Why do vegetarians make such a fuss, about meat eaters.?!
If you are a vegetarian, please remeber its your choice, and your problem....
Answers: If you invite a vegetarian to your house to dinner, they would expect you to provide a balenced meal with carbs, and protien, etc, but when a vegetarian invites a meat eater to their house for dinner, they still dont provide meat.... selfish I say.
If you are a vegetarian, please remeber its your choice, and your problem....
mostly because they are unable to see the real world argument for eating meat. They also have a slight breakdown in mental ability as indicated by their aggressive and abusive slagging of meat eaters
Because they don't eat meat, they don't have the energy to prepare proper food.
I'm a vegetarian and if I ever had dinner party then I'd serve meat for the meat eaters.
It's about making guests happy..
The lack of meat in the diet makes vegetarians go slightly mad.
I agree, you make a good point. Vegetarians try to force their choice on other people but woe betide anyone who fails to provide them with a vegetarian meal.
Tara is an exception...good on you Tara.
Being vegetarian is not a "problem" for a start.
And the thing is, why should a vegetarian buy and prepare dead animals when then disagree with the moral side of killing animals, it would be like condoning it.
Fair enough if some vegetarians don't mind contibuting to the meat industry but I think it would be wrong to EXPECT a vegetarian to provide you with meat then complain about it afterwards, and if it's a proper meal, it's not like they are going to fob you off with beans and chips, you can still eat a healthy, balanced, and enjoyable meal if it is vegetarian.
When I am invited to someone's home.. I don't go for the food... Whatever is offered, I accept with gratitude knowing they cared enough to have me to their place and share with them. It is more than the food. Food is just an incidental. It should be for sharing company. I am a person who eats meat, shellfish, fish, all kinds of creatures as well as vegetables and fruit. I will prepare for my guests foods that I know they can enjoy. My vegetarian friends do the same for me. They prepare vegetarian meals that they know I can enjoy. I am not only a meat eater. I eat all kinds of food. And mostly, I could have a glass of water served with friendship and still be glad. Hope you can see it this way too.
Cheers
Lisa
well than i guess those vegetarians are rude.
if someone were coming to my home, i would discuss what would be acceptable for them; (there are tons of non meat meals that can be made); but if they really were insistant on some kind of animal flesh with their veggies, then i would make it for them.
And any time i've ever gone to someone else's house for dinner (and it is not very often) i don't expect them to go out of their way and make something special for me. I simply will just eat whatever vegtables that are provided. I don't make a big fuss about it.
---> Then again, i'm the ONLY Veg in my circle of friends, and in my family so........ whatever.
I don't fault people for eating meat. And i don't really care if they do. They can if they want to. But i do not eat it. it actually skeeves me out...... animal body parts on a plate. They can gnaw on bones and veins all covered in the blood of a hacked up animal carcass and i'll stick with the fruits and veggies. To each his own.
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If I invite someone over to my home for a dinner then they will just have to eat what I serve or go hungry. If that don't suit them then they can just go nibble on some grass in the yard with the rabbits or Go Home!
As for them serving me, why, I always find out the menu ahead of time. If need be I will just leave the dinner early. I always make reservations ahead of time at someplace decent for the same night as any dinner party. Lord knows some people just can't cook!
Probably for much the same reason as non-smokers make such a fuss about those who smoke. "Holier than thou"?
A well intentioned friend visiting me, whilst my wife was in hospital prepared a totally vegetarian dinner, not realising that I regard vegetables as an insignificant part of a meal's packaging. Fortunately, Burgerking was just next door, and I was not converted to the cause.
same reason non-smokers, non-drinkers etc. make a fuss about smokers and drinkers. They think they have the moral high-ground; their way is best. These people are usually narrow-minded, shallow, hypocrites who should be avoided like Burssel sprouts.
when i go to someone else's house i would never expect them to accommodate for my eating habits. If someone were to come to my house i would not cook meat, because i do not believe in supporting the meat industry for any reason. I would provide a meal that would be liked by many people but excluded meat. vegetarianism is not a "problem." Meat-eating is the "problem." I don't beleive that it is fair to waste several lives to sustain just one, when you could use no other animal lives and still sustain your own.
I know there's even this boy in my class who's a vegetarian and complains that i i eat meat like poultry which is chicken.He doesn't even eat eggs and chicken but a few times i saw hime eating biscuits in class cause he was sitting next to me and those biscuits were Ritz which contain egg which is a meat product.I mean if he doesn't eat meat why the hell is he eating those biscuits then you following me then.By the way he's really intelligent and is Asian from India he told me.I think you also might want to here this he thinks that eating vegetables makes him cleverer instead of eating stupid meat.But you know i thinks he's wrong if us meat eaters want to eat meat as well as vegetables cause i do both all part of a balanced diet you know i can't understand how people can have one without meat although they could still get it form dairy like cheese and milk.But if we want to eat me it's up to us.Seriously they don't know what they're missing.
I'm going to agree with Jessica: "And the thing is, why should a vegetarian buy and prepare dead animals when then disagree with the moral side of killing animals, it would be like condoning it."
While I am very much a carnivore (raising our own meat), their beliefs are, in a way, almost religious. You wouldnt ask a person of Jewish faith to eat or prepare pork, or a Catholic to eat or prepare meat on Friday during lent.
It isnt "their problem", its their choice to practice living that way.
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dude, you are starting to contradict yourself, and dig an even bigger hole here. "No i do not respect your morals on NOT eating meat, because you lot of nut chompers do not repect mine TO eat it.
I respect your choice, but do you respect mine?"
you DONT respect others choice as you are INSISTING you be served meat in someones house that thinks it is morally wrong to kill animals.
As I said above, you wouldnt ask others to step over their religious boundaries for a meal, so why are you thinking that someone would do that morally? IN THEIR OWN HOME? Most vegans I know, would go to dinner, eat what suited them on their plate, and SHUT UP about the meat! You want someone to feed you exactly what you want??? what an UNGRATEFUL GUEST!
(of course, at this point am thinking you dont get invited over much.....)
It's true, I always go out my way to cook a seperate veggie meal (I draw the line at vegan) but when I go to their house they don't give me meat. Plus why is there not a meat eaters section on Yahoo- why are vegans and veggies so special?
hi.
I am a vegetarian. We had a party on New Years Eve and we served meat....pigs in a blanket. I do not make a fuss about meat eaters, I respect their desicion that THEY want to eat meat. So shouldn't meat eaters respect our descion??
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Perhaps in their deepest darkest hour they are missing a REAL bacon buttie.
Maybe they are a tad jealous of "we" meat eaters!.
After all.... I'm sorry, I could NOT eat substitute bacon or soya or-
well,........it's not REAL is it?
Still we all have choices - enjoy what you eat.
My life is a banquette. I am NOT fat - I don't diet and eat EVERYTHING I want...................in moderation.....it's great...x
yes, i also faced the same situation already. when i was in south india, i had faced a terrible situation because i`m non veg. even they had not eager to rent their house to me. but western countries vegetarians r not as so extreams.
If I go to a meat-eater's house for dinner, I do not expect him or her to bend over backwards to accommodate me. Usually, meat is served at the meal along with veggies and other vegetarian things (like salad, vegetables, crackers w/ cheese, etc) and I eat what is vegetarian and leave the rest behind. I don't ask them to buy specialty food or to prepare my food in a kitchen that has never seen a piece of meat... I would consider that as rude as if they asked me to make them a steak when they came to visit me.
If someone comes to my house and doesn't want the main course, they can always do what I do when I go to their house... eat the veggies and salad, crackers,etc. Generally speaking, I would try to prepare a meat-eater-friendly vegetarian main course... there are plenty of those, you know!
My point is that there is A LOT of food other than meat and meat substitutes. Vegetarians and meat-eaters share these foods in common. Presumably, you go to your friend's house to socialize... not to obsess over the menu or their eating habits.
I don't know any vegetarians or vegans who 'make a fuss' about meat-eaters. In the 39 years since I became a vegetarian (I'm now vegan) I've never met a veg*n who harassed meat-eaters or a meat-eater who harassed veg*ns- except on YA, that is.
Inviting someone to your home for a meal and providing them with food they cannot eat would be beyond rude - why would anyone do that?
But a meat-eater going to a veg*n's home for a meal would be able to eat whatever was provided - after all, not many people eat ONLY meat. And few meat-eaters ONLY enjoy meat dishes, most enjoy both. My brother has claimed he would never eat vegan food, but he'd walk through fire for one of my roast dinners and refuses to believe that my vegan 'meat' loaf contains no meat.
Also, meat-eaters rarely (well, never) have a moral objection to veg*n food, while many veg*ns have a moral objection to meat. That's why a courteous host will accommodate them.
If anything, I think meat eaters coming to my home to eat get a rather better deal than I get when I go to their homes. Sometimes I feel if I have to face another plate of roast vegetables, or eat another jacket potato with salad, I'll scream. But I smile politely, eat up and tell them it was delicious.
If you don't want to cook vegetarian, don't invite vegetarians for dinner; if you don't want to eat vegetarian, don't go to a vegetarian's house for dinner. Can't see the problem.
Edit** no I don't use leather and ..er.. I haven't got a horse.
''I eat meat,,,, so why should I just eat vegs when I am at yours'' - don't worry about that mate; with the racist views you express in your Q&A and the following apparently being your idea of good conversation starters
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there's not the slightest chance you'd ever be at mine for dinner.
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It's not selfish. And obviously you were the one to bring this up so I think it's more the case of YOU making a fuss here. I'm a vegetarian and my meat eating friends respect my decision to not eat meat and not want to prepare it. If they were real friends they wouldn't mind. And as for you saying.. 'it's your problem' - I'd say your the one with the problem here. We believe that eating meat is wrong, thats a cause we fight for, don't like it? That's your problem. I think it's pathetic that meat eaters like you come on here just to abuse our morals. Do you really think you're going to change our minds by slagging us off? And as for those who say that lack of meat makes people go mad, were did you get that medical statistic from? I'd love to see it.
not all make a fuss you can not apply that to a group.
our choice..our problem?? your kidding me right?
a salad would be just fine which most people have when they have dinner parties.
and it is one persons choice whether or not they wear leather or not.
It is just that vegetarians respect the living may it be human or animal....
About being invited into a vegetarians house i guess you should respect the way of lifestyle they are in since it is there home. Not unless its your house.
as they dont want 2 touch a dead animal
when you invite freinds to your home for a meal do you want to make them feel at home and give them the meal that they would want to eat.
or do you simply dictate to them what they must eat yes / no .
ask yourself why you invited these freinds around in the first place.
and you knew before you invited your freinds that they are meat eaters or vegertarians/vegans . so why are you not catering to their diatry requirements.
when i invite freinds around for a meal i go out of my way to make my freinds feel welcome and their company is most welcome and that we look forward to them visiting us .
and we provide them with a meal that is apropiate to their needs so that they feel welcome in our house if they are vegertarian or vegan we shall provide a meal for them cooked in pots and pans that have had no meat and or animal / dairy products in them my sister in law is vegertarian and we cater for her needs without hesitation.
whn we are invited for a meal at our freinds homes we expect to be treated in the same maner as we ourselves would treat our guests and freinds and be provided with a meal that suited our needs and that includes meat .
if we did not get this it would only mean one thing to us and that is our freinds do not respect us .but gladly our freinds do not take this view
as for cost that should not come into this as some vegtables fruits and fungi are more expensive than any meat take trufles and some wild mushrooms asparagus is not cheap but we happily provide these items for our vegertarin freinds as we know that they like these foods and we do not begrudge them this at alland no we proved a lot more than baked spuds and roasted veg .
but then i am luck as i have attended vegertarian/ vegan cookery course as i am a chef and as such i want to be able to cater for peaple who wish not to eat any meat or meat products this is a decision that they have taken for whatever reason and i respect them for this
Eat what you want... what do I care. The thing I am concerned with is that "I" don't eat animals. Besides, where does it say that meat is a requirement for a meal? I don't understand your logic. (Sorry for the oxymoron in the last sentence.) I don't expect anything when going to someone's house for dinner as I make it clear beforehand that I don't eat animals. I also make it clear when someone else is eating at my house that there is no meat here. Anything beyond that is an adventure. It sounds like you have more of a problem with communication than anything else.