How can I convince my mother meat and dairy products suck?

Question

Jesus, she never listens! I show her peta videos of factory animals.

Show her milksucks.com but she says it's a pile of rubbish. I don't get it really. How can she be so cold? She's fat too and she wants to lose weight.

Answer 1

Leave her alone.  What people put into their bodies is a personal choice.

Answer 2

Perhaps you should just let your personal choice be that...your personal choice.  Why do you feel the need to push it on others?  Most people eat meat and eat dairy.  Maybe you should watch videos on what happens to one's body when they do not get enough calcium and protein.  There are 4 basic food groups for a reason, and, if your mother is fat, it is probably from eating too many carbs, not steak.  You are not going to be able to change her mind. She has common sense.

Answer 3

I have the same problem with my family.

(my mom refuses to cook vegetarian meals)

I eventually accepted that it was their own choice.

They can eat meat, I jsut ignore it and enjoy all the other types of food the earth has to offer that doesn't have to get killed to end up on our plates. =]

Answer 4

your not gonna be able to change your mom's mind (trust me its better not to even try, personal experience) but peta does go overboard and if you dont milk a cow, it will die... i'm a vegitarian but you do have to know fact from fiction. as for the her being cold, that i dont get, i cry when i watch video's like that or when i eat meat (i've done it by accident please dont judge me, it was in a food that when i asked someone they promised me there was no meat in it) as for the fat and wanting to lose weight, just tell her to cut down on meat. eventually she may cut it out completely. let her make her own choices though

Answer 5

I know you wont agree but your need to change her is more of a problem.  Why do you need to impose your values on her, and how can you be so arrogant to think that because your beliefs are SO right, that it gives you the right to enfroce them on others?

Not trying to be mean. Just making what I think is a valid point.  The belief system never matters, it's the self-righteousness whice gives away the underlying issues in the person's personality.

Now you're gonna tell us you do it out of love right?

Answer 6

saddly you cannot convince anyone.... it is just a personal decision... if you follow a vegan diet, she might copy you after a while..

Answer 7

Keep in mind, Vegetarianism and Veganism are personal choices.  You feel how you do about animals that humans eat, and she has her thoughts.  A very similar question could be asked about the Crusades, which were a very violent display of people not understanding other people.  One thing that applies to a lot of aspects of life is tollerance.

Answer 8

Yeah a vegetarian diet would do her some good. Tell her that many people have lost weight on a diet of fruits,veggies,legumes,and low fat organic milk, as appose to animal meat. If she still refuses, then whatever. She can cut 20 years from her life if she wants. It's her body. You can avoid meat and dairy if you want. when you mature into an adult as a vegetarian, she will be puzzled by how good you look.

Answer 9

There are some people you just can't convince. Have you tried giving her some awesome vegan food? Or a copy of "Skinny *****" (it is a bit on the fowl language / blunt side) which is both about being healthy (loosing weight) and being vegan to do it.

Answer 10

my family dont listen either, they are cruel and heartless

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buggywuggy, a cow has milk for her calf, they only give milk when they have a calf. they have to be milked in factories cause the calf they have is taken away at birth so the natural milking process cannot happen...and the calf only has a few days to live before turned nto veal

Answer 11

Are you joking or are you young?

She's fat? Thanks for that information.

Answer 12

meat sucks but dairy rocks

just take the meat(and dairy if u want)

and throw it away each time

easy as pie!

Answer 13

don't try to convince her of anything. let her make her own choice

Answer 14

Your mom pays the bills, not you. Showing her videos maybe made you change. When you move out of the house and pay your own bills, you can eat whatever you want.

Answer 15

Just as you have a right to feel as you do, so does she.

To be honest I think that peta and milksucks websites are the worst places to try and convince someone over 35.

That generation looks at those sites as propaganda. To a certain extent, I can see why. While I don't like what I see on those videos, I also know that that is not the full story. They Are showing the worst.