Are ominivores and vegetarians/vegans compatible in relationships?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/dining...
What do you think?
Answers: Here is a recent article that gives one some perspective:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/dining...
What do you think?
No, the vegan would be whining about the smell of meat cooking in the house, and the meat eater would be smacking them upside the head with a juicy steak.
It's just a handful of people's opinion, that article. Obviously any time there's a difference between people (not just diet) but race, differing political views, etc. there MAY be sparring or problems in a relationship. People that can handle those with differences and COEXIST peacefully alongside others are different. People that can coexist peacefully among those that are different from them are the only hope humanity has, because those that hate and can't coexist are the ones that lead to all the problems in the world.
You could learn something from that other type of person - just accept it and coexist - you don't have to even LIKE someone or their lifestyle to coexist peacefully. You cross into hatred and bigotry when you refuse to accept someone's difference and endlessly insult it, under numerous guises, for months. How does it hurt or affect you that people are vegan? How does it personally disrupt and hurt your life - in particular vegans on Answers, whom you probably never met in person?
I understand if you have a vegan you know personally that is rude or intolerant and you dislike them, but to target strangers online for one nonsensical difference - what they EAT and the fact it differs from you - is wrong. That makes you no better than any other prejudiced person, and you KNOW you are prejudiced, hateful and spiteful. You know that this is NOT normal.
I'm married to an omnivore and there's no problems regarding our diets. Diet is something we never argue about and we both love, cherish and respect one another.
Obviously, you don't care about getting honest answers though, you only want to hear people with your biased opinion, because you blocked everyone that thinks differently than you.
Relationships revolve around food - so it could be problematic, especially when it comes to cooking meals. You can't expect a vegan to prepare meat for the omnivore now can you? But as long as you are both passionate about food (and the vegetarian does not preach to the omnivore about eating meat,) it should be fine.
Seems like a lightweight article relating the experiences of a few couples, similar to the ones you can read in any tedious magazine aimed at bored women, if that is your taste.
It demonstrates and proves nothing - in what way does it give perspective?
I think probably more veg*ns share their lives with meat-eaters than don't. Normal people find it easy to get along with others with different opinions and values, especially when it's as trivial as what they eat.
Some bizarre, sick individuals, of course, take violent exception to people who are different to them, and it's hard to see how people like that could have any kind of relationship with any other human being. They probably don't.
BTW, did you mean to post this as fake Michael H? It can be confusing swapping identities constantly, I'm sure.
If the two people are compatible, yes.
If they aren't compatible, no.
I think that if both parties respect each other, it can always work out.
I am vegan, if I was dating someone who didn't understand veganism at all, ordered steak and flashed it in my face, it wouldn't work out either.
But if I was with someone who ate meat occasionally, understood the environmental implications and was respectful, then it could work out.
Lucky for me, my guy is vegan too :)
Certainly. Nothing you'll ever be participating in at your age though.
Troll.
This is a serious question.
Are omnivores and vegetarians/vegans compatible in relationships?
It depends in which perspective and extreme for being a vegan/omnivore - "Physical-Emotional-Mind" balance.
Physical
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Health reason.
Natural "insticto" to veggies.
Regarded meat as "bloody" and "filthy".
Doctor reprimanded him/her from meat.
Ideology & belief
Body odor of meater.
Emotional
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Animal feel Pain, Suffering, Scream, Cry
Animals posses life / soul; Reincarnation; Karma, etc.
Mother, Parental, Child relation.
Cruelty, Imprisoning, Slain and murder of innocent / defenseless beings.
A heart abundant with compassion will never butcher even a small animal abundant with life.
Mind / Intellect
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10 kg grains fed to produce 1kg beef (1 meater survive on the expense of other 10 poor people's death). In 2007 alone, 7.2 million people died on hunger & starvation.
1 meater to 4 livestock ratio; I meater cause 5 times higher devastation to OZON (Oxygen) than a vegetarian.
Competition between Human-Tree-Livestock (Population today approx human-7 billion; Livestock-25 billion; Rainforest-15% of earth surface: Man will realize one day that to "let go" the livestock when the world reach acute shortage of space, resources and oxygen.
"Only after the last tree has been cut down; Only after the last river has been poisoned; Only after the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
Psychopath and instinct to meat-eating
Philosophy, Psychology and science relations.
Logics, Intuition, Conscience.
I doubt it from the veggie side, their demands would be too great for any normal omni or person who eats a flexitarian diet could stand. Now I do believe that flexitarians and omnis would make good couples, both are more realistic and do not live in a la-la land of complete senseless idealism.