You've given enough thanks.

[Tom Petty]

HA! The daughter's boyfriend says that in private to me all the time. Exactly word for word, as he calls me Ma. Only in private, though. We respect her choice, just like she does ours.

The reality truly is that the **** I have heard people say to her over the last 13 years is truly despicable. Not just what they say but the actions. The majority of the vegetarians in this world really do just go on about their business quietly and let others do the same.

my daughter, 14, has been a vegetarian for a year now. she doesn't say **** about it ... just lives her life. yet it's amazing to me some of the **** people - my family - will say to her because she won't sit down and eat a ****ing steak. it's ridiculous.
i've gotten to the point to where i'm just rude as hell in defending her. at her age, it's her age what she eats or doesn't eat. i can see how vegetarians get attitudes.

 

[Lieslntx]

HA! The daughter's boyfriend says that in private to me all the time. Exactly word for word, as he calls me Ma. Only in private, though. We respect her choice, just like she does ours.

The reality truly is that the **** I have heard people say to her over the last 13 years is truly despicable. Not just what they say but the actions. The majority of the vegetarians in this world really do just go on about their business quietly and let others do the same.

my daughter, 14, has been a vegetarian for a year now. she doesn't say **** about it ... just lives her life. yet it's amazing to me some of the **** people - my family - will say to her because she won't sit down and eat a ****ing steak. it's ridiculous.
i've gotten to the point to where i'm just rude as hell in defending her. at her age, it's her age what she eats or doesn't eat. i can see how vegetarians get attitudes.

Thank you! My daughter turned vegetarian at the age of 10. People really and truly expected me to shove and force meat down her throat. We took her to the doctor regularly to have her levels of stuff checked out (whatever it is that meat does for us) and she learned early through the doctors how to supplement her diet and keep healthy.

I say, if they are healthy, let them have at it.

 

[Riptide]

HA! The daughter's boyfriend says that in private to me all the time. Exactly word for word, as he calls me Ma. Only in private, though. We respect her choice, just like she does ours.

The reality truly is that the **** I have heard people say to her over the last 13 years is truly despicable. Not just what they say but the actions. The majority of the vegetarians in this world really do just go on about their business quietly and let others do the same.

my daughter, 14, has been a vegetarian for a year now. she doesn't say **** about it ... just lives her life. yet it's amazing to me some of the **** people - my family - will say to her because she won't sit down and eat a ****ing steak. it's ridiculous.
i've gotten to the point to where i'm just rude as hell in defending her. at her age, it's her age what she eats or doesn't eat. i can see how vegetarians get attitudes.

Thank you! My daughter turned vegetarian at the age of 10. People really and truly expected me to shove and force meat down her throat. We took her to the doctor regularly to have her levels of stuff checked out (whatever it is that meat does for us) and she learned early through the doctors how to supplement her diet and keep healthy.

I say, if they are healthy, let them have at it.

Jeez. People and their ****ing value judgments.

Can you get someone fired for not eating a steak? [/crossthread]

 

[Dyno]

I have a vegetarian friend who had to go on a statin, because her cholesterol level went sky high from all the cheese she eats.

 

[outofplace]

HA! The daughter's boyfriend says that in private to me all the time. Exactly word for word, as he calls me Ma. Only in private, though. We respect her choice, just like she does ours.

The reality truly is that the **** I have heard people say to her over the last 13 years is truly despicable. Not just what they say but the actions. The majority of the vegetarians in this world really do just go on about their business quietly and let others do the same.

my daughter, 14, has been a vegetarian for a year now. she doesn't say **** about it ... just lives her life. yet it's amazing to me some of the **** people - my family - will say to her because she won't sit down and eat a ****ing steak. it's ridiculous.
i've gotten to the point to where i'm just rude as hell in defending her. at her age, it's her age what she eats or doesn't eat. i can see how vegetarians get attitudes.

I'm sure that is how I would respond, too. I know. Such a shock that I would respond rudely to something.

That's why I was impressed. I knew from reading elsewhere that her daughter was a vegetarian, but she responded much more reasonably than I did to the comments about vegetarians.

 

[Vombatus]

 

[Lieslntx]

^^^ Proving my point.

 

[YGBFKM]

So people can't joke?

 

[Lieslntx]

Joke away. I hear it all the time. Rolls off my back.

But regardless, the joke proved the point. Meat-eaters, in large, are worse about shoving things down the throats of those that are not meat-eaters.

 

[YGBFKM]

Which group is better at overreacting and making blanket statements?

 

[Lieslntx]

Fair question. Let me ask you this: Seven days, three meals. Out of those 21 meals that include meat, how many of them do you get ridiculed at for including meat?

Honest question.

Same question to a vegetarian. The minute they order a meatless meal, 10 out of those 21 meals, they get ridiculed.

Blanket statement?

 

[Vombatus]

^^^ ref img

Who said I eat meat?

I prefer *****, and so does *****!

 

[Lieslntx]

^^^ Blanket statement.

 

[Care Bear]

^^^ ref img

Who said I eat meat?

I prefer *****, and so does *****!

I must prefer vomit, because that's what I'm swallowing right now.

 

[YGBFKM]

Fair question. Let me ask you this: Seven days, three meals. Out of those 21 meals that include meat, how many of them do you get ridiculed at for including meat?

Honest question.

Same question to a vegetarian. The minute they order a meatless meal, 10 out of those 21 meals, they get ridiculed.

Blanket statement?

It's completely ridiculous. The reality is 99.9 percent of people don't spend 10 seconds a year thinking about vegetarians.

 

[Vombatus]

^^^ Blanket statement.

I am rapidly learning not to debate with you. So, how bout them tits?

 

[Lieslntx]

They are small. [/crossthread (from a long time ago)]

 

[Lieslntx]

Fair question. Let me ask you this: Seven days, three meals. Out of those 21 meals that include meat, how many of them do you get ridiculed at for including meat?

Honest question.

Same question to a vegetarian. The minute they order a meatless meal, 10 out of those 21 meals, they get ridiculed.

Blanket statement?

It's completely ridiculous. The reality is 99.9 percent of people don't spend 10 seconds a year thinking about vegetarians.

I really wish that were true. There is not a day that goes by, after 13 years, that someone doesn't say something snarky to her.

 

[TigerVols]

There is plenty of scientific and anthropological proof that a meat-based diet is the reason that humans evolved large brains, and our bodies are specifically designed to eat far more meat than vegetables. It's biology. Humans are free to eat what they choose and I couldn't imagine giving someone a hard time for choosing to be a vegetarian; I just hope they understand that living a long, vegetarian life is not a wise choice for optimal health.

 

[Vombatus]

I know some rather old Buddhist monks, all of whom are vegetarians of course.

To each his/her own. No one should be hassled.

Hell, I am allergic to peanuts and cashews, and was routinely made fun of in school. I always felt it made me a stronger person. Plus it proved to me a long time ago that the world is full of assholes and dickheads.