The child-hating vegans are at it again

[Guest guest]

I have already heard it from two separate sources that a vegan friend

of mine with her toddler had to deal with intolerant attitudes at

London Vegans Monthly Meeting this week.

 

Seems it is OK for people to bring dogs to meetings, even though dogs

can be left at home for a certain amount of time, whereas children

who are being raised with vegan values and whose parents want them to

be part of the vegan community are not welcomed by a few rabid and

vociferous child-haters (these people are fortuntely not the majority

but they are influential). What a funny old world it is. I think it

is the child-haters who should stop oppressing parents, often single

parents, and nearly always women. If they can't tolerate that a wide

variety of lifestyles are acceptable within vegan groups, including

being a family with young children, they should get the hell out of a

group like London Vegans which is not a specific childfree group, and

start their own specifically childfree group! Problem solved! Leave

London Vegans to the families and those who are accepting of kids.

Homophobia and racism would not be tolerated in LV I am pretty sure,

so why are parents and small children treated as social pariahs and

the offending intolerants allowed to get away with this

discrimination?

 

I am feeling as mad as hell, although I was not at the meeting

myself! The speaker was from Baby Milk Action, so it would have been

expected that mothers would be there with young children. My friend

had as much or even more right to be there with her child than the

small number of child-intolerants who made it unpleasant for her. So

how dare these people behave this way? Shame on them.

 

Lesley