...we are irresponsible: Lesley Dove

[Guest guest]

An irresponsible journalist could selectively quote

you there lesley.

 

Lesley Dove, a top vegan said:

 

" ..we are a bunch of irresponsible pot-smoking hippy

types, who are living in a 1960's time warp.

 

 

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> > A concern for me is that as vegan parents we do

have

> to try extra

> hard to make sure that our behaviour is beyond

> reproach, because

> there is so much prejudice against us already just

> for being vegan

> and we don't need the anti-vegans getting ideas that

> we are a bunch

> of irresponsible pot-smoking hippy types, who are

> living in a 1960's

> time warp. Very much easier for them to discredit us

> if they can

> accuse of being not so clear-headed as " normal "

> people.

> I am very worried about the public perception of

> vegan families,

> because like it or not some people like to lump us

> all together.

>

> Social services harrassment has recently forced one

> vegan mum and

> child from near London, off out of the country to an

> eco-village in

> France. They will probably be very happy, but it's

> not right they had

> to flee because of social services disapproval of a

> healthy, mostly

> raw food lifestyle, while in fact other parents in

> her area did all

> sorts of drugs and were completely left alone by

> social services! She

> seems such a clean-living person, it's so unfair.

> If a vegan of that sort is persecuted, how much

> worse will it be for

> those with some bad habits?

>

> It sometimes looks like social services don't

> actually care if

> parents take drugs or smoke, etc, but if the parents

> are vegan and do

> these things, it would be extra ammo for social

> services to use

> against them, even if their real concern is the

> veganism.

>

> Lesley

>

>

> > Bye Hannah - my tree comment was a joke btw. I

> have actually

> partaken of 'spliff' in the past - but maybe that

> wasn't me you were

> referring to. I haven't been involved in the drugs

> debate here being

> very uncomfortable in the role of mod.

> > I, too am sorry to see what this has all

> deteriorated into,

> >

> > Lucy

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

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