Silly/Annoying/Funny Things Omnis Say

[Amy SF]

From an other forum.

I force my diet on people, since I only serve vegetrian dishes at my own place. Even though they are served without any speach about animals or nutriotion.

What happens if such people are invited to a muslim, and don't get any pigmeat? Perhaps feeling islam is forced on them?

You make a good point. However, given how much Islam is disliked by a lot of non-Muslims, it's quite possible. "But we eat bacon in OUR house, what's wrong with it?" and so forth. And yeah, it's a double standard. If veg*an parents raise their kids to be veg*an, they're "forcing" their diet on their kids. Their OWN kids. They "should" let their kids choose. But when omni parents raise their kids to be omni (and they all do), then that's NOT forcing their diet on their kids, because an omni diet is "normal".

 

[Pirate]

You make a good point. However, given how much Islam is disliked by a lot of non-Muslims, it's quite possible. "But we eat bacon in OUR house, what's wrong with it?" and so forth.

I can just see the Daily Mail article now (if they havent done one already)

 

[Mikkel]

You make a good point. However, given how much Islam is disliked by a lot of non-Muslims, it's quite possible. "But we eat bacon in OUR house, what's wrong with it?" and so forth. And yeah, it's a double standard. If veg*an parents raise their kids to be veg*an, they're "forcing" their diet on their kids. Their OWN kids. They "should" let their kids choose. But when omni parents raise their kids to be omni (and they all do), then that's NOT forcing their diet on their kids, because an omni diet is "normal".

I don't have kids, but it seems like it's more accepted to feed your kids on junk food, than a vegetarian or vegan diet. Or if you don't feed your kid a lot of sugar. All small children need sweets and sugarfilled drinks.

But even some vegetarians believe you can't live without animalproducts... Strange that people can achieve really amazing results as athletes on vegan diet...

Just a bitt off topic, but I read a question from a mother in a magazine many years ago. She was out running several times a week with her daughter, and other parents reacted on that. It was almost child abuse... All the running was on the girls speed, and they had a lot of fun. But no. It's better to teach your kid to sit in front of a TV or computer all day long, than being active...

 

[Mikkel]

I've heard several times that vegetarians eat chicken (how come pepople don't see chicken as animals??), but new for me today is that you are a vegetarian if the meat you eat are minced.

 

[Amy SF]

I've heard several times that vegetarians eat chicken (how come pepople don't see chicken as animals??), but new for me today is that you are a vegetarian if the meat you eat are minced.

Well, apparently if the meat is diced, sliced, minced, pounded, smashed and beaten beyond all recognition, and is no longer recognizable as a dead animal, it magically transforms into a vegetable.

 

[Calliegirl]

Chicken and beef broth also doesn't count, or so I've been told.

 

[thefadedone]

Chicken and beef broth also doesn't count, or so I've been told.

Ironically I was just about to post about this. There was a comment on a recipe from Vegweb by someone who used beef broth instead of veggie broth.

 

[sequoia]

I keep seeing **** about how vegans aren't cruelty free because "what about the migrant workers who pick our vegetables?".

1) Apparently only vegans eat vegetables. Amazing.
2) Who the **** do you people think harvests the grain to feed the livestock you eat.
3) The people who work in factory farms are severely mistreated.

????????????????????

(i may have ranted about this before but i keep seeing it pop up and every time i get annoyed)

 

[FortyTwo]

I keep seeing **** about how vegans aren't cruelty free because "what about the migrant workers who pick our vegetables?".

1) Apparently only vegans eat vegetables. Amazing.
2) Who the **** do you people think harvests the grain to feed the livestock you eat.
3) The people who work in factory farms are severely mistreated.

????????????????????

(i may have ranted about this before but i keep seeing it pop up and every time i get annoyed)

I always think it's amazing that vegans are expected to avoid bad labor practice too, while the people preaching it seem to act like they're off the hook.

What's more fun is when they pretend like they actually avoid bad labor practice. Yeah, good luck with that Mr./Mrs. Human Rights Activist, sitting alone in the pine wood box you harvested and built yourself, eating only the food you grow yourself, wearing only the clothes you weave from the plentiful wild grass... Wait! Is that an iPhone!?

 

[sequoia]

Exactly. They only care about that **** when it is time to make vegans look bad. Otherwise, I NEVER see them talking about it.

 

[Mikkel]

Well, apparently if the meat is diced, sliced, minced, pounded, smashed and beaten beyond all recognition, and is no longer recognizable as a dead animal, it magically transforms into a vegetable.

Stupid me, didn't understand that!!! *laugh*

I've heard about the broth too. And people don't understand why I can't eat broth from animals, fish sauce or oyster sauce. Strangly, one of the hardest persons about the fish/oyster sauce thing, is a pescetarian...

On of my FB friend posted that about people picking vegetabiles... I just try to ignore stupidity...

 

[Blobbenstein]

I suppose that some omnies may be unaware of a more objective, universal definition of 'vegetarian', and just pick up what it means as they go along, and meet different people. So for some it just may mean avoiding actual lumps of meat from specific animals.

 

[kibbleforlola]

Funny thing is, it's been my experience that those that care most about farm worker exploitation have been veg*n, or veg*n sympathetic (I.e., familiar with veganism and knowing that it's the best idea, but not quite there yet in their personal journey). Those idiots just want to point out what they think is a flaw in your logic, while chowing down on their (inhumanely raised, prepared by people barely making min wage) Miccy D's.

 

[shyvas]

" I was certain that you were a vegetarian because you look so pale".

 

[Blobbenstein]

" I was certain that you were a vegetarian because you look so pale".

a stopped clock is right twice a day....

 

[Amy SF]

" I was certain that you were a vegetarian because you look so pale".

It still weirds me out how people can think they can spot a veg*an by physical appearance alone. We are short because our "poor" diet stunted our growth.* Our hair is dry and coarse and tends to fall out from malnutrition. We are frail, anorexic, emaciated. Our skin is dry and patchy. We are pale. (Especially since, for some reason, we refuse to wear makeup like "normal" people.) We look like death warmed over, ready to collapse from malnutrition. I swear, in the 16 years since becoming a vegetarian I have heard all of the above crap.

*When the Los Angeles Times was covering the making of the Spider-Man sequel with Tobey Maguire, the reporter writing the story mentioned Maguire's short stature and implied that it was because of his vegan diet. Thankfully the newspaper printed a letter from somebody (not me) setting the reporter straight and stating that Maguire's lack of height had NOTHING to do with his diet.

 

[shyvas]

a stopped clock is right twice a day....

It still weirds me out how people can think they can spot a veg*an by physical appearance alone. We are short because our "poor" diet stunted our growth.* Our hair is dry and coarse and tends to fall out from malnutrition. We are frail, anorexic, emaciated. Our skin is dry and patchy. We are pale. (Especially since, for some reason, we refuse to wear makeup like "normal" people.) We look like death warmed over, ready to collapse from malnutrition. I swear, in the 16 years since becoming a vegetarian I have heard all of the above crap.

*When the Los Angeles Times was covering the making of the Spider-Man sequel with Tobey Maguire, the reporter writing the story mentioned Maguire's short stature and implied that it was because of his vegan diet. Thankfully the newspaper printed a letter from somebody (not me) setting the reporter straight and stating that Maguire's lack of height had NOTHING to do with his diet.

The woman who said this to me has an even paler complexion to mine.

 

[Danielle]

How to get tan while avoiding the sun and tanning salon?
Eat meat. Lots of it. You won't be pale anymore.

 

[shyvas]

How to get tan while avoiding the sun and tanning salon?
Eat meat. Lots of it. You won't be pale anymore.

Yes, it's all that cholesterol being pumped up via your skin pores.

 

[AeryFairy]

" I was certain that you were a vegetarian because you look so pale".

I had a friend who swore all veg*ns were pale. She said, "think about all the veggies we know, they're all pale!". I pointed out that we live in the south of England, and virtually everyone we know is pale. She soon dropped that argument