Do you have a "least favorite" cliché about veg*nism?

[yewberry]

You know the kind I mean...The kind that you can't respond to, because if you do, you're automatically a HUMORLESS FOOD NAZI.

"If God hadn't intended us to eat animals, why'd He make them out of meat? HAHAHAHA"

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Mine is:

"Well, carrots are alive, too. Studies show that plants respond to pain, but you just eat them ALIVE! Oh, won't someone think of the carrots?"

Let's see, I can refute that on so many levels. And did you think that was clever? Original? I've been meatless for over half my life, did you think I hadn't heard it all already?


Got one that gets under your skin?

[livinginphotographs]

1. Those two are probably the top ones....

Or just "Mmmm.....steak."

I also have a twin brother, so you can imagine how tired I get of people making comments that I hear about eight times a day and thinking they're original (for instance, "Did you play tricks on your teachers in school?" or "How does your mom tell you apart?" :puke:). I had plenty of practice with those before I even came vegan, so I guess I was prepared for an entirely new subject that people could make asinine comments about.

[Bouncy Ball]

2. Not yet, but I'm amazed at how defensive people get when you

tell them you are a vegetarian. I'm not passing a moral judgement on THEM, I'm just vegetarian.

I was asked to bring a baked chicken to a Passover Seder today and I had to tell her I couldn't because I'm vegetarian and she was really cool about it and said not to worry, she'll assign me something meatless to bring.

(We're not Jewish, we go to a UU church and we celebrate all different religious holidays. So we are having a Passover Seder.)

[CrispyQ]

3. I complained once to an HR manager that the

company's 25th anniversary celebration didn't have any veg selection for the lunch. "Well, we're going to have pork & beans. You can surely eat those!" As a meater, she saw pork & beans as just beans, even though the very name of it tells all! Unbelievable!

[yewberry]

11. Yeah, that's a pretty common problem.

A lot of people seem to believe that we can just "eat around" the meat. Nasty.

That's like ordering a pizza with dog shit, and expecting me to be okay with picking off the poop.

(Sorry, gross, I know.)

[Warpy]

4. "Butbutbutbut we're DESIGNED to eat meat"

Never mind we need to soften it by grinding or cooking to get it down, aren't equipped to tear through hides with our teeth, or don't have a gut that's short enough to eliminate the stuff quickly enough that raw meat doesn't make us sick.

"And besides, vegetarians look so UNHEALTHY." Never mind that we enjoy better cardiovascular health, lower rates of some cancers, and increased longevity.

[yewberry]

5. I love that one.

These are the same people that say, "If we weren't meant to eat meat, why do we have canine teeth?"

Seriously, go look at your cat's canines. Or your dog's. Now, look at yours.

Oh, yeah.

[LisaLynne]

8. Or better yet ...

suggest that they let their cat or dog bite them, then try biting themselves and see which one actually does more flesh-ripping damage. Hmmm. That should keep them occupied for a while.

Oh, that wasn't very nice, was it? What can I say? I'm in a bad mood. :)

[livinginphotographs]

6. I like to ask those people who give me the "it's natural" crap...

How many times they've chased a gazelle, overtaken it, then torn into its raw flesh with their teeth?

I haven't found one yet. Most of these "it's natural" people buy their meat in plastic wrap, take it home, plop it onto the grill, and season it with A1 sauce.

Yeah. That's just how nature intended it. :eyes:

[flvegan]

7. I have two:

1. "I can't be a veg* cuz I need meat."
Right...can't. "Can't" is a funny word. I wonder if it's "can't" like "I can't quit smoking" meaning that you can't because you don't want to badly enough or if you're physically addicted, or if it's "can't" like "I can't find my ass with both hands"

2. "I'd never get enough protein as a veg*"
I really love this one. I hardly ever actually get confronted with this one, as I'm 210 lbs of gym rat (Wayne Pacelle of HSUS called me "a monster" the last time I saw him). Still one of my (least) faves, though.

[LisaLynne]

9. That protein thing is crap.

I actually get far more protein now as a veg* than I ever did eating meat. People have these little catch phrases that they like to spew out and they think that ends the arguement.

[livetohike]

10. "You're going to make yourself sick!"

This was my Mom's comment 35 years ago when I first started out as a vegetarian.

Now I am the healthiest (and the oldest) of my siblings.