Hey everyone. I've been trying to gather help from different social media, I am desperate for help and the saving of animals !
My ( complicated ) situation is the following ;
I'm living with my ex-Plant-Based family, I can't move out because I am disabled and other personal things, I have no social life nor friends, I also don't have any money, we are in a rural area, vegan alternatives are either non-existent or poor ( only vegetarian in my grocery store ), my family refuse to be Plant-based again, we saw all the Vegan documentaries, we are poor, but my family decide to spend money on expensive animal food items every week, my dad is rejecting my need of cooking my own food and eating a Vegan meal together.
We already had conversation about food at home, my dad is a prideful French chef cook, he likes when things are done the traditional way. No matter if it's vegan or not. His meals are composed of mainly fruits before, a plate of seafood in sauce, cheese wine and bread. When it's not seafood, it's either chicken or charcuterie and French pâtés. Same for my mother. Sometimes he will make '' real '' meals, but it's usually what they eat, and they don't mind.
My mother doesn't cook, she doesn't mind eating Vegan, but she follows my dad. She is more open-minded than my father, but still doesn't side with me anymore, even tho she cried when I showed her Dominion. They know the health benefits of a Plant-Based diet but now they just choose to not care because they are living an ''" hedonistic '' lifestyle and think food is pleasure. I kindly told them we can have pleasure without murdering animals, but they disagree, telling me Vegan food was boring and not as tasty as meat, and they will never be wiling to try alternative ever again. The more I talk to them about this, the more aggressive they become, to the point of telling me to '' It's our house and our rules ''.
I feel very anxious about this situation, having no support is literally making me crazy.
I have manic episodes, and they blame my '' mood change '' on this. When I attempted being Vegan for 8 times already they keep discouraging me and begging me to eat non-vegan things, the ambiance was really not great. I don't know what to do, every time they see me trying to speak about Veganism they laugh at me saying it's another phase and that I'm also an animal abuser so '' why shouldn't they ''. They don't even let me grab some beans at the store.
I'm not even allowed to have a small treat when they spend more than 500 euros each week for their freaking expensive murder food items. Yes, when I told you it was expensive, it IS. They grab every time those overpriced fish and seafood bougie frozen bags and the freezer is FULL ( i can send a pic for proof ), this is hilarious to me.
They keep blaming the '' We want you to eat like us to keep cost cheap '' but we can't eat Vegan food that would cost us 5 times cheaper than that, I'm fuming.
PS; Note here that when I told that we are poor, we are. My family is gaining no money and choose to throw money out of the window for their food choices. We are currently surviving on their economy. And they keep telling each week how '' We are running out of money soon. '' I'm totally loosing it.
I feel like crying whenever I think about how our idea household could be, happy, cooking together like before and eating yummy plant based food. But no, my dad just loves to be the dream breaker.
I'm sorry not sorry for this rant, I feel like I needed to get that out of my chest. I hope y'all can help me find some solutions or ways to talk to them without me risking being kicked out of the house..
My ( complicated ) situation is the following ;
I'm living with my ex-Plant-Based family, I can't move out because I am disabled and other personal things, I have no social life nor friends, I also don't have any money, we are in a rural area, vegan alternatives are either non-existent or poor ( only vegetarian in my grocery store ), my family refuse to be Plant-based again, we saw all the Vegan documentaries, we are poor, but my family decide to spend money on expensive animal food items every week, my dad is rejecting my need of cooking my own food and eating a Vegan meal together.
We already had conversation about food at home, my dad is a prideful French chef cook, he likes when things are done the traditional way. No matter if it's vegan or not. His meals are composed of mainly fruits before, a plate of seafood in sauce, cheese wine and bread. When it's not seafood, it's either chicken or charcuterie and French pâtés. Same for my mother. Sometimes he will make '' real '' meals, but it's usually what they eat, and they don't mind.
My mother doesn't cook, she doesn't mind eating Vegan, but she follows my dad. She is more open-minded than my father, but still doesn't side with me anymore, even tho she cried when I showed her Dominion. They know the health benefits of a Plant-Based diet but now they just choose to not care because they are living an ''" hedonistic '' lifestyle and think food is pleasure. I kindly told them we can have pleasure without murdering animals, but they disagree, telling me Vegan food was boring and not as tasty as meat, and they will never be wiling to try alternative ever again. The more I talk to them about this, the more aggressive they become, to the point of telling me to '' It's our house and our rules ''.
I feel very anxious about this situation, having no support is literally making me crazy.
I have manic episodes, and they blame my '' mood change '' on this. When I attempted being Vegan for 8 times already they keep discouraging me and begging me to eat non-vegan things, the ambiance was really not great. I don't know what to do, every time they see me trying to speak about Veganism they laugh at me saying it's another phase and that I'm also an animal abuser so '' why shouldn't they ''. They don't even let me grab some beans at the store.
I'm not even allowed to have a small treat when they spend more than 500 euros each week for their freaking expensive murder food items. Yes, when I told you it was expensive, it IS. They grab every time those overpriced fish and seafood bougie frozen bags and the freezer is FULL ( i can send a pic for proof ), this is hilarious to me.
They keep blaming the '' We want you to eat like us to keep cost cheap '' but we can't eat Vegan food that would cost us 5 times cheaper than that, I'm fuming.
PS; Note here that when I told that we are poor, we are. My family is gaining no money and choose to throw money out of the window for their food choices. We are currently surviving on their economy. And they keep telling each week how '' We are running out of money soon. '' I'm totally loosing it.
I feel like crying whenever I think about how our idea household could be, happy, cooking together like before and eating yummy plant based food. But no, my dad just loves to be the dream breaker.
I'm sorry not sorry for this rant, I feel like I needed to get that out of my chest. I hope y'all can help me find some solutions or ways to talk to them without me risking being kicked out of the house..
