its a long one, but maybe now people will be less hasty in thier arguments

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im conforming, but ill have to copy and paste... note: i am not criticising

this email at all, i agree wholeheartedly! just wanted to add some comments,

see if i can clear some things up.

 

" all that I've written in my responses are things that I would NEVER

say or suggest to non-vegans. Simply because, more often than not, many

non-vegans take veganism as a personal attack. My family is carnivorous,

my friends maybe eat one carrot a month as their maximum vegetable intake

and, no, I don't shove veganism into their face because I know it would

backfire. "

 

i agree. i mean, ive converted many of my friends, but because they are

m friends they are interested in why im not eating the same things they

are, why i have a carton of soy milk on my tray instead of regular milk

in a glass... etc... maybe my friends are more curious, but they asked,

i answered, and most of them either became veggie or vegan. guess i must

be prety good at this whole vegan advocation thing... i would never accost

random people, ask them if they eat meat, then degrade them for it! i

advocate animal rights by more subtle and less annoying ways. shur i

might not always want to talk to people who eat meat, but maybe i failed

to mention, IM FROM TEXAS. the beef capitol of the world. its very easy

to be annoyed with meat-eaters in texas. but instead of becomming a hermit,

i organised a group of like minded individuals and we tabled at my university's

union. we did this year round and we never forced people to come talk

to us. i LOVE converting people, id love to convert the whole world,

but i know its unrealistic.

 

 

 

" As far as food goes, I never give the people at the table a lecture

about the cruelty of the meat industry - it's pointless, all that would

do is turn people off and give them a bad impression on vegans "

 

i have lectured at the table before, but only when provoked. and never

with my friends! if people ask a question, i answer it. if people provoke

me, im going to explain to them why i think vegan is the right thing

to do.

 

" my mom LOVES fur - she comes home with bags full of fur jackets every

winter and admires herself in the mirror with the skin wrapped around

her. She still asks me how she looks and I tell her, " You look good,

mom. " "

 

good for you! personally fur gives me the creeps. and my parents are

closed minded about the vegan thing. i totally agree with you that its

pointless to lecgture people who dont want to hear. i just wish my parents

would stop lecturing ME about why veganism is bad. they know its not

going to change my mind. i also wish they would stop spiking my food

with animal products, cos it makes me phsycially ill. i believe that

falls under FORCING their beliefs on me, and i think its sad.

 

 

" MY vegan foods always have meat as close neighbors and the stink of

meat is unbearable. "

 

=[ same goes for me in a flat with 5 other meat-eaters. we recently

got a new flatmate. she asks me questions about vegetarianism, and when

im done answering she says 'well i dont care anyway cos im not vegetarian'.

what the point in asking then? i much prefer living by myself with my

pans that only i have cooked with, a fridge that only contains animal

friendly foods... but as thats not likely to happen for a while, i have

to just deal with it (but i dont have to LIKE dealing with it, which

has been my whole point in this little stint)

 

" What I'm trying to say is this: I only wrote what I wrote because I

thought it 'safe' for me express my true feelings here. So...I was quite

shocked to get the responses that I got... "

 

DEFINITELY. i know my first email that caused all this was a bit harsh

on our meat-eating human counterparts... i even dabated putting a little

disclaimer at the end explaining that id been kept up all night by the

drunken heathens downstairs banging on the walls until 4 in the morning.

and ever since one of my flatmates broke her leg, i get phonecalls from

her (even tho the walls are so thin i can hear her talking ANYWAY) asking

me to do this that and the other for her. not exactly an atmosphere conducive

to sanity if you ask me.

spiggy

 

 

 

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