Feel like you're going around in circles with your non-vegan friends? |
This one is mainly for my fellow
vegans, but the rest of you are welcome to listen in. Ya, even if
you're trolling to dig up dirt and gloat. All are welcome to give me
page views. That is, after all, how I get paid. Feel free to pass it
around too. I love it when haters do that. Ka-ching! LOL I'm just
giving you crap. I love all my readers, vegan or not and I appreciate
you. I wouldn't be here without your support. Anyway, back to the
subject at hand. I have addressed this before, but I feel like
talking about it again.
My vegan friends, did you ever feel
that you could make a list of everything you've had said to you in
response to your choice to be vegan and answer it all (for the 199th
time) but what would be the point because nobody really listens
anyway? Ya, that's how I feel today. "If you were stranded on a desert
island...., but, but, but if we all went vegan, animals would
over-run the earth...., Where do you get your (insert nutritional
need)? What do you eat? How many licks does it take?" Wait, that's
something else entirely.
Anyway, my veg buddies, I am so sick of
all these questions. I don't mind answering them for people who
really want to know the answer. The thing is, though, most of the
time, when people ask vegans questions, they don't even want the
answers. What they want is to prove us wrong. Now, we all know that
the facts are on “our” side even though we are all in this
together and there really are no sides, except the ones we all
invent.
So, I'm thinking, wouldn't it be a hoot to print up a document containing all the factual answers to the mean spirited questions and comments with applicable links and sources? So that instead of answering them, we could just pull one out and hand it (or message it) to them. “Here you go. This should answer all your inquiries. Reference # 87 – The dairy industry is the meat industry.” Wait, that's been done many times over? They're still not listening? They didn't even read it?
So, I'm thinking, wouldn't it be a hoot to print up a document containing all the factual answers to the mean spirited questions and comments with applicable links and sources? So that instead of answering them, we could just pull one out and hand it (or message it) to them. “Here you go. This should answer all your inquiries. Reference # 87 – The dairy industry is the meat industry.” Wait, that's been done many times over? They're still not listening? They didn't even read it?
Of course not. Because some people's
main interest is not to learn. It's not to change. It's not to grow.
It's to stay tucked away in their personal comfort zone, blissfully
unaware of the atrocities of the industries they patronize, lashing
out at anyone who so much as suggests that there may be a better way
of doing things than the way they have always been done (Like that's
working SO well.).
Because, if they knew what we know, assuming they
are nice people, which I believe most of them are, they would have to
change.
Or maybe, they just have better things to do than to listen to us ramble on. I do like to ramble on about my favorite subject. Don't we all, vegan or not?
The point is, with certain people, even people you
love with your whole heart and soul, there's really no point in
addressing their inquiries and insults. What's a vegan to do? Well,
you do what everyone does when faced with rudeness, bullying and
general mean-spirited comments and questions. You walk away, leave
them in the most kind and peaceful way possible and live your life as
a shining example of compassion. A sense of humor doesn't hurt
either.
It's not a competition or even a race,
my friends. It's not about you. It's not about them. It's not about any individual right. Folks, we're all connected, vegan or not. Whatever any of us do impacts
every one of us. Vegans need to remember that too. So, get a sense of
humor, grow a huge pair (because you WILL need them) and try to be as
nice as you possibly can when people insist on being biased and
critical. And whatever you do, don't comment on mean spirited Facebook posts
like I sometimes do.
Heaven forbid you might express an opposing
opinion to vegan bashing. It's in style, you know.
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