Why do some meat eaters feel the need?

Question

to come onto the veggie section and then make funny remarks

Oh my aching sides, how witty to suggest a lamb chop of greasy fry up when the question is obviously aimed at vegetarians.

Doh, at least try to be original or better still keep to the food and drink sections, why waste your time on a sectio that obviously doesnt interest you?
I doubt veggies would bother to answer a meat question.

Ok so you eat meat........ we eat veggies, viva la difference!! live and let live I say!

As I dont go on other food sections I dont know what is said BY veggies TO meateaters. Bit blinkered I know, appologies

Dicken200 I DONT ATTACK MEAT EATERS
that is my point. and why would I need a cookery lesson when there is no way Id want to eat a chop lamb or pork thks.

Please dont tar me with the same brush as the Ashley army.
She goes about expressing her opinion all the wrong way

Answer 1

I'm a meat eater and love a fry up. however my cooking repertoire includes veggie meals . If you had christmas dinner here you'd be as well fed and welcome as anybody else.

Each to their own.

Answer 2

I have said this many times before and I will say it many times again: The meat eaters who feel resentment toward vegans feel that way because the fact that we're doing what's right shines a light on the fact that they're not. And I'm sorry but idiots like this "ckngbbbl" person who tries to assert that she knows all about everything because she's a "foodie" (ridiculous American term), and then goes on to try to plead that actually these animals who are SLAUGHTERED have nice lives, are just another example of people trying to whitewash their wrongdoings. Not only is the vegan diet the healthiest (vegans have markedly lower rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, etc.) it is also the only ethical choice. Our bodies (flat teeth built for grinding grains, long intestines built for processing plant fiber) were made to thrive on a plant based diet and we have no right to imprison, torture and murder other animals for our own ignorant misguided "needs". Finally, I think the fact that so many meat eaters spend their time seeking out and posting in this section speaks volumes. If they were so comfortable with their choice why would they feel the need to needle us constantly?

Answer 3

I have no idea what they are talking about, saying that vegans and vegetarians go into other food and drink forums to attack them. The only people that I have seen doing that are the "Ashley" army, which is YET again some meat-eater's joke, but it's gone on for so long it's just plain stupid. What really gets me is that Ashleys still get so many responses to their posts. So therefore it might even be meat-eating people responding to joke posts by meat-eating people in their own forums, and then all of them at once come to V&V and pour their backlash against the community. I believe that's the goal of the Ashleys to begin with.

Answer 4

Ahh... already enough answers, but I have to say I agree...
How about when you're eating with meat eaters and they try to convince you that eating meat isn't that bad, etc, etc... I'm wondering why they feel the need to do this if I'm not trying to convince them to be a vegetarian... just let people be themselves so long as it isn't hurting anyone!

Answer 5

It's one of those things that work both ways - vegetarians regularly post offensive and abusive reply's on meat eaters questions as well. I feel that everyone is entitled to their own way of life whether veggi/omnivore/meat eater/vegan/pescitarian etc etc etc without being insulted because their beliefs don't match those of others.

Answer 6

Lots of good answers... and I find the rude attacks on vegetarians & vegans very childish...

I was raised a lacto-ovo vegetarian... it is my opinion that vegetarians will get the "last laugh" because the cost of meat production will increase to the extent that a vegetarian diet will be the only option left.

Answer 7

Anonymity is the correct answer. If we were responsible for our actions, then many would not put out answers and questions as freely as they do now.

I sometimes see some remark that is original and funny and give them credit where it is do (creativity is rare nowadays). But if I see a "Do vegans eat animal cracker joke" I yawn.

Now the up in your face about vegans and ramming their beliefs down your throat is untrue. You have to open your mouth before anything can be rammed down it! The fact of the matter is, meat from an animal origin (there is other origins that are plant based) is the outcome of killing an animal against its own will, which in human terms means murder if I am correct. Now most of this meat is produced by people who are paid to do it (which by the way has a very high turnover rate, and now many illegal immigrants are now doing the work), and vegans/vegetarians just "believe" that this is wrong. And if you think murder is wrong (be it animals or humans) then you have a hard time of just sitting still and saying "let live" which is an oxymoron in this case. In fact, some of us vegans/vegetarians have to witness the onslaught of murder by watching people eat their huge pieces of meat during meals and just be quiet so as not to make the eaters uneasy with our beliefs. It is very hard to do.

How unsettling it is that people who are compassionate and respect life in all forms are ostracized by society. Wouldn't it be a dream if it was the other way around. That society was vegan (do away with animal slavery too) and many of today's glutton diseases would go away. Killing anything would go away and not be allowed, so war would be obsolete. Animals would live in harmony, and pollution from factory farming and factory dairy would go away. And all the food that we put into factory animals would be distributed to families who need it more (one cow eats 10 times the grain one single family could use to live on, while only 1 cow can feed a family). Many benefits to a vegan society. Dream on, yeah, I know the sarcasm.

Answer 8

Thanks Doug, I totally agree with you but when some little girl says she has been protesting outside MacDonalds then it bugs the hell out of me. Why should your cohorts dictate what and what I should not consume for my pleasure? Yes, I really enjoy eating meat (with my vegetables).

Answer 9

You say "live and let live" but yet you attack meat eaters. We meat eaters do appreciate our vegetables as much as we do our broiled lamb chops, which are not greasy fried. No self respecting meat eater would ever fry a lamb chop... pork chops Yes! lamb chops No! Why some of us even broil our vegetables.

And we meat eaters have a sense of humor... something that seems to be lacking in most vegans I've come in contact with, present company included. I think it must have something to do with the protiens and amino acids we receive from our wretched, horrid diet.

So you just keep on wolfing down all that rabbit food and I'll wolf down the rabbit, since he won't be getting it.

Answer 10

It's not just meat eaters who do this. I've seen plenty of responses to omnivore-orientated questions which come from vegetarians trying to wind people up.

Things like how they'd never eat a little lamb or a fluffy bunny. And how all veal is cruel ( it isn't ).

Vive la difference indeed, but it applies to us all.