Look I clown veganism often enough but really, truly, don’t ever fucking feed somebody something without their knowledge or consent. It’s hugely fucked up and not OK.
also if someone hasn’t eaten meat in a while… or ever… they will get incredibly sick if they just start eating meat again.
|| Please don’t do this. Not just with vegans/ vegetarians, but with ANYONE you don’t know very well. You never know what they may or may not be allergic to, their abilities o(or lack thereof) to digest certain things, dietary needs and restrictions, religious beliefs requiring them to abstain from the consumption of certain foods and about a thousand other things.
Some people are legitimately allergic to thd proteins in certain meats and can’t even eat anything cooked in the same pan as X meat product/s.
I’m vegan but couldn’t care less if others aren’t, not an overwhelming number of (not all, just alot, unfortunately) non vegans find things like this funny.
Quick reminder: Sometimes people say “I’m vegan” or “I’m vegetarian” because its easier/faster/begets fewer annoying questions than the longer explanation.
As an epidemiologist I can list a few of the more annoying longer explanations that no one wants to have to explain to every person who ever offers them food:
- You drank water contaminated with giardia, which gave you 3 weeks of diarrhea followed by 3 years of lactose intolerance
- You were bitten by a Lone Star Tick and developed an allergy to beef and pork because the Lone Star Tick is a bastard
- You are Jewish and the meat isn’t kosher, but you don’t want to say that because antisemitism is A Thing and you don’t want to get bombarded with questions about the Middle East while you’re hungry
- You are Muslim and the meat isn’t halal, but you don’t want to say that because Islamophobia is A Thing and you don’t want to get bombarded with questions about the Middle East while you’re hungry
- You are on a restricted diet for medical reasons and don’t want to get bombarded with questions about your medical history while you’re hungry
- You are on a restricted diet for reasons that *are nobody’s business* and don’t want to get pulled into Potentially Triggering Diet Talk while you’re hungry.
Listen. Food can be very very complicated for people, and a very very very sensitive subject. Respect people’s food restrictions. None of it is your business.
Several of these points listed apply to me and my family. Please do not feed us something and lie about it. We don’t time to be that sick.
Here is the thing though… Every instance of this on social media is widely condemned. But you know what isn’t condemned? The posts with 200k+ notes demonising vegans, the “found the vegan” jokes, the “lol vegans are so stupid”, the comments, the shared and unchecked posts painting us all as rich, racist elites and erasing the rest of us. Across twitter and tumblr specifically, vegans are constantly mocked, dismissed and reviled, but almost none of you put two and two together here and realise that the toxic anti-vegan rhetoric on platforms like this one has consequences. And those consequences look like this.
You can’t spend years laughing along to the posts vilifying us, to the point where many of us don’t even follow non-vegan blogs anymore because we just know you’ll eventually reblog some mindless post about vegans hating Peruvian quinoa farmers, or whatever other reason they’ve found to hate us that week, then turn around and claim you don’t understand how someone could act like this. There is a direct correlation between the widespread acceptance of bullying (particularly young) vegans and this sort of malicious act. A whole lot of you who are so quick to condemn this behaviour while proudly “clowning veganism” are a big part of the problem.
Yeah, literally every non-vegan is responsible for this kind of abuse towards us, and I make no apology for saying so. You can’t say ‘I wish I could rape and kill every vegan within a ten mile radius and I hope the rest of the vegan population dies of cancer’ and then be surprised when people try and kill us or do shit like this. Don’t you fucking dare pretend that you aren’t as bad as the dickhead who tricks us into eating meat, you’re responsible for that action. Don’t deny it, you’re no better than they are.
