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[Discussion] Is anyone else afraid of others finding out you're vegan? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca to c/vegan@lemmy.ml

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Now days I try to avoid saying I'm vegan as much as possible because my mental health is fair and I feel lonely. Dealing with all the arguing can be too much sometimes. I hope in the future I would have more confidence for activism and informing others.

There was also a statistic that said vegans are the second most hated group after drug addicts. Neither social stigma is justified. People need to be more compassionate to other beings not matter how rough in a state they're.

But I would never be a pick me vegan and attack my morals to please others. I don't care if it makes meat eaters uncomfortable. Deal with it and do better!

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

I definitely only mention it when relevant (making meal plans) because people's brains just shut down as soon as they hear vegan. Constantly the most idiotic arguments that they'd never use in other contexts.

I need to eat meat because of my protein-deficient Indigenous lion-ancestors and did you know there's no ethical consumption under capitalism so might as well maximize my unethical behaviors, also did you know only 100 companies produce 71% of emissions and they'd totally keep up that production even if consumption went down on a global scale?? Also I only ever eat meat from my uncle's ethical farm, who somehow also provides the meat for every fast food restaurant I go to, I'm basically vegetarian I only eat meat like twice a day!

I've started telling people "I'd rather not have a conversation about it because I've had this conversation hundreds of times, it's never productive and I usually end up rather upset". If they can't respect that, I figure they're not worth my time anyways.