Reply to Why are vegans so preachy?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Why are vegans so preachy?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know, I'm a vegan. My kids are vegetarians, but eat a lot of vegan meals. We don't care what other people do or eat, but we don't buy meat, so if someone wants a steak, they aren't getting it here for dinner.

We eat a lot of different kinds of foods. One big thing is that we eat tons of Asian, Indian, West African, and tex-mex meals. I think cooking requires looking beyond meat, start, veg, fruit meal planning. I cook lentils, quinoa, beans, tempeh, seitan (I make amazing seitan wings inspired by City o City in Denver that even my meat eating friends requests). I like cooking and for me being a vegan requires some creativity, but it can be a great thing.

I don't like the meat industry and like a PP has issues with dairy. So, it was a combination of social and health concerns that led me here. But I'm happy, I make food that I think is yummy, and I don't begrudge anyone else's choice.

What's weird about this time in our world is that there is this sort of zero-sum view of life choices and a view that if someone isn't doing what you're doing, it's wrong. I don't think this is the case, but I see that in so many different contexts. Politics. Religion. Sex and sexuality. Racism. I wish we'd just spend more time focusing on our own happiness and less time caring about what people do.[/quote]

+1.

I would love the seitan wing recipe if f you don’t mind sharing![/quote]

Here you go! It's basically this (but I add nutritional yeast to the breading). https://www.theedgyveg.com/2014/01/20/vegan-buffalo-wings-recipe/

I stand by my main point: the entire point of this thread is to divide people and judge people's choices. It's to make someone a victim at the expense of someone else instead of looking at reality and shrugging at other people's choices. This thread is an exercise in division, judgment, and oddly, bashing of people who are claiming to be the bashers. This thread is everything that is wrong with the world in terms of how we speak with each other as people and how we treat our fellow human.

I am a happy, healthy vegan. I don't think about other people's choices. I don't care because we are all evaluating and engaging in a moral calculus, weighing what's right and wrong and that is a good, personal thing. We should have have the freedom to define our own choices and we should leave it at that (and I mean it for everyone judgy vegans or judgy meat eaters...maybe we can stop being judgmental, huh?). When we denigrate other people's choices, we put them down, we de-legitimize them -- that is the first step of taking away people's freedom. Like I said, I see it across our discourse, but I do think we ought to call it out and protect our right to live the lives we believe are the best for ourselves.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics