is a non-issue.

[BECLAZONE]

Originally Posted by jazzcat22

At lunch today, with some new people (it was a Meetup group), I revealed that I was a vegetarian. That's it. Wasn't trying to convert anyone or be holier than thou. In fact, I was just saying I was in relation to the Indian food we were eating (that when I spent a week in Belgium, Indian food saved my life because there otherwise weren't veggie options anywhere else).

One woman demanded why I don't eat fish. (Even before I turned veggie, I didn't care for the taste of fish. It always struck me as funny when people praise a fish dish for not being too fishy. I've never praised a chocolate dish for not being too chocolately---in fact just the opposite!). She then commented that there are plenty of fish in the ocean. By that way of thinking, there are plenty of chickens, cows, pigs, goats, etc. And it's not that the world can't survive without that fish/chicken/cow.....but like the starfish story, it's pretty important to that one starfish or other animal to survive and not be brutally slaughtered.

No, I'm also a fourteen stone skinhead!

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

I don't think the point was to bring the fight here but to provide a possible explanation as to why a considerable amount of arguments occur in the first place - the topic of the thread. At least that is what I took from it. Indeed, I have met some that are their own worst problem.

Originally Posted by PanTerra

Right? That is what I gathered from THL's comment, that it happens often by her writing "threads." At least enough to note it and suggest that as an plausible explanation. I think she was just making an observation of instances of that occurring.

Exactly. Numerous threads in other parts of the City-Data forum.

I do find it interesting that it's apparently okay to some here for some vegetarians from here to go into other parts of C-D, an open, public forum, and aggressively push vegetarianism and actively condemn omnivorism (is that a word?), but it's not okay for those who are not vegetarians to come here and even question. Seems like a double standard to me, and I'm not sure where it appears in the TOS that that's the case. Can somebody tell me where it is?

[Green Irish Eyes]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Exactly. Numerous threads in other parts of the City-Data forum.

I do find it interesting that it's apparently okay to some here for some vegetarians from here to go into other parts of C-D, an open, public forum, and aggressively push vegetarianism and actively condemn omnivorism (is that a word?), but it's not okay for those who are not vegetarians to come here and even question. Seems like a double standard to me, and I'm not sure where it appears in the TOS that that's the case. Can somebody tell me where it is?

Fortunately, I get the final say on this. It goes beyond asking questions and has reached the point of trolling.

And trolling IS a violation of the Terms of Service.

I suggest, once again, that everyone read the sticky at the top of this forum, as the TOS will be enforced here.

Thanks.