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[quote=Anonymous]I will never understand why many of you get so upset about someone else’s dietary decisions. It’s not everything either - it’s just this one thing. Over on the diet forum, there are dozens of people with extremely disordered eating who basically think their bodies will balloon to a size 10 and then stop working entirely if they so much as eat “carbs”, but then when someone doesn’t want to eat meat anymore, they’re cutting out an entire category of food which is “high maintenance” or whatever else. Also all of you have a story about some vegan who upset you by not wanting to eat meat and inevitably someone suggests slipping an animal product into “vegan” food to teach them some kind of lesson. It is interesting that many of you think it is right and proper to secretly give someone a food they’ve specifically told you they don’t eat in order to punish them for not eating the way you do. Do you feel that way about people who keep kosher? What about people who follow a gluten free diet for health reasons that are not allergies (I assume you wouldn’t vindictively add something with wheat to the meal of someone with an actual allergy, since that would actually be dangerous, right?) My relatives post about a lot of things on FB that are annoying. Sometimes they also ask for food that is outside what I’d usually be making. In the first instance, keep on scrolling. It’s no different to me than any other social media fronting. In the latter instance, if you ask people what their dietary needs are, don’t get all upset when they… tell you their dietary needs. If a vegan finds a vegan item they didn’t specifically request at a non-vegan event, they’re probably excited. And if one person was able to eat so many potatoes that there wasn’t enough for everyone, you didn’t make enough potatoes and the fault is yours. [/quote]
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