Are there vegans/vegetarians out there who don't care if someone eats meat?

Question

This is one thing that's been on my mind for a while. Okay, I'll admit it: I love meat, always have. I am aware of where it comes from, yes, but that doesn't change my mind. But I encounter some people who happen to be vegans/vegetarians. If someone chooses that lifestyle, more power to him/her/them, but sometimes I even wonder if it's someone who will go Lisa Simpson on me like in that one episode and believe, I don't respect people like that. It's more about preachiness and shoving beliefs down one's throat than anything else. Sometimes, I tend to stay far away from PETA supporters. Okay, I get it about slaughterhouses and such, but why should someone convert because someone said so? It's not like I don't eat fruits and vegetables at all, because I do. Health, ethics, whatever, I can have talks with someone else than someone attempting to convert me by preaching. Again, nothing against vegans or vegetarians out there. Just had to get something off my chest.

Answer 1

I think half of vegans/vegetarians wish the rest of the world was like them. They do it for the ethics and it makes sense if they want others to help boycott the bad parts of the meat industry. The other half of vegans/vegetarians probably are what they are for health reasons, religious beliefs, or they just don't like meat. In these cases i don't think the person would care what everybody else is doing.

yes, PETA is extreme, but i still support them because, scandal or not, i am a vegan for ethical reasons, and would like other people to learn about it and maybe stop eating meat. PETA gets the message out there, by shouting, and do a lot of good. like with the mars candy ban for inhumane testing, or burberry affair. Shoving it down peoples throats is where PETA goes wrong, forcing the message out is good. I still consider myself a rational person, and i really wish you would CONSIDER not eating meat, but if you don't oh well I'm certainly not offended. that would be wrong of me.

i hope i helped.

Answer 2

I hung out with this guy who said he was vegan... I used to be a vegetarian myself so I was fine with it. But than he started preaching about PETA and how I'm supporting the killing of the inicent. PETA is a joke and I firmly believed that when I was a vegetarian. ( the only reason I stopped being vegetarion is because it's hard to find certain vitamins I need in my town that you often find in meat.) Religious people do the same thing. Preach, preach, and preach some more... Human's are animal's with animal instincts, the only difference is we can use hammers. Some of us have the craving for a grilled steak and others don't. PETA is filled with a bunch of hypocrites anyway. I'm an animal lucky enough to be on top of the food chain and has it accord to anybody that if all humans were vegetarians than animal population would go up and we might become the ones getting eaten? Tell them to grow up and stop preaching or you'll smug pepperony in there salads. Okay just kidding on that part but seriously... You don't preach to eat meat so they shouldn't preach not to.

Answer 3

I prefer them not to rub it in my face. I prefer not to partake in the abuse of animals like that. I don't preach to any one unless I'm trying to defend my decision or scare someone off. When it comes to preaching I agree with you. It's annoying to have someone rip you apart for not doing what they believe is right. Sometimes you need to let the extremists preach and you can wander off in you happy place and daze off.

Answer 4

My sister in law in the only vegan in the family. She married into a family of meat eaters and hasn't tried to convert any of us. She and my brother have 3 children and the kids eat meat as well. We all get on well though my brother did by a second grill one year as a joke saying she'd have to cook her fake meat far away from his.

I think plenty of us believe in live and let live but those who don't tend to be very loud and make other vegetarians/vegans look very bad.

Answer 5

i dont care that much

i just lose a lot of respect for people who are aware of the issues and dont care.

Answer 6

I'm not a PETA supporter, because I am a pacifist.  I also don't push my beliefs on other people.  I've been a vegetarian since I was 9 years old.

My boyfriend, and my parents all eat meat, and I don't say anything about it.  If they  or anyone else ask me questions about it, I answer honestly.

I really think that vegetarianism is a personal thing, that not all people can relate to, like a religious belief almost.  

I just hope that you never think all vegetarians will turn on you for it, because I don't, and friends of mine who don't eat meat would never try to push it on other people.

I actually more often get people that yell at me and make fun of me , shoving beef or undercooked meat in my face.  This truly makes me sick.

Answer 7

I'm a vegetarian and I don't really care.  I really just don't like meat, never have.  When I did eat meat I would feel guilty thinking about the animals, but I don't preach about it.  I find preachy vegetarians/vegans just as annoying.

Answer 8

I'm a vegan and I really could care less if people eat meat. It is their own decision. People eat meat in front of me all the time and sure I feel bad for the animal, but I'm not the one eating it so it doesn't phase me as much as people sometimes think it does.

Answer 9

I have been a vegetarian for 8.5 years, and a vegan for about 9 months. I'm a crazy person when it comes to loving animals, and I would be lying if I said that people eating meat didn't bother me at all. However, my sister and dad are both avid meat consumers, and my love for them is not dimished by their eating habits.

As far as 'preachiness,' goes, I try very hard not to come down on people for their personal choices. Even though I try not to judge, the fact that a person can care so little about the lives of others doesn't reflect well on them in my mind. People don't expect you to change just because you tell them to; they expect you to change because of the information that they are presenting you. To most vegetarians/vegans, it's completely incomprehensable that a person wouldn't care about animals being mistreated and slaughtered.

Difference of opinions... just respect those around you and try to see things from their perspective. We vegans will do the same.

Answer 10

i agree

not 2 mention not eating any meat usually un healthy

its extreamly difficult to get all of the nutrients you need w/ out eating any meat/animal by-products, ect.

Answer 11

i'm a vegetarian and i don't mind people eating meat. i understand that not all people are like me. and i don't mind when people eat meat in front of me because i know that everyone is different and you have to except it.

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Answer 12

I don't want people to judge me because of how I eat, so why would I judge others? ;]

Answer 13

I'm a vegetarian and I don't care if people eat mean, I'm used to eat my family eats it and eating meat have some benefits but I choose not to cause I picture the live animal and it grosses me out.....but I do get mad and upset when people I'm eating with gose umm yummm dead cow, and then put the food in my face, you eat it thats fine but don't go out of your way to try to gross me out, then you will hear me *****, and tell you all the stuff you don't want to hear.....cause you're doing it to me

Answer 14

I don't really care. I am a vegetarian, have been since 6th grade. I think some people go too far, and they get angry when other people around them eat meat, but I think it's one person's choice, and if you choose not to eat, you shouldn't interfer with other peoples choices.

Answer 15

I am fine with whatever people do, but now tell me can you watch this video, without ever feeling guilty. - oh btw i hate peta too!

http://video.hsus.org/index.jsp?fr_story...

tell me if watched it with out guilt?

Answer 16

I don't have a problem with people who choose to eat meat AFTER they have been presented with the facts. I have a problem with those who say "I don't want to know! I don't want to think about where meat comes from!" For me, ignorance isn't bliss. If someone is making an informed decision to eat meat, then I can accept that. But I can't accept those who wish to remain ignorant just so they wont have to deal with the suffering they are contributing to.

Star, because you're respectful in your question and willing to listen and make an informed decision to eat meat.

Answer 17

I don't care what you eat.  Some people's hearts are too hard to care about animals.  If the pain and misery of animals doesn't bother you who cares.  I don't know why you came here to tell us.

Answer 18

My brother doesn't seem to mind. He's the only vegetarian in the family, and he gets his quorn and fake meat and we get our real meat. Just the other day he cooked us a meal using mince, real mince, which shows he really doesn't mind what we choose.

Answer 19

I'll take this answer in steps.

1. I am a vegetarian, and I, too, love(d) the taste of meat. For many vegetarians and definitely vegans, the choice of lifestyle has less to do with taste and health benefits and more to do with the origin of the meat.

2. I can't speak for all vegetarians, but for me, personally: I respect people who eat meat and I don't believe in pressing my ideas on them. This is because I want my lifestyle to be respected, also, and I don't want people pressing their ideas on me.

If you ask me why I'm a vegetarian, I'll give you an answer.

If you try to belittle the horrors of slaughterhouses, I will go Lisa Simpson on you.

If you try to tell me that I should eat meat, that my being a vegetarian is difficult and alienating to others, I will whip out some PETA-esque pamphlets.

But if I'm not provoked, I won't preach. That's not my place.

3. I know that there are vegetarians, including myself, who either don't support PETA or are wary of their actions. PETA has made false claims in the past. Some of PETA's members are extremely militant.

It seems that many advocacy groups, like PETA, have taken extreme and unwarranted actions and have members who are extremists.

However, the main point of the organization is to bring awareness about animal cruelty and invoke support for animal rights. While I don't agree with all of PETA's actions, and while I feel that PETA often gives vegetarians and vegans a bad name, I do respect and applaud them for their mission of awareness.

5. To the statement, "Okay, I get it about slaughtherhouses and such, but why should someone convert because someone said so?:"  

No one should convert because someone else said to. They should exercise their own brain, their own logic, and their own moral or ethical code. The people who preach to others are not trying to get them to convert "because they said so." They are trying to raise awareness about "slaughtherhouses and such."

Many people don't really think about where their meat comes from. They have images of pleasant farms and animals being sedated and killed humanely. They aren't aware of the practices that occur in factory farms. They aren't aware of the living conditions of the animals.

Advocates of vegetarianism try to make these practices known to others, in hopes that they will "convert" because they have *thought* about what the advocate has said. They will convert because they have researched factory farms and slaughterhouses and then choose the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle because they have decided that they don't support these practices and find eating meat to be unethical.

6. You mentioned that you can ahve talks with someone about health and ethics, which I believe is they key to bridging any sort of discord between meat-eaters and vegetarians/vegans. Both parties should fully research their facts. Meat-eaters tend to be unaware of certain statistics and situations, while some vegetarians tend to spout false accusations unknowingly. If both parties can discuss the facts and how that relates to their ethical code calmly and rationally, I believe the conversation can be deemed productive.

7. Keep in mind that some vegetarians and vegans are extremely passionate about their lifestyle. This passion may cause the conversation to become very emotional, and may invoke the "preaching" aspect. If the vegetarian/vegan you're speaking to gets like this, you may want to politely end the conversation.

8. In all, as I said before, I respect people who eat meat. I don't eat meat because I find it to be unethical. However, I would never want what someone else considers "unethical" to be pressed on me. For example, I am pro-choice, and I know that the main "pro-life" argument has to do with morals and ethics. I wouldn't want *those* ethics imposed on me, so I won't impose my ethics on someone else.

I understand that animals aren't as important to everyone as they are to me. I understand that some people simply don't care about the treatment of animals for logical reasons, as they believe humans are superior as a species to animals.

I may "care" that people eat meat, because I care about how that meat got there, and I care about the animal they are eating. But I don't hate people who eat meat. I don't disrespect them. I try to remind myself that my morals are not necessarily superior to another's morals, and therefore I should never belittle a person's choice to eat meat.

Answer 20

I dont care what you eat ..I care what my family and I eat.I dont like cooked carrots ..but if someone else does ..we can still be pals