What is up with the vegan hate

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

Plenty of people think it’s gross to eat animal products. Sorry your mind is so narrow. Maybe it’s too much red meat affecting your brain cells.

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I’m with the earlier PP. The vast majority of humans now and throughout time have enjoyed meat. The existence of a handful of vegetarian cultures doesn’t negate that. You might have a personal neurosis with meat, but most people don’t. Latin American carne asada, Middle Eastern lamb, German sausages, Japanese braised pork belly, Chinese steamed fish, Argentinian steak with chimichurri-it’s all universally enjoyed. Sorry that grinds your gears!

Blue Zone people have very low meat content diets. Yup- it is there is print, buddy. Please, learn to research before commenting. Your comments are just embarrassing at this point.

But they are not vegan at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

Plenty of people think it’s gross to eat animal products. Sorry your mind is so narrow. Maybe it’s too much red meat affecting your brain cells.

NP

I’m with the earlier PP. The vast majority of humans now and throughout time have enjoyed meat. The existence of a handful of vegetarian cultures doesn’t negate that. You might have a personal neurosis with meat, but most people don’t. Latin American carne asada, Middle Eastern lamb, German sausages, Japanese braised pork belly, Chinese steamed fish, Argentinian steak with chimichurri-it’s all universally enjoyed. Sorry that grinds your gears!

Blue Zone people have very low meat content diets. Yup- it is there is print, buddy. Please, learn to research before commenting. Your comments are just embarrassing at this point.

I’m the PP you’re responding to and the only person who should be embarrassed is you. They enjoy omnivorous diets, like the vast majority of people on this earth. This isn’t the “own” you think it is.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

Plenty of people think it’s gross to eat animal products. Sorry your mind is so narrow. Maybe it’s too much red meat affecting your brain cells.

NP

I’m with the earlier PP. The vast majority of humans now and throughout time have enjoyed meat. The existence of a handful of vegetarian cultures doesn’t negate that. You might have a personal neurosis with meat, but most people don’t. Latin American carne asada, Middle Eastern lamb, German sausages, Japanese braised pork belly, Chinese steamed fish, Argentinian steak with chimichurri-it’s all universally enjoyed. Sorry that grinds your gears!

Blue Zone people have very low meat content diets. Yup- it is there is print, buddy. Please, learn to research before commenting. Your comments are just embarrassing at this point.

NP. You are making the point. Low meat content is not NO meat content, even in the Blue Zone. You have just embarrassed yourself with your own comment.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

Plenty of people think it’s gross to eat animal products. Sorry your mind is so narrow. Maybe it’s too much red meat affecting your brain cells.

NP

I’m with the earlier PP. The vast majority of humans now and throughout time have enjoyed meat. The existence of a handful of vegetarian cultures doesn’t negate that. You might have a personal neurosis with meat, but most people don’t. Latin American carne asada, Middle Eastern lamb, German sausages, Japanese braised pork belly, Chinese steamed fish, Argentinian steak with chimichurri-it’s all universally enjoyed. Sorry that grinds your gears!

It's called knowledge, resources, and evolvement. We used to do a lot of things that we no longer do. And people didn't live past their fifties, generally, sometimes not beyond 40. Again, very reductive and narrow comments that display your lack of intellectualism.

Totally off topic but that’s a common misconception. Lifespan was low bc many babies and kids died. People were living past 40 or 50.

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Not to mention because of infections and diseases for which we now have vaccines and antibiotics. They didn’t die because they ate meat. What a silly claim. Compare that to the processed crap people are eating now because of “knowledge, resources, and evolvement.” We have a health crisis on a scale that has never been seen in human history. Perhaps as it relates to diet, we should be going back to basics.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

Plenty of people think it’s gross to eat animal products. Sorry your mind is so narrow. Maybe it’s too much red meat affecting your brain cells.

NP

I’m with the earlier PP. The vast majority of humans now and throughout time have enjoyed meat. The existence of a handful of vegetarian cultures doesn’t negate that. You might have a personal neurosis with meat, but most people don’t. Latin American carne asada, Middle Eastern lamb, German sausages, Japanese braised pork belly, Chinese steamed fish, Argentinian steak with chimichurri-it’s all universally enjoyed. Sorry that grinds your gears!

It's called knowledge, resources, and evolvement. We used to do a lot of things that we no longer do. And people didn't live past their fifties, generally, sometimes not beyond 40. Again, very reductive and narrow comments that display your lack of intellectualism.

Totally off topic but that’s a common misconception. Lifespan was low bc many babies and kids died. People were living past 40 or 50.

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Not to mention because of infections and diseases for which we now have vaccines and antibiotics. They didn’t die because they ate meat. What a silly claim. Compare that to the processed crap people are eating now because of “knowledge, resources, and evolvement.” We have a health crisis on a scale that has never been seen in human history. Perhaps as it relates to diet, we should be going back to basics.

Sorry, longevity studies have pointed out, over decades, that plant based diets contribute to longer lifespans. This is well documented and peer-reviewed and reconfirmed.

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People get twisted up over all sorts of things that impact them not at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

Plenty of people think it’s gross to eat animal products. Sorry your mind is so narrow. Maybe it’s too much red meat affecting your brain cells.

NP

I’m with the earlier PP. The vast majority of humans now and throughout time have enjoyed meat. The existence of a handful of vegetarian cultures doesn’t negate that. You might have a personal neurosis with meat, but most people don’t. Latin American carne asada, Middle Eastern lamb, German sausages, Japanese braised pork belly, Chinese steamed fish, Argentinian steak with chimichurri-it’s all universally enjoyed. Sorry that grinds your gears!

Blue Zone people have very low meat content diets. Yup- it is there is print, buddy. Please, learn to research before commenting. Your comments are just embarrassing at this point.

NP. You are making the point. Low meat content is not NO meat content, even in the Blue Zone. You have just embarrassed yourself with your own comment.

No, it is the same concept. These diets aren't ethically chosen as in those who are vegan, but culturally and medically chosen. And, it's an aggregate of many cultures, some of which are entirely meat free. The similar thread in all- lack of meat as a primary protein.

So, while we are on the topic of research, you have displayed a continuous lack of basic understanding or ability to understand research.

Why so pissed off and rude? If you want to eat meat..do it. But, clearly you have a personal issue that has nothing to do with what others eat. Grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a life long vegetarian but definitely don't expect anyone to accommodate me. I tend to eat before if it's a home I haven't been to, just in case. But it's rarely ever been an issue. With most people, I offer to make one dish that's vegetarian so my family and I can at least eat that.

Veganism is different though. It's harder to maintain that diet, so I think people sort of use it as a metric for determination or morality. I've had vegans stay with us, and it's challenging, depending on the strictness of the individuals. For example, once the relatives visiting us decided they couldn't eat the main dish my MIL (who was cooking this phenomenal meal) made because she had made the vegan dish in the same cast iron as the vegetarian dish she'd made before (I only have one cast iron, so she did it sequentially). She'd only rinsed with water between dishes and that wasn't enough for them. They said they could taste the butter. So they went to Sprouts and picked up salads for their family. Fine - at least we didn't have to make another dish for them but it was a level of pickiness that's almost offensive to the host. My MIL was almost on the verge of tears and I decided never to host these relatives again.

See, I find this irritating. After I've prepared special food for you, you announce that you've already eaten?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

It is quite a paternalistic attitude to assume that those people want what you do.

There are very few countries that have not massively increased their meat intake as their income/development allowed. I would say that referring to India as the rest of the world is just as provincial.

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I think vegans really can’t win. If someone ears meat as a guest, they’re not committed to their vegan lifestyle and are therefore fake. But if they tell the host that they’re vegan, they are being high maintenance. If they eat before they come in case there is nothing vegan available, they get accused of being ungrateful for the invitation. Y’all basically just don’t want people to be vegan, period.

There is zero justification for this. You are generalizing to all vegans the sh*tty behavior of individuals within a group. There are plenty - probably billions - of vegans out there. I doubt that they are all eating disordered narcissists who make everything all about them. I know a lot of vegans that are not like that. You cannot make broad generalizations about all vegans behaving this way any more than I can about no vegans behaving this way. I know plenty of those vegans. But that’s not the whole spread.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm vegetarian, not vegan, but I do eat a lot of vegan food. It's really not hard, people. Can't you make:

spaghetti with tomato sauce
pasta with veggies and olive oil
bean burritos
cauliflower tacos
lentil soup
bean chili
veggie fried rice with no egg
pasta salad

or a million other things?

I'm on dating apps and I see a lot of people say 'swipe left if you're vegetarian'. I think meat eaters are more judgmental, I've never seen a profile that says 'swipe left if you eat meat/aren't vegetarian/vegan'.

And no, I don't serve meat to anyone, including my son who eats meat. My kitchen is vegetarian. It's not a fair comparison - meat eaters can eat vegetarian/vegan food (and likely do all the time in addition to meat), and whether or not you agree with vegetarians/vegans, they can't or won't eat meat.

You ARE that annoying person. The one who won't put her faux burger on the grill because it was used for meat. Who won't cook meat in her kitchen. Your kitchen can't be vegetarian, it's inanimate. And you're insane.

And yet there are kosher kitchens. "Do you keep a kosher kitchen?" Strange. You are the insane one, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

Plenty of people think it’s gross to eat animal products. Sorry your mind is so narrow. Maybe it’s too much red meat affecting your brain cells.

NP

I’m with the earlier PP. The vast majority of humans now and throughout time have enjoyed meat. The existence of a handful of vegetarian cultures doesn’t negate that. You might have a personal neurosis with meat, but most people don’t. Latin American carne asada, Middle Eastern lamb, German sausages, Japanese braised pork belly, Chinese steamed fish, Argentinian steak with chimichurri-it’s all universally enjoyed. Sorry that grinds your gears!

Japan was vegetarian until about 150 years ago. The government decided Japanese people should start eating meat. FYI.

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The anti-vegans are repulsive to me. I would not want to host them or be their guest either. They can't stand someone talking about a vegan diet but they drone on and on and on about how much they hate all things vegan.

I'm not a vegan. I love all kinds of food. I cannot stand the anti-vegans on DCUM. They're just gross to me. I don't have to dissect why or what other people throughout history did or ate or thought. I know what kind of people I like and they ain't it.

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Anonymous wrote:The anti-vegans are repulsive to me. I would not want to host them or be their guest either. They can't stand someone talking about a vegan diet but they drone on and on and on about how much they hate all things vegan.

I'm not a vegan. I love all kinds of food. I cannot stand the anti-vegans on DCUM. They're just gross to me. I don't have to dissect why or what other people throughout history did or ate or thought. I know what kind of people I like and they ain't it.

The same people who think vegans have eating disorders are the kind who are anti-Semitic against people who have kosher kitchens. If you can’t respect a that a person’s diet doesn’t include animal flesh, you’re a bigot.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a vegetarian, not vegan. It's very very hard to be a vegan and it's impossible to socialize out of the house without a lot of work. But, no, it isn't an eating disorder. I would be vegan if I could make it work. Meanwhile, I get pushback from being a vegetarian. Really? Frankly, I do think it should be the default diet.
Yes, I get enough protein, iron, B12. The same questions all the time.

What do you mean? Of course, it is an eating disorder. There is no reason to eat vegan and, in fact, eating vegan comes with significant health concerns. That level of food control smacks of mental health problems.

There are many reasons to eat vegan, and many unhealthy reasons to be an animal eater, all well documented. You are just acculturated to a western diet and diets are very personal and it's hard to accept change. In no way is a vegan or vegetarian diet an eating disorder, and all you are doing is justifying your eating choices which involve very detrimental health and environmental issues, so you are absolutely wrong. There are massive studies all supporting plant based diets which have been confirmed and reconfirmed for years. All of my doctors are either vegetarian or vegan, actually. Are they all mentally ill? This isn't new news, either. You have been quite manipulated by the first world industrial agriculture machine and years of a poor diet in society- all harbingers of health problems. No, we don't have mental health issues at all. We do have to deal with a plethora of idiots who are misinformed, and, yes, what a giant pain which can be depressing. So much denial and then people like you call us mentally ill. Read a book.

+1. The person calling Veganism an eating disorder is woefully ignorant of life outside the meat and potatoes culture of the USA. Probably the most common meal in the world is rice and beans/lentils, particularly in poorer populations.

And you don’t think impoverished people who cannot afford or don’t have access to meat, cheese, fish, dairy would hear about someone rich living in the land of plenty choosing NEVER to eat these things is crazy?

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Do you really think people barely surviving on grains and gruel in the third world would prefer to eat that over a roasted goat or chicken curry? These people aren’t all collectively making conscious dietary decisions to avoid meat. They just don’t have the ability to skip on over to Whole Foods, sneer at the organic meat section, and buy expensive, processed meat substitutes or imported quinoa. It is the height of privilege to be a vegan in the West in the 21st century.

Um, yes. Try going to a continent called Asia. There’s a lot of people there. You just might open your mind a bit.