How do i defend my vegetarian lifestyle?!
How do i defend my vegetarian lifestyle?
Hey, i've been on going vegetarian for about four years now, and in the process i've been belittled, teased and mocked for my personal lifestyle. Is there any advice you could provide for me to enable to outwitt the non-vegetarians in order to defend myself?
Cheers.
Answers:
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This gives a list of all the questions that meat eaters are bound to ask you, and clever answers. They are so true and really help.
the best thing to do is just to say, look im not going to get into an argument about this. It is pointless you trying to see my point of view;if you want to eat a dead body that is up to you.
Many people are shocked that i dont persuade them to be vegy with me!!!
Its hard to know what to do, but i guess you just have to deal with it. Thre are always people who ask dumb q'd. I was once asked 'if there was a dead chicken in front of you, and noone else was going to eat it, so it would die for nothing, would you eat it?' and its like, duh?! no, and anyway, would that ever happen?
Facts you could tell them:
We are not designed to eat meat(our teeth) just because we can digest it doesnt mean we should eat it (we can digest cardboard!!! would they eat that?)
half a million chickens are killed every day for mcdonalds.
Hope that helps, and good luck!
You could say "At least I'm healthy!"
I don't think that jumping into the fray by trying to out-argue people is going to do a lot of good, since most of them don't care about the facts and just want to pick on someone. Like with any other bully or ignorant person, take the higher road and tell them you're not interested in their comments and have heard everything they have to say a hundred times already. That should hopefully shut them up as they feel less clever.
It's not a war. Who cares what others think about what you eat or why. Don't say anything. Don't get into a debate about it.
It's the vegans and vegetarians who I have found to be combative.
Eat and Let Eat.
Yes I do have the perfect solution. Make a day of it. Take a sunny day and bring your family and friends to the slaughter house for the day, let them see what we do to our defenseless creatures. Second be the healthiest you can be and that should speak for itself. Plus make some print outs about the dangers of cows having cancer and often is sold to the general public. Take them to see how chickens are kept row on row and their beaks are sawed off and they do not have room to even stand. Then ask them after you have completed all this..which would you rather have a delicious nutritious veggie meal or a dead animal plate?
poison apple
pointy carrot
strangle someone with celery string
let a bunch of cows out of thier pen
throw cherries at the sizzler or chop house
espouse the protien properties of rice and beans
give them hell
I am on my way to becoming one myself and it's difficult to get off the meat and avoid the stigma of wanting to be a vegetarian, kudos
If they're in your house, particularly, tell them you value their friendship but they need to accept that this is YOUR life...not theirs. If you're out with them, tell them the same. If they continue to insult you after you tell them this, (a) don't hang out with them or (b) don't let them in your house.
You can't. There is no good defense for it.
you made the choice to "come out". you should have stood by the choice of "dont ask dont tell". then eat and let them wonder
Theirs no need to defend your personal choice, if anyone teases you just tell them to piss of or you'll smack em in the mouth.....or if you are not the violent type just say that your personal choices are yours and yours alone and they also have the right to theirs without being teased etc!!!
Well 1st it is none of anyone's business how you eat. And when they start making fun of you let them know you don't moo or oink at them when they get their nice slab of meat. Inform them that this is your preference on how to nourish your body..not theirs.. and how they choose to nourish theirs is their business, not yours. good luck to you.
You do not need to defend your choice of diet or lifestyle. How about your choice of associates?
Tell them to mind their own business and stop being rude. Some people just need to be told to back off, no matter what the issue. You shouldn't have to defend yourself. Just call them on their rudeness.
Dont bother it just goes round and round. I do not eat beef or pork myself. I so eat chicken and fish, thats what i choose to do. and you choose to do what you wish to do. and if someone doesn't like it they can go to ???????????
Are you a vegetarian, or are you on a crusade to convince others that they should be vegan?
How does anyone not a close friend even know that you are a vegan unless you make it a point to tell them?
Why Defend your lifestyle.. there are over a billion Vegetarians. My x was a Vegan and I was a full vegetarian for seven years. I now eat egg and fish. Whats your reason for being a veggie? Animal rights. Don't like the taste... No-ones business. Hopefully you don't ridicule non veggies.
Tell them to get a life and leave yours alone. Out Witt - MAKE the many hundreds of Yummy dishes for Vegetarians, they would be surprised.
Cheerio
I refuse to "defend" how I eat, but if someone presses me on the issue, I simply tell them "It makes no sense to me to eat the blood, pus, urine and fecal matter found in meat, and nothing had to die in order for me to stuff my face". That usually causes a rapid change in coversation
Hey Niks, cool moniker !!! Personally I don't defend my choice to avoid dead animal remains like the plague !! I will tell you a whiz bang way to shut those pea brains up who feel justified in attacking your personal space........... Simply tell them that in actual fact they would be better off eating nothing than steaks, hamburgers, sausages, bacon etc.etc.etc. ad nauseum. The reason ?? Living foods are packed with enzymes; that is their primary benefit. The greatest threat to our food enzymes is the very act of cooking (boiling, baking, frying, etc.); all cooked foods are devoid of ALL enzymes. When any food is heated above 118 Degrees Farenheit for approximately 20 minutes, there is complete and total devastation of all enzymes within that specific food !! Cooking not only destroys enzymes, but protein is not spared either by heat. When we cook high-protein foods too vigorously, the protein itself is actually destroyed, rendered at least useless, or at worst harmful. While so many people are fixated on getting their protein from meats, the fact is that they are probably obtaining little or no useable protein from their cooked meats anyway, due to the high cooking temps.
As is if that were not enough, vitamins get a guernsey too !! Not only does cooking destroy all the enzymes, but it degrades most of the vitamin activity too. Although not all vitamins are destroyed from high heat, the vitamin activity is enormously curtailed. It is estimated that no less than 50 per cent of B vitamins are lost through cooking. Some of the individual B vitamins are drastically reduced even further. For instance, the loss of thiamin (B1) can be as high as a 96 per cent reduction if the food is boiled for a prolonged period of time. Similarly, up to 72 per cent of biotin can be lost, up to 97 per cent of folic acid lost, up to 95 per cent of inositol lost, and up to 80 per cent of vitamin C lost, all from cooking. In fact, according to one of the world's leading researchers on the topic, Dr. Viktoras Kulvinskas, in his Survival Report Into The 21st Century, cooking will on average cause an overall nutrient loss of up to 85 per cent. This means that we are often only obtaining less than 15 per cent of the nutritive value of most foods, a lesser percentage of protein, and too frequently zero per cent of the enzymes in these same foods !!
Perhaps the most shocking assertion is that a diet full of cooked foods causes the reduction of brain tissue and the swelling of the key organs ! The eminent Dr. Edward Howell (MD), who spent a lifetime researching enzyme biochemistry, wrote volumes on the results of laboratory animals. When rats were fed diets devoid of enzymes (i.e. cooked or canned foods only) their brains actually shrunk. In addition, serious other disturbances occurred with the experimental animals: the endocrine system, pituitary, thyroid, pancreas, kidneys, liver, heart, spleen and other organs swelled. Swollen organs mean weakened organs, ultimately malfunctioning or non-functioning organs, a rather grave prospect to say the least !!
Moreover, during cooking, agricultural pesticides and fungicides could release into the foods to form even more toxic compounds. These poisons settle in weak areas of the body further burdening the liver; expelling them is difficult !!
WOW !! Wow, you say, thing is that these people are obviously already suffering the organ damage caused by well cooked meat I'd say !!........ :0)
PEACE & LIGHT
My response is why should you? I eat meat. So what? Unless a militant vegan is physically attacking me, or violently abusing me verbally I don't bother apologizing for what is legal, moral, or for the life enhancing choices I make in my life.
Tired of the witless opposition to your lifestyle? Simply let them know...
"you have the right to be wrong, that's the price of freedom. Now leave my freedom alone thank-you very much".
tell then you are a cannibal
Show them what you believe in.Show them that THEY are wrong and that THEY should be teased.
Great Question.... I feel like I am always put in this situation...and I always have a million descriptivly disgusting things I could say about the bloody meat process--but I never say them... everyone around would probably throw up--- You can simply say....
"I save about 96 animals a year by being a vegetarian---how many do you save?"
For me, it is a personal life choice and if I have to defend myself I just say that "It is my personal choice and I would appreciate it that since I don't shove my views down your throat, you wouldn't shove yours down mine." or something to that effect, you might have to make it simpler for more *ahem* simple people.
Usually it will shut people up, or if it doesn't at least they'll shut up when they're with you. I don't think vegetarians and vegans are necessarily healthier, I just made the choice because I feel better when I'm not eating the flesh of another living thing. And if you take them to a slaughterhouse or whatever just to preach your point, they will only try to preach theirs further. Trust me, I live with a health-nut idiot uncle who does not understand that it is not always a choice for health that you must make, but for morals too.
Just tell them its what your lifestyle is like. If they don't like it its just to bad you can't please everyone in this world because if you did it would be very boring.
You don't really need to defend yourself. Just say, "It's my choice, end of story!"