Why do people try to make me eat meat?

Question

I'm a vegan, but it seems like every time I eat with a carnivore, he tries to convince me to consume some flesh. Just the other day, my son tried to get me to put bacon in my cheese omelette. I just can't take it anymore!

What should I say?

Answer 1

If you are Vegan, why are you eating cheese and eggs?

They are probably worried about your health. Are you bone thin? Sickly? Most vegans I know are. They ALWAYS have a cold.

Do you try to force tofu on carnivores? Just curious. Have some soy bacon to appease the meateaters. Oh wait, if you can't eat meat....why would you have fake bacon?

Answer 2

If you're a vegan you wouldn't be eating a cheese omelette to begin with, but perhaps that's not the point... Just tell people that you'll eat what you want and skip what you don't. Beyond that, it's nobody's business.

I think andrewth78 needs a basic biology lesson... or he's maybe he's found an apple tree that lays eggs and a tomato plant that bears cheese?

Answer 3

I don't know for sure why, but I think they do the convincing thing because eating meat is something they do and have always done without thinking about it. And, on a gut level, they don't like that someone isn't falling into the same automatic pattern.

I think many people go through life without thinking about much of anything, but just sort of floating on the course they ended up on. And these people get weirded out by people who do differently, and act on their personal thinking to determine their course. I think they feel that doing something other than floating in the wake of external forces is weird or almost perverse, and they try to stop it when they see it.

This of course isn't true of every carnivore, but I think it tends to be true of those that get really into convincing vegetarians to eat meat.

As far as what to say, "MYOB" is a start. Saying that if they keep it up, you won't visit them in the hospital when they have their first heart attack, might get them to stop it too.

Answer 4

A misguided/misinformed concern about your nutritional health. As for your son, how old is he? Maybe he felt sorry for your missing out on something he likes. And the guy above is right, you're not a Vegan if you are eating cheese and eggs. One of the docs at work is always trying to convince the rest of us to be vegetarians. We just smile and think about steak. Just makes us want the hamburgers and such that much more.

Here is the definition of Vegan and Vegetarianism according to Merriam-Webster online http://www.m-w.com/


One entry found for vegan.


Main Entry: veg·an
Pronunciation: 'vE-g&n also 'vA- also 've-j&n or -"jan
Function: noun
Etymology: by contraction from vegetarian
: a strict vegetarian who consumes no animal food or dairy products; also : one who abstains from using animal products (as leather)

Vegetarianism:

1. Vegetarianism (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
A vegetarian diet is one that excludes all or most animal...

Answer 5

My mother does this to me every time I am around her, and I'm not even a vegetarian! I don't eat beef or pork and she is always trying to feed me bacon and hamburgers. Whenever she does it I do the same thing back to her. I tell her that at least I have tried hamburgers and know that I don't like them, so why won't she just try a Boca or Gardenburger? She still hasn't tried one, but it usually gets her to leave me alone about it at least until the next time I'm with her for a meal.

Answer 6

Ask them to go push over old ladies, shoplift, or pee on religious symbols and leave you alone. Offer to eat bacon in your omelet if they sit down and watch "Meet you Meat" from the PETA website a few times. Watch open heart surgery together.
Ok, really, the nice people at www.veganoutreach.org have it figured out. Go look at their site and order a few brochures to hand to the pests.

Answer 7

Well I honestly don't know what to tell you.....as long as you are vegan you are going to have to deal with this.....you have chosen to eat this way so your just going to have to just relax and let it go.....just ignore the things that people say.....and don't worry about it so much.....as for you son I am sure you have already explained it to him why you have chose to eat this way......and that's all you can really do....I am sad to say this but you will probably always get some amount of ridicule for this.....don't worry about it like I said....remember it is your choice.

Answer 8

Obvious.

Because it bothers you. I gave a guy in college a piece of sausage every once in a while. He just ate it. It wasn't much fun, so I only rarely did it.

For a little more help I guess I should tell you that he used to just put it off of his plate and eat the rest, but he eventually found that saying "mmm, sausage" or whatever and eating a little bites completely ruined everyone's fun.

Answer 9

wait if your a vegan you shouldnt be eating cheese or omelettes for that matter...if your eating that stuff you might as well be eating some meat

Answer 10

Excuse me, I think someone is using words incorrectly! We are not carnivores, we are omnivores, a carnivore would eat only meat and no veg. Secondly, we are all omnivores by nature, the word refers to what our species is biologically; you are a vegetarian, not a herbivore.