Buying meat for other people

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone,

 

Thank you for your thoughts. I'm sorry to clog the board with this

issue. I know I should probably just buy them what they ask for, for

gosh sakes! I mean what else can I do? It is their money, their

lives. I feel like I am buying them poison or something. I stopped in

the grocery store and looked at the ingredients on a Lunchable. It

was very scary. Felt like it took me at least five minutes to read

through what was in those things.

Ya know, my dad quit smoking a year ago, when he was diagnosed with

COPD. Yay for him for quitting smoking. I'm very proud of him. He

smoked for 40 years 2-3 packs a day (no this is not an exaggeration).

Nothing I would say (even as a young child who would cry when he

smoked around me) could change his mind. It had to come from him.

But, I never would have bought him a pack of cigarettes. Ever. I feel

like the foods they eat aren't much different. If I buy it, I'm

contributing to their rapid health decline. Can I live with that?

Guess only I can make that decision. Seems I've exhausted all other

alternatives. My parents won't listen to a thing I say about food.

Even though they can see how wonderful a vegan diet is for me, I

don't ever see them embracing it themselves.

My dad just got out of the hospital. In the hospital he was on a

" heart diet " . It was vegetarian, almost vegan. He could only eat

Garden Burgers, veggie pizza, rice pilaf, etc. Virtually NO animal

products. His desert choices were limited as well. So much so he told

me he was going to go down the elevator to the next floor (this was a

big no-no he could only walk the floor he was on), and get candy bars

from the vending machine. Did he do it? I can't know for sure, but

probably. He was also frustrated that I wouldn't just sneak him a

candy bars in the hospital.

All the while he was in the hospital he told me that he couldn't

understand what not eating meat had to do with his heart. " Meat

affects your colon, not your heart. " he tells me. Sigh. I tried to

explain the affects meat could have on the heart and he flat out told

me that he will NEVER stop eating meat. So, I guess I've done what I

can here. I love my parents and want them to be around a long time,

it just bothers me so much they don't want the same for themselves.

He said in the hospital that he lost some weight and was feeling

great. He attributes all of this to the high doses of meds they have

him on, not his diet at all. Sign again.

 

Thanks for all the ideas and support. I don't want whatever time I

have left with my parents to be adversarial, but I'd like to have a

long time left with them too.

 

Kendrah:)