Guest guest Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 Okay, see, now, I'm getting a bit annoyed because in sharing the information about Vegan Outreach and 8th Continent, I specifically said I do not have a problem with Matt's decision. I further said I sometimes make that same decision. I also said that I just thought other would want to know about 8th Cont, and to be fair, what VO's position was. I did say that *I* did not want to give my money to a vegan org. that promotes *non-vegetarian* products. IN CASE others felt the same way, or IN CASE they didn't I provided the full account. So how did I come across as being rigid? Or when did I or anyone even *hint* that this is a vegan list? I specifically wrote " veg*n " to be INclusive. Sorry, but you all seem to be on the defensive. Why? ~Doh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 I can only speak for myself on this one, but I know that sometimes when I am speaking to people who are not veg*n that I am heavily critiqued about my eating, shopping and even the discipline of my children!! If I ever come off as defensive about any issues, I can almost automatically attribute my negativity to being referred to as a " junk-a-tarian " by my family for years.( I find this ironic, since they all eat really yucky bad for you food in great quantities, and I have so many less health problems.) I was a teenager and didn't know what to eat a lot of the time especially because my mom would not change anything about the way that she shopped, and I ended up eating a lot of really bad stuff in my formative years. She has always been a " diet " shopper, everything was super chemically weight loss food. ( like all that stuff with the scary olestra in it) Some how I still ended up being overweight for a long time. Anyway, my point is that I think that making a super earth-animal-health conscious choice like veg*nism is automatically putting ourselves up for scrutiny, and I find that it often turns into scrutinzing eachother. I think, though, that everyone wants to feel less judged, and I for one will be wording my posts more carefully so that I don't hurt anyone's feelings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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