{"id":5662,"date":"2020-01-12T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2020-01-12T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T13:27:14","slug":"why-are-vegans-so-in-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5662","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Vegans So In Your Face?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To be plain, I’m not a vegan; I’m a vegetarian and have been for over 30 years now. Somebody has to eat all that surplus cheese, and what else am I going to put on my morning muesli? Navy-strength rum? It’s a nice idea, but I doubt my employer would be too impressed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old joke goes: “How do you know if someone is vegan? They’ll tell you.”. And somebody always makes it every time veganism is mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a few thought on that \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, how do you know that all vegans will tell you and preach? The existence of noisy ones doesn’t provide you any information about quiet ones – you (and I) don’t know whether it is 1% of vegans being quiet, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 99%. From my experience of vegetarianism, the ones most inclined to make a noise about it are the newly converted \u2026 and vegans have been around for ages. I even know a few that have been vegan for longer than I’ve been a vegetarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, I know from my own experience that eating out with a bunch of relative strangers (co-workers, sales critters, and the like) is likely to result in being questioned on your menu selection: “Why are you eating that bloody rabbit food?”. It’s kind of hard to avoid the topic when you’re being interrogated all meal long about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I think that ‘normals’ overlook just how much pressure there is to conform to the standard carnivorous diet – from the restaurant menu that sticks vegetarian\/vegan choices in the ‘restricted diet’ section, through to jokes about a steak is overdone if it doesn’t “moo” when you stick a fork in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it any wonder vegans are in your face?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, with the exception of a certain Twitter exchange, vegans have never<\/em> been in my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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