Hey folx, just wanted to make an appreciation post for my wife. She has been by my side for the last 10 years, and she is the best thing in my life.

I was vegan when we met, she was not. We dated for about 4 years, and by year 3 I got her to try some of my vegan recipes and to eat less meat on Mondays. I was so happy that she made this extreme effort as part of spending time with me.

When I asked her to marry me, I reminded her that my veganism was very important to me. I no longer wanted to live in a house where I had to cook animal products for her. So I gave her an ultimatum: if she wanted to marry me, she would have to start cooking her meat for herself.

She said "Yes!" to the ring and "Sure, I guess" to cooking for herself. At the wedding, we had lentil soup (my idea) and roast chicken (her idea). I was just happy to enter a legally binding contract with a real woman. So what if she doesn't share a core moral value?

The moral of the story is that my wife is still as hot as ever and I get good sex ALLLL the time. So what if she still eats meat and has stopped caring about my vegan recipes? I got married, so I won, and you loner losers can suck it.

PS: I'm actually a better activist than all of you because I got someone to temporarily decrease their consumption of meat. What have you ever done to benefit the animals?

A very good friend of mine happens to be vegan. Every time I offer her meat food (otherwise known as normal food) she likes to remind me that she is vegan. Lately, it has gotten out of hand with her aggressively and passionately asking me not to offer her normal food because she is vegan.

Anyway, this asshole good friend of mine just offered me my dream job at the conservation organization she worked for. The problem is that, for some unfathomable reason, the organization is full of vegans. I don't know any of these people, but based on my experience with the one vegan I know, I am convinced that they will harass and bully me. I might even end up having a vegan boss, and being the alpha male that I am, I simply can't let a protein-deficient hippie be in charge of me.

What do I do? Has anybody ever been in a majority vegan work environment? I am generally a very intelligent person, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. Every time I think of my future co-workers, I get a panic attack and my otherwise intelligent brain stops functioning properly.

I honestly could not care less if others call eating human babies “child abuse”. Its what the babies are for; literally why else would they exist? As for how humanely the babies are treated before slaughter I do consider that an issue and using suppliers who practices I support eases my concern about that issue. Some super preachy “baby rights activists” told me to stop, but I wont even engage in such discussion or change my diet to please non-baby eaters. They’re an irrelevant segment of the population and one I personally find ridiculous. I am particular about my baby consumption and own satisfaction which does not require their approval. Why can’t they live and let live?

A coworker said this to me today after we got on the topic (I brought it up lol). And while I could have argued that it's so much easier that it seems, it didn't make me angry like it does when people try to justify it or make slick comments that they don't think I pick up on.

They skipped the bullshit and to me it's almost like saying "I know you're right but I'm not ready to stop eating cats yet" which I know isn't enough, but it at least gave me a little bit of hope that they're keeping an open mind. It also encourages me to keep speaking up, because maybe my words aren't falling on deaf ears after all.

them: you’re a vegan?

me: yeah! i love animals. so i don’t eat them 🥰

them: WELL I LOVE ANIMALS MORE THAN YOU AND I EAT THEM I NEED MY PROTEIN WE ARE CARNIVORES YOU NAZI

me: ….

Look, I don't want to ruffle feathers, cause a scene at dinner, or end up alone. That's it. So sorry, but yeah, I didn't say anything when my best friend ordered the 80 year old lady who wet nursed for his father to set the table. I didn't want to fucking do it either, I think a host should set his own damn table, but to expect me to point that out to him!? He might marry me one day I can't say that Look, people have the right to make their own decisions, and to determine their own path, and I can't be criticized for what he does with his own path. it's just not the right thing to do, sorry

Yes, eating off a ZooPals plate is vegan

Yet another excuse people use to deflect and avoid personal accountability!

I think eating animals when you don't have to because you just like meat, cheese and ice cream (which you can get vegan anyway) is a privilege!

Think monkey, think

When i was a kid my parents would never hug me and my bullies would punch me in the face. Getting home and eating flesh and animal products (including my fingernails) was the only warmth i got. How you might ask?

Well first of all, the obvious argument is microwaves. I would heat it all up and it would go in my core organs and i would feel as if the cow hugged me personally. But not only that, the fact that this type of food is inflammatory (it creates warm flames in my body( would make it such that my own body would create heat and thus hug me in my times of need. Just pure love all around.

I've never seen somebody mention this, do you all just have functioning families or am i missing something? The vegan diet seems cold and raw since i saw its not inflammatory. And the one vegan restaurant i went to didnt put spices on my tofu nor heated it up, i felt like an abandonned victorian child.

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Bought a loaf of white bread and have no idea what to do with it! LOL

I tried squeezing the moisture out of it, I tried freezing it, boiling it, and I even marinated it overnight! It still doesn't taste good!!

Some professional bakers told me I should try spreading some jam on the bread or dipping it in my soup, but I don't believe them! Because, what if I can still taste the bread (the bread that has no flavor)??

I should probably try squeezing it harder and marinating it longer, right????

hmm? what method convinced me to become vegan? oh, no, i'm not vegan and will actively refuse to engage with any arguments in favor of veganism, which is why i'm fully qualified to tell you what works and what doesn't.

/uj once before i became vegan i saw a post on bluesky to the effect of "people who haven't even convinced themselves to be vegan will really lecture vegans about how to convince others" and i was immediately struck by the obvious truth of this statement and i wanted to share it here

( i dont actually like ai overview, i just thought this was a funny reply this thing gave me)

i want to buy a personal slave from an animal dealer shelter and I know it requires corpses to eat to live, so I plan to do that by giving it the parts of mass murder victims. I don’t actually need to take the slave - in fact, I can’t actually afford to cover medical or food costs as it is! But I want a slave so badly to entertain me and let me touch it whenever I want.

now don’t get me wrong! Some people take in animals who are homeless and doing great destruction to the environment they are living in - and those people do so without ever exchanging money for the animals to come with them. They just happen to live or work near a colony of homeless beings, and sometimes one of those fellow Earthlings comes up and basically asks to be fed and let’s you take them home to live with them. Thats just not an option to available to me and I want my own personal slave soooo bad!

Let me know that I’m still vegan even though I’m exchanging money to take a captive sentient being into my home where I will almost definitely make it go outside to kill and maim local wildlife everyday, and it might end up run over by a car too!

as long as the store I’m buying the slave from calls itself a shelter and promises they aren’t making a profit on it, that means it’s okay and there’s NO way I’m participating in some kind of scheme that normalizes and perpetuates slave trading by doing so…

I see you vegoons over here talking about how gatekeeping is necessary, but gates are sentient beings and not here for us to "keep" for our own benefit, so what do you have to say about that?! CHECKM8 LOSERS.

I have not willingly eaten animal products since I was 13 (9 years ago) but I do feed my cats with non vegan food, cause they are carnivores it’s just natural for them to eat food that I bought that were made in factory from animals killed by people. Fully natural. Otherwise it would be the abuse of my pets and I would never abuse an animal!

I don’t really have an interest in debating giving up my cats… cause from where am I supposed to get my B12 then?

It’s easy to say, “tough luck, maybe try to prepare icky tofu correctly.” But you can imagine a world where someone just doesn’t like the texture of icky tofu, intrinsically, because without the mouthfeel of a dino nuggie, what even is food?

Look, if I had the palate of a toddler, I could easily be vegan, because I love vegan dino nuggies.

But for someone with the palate of a toddler, who can’t eat beans or seitan or grains without turning them into some kind of Frankensteak, who truly despises the taste/texture of icky tofu, are they out of luck?

Is the answer, “you better eat icky tofu, because what’s worse: killing an animal, or making icky tofu?”

Or is it, “sorry, you might just have to supplement with protein shakes, and get your dino nuggie mouthfeel fix from lions mane and jackfruit.” (EEEEWWWWWWW)

Let’s make this even more difficult: what about someone with the palate of a toddler who also is ALLERGIC to soy, so even icky tofu is out? Now we’ve also cut the possibility of vegan dino nuggies. What have we left? Beans? BARF. Quinoa? BAAAAARRRRRRRRF.

Does this person have an obligation to be vegan or can I keep my dino nuggies pleeeeeaaaaase?

I am not a vegan anymore but since I was one, I can tolerate your weirdness. During my pregnancy, muh body needed dairy so I went vegetarian! I am a practising physician but I don't know that no adult animal needs any milk after having grown up! My body needed it!

Later I introduced fish into my diet for health reasons. Being a doctor, I am either unaware of, or don't care about the mercury and other metal pollution of fish! My body needz fish! My body my body my body! Me me me! Muh health! As a doctor, I am not interested in the neurotoxines found in many types of fish!

It will probably not take much time until I become a full-blown carnist again and ideologize it in the same way, but of course I can still roll with the vegan jabs!

(Since I am so open, I think I should not have any opinion on your being trans! Praise me for being so tolerant! Me me me!)