Do angry vegans turn you against going vegan?

[Poot]

A woman cooks bacon in her vegan daughters home! I would have shown her the door TBF and I eat meat.

Vegan woman slams 'disrespectful' mum for frying bacon while staying in her home

It happened in Australia. Or maybe it didn't. Maybe it didn't happen at all. If there isn't a comment section fully angry shouty meat eaters, did it happen at all? Who knows.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Even as a vegetarian, I'd be pretty royally pissed off if someone showed me this kind of disrespect. Maybe it's somewhat ironic to admit, but if someone asked, I'd almost certainly not say "no", but it's pretty high-handed to do it without even the pretence of seeking permission.

Oh, and you don't "discover" someone's been frying bacon - the olfactory evidence is there for a good couple of hours afterwards. Not having to be around that smell is one of the little pleasures of having moved into a 100% vegetarian household

If your mum was staying with you and happened not to be vegan and you had no meat no eggs no cheese nothing but your own food....would you stop her buying her own food and cooking it?

I wouldnt. I'd feel she shouldnt have to ask my permission to cook her own meal.

I guess everyone is different.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

It's not just the smell though; it's all that meat in your pans and on your plates as well

Wouldnt that all be eaten by the mum and then washed off pans and plates?

Should her mum not eat what she wants because she is visiting?

 

[existentialist]

It's not just the smell though; it's all that meat in your pans and on your plates as well

Well, TBF, the pans and plates can be washed; the smell is harder to get rid of.

If your mum was staying with you and happened not to be vegan and you had no meat no eggs no cheese nothing but your own food....would you stop her buying her own food and cooking it?

I wouldnt. I'd feel she shouldnt have to ask my permission to cook her own meal.

I guess everyone is different.

If my mother was staying in my home, then absolutely I'd expect her to do me the courtesy of respecting my dietary choices, especially since she deliberately and maliciously made quite a point of not doing so when I was a child (so, yeah, there's history ).

Actually, the problem would never arise, because I'd never have her to stay.

But it did arise when I was married, and I was in no position to complain or criticise. And there were certain food cooking smells which I really did find repulsive, not from any ideological basis, but simply because they were repellent. Fish was bad, and cheap'n'nasty bacon - oddly (or perhaps not), decent locally-produced bacon didn't seem to have the same effect on my nostrils (and appetite). I did get acclimatised to it, and I really, really notice it now when I encounter it, having got used to a house that doesn't smell of cooking meat ever. I've surprised myself slightly by becoming (quietly) quite militantly vegetarian - I think I'd have a real problem living with a meat eater again now.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Well, TBF, the pans and plates can be washed; the smell is harder to get rid of.


If my mother was staying in my home, then absolutely I'd expect her to do me the courtesy of respecting my dietary choices, especially since she deliberately and maliciously made quite a point of not doing so when I was a child (so, yeah, there's history ).

Actually, the problem would never arise, because I'd never have her to stay.

But it did arise when I was married, and I was in no position to complain or criticise. And there were certain food cooking smells which I really did find repulsive, not from any ideological basis, but simply because they were repellent. Fish was bad, and cheap'n'nasty bacon - oddly (or perhaps not), decent locally-produced bacon didn't seem to have the same effect on my nostrils (and appetite). I did get acclimatised to it, and I really, really notice it now when I encounter it, having got used to a house that doesn't smell of cooking meat ever. I've surprised myself slightly by becoming (quietly) quite militantly vegetarian - I think I'd have a real problem living with a meat eater again now.

I see.
I wouldnt have any issue with a vegan or vegetarian... but I would not be able to be with someone who told me not to eat food I enjoy... like cheese and eggs and meat. I'd find that hard going tbh.

 

[8ball]

A woman cooks bacon in her vegan daughters home!

Vegans are allowed to smell bacon, though, aren't they?

 

[existentialist]

I see.
I wouldnt have any issue with a vegan or vegetarian... but I would not be able to be with someone who told me not to eat food I enjoy... like cheese and eggs and meat. I'd find that hard going tbh.

Then I am afraid that it must be all over between us

 

[Detroit City]

I have never dated a girl who was vegetarian/vegan

 

[Teaboy]

Vegans are allowed to smell bacon, though, aren't they?

My sister has been veg from an early age and most of the time vegan. She doesn't have any great ethical issues around animal cruelty but she really struggles with everything around the cooking of meat. The smell of cooking bacon to her is repulsive, its burning flesh. Its just the way it is for some people.

 

[existentialist]

My sister has been veg from an early age and most of the time vegan. She doesn't have any great ethical issues around animal cruelty but she really struggles with everything around the cooking of meat. The smell of cooking bacon to her is repulsive, its burning flesh. Its just the way it is for some people.

I don't find the smell of all meats cooking repulsive, but oily fish and bacon are definitely the worst offenders. Come to think of it, mince searing is pretty fucking disgusting to me, too. I don't want to impose my dietary preferences on other people, but if I find the smell of those things cooking intolerable, then it isn't really a choice.

Actually, the worst ever is probably kidneys (don't those who eat them find that a house stinking of piss is a bit off-putting? ), and kippers.

 

[existentialist]

I have never dated a girl who was vegetarian/vegan

Neither have I

 

[8ball]

My sister has been veg from an early age and most of the time vegan. She doesn't have any great ethical issues around animal cruelty but she really struggles with everything around the cooking of meat. The smell of cooking bacon to her is repulsive, its burning flesh. Its just the way it is for some people.

When I eat rice I hear the screams of the paddy fields.
I just deal with it stoically.

 

[Teaboy]

When I eat rice I hear the screams of the paddy fields.
I just deal with it stoically.

Given the exploitation of the workers in a lot of that industry you may be closer to the truth than you meant to be.

 

[Orang Utan]

If your mum was staying with you and happened not to be vegan and you had no meat no eggs no cheese nothing but your own food....would you stop her buying her own food and cooking it?

I wouldnt. I'd feel she shouldnt have to ask my permission to cook her own meal.

I guess everyone is different.

Meat eaters can eat vegan food though, but not the other way round.

 

[8ball]

Given the exploitation of the workers in a lot of that industry you may be closer to the truth than you meant to be.

Humans don't count, silly.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Then I am afraid that it must be all over between us

Lol
..

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Meat eaters can eat vegan food though, but not the other way round.

Yes but....its not always as nice as steak and chips or cheese parcels or bacon and cabbage.
Maybe 2 kitchens are needed.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes but....its not always as nice as steak and chips or cheese parcels or bacon and cabbage.
Maybe 2 kitchens are needed.

It depends on the food, if you're visiting, you don't need to eat meat while you're there. It would be good to have a healthier weekend. Even non-vegans should be eating vegetarian dishes a few days a week. You can't eat meat every day.

 

[8ball]

It depends on the food, if you're visiting, you don't need to eat meat while you're there. It would be good to have a healthier weekend. Even non-vegans should be eating vegetarian dishes a few days a week. You can't eat meat every day.

I find your use of 'vegan food' and 'vegetarian dishes' quite amusing.

 

[Orang Utan]

I find your use of 'vegan food' and 'vegetarian dishes' quite amusing.

Separate things of course

 

[8ball]

Separate things of course

Can be the same thing.

 

[Orang Utan]

Can be the same thing.

Aye not sure why that needed pointing out

 

[Baronage-Phase]

It depends on the food, if you're visiting, you don't need to eat meat while you're there. It would be good to have a healthier weekend. Even non-vegans should be eating vegetarian dishes a few days a week. You can't eat meat every day.

Yes but....it's surely their choice too?
If a vegan visited me I would do my best to have vegan food for them as they are my guest. I kind of would think that would be reciprocated if I visited them later.

 

[Teaboy]

It depends on the food, if you're visiting, you don't need to eat meat while you're there. It would be good to have a healthier weekend. Even non-vegans should be eating vegetarian dishes a few days a week. You can't eat meat every day.

I think one of the problems is that traditional British food is pretty unimaginative (to put it politely). So much is based around the concept of meat, potato and veg. As a result veg isn't really elevated to something in its own right like it is with so many great cuisines round the world.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes but....it's surely their choice too?
If a vegan visited me I would do my best to have vegan food for them as they are my guest. I kind of would think that would be reciprocated if I visited them later.

. That's nuts.

 

[Orang Utan]

I think one of the problems is that traditional British food is pretty unimaginative (to put it politely). So much is based around the concept of meat, potato and veg. As a result veg isn't really elevated to something in its own right like it is with so many great cuisines round the world.

Exactly, meat eaters need to widen their palates a little bit

 

[8ball]

Aye

Also can be just filed under 'food'.
It's possibly the way I eat these days but I sometimes find I've had an unintentionally vegan day or whatever but it usually doesn't occur to me.
Though most of the time there will be a cup of tea at some point, so the cow's milk makes it non-vegan.

That said, I don't think my Dad would ever eat a full meal that didn't include meat.

 

[Teaboy]

Yes but....it's surely their choice too?
If a vegan visited me I would do my best to have vegan food for them as they are my guest. I kind of would think that would be reciprocated if I visited them later.

Seems a bit strange. Would you not back them to cook you a meal you really enjoyed regardless of the presence of meat?

 

[existentialist]

Yes but....it's surely their choice too?
If a vegan visited me I would do my best to have vegan food for them as they are my guest. I kind of would think that would be reciprocated if I visited them later.

But vegan food isn't likely to be repulsive to you - meat could well be repulsive, even in the cooking of it, to a vegan/vegetarian.

 

[JimW]

I don't cook meat but will put a bit in if I'm e.g. making noodles for me and the daughter and there's some cold cuts about or the like. Only vegan in the family, not bothered about sharing utensils, I trust my washing up and I'm not vegan for purity reasons.