well dear im sure as much as you are eager to learn about their culture they are eager to learn about yours. i know this for a fact, my bro in law spent years in mexico and they were eager and happy to eat american food and learn about our culture. obviously your not going to go there and act like paris hilton and scream about slaughtering a chicken but its not impolite to say no thank you to actually eating it. veganism is about saving the animals and doing the best you can and thats not what your doing, a true vegan does not eat animals for 4 months because your in a foreign country. you should care who is laughing at you because you will not be taken seriously as a vegan because you wil not be them. when i see peope sitting in jail for the things theyve done to help animals and see someone like you it makes me really sad and this is why veganism isnt spreading as much as it could. meat and dairy are like sides in mexico not main ingredients, you can easiy eat raw or vegan and be poor and grow all of your own stuff, its not like raising your own animals is the easiest (or cheapest) way to feed the family. mexico could thrive as a vegan country with so much land to grow on. i just urge you to really think about this decision, im not trying to insult you, i would just hate for you to kick yourself forever for four months of a "cultural experience" i would feel guilty for life.
Why not give her these suggestions without doing it in an insulting manner? And yes, it is insulting to tell her she's throwing 6 years of her life away, that people will laugh at her, that she's a hypocrite and to leave the community. And do you seriously think people giving up their veganism in return for something they feel is more important for a few months drives people away from veganism more than vegans being self-righteous and absolutist?
Why should she care that narrow-minded fools like yourself might laugh at her and not consider her a TWUE VEGAN?
And since when is veganism only ever about "saving the animals?" I suppose that, in your world view, there is never any other reason that a person would be vegan?
No, if you oppose something it means you disagree with it, provide resistance to it, are against it, etc. If she were telling people to stop being vegan or sneaking meat into people's food, that would be anti-vegan.
And in my opinion, the most anti-vegan thing you could do is drive away people who would otherwise be interested in it. Please consider changing your negativity towards other people, because that attitude is the most anti-vegan obstacle we have today.
please, stop being ridiculous. i'm not anti-vegan. there is going to be a four-month period of my long, long life when i eat meat, and you're having a meltdown over it.
i guess i should've made more clear what i'm doing in mexico. i'm going to be living with indigenous campesinos--people who have lived a certain way for thousands of years. and i can tell you without a doubt that they are not at all interested in me bringing them american culture. american and european culture have been being shoved down their throat for the last 500 years--and only recently did it not become fashionable for it to be done with the barrel of a gun (although that certainly happens as well). these are the people who took up arms on january 1, 1994, the day NAFTA was signed, because they knew it was going to be a death sentence for them if they continued to allow themselves to be at the mercy of this "american culture." these are the people who, because of the extravagant lifestyle that is american culture and the increasingly americanized character of life for middle class mexicans, the poorest people in the country, live in the worst conditions in all of mexico despite living in one of the most resource rich areas. for me to come to mexico and say, "here, experience some of MY culture" is laughable, because my culture has been pushed on them since columbus landed on this continent.
as for the true vegan comment, i have no qualms with whatever you or anybody else wishes to label me as. like i said, i don't eat this way so i can affix the label to myself. and why are you worried about my eating humanely raised animals for four months out of the probably ninety years of my life that i'm going to be a vegan? why don't you put your energy more towards trying to convince people who will eat meat every day for the rest of their lives, rather than worrying about my purity?
like i said, i have thought about this decision, and i've come to the realization that some things are bigger than ideological purity and veganism itself. i'm not going to feel guilty for life, because that would insinuate that the way these indigenous people have lived for thousands of years is backwards and incorrect, which is a completely ethnocentric viewpoint.
veganism is about saving the animals and doing the best you can and thats not what your doing, a true vegan does not eat animals for 4 months because your in a foreign country.
you should care who is laughing at you because you will not be taken seriously as a vegan because you wil not be them. when i see peope sitting in jail for the things theyve done to help animals and see someone like you it makes me really sad and this is why veganism isnt spreading as much as it could. meat and dairy are like sides in mexico not main ingredients, you can easiy eat raw or vegan and be poor and grow all of your own stuff, its not like raising your own animals is the easiest (or cheapest) way to feed the family. mexico could thrive as a vegan country with so much land to grow on.
i just urge you to really think about this decision, im not trying to insult you, i would just hate for you to kick yourself forever for four months of a "cultural experience" i would feel guilty for life.
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And since when is veganism only ever about "saving the animals?" I suppose that, in your world view, there is never any other reason that a person would be vegan?
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opposed to veganism, opposite of veganism....EATING MEAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF VEGANISM....get it? i dont have time to tutor basic definitions and logic.
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And in my opinion, the most anti-vegan thing you could do is drive away people who would otherwise be interested in it. Please consider changing your negativity towards other people, because that attitude is the most anti-vegan obstacle we have today.
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as for the true vegan comment, i have no qualms with whatever you or anybody else wishes to label me as. like i said, i don't eat this way so i can affix the label to myself. and why are you worried about my eating humanely raised animals for four months out of the probably ninety years of my life that i'm going to be a vegan? why don't you put your energy more towards trying to convince people who will eat meat every day for the rest of their lives, rather than worrying about my purity?
like i said, i have thought about this decision, and i've come to the realization that some things are bigger than ideological purity and veganism itself. i'm not going to feel guilty for life, because that would insinuate that the way these indigenous people have lived for thousands of years is backwards and incorrect, which is a completely ethnocentric viewpoint.
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Good luck with doing that. And I think it's going to be worth it in a lone run to give it up for four months.
:D I wish you a safe journey.
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