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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Inspired by the other thread on having vegans over for thanksgiving:

I’m trying to understand the intensely personal dislike that some people seem to harbor toward vegans.

Is the problem that:
- you dislike it when vegans try to push their lifestyle onto you, or
- you have some problem with the actual diet itself, or
- something else

I write this as a vegan myself, but one who has no issue with others eating meat. You want your burger, eat your burger. Does not matter to me at all. Just as I respect others’ choices, why can they not respect mine?
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I haven't seen the other thread, and I imagine this has been covered both here and there. I don't hate vegans in a vacuum, but having them attend Thanksgiving would be a significant inconvenience.  [b]I can't think of one thing I typically serve for Thanksgiving that is vegan - maybe the cranberry sauce, and perhaps a salad, depending on which salad I make.  My entire menu would have to be modified, and most of it would taste a lot worse than it does now.[/b]  I have enough to do both before and on Thanksgiving to relish doing that (oh, yeah, they can eat the relish tray).

Also, Anthony Bourdain referred to vegans as a Hezbollah-like splinter group of vegetarians.  I think that's apt.  [/quote]
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For a holiday that’s all about the food and the memories and the memories about the food, if you insist on vegan options for everything (and I have not heard of this, but if they were) you’re basically insisting on destroying someone’s holiday. Vegan food has its place but it’s just not great, certainly not when you’re looking forward to Meemaw’s creamed onions and oyster stuffing or whatever.

I think what annoys me about veganism is the fact that it’s a diet that requires supplementation. That’s an acknowledgement right there that it’s not the most well-rounded way to eat. People make the argument that it’s about being kinder to animals, but only some animals. I realize people don’t think insects and other small creatures killed incidentally are animals, but fields of beans and soy and every other plant that we eat means animals die in the harvest, too. And veganism isn’t the healthiest for the earth, either. Eating vegan doesn’t address the fact that’s what most broken about our food system is the corporate agriculture.

The greenest possible, least environmentally damaging diet is probably a mostly vegetarian diet, eaten as locally as possible and on a regenerative farm, probably pastured bison meat killed and dressed in the field. [i]Animals have to die for all of us, even vegans, to eat[/i], that’s a fact.

And may I never catch that tick borne disease that causes people to develop allergies to animal proteins. [/quote]

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