RE: How to be polite? - ATT Kelly

[Guest guest]

Hi, Kelly,

 

I will respond for myself. After becoming vegan, I found that eating ANY

meat products made me ill.

 

About a month or so after becoming vegan a " vegetarian " girlfriend invited

me for lunch. I told her I was vegan and assumed since she was " vegetarian "

she understood. When I went back to work, I didn't feel so good. Shortly

thereafter, I was hanging onto the toilet bowl in the ladies room. I could

not figure out what it could be. I finally called my girl friend and asked

her what EXACTLY was in her delicious soup. CHICKEN BROTH!

 

Since then, I have been served chicken broth two more times. The second

time, I had been vegan for about ten years. I unknowingly was served

chicken broth twice a day for three days. I was having stomach problems the

whole time and thought I was nervous because of the situation, and under a

lot of stress. But I was getting worse. The last meal, the food was served

SWIMMING in the chicken broth and when I tasted it, I said it did not taste

right and my husband questioned it and we found out I had been eating it for

three days! I wound up deathly ill for three days.

 

The longer I am vegan, the larger amount of animal product I seem to be able

to tolerate before becoming ill. But I don't like to be ill and prefer to

avoid all animal products that do this to me.

 

Jo-Ann

TN

 

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On Behalf Of Kelly Best

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:43 PM

 

Re: How to be polite?

 

 

 

" Can you tell me how you explain to people that you don't eat anything that

had meat touching it. " and another " How much intelligence does that take? "

 

This probably sounds strange, but I am more than curious as to why someone

can't eat a veggie burger cooked on a grill with meat. I'm a new vegetarian,

and it wouldn't bother me a bit if someone made spagetti and threw in

meatballs. I'd just pick out the meatballs. I cook meat for my family, so

I'm still " touching " it and will use the same pan to fry theirs and mine.

I'm sure everyone will probably be upset with my " un " intelligence, but I

guess I'm just one of those that doesn't have the intelligence that it takes

to know better:). So please no geting upset with me, I just really don't get

it, unless it would be an allergy thing and could cause serious health

issues. Thanks in advance for being gentle! kelly, FL