Does your family support you being a vegetarian?!
Answers: My family absoultly hates that i chose to go vegetarian, in one day, my whole family knows without me telling them, i already got into a huge fight with my aunt, does your family support your choice???
I just made this decision about 4 days ago, and my parents support me 100%! They are happy that I am following what I believe in, and have already taken me to the store to explore the vegetarian options. I would just tell them that it is your choice that you have made, and you would really appreciate if they would support it. You obviously believe in it, so I would just keep at it. I really hope that everything works out for you! Good luck! :)
My dad hates it, my mother will buy the food for me.
nooope im asain so i HAVE to eat meat >_>
My parents thought I was nuts! Still do. They are the kind of people who eat steak 5 nights a week...
I think they were slightly offended, like I disapproved of their eating meat.
they dont care. they think its my choice what i eat.
My family absolutely supports my choice of vegetarianism. I have been for 17 years though, so I guess they're quite used to it by now (even though I'm the only one in the family).
My dad supports me so far and he said he will buy me the food himself if it isnt to exspensive.
I dont think my grandparents are very happy about it though.
And my mom doesnt even know. hehe
But oh well life goes on im just glad i have one supporter.
as far as i know - yes
i too have an aunt who does not approve
but it's not her life choice
my parents are very supportive about it
its not your parents desision what you eat
My family at first sort of made fun of it, but I was already married when I went veg. They don't "support" it, but they no longer try to sabotage me.
My family doesn't care. If my dad was still alive, he'd probably get super pissed at me. Sorry, dad.
I live in the Deep South, so one would think I'd have it tough. My parents were always fine with it. Some of my other family joked about it or made fun of me, but once they saw I wasn't going to budge and didn't give a **** what they said about it, they let it go.
They sure do eat the hell out of some of the vegan food I make. Be nice about your decision and ask them to accept it. That's all you can do. If they don't try to accept it, tell them to screw off. Not eating meat is not something foreign-- the average American eats WAY more meat than just about any other nation, save maybe Germany. There are plenty of people, even in history, who didn't eat meat and did just fine.
Like these: Einstein, Isaac Newton, da Vinci, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Thoreau, Ovid, Mary Shelley, Voltaire, and John Wesley, just to name a few. There are historical people, athletes, politicians, actors and actresses, you name it-- vegetarianism is not weird or uncommon as some might have you believe!
No! They hate that I am not eating meat. My mother kept telling me that everything has to die. Eh! I don't care because since becoming a vegetarian my cholesterol has dropped from 254 to 194. Not only am I saving some animals I'm also saving myself :)
My dad doesn't mind and both my sisters are vegetarians so they don't mind.
However my mom hates it. When I was 12 i became a vegetarian and my mom kept telling me that it wasn't going to last and that I would give it up. Now I'm 14 and still a vegetarian so my mom has stopped trying to convince me to eat meat but she doesn't make me dinner anymore. I have to make my own dinner if i want it to be meatless, but I don't mind making my own food because i love to cook.
My cousins all make fun of me for it and my aunts and uncles try to tell me it's unhealthy and you can love animals but still eat them. I just try to ignore them.
Um, I'm not sure.
I really don't know what my family thinks about my being vegan, allthough I'm 100% positive they don't "get it." That said, I'm not concerned what their opinion on it is - if they don't like it, it's their problem, not mine.
I'm the Mrs. of the house, and I do all the shopping and cooking. My husband still eats meat, and that's fine - it's his perrogative. But he thinks I'm 100x more awesome cuz I'm vegan. And he's talking about going vegetarian in the near future.
If you don't want to fight with your family about your choice, then just don't fight. If they get in your face, simply tell them "I'm sorry you feel that way," and carry-on being your radical self. ;-)
I was in my early 30s when I went veg, so it was fairly easy for me. My family, I think, tries to be supportive, but I sometimes get the feeling they pay lip service to it. After a very short visit up here that involved a fundraiser holiday party for an organization I support, my mom decided to do Vegan Mondays. My sister does Vegetarian Mondays.
After a couple of disastrous family "vacations," I get the sense that it's really easy for them to support my veganism from 800 miles away. But when we're in the same jurisdiction, and it's mealtime, things fall apart. I'm tempted to avoid family get-togethers because I cannot be sure I will be properly fed.
At first, they were very confused and thought that I was crazy...and now they just got used to it. They now realize that nothing will ever make me eat meat. If my mom is cooking something that has meat, she always makes something for me that is meatless! My family is very supportive of me being vegetarian!
I went vegetarian in the 1950s. my family were 100% against my decision and did everything to thawt my efforts. i lived off tomatoe sandwiches, cucumbers from the garden and salads. my aunt gave me a recipe for barley and vegetable soup which i made for years.
in those days there was not the choices there are now just perservere . Sandwiches are good, baked beans are good, tinned spaghetti is healthy. My father would insist that my mother cooked in lard - so if there were mashed potaoes - there was lard in them, fried tomatoes cooked in lard, soup - you guessed it the vegetables were fried in lard and then put in the pot. THe cakes had lard in them the quiche pasty had lard in them so the safest bet was a tomatoe sandwich and barley soup I made. Good luck.
No.
My immediate family as well as my extended family tends to look at me like a weirdo.
My parents (for some reason) think this is just a phase even though I've been a vegetarian for quite some time now. They still offer meat to me when I am over at their house.
At first we actually fought about it, but since I've done my research and found great food that is actually healthier for me than meat and meat by-products, they tend to not be as critical about the nutrition part of things. (Though my mother does like to pick the occasional fight with me about the dairy industry and how "they just take the milk from the cow". {grimace} And I must then defend my choice to abstain from milk, eggs, cheese, etc.).
Holidays are hell.
Maybe we should all "adopt" one another and be the understanding family that everyone needs.
:-) lol