[100% veg*n ] Confessions of a teenage meat eater

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Maybe some people aren't willing to completely disassociate themselves from

those that have brought them up...helped them out..made them what they are

today.

 

To say you have little common ground is nonsensical...you are made of/by

your family as well as your environment. I am with who I choose...my partner

(who isn't vegan..though she is trying, if I had left her it would be

another possible vegan gone by the wayside because of an extremist view),

but I don't deny the existence of or refuse to associate myself with my

family just because they continue to eat meat.

 

Do some of you only talk,socialise...smile at vegans...what happens if you

are having a pleasant chat with someone, maybe a stranger, and then you find

out they aren't vegan...do you spit on them..get up and walk away. Have you

been vegans all your life or did you once eat meat.....? How did you find

out about veganism...it sure as hell wasn't from scary fundamentalist

refusing to tell you about it...

 

And if vegans only interacted with other vegans how would you work on

changing the way the world works...by hiding in a broom cupboard and

refusing to share your thoughts with others who haven't 'seen the light'

 

Sorry but I find your " lets try thinking out of the box a bit here " attitude

patronising and the hatred some people feel for others is disgusting and

little better than race hatred.

 

gggrrrrr...rant over!!

 

gareth

 

 

 

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> irene_lucy [sMTP:irene.lucy]

> Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:56 AM

> vegan-network

> [100% veg*n ] Re: Confessions of a teenage meat eater

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> I mostly agree with Brad about how I feel about animal eaters.

>

> And I just have to say this.

>

> What is wrong with vegans being as substitute family to one another

> anyway?

>

> If we work on building strong bonds between vegans, then we don't

> have to deal so much with biological family where we have little

> common ground.

>

> Now who will be my kids' ungodparents and raise them vegan if hubby

> and I die? I want vegans to do that, not biological family who are

> omnis.

>

> What is family anyway? It should be possible for it to be who you

> choose! Let's try thinking out of the box a bit here.

>

> Lesley

>

> (Lesley Dove-free? Pah!)

>

>

> vegan-network, Gareth Pashley <gpashley@b...> wrote:

> > I was just wondering Brad...are all of your family vegan or do you

> treat

> > them with the same amount of hate that you reserve for the rest of

> the

> > world's meat-eaters/non-vegans. If they are vegan you are very

> lucky to have

> > been brought up in such an environment but may have different

> experiences

> > than most of us have had and not had to deal with the same issues.

> If they

> > aren't vegan have you cut yourself off from them??

> >

> > Gareth Pashley

>

>

[Guest guest]

" I accepted them as they were,non-vegans "

 

 

so why do you and others find it so hard to accept other people as they

are...much as you feel the rage against the killing you accepted your

parents.......

 

 

 

Gareth Pashley

Periodicals, Dorset House Library

Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB

tel:01202 595053

gpashley

 

" Beneath the pavement, the beach "

 

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> kiwi2000 [sMTP:kiwi2000]

> Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:06 PM

> vegan-network

> Re: [100% veg*n ] Re: Confessions of a teenage meat eater

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> Garth,

> what you see is not hate, it's rage against the killing. My

> parents are dead. I did not hate them. I accepted them as they were,

> non-vegans. I don't have much to do with my extended family I guess

> partially, though not totally, because they are non-vegans, and into

> mostly mainstream bullshit. I don't hate people. I hate killing.

> Brad

>

>

[Guest guest]

who are these vegan hating vegans???

 

 

 

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> kiwi2000 [sMTP:kiwi2000]

> Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:11 PM

> vegan-network

> Re: [100% veg*n ] Re: Confessions of a teenage meat eater

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> I find it strange that we have vegan hating vegans among us.

> I don't understand that. If you're a vegan and don't like vegans, where

> does that leave you but totally alone.

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> irene_lucy

> vegan-network

> Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:19 AM

> [100% veg*n ] Re: Confessions of a teenage meat eater

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> Why did that sound like hell for you? You prefer animal eaters and

> smokers over non-smoking vegans do you? You would not have been

> invited unless you were a vegan and a non-smoker presumably. Which

> community was that anyway? Is it still in existence do you know?

> Sounds OK to me! Does it include families? Or was this before you had

> a family?

> Anyway to be like family, I mean like extended family, really close

> friends and neighbours, not necessarily living under the same roof.

> We would love some friendly vegans in the next few streets, that

> would be my ideal type of vegan community situation, not totally

> living on top of one another, sort of the middle ground, not isolated

> and not oppressively in one another's faces either. How does that

> sound to you?

>

> Lesley

>

> vegan-network, " quercusrobur2002 " <grahamburnett@b...>

> wrote:

> > I have to say that I was once invited to join a non-smoking vegan

> > community... I'm afraid it sounded like my personal vision of

> hell :-

> > )

> >

> >

> > >

> > > What is wrong with vegans being as substitute family to one

> > another

> > > anyway?

> > >

> > > If we work on building strong bonds between vegans, then we don't

> > > have to deal so much with biological family where we have little

> > > common ground.

> > >

>

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[Guest guest]

Who hates vegans here?

 

vegan-network, kiwi2000 <kiwi2000@o...> wrote:

> I find it strange that we have vegan hating vegans among us.

> I don't understand that. If you're a vegan and don't like vegans,

where does that leave you but totally alone.