Why do people care!?!?!
why is it that now that i am a vegetarian, i have to be looked at under a microscope!? why do people have to pick apart WHAT I EAT, and what i dont eat!.!.!? they didnt care before, and so why should they care now!?! what is the big DEAL!!! Www@FoodAQ@Com
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The deal for many people is your way of eating provokes an emotional reaction in them!. Sometimes it's contempt, embarrassment, concern, fear, amusement or whatever!. These kind of feelings are rooted in lack on information about the veggie way of eating, and focusing attention or scorn on you can deflect people away from their feelings about their own diet!.
Be patient, kind and respectful as much as you with other people - they've got every right to be curious and questioning with you, although not to be disrespectful or abusive towards you in any way!. I know it can often feel like you're answering the same questions and (sometimes) hurtful accusations, but your reaction to these can educate a person about vegetarianism in either a very useful, or very threatening way!. Try and go for the useful way, and you might be surprised at what positive results you can get!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Be patient, kind and respectful as much as you with other people - they've got every right to be curious and questioning with you, although not to be disrespectful or abusive towards you in any way!. I know it can often feel like you're answering the same questions and (sometimes) hurtful accusations, but your reaction to these can educate a person about vegetarianism in either a very useful, or very threatening way!. Try and go for the useful way, and you might be surprised at what positive results you can get!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Generally I find that I get these questions from two types of people!. Either its the people who truly do feel bad about eating animal flesh but don't think they "can handle not eating meat!." So they are intimidated by the fact that we are living proof that it can be done, and we actually have more energy and are much healthier now!. OR its the people who feel that they "should have the right" to eat anything that they think tastes good, and you being a vegetarian is threatening because it suggests that maybe what they are doing isn't right!.
Either way, your a bright light in their eyes!. You are seen as a confrontation with something they aren't comfortable with to start!. I know it still bothers me sometimes too, but as long as your happy with your decision that's all that matters!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
Either way, your a bright light in their eyes!. You are seen as a confrontation with something they aren't comfortable with to start!. I know it still bothers me sometimes too, but as long as your happy with your decision that's all that matters!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
I'm vegetarian, for the last ten months, and I LOVE it!. I've never had clearer skin, more energy and a lighter feeling in general!. It's beautiful!.
Who picks apart what you eat!? Maybe they're interested in it because it's not the norm!. They don't know how to combine proteins and aminos and minerals and vitamins, and it seems unusual to see a person eating a meal sans meat!.
Don't let it stop you being a vego!. enjoy your vegieness!. :) Read about macrobiotics and you'll never turn back!. Read about organic food and how the sun's energy is synthesised into carbohydrates and then you'll see that we don't need second-hand nutrients that have been picked over by cows and sheep and whatever else you don't eat now!. Research the volumes of grain that are required to sustain a single head of livestock, and the water that went into the production of that grain, and then the water and electricity and petroleum that went into slaughtering, refrigerating, packaging and cooking that slab of meat when you could have just got the same amount of energy from the vegetables that the cow ate!! Such are the backward ways of mankind!.
Oh well!. you're on the right track!. Talk it over with them, and turn what you perceive to be a negative into a positive!. :) Good karma to you Www@FoodAQ@Com
Who picks apart what you eat!? Maybe they're interested in it because it's not the norm!. They don't know how to combine proteins and aminos and minerals and vitamins, and it seems unusual to see a person eating a meal sans meat!.
Don't let it stop you being a vego!. enjoy your vegieness!. :) Read about macrobiotics and you'll never turn back!. Read about organic food and how the sun's energy is synthesised into carbohydrates and then you'll see that we don't need second-hand nutrients that have been picked over by cows and sheep and whatever else you don't eat now!. Research the volumes of grain that are required to sustain a single head of livestock, and the water that went into the production of that grain, and then the water and electricity and petroleum that went into slaughtering, refrigerating, packaging and cooking that slab of meat when you could have just got the same amount of energy from the vegetables that the cow ate!! Such are the backward ways of mankind!.
Oh well!. you're on the right track!. Talk it over with them, and turn what you perceive to be a negative into a positive!. :) Good karma to you Www@FoodAQ@Com
People who eat to die, have to make you wrong so they feel good about killing their self by what "food" they cram down their throats!. Next time people bug you about what you eat, ask them, do you eat to live or to die!? I chose to eat to live!.
Someone, unless they're an idiot, wouldn't put garbage in their car's gas tank so why do they put garbage in their body's gas tank!? Learned behavior and lack of knowledge!. Once one realizes their body is just a carbon based engine running at 98!.6 degrees and it needs a certain type of fuel to run at its best, anyone can overcome junk foods!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Someone, unless they're an idiot, wouldn't put garbage in their car's gas tank so why do they put garbage in their body's gas tank!? Learned behavior and lack of knowledge!. Once one realizes their body is just a carbon based engine running at 98!.6 degrees and it needs a certain type of fuel to run at its best, anyone can overcome junk foods!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I don't care!. The only time I ever comment about someones food habits is if I am around someone that I know and they are stuffing their face with junk food!. Other than that, your food style is no big deal to me as long as you don't get all evangelical on me!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Because you're surrounded by odd people apparently!. Nothing like that happens to the vegetarians I know!.
I honestly don't think it happens anywhere except the internet and high schools/colleges, and in both cases is simply posturing by the insecure!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I honestly don't think it happens anywhere except the internet and high schools/colleges, and in both cases is simply posturing by the insecure!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The more people make fun of it, the more I want to continue to not eat beef,pork,or chicken to prove them wrong!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
if youve noticed its only the people who eat meat that say these things!.
its cause were different to them; but only by what we eat, which makes the whole thing stupid!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
its cause were different to them; but only by what we eat, which makes the whole thing stupid!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
maybe,they think that vegetarian people really care about what they eat!.Or it's just that they don't want u to get hurt if you accidently ate something you should not eat!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Probably because you are being pushy or overly obvious in your choice of diets!.Www@FoodAQ@Com