My omnivore Mom rocks!

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone! I just wanted to share a story that makes me proud of

my omnivore Mommy. I'll try to keep it uncharacteristically short.

 

Last week my single mom was at an out of town business convention. At

the same hotel in which she was staying was also a poultry

convention. One night she was in the hotel night club with several of

her single female colleagues, and they were scoping out the scenery,

if you know what I mean. There were some attractive, well dressed

guys there, and the ladies at her table decided that one was

particularly cute. When he, the cute one, started walking toward

their table carrying 2 drinks, well, the ladies were all excited. So

this handsome man walked up to my mom, handed her a drink and struck

up a conversation. She said their was something she didn't like about

him, but thought she would chat with him and not be so standoffish.

When he told her he was a veterinarian, she thought, " hmm, my

daughter will like that - someone who cares for animals. Well, he

procedes to tell her that he is a veterinarian for the poultry

industry. She said that from that point on she didn't hear a word he

said because all she could see when she looked at his face was the

black and white picture of too many hens crammed into a tiny cage

that she had seen while with me in Pangea vegan store. So SHE TOLD

HIM AS MUCH right to his face and right in front her business

associates!!! First he tried to deny that chickens are kept in

battery cages, but she told him that she knows the truth. He told her

that the chickens don't mind, that like to cuddle with eachother.

SICK!! She told him that unless he could give her one good reason why

his industry feels that it is ok to treat living creatures in such a

horrific manner, then she has nothing more to say to him, and he

could give that drink to some other ignorant woman. He told her she

doesn't know what she's talking about. So she told him that he better

save his money because more people are going to start waking up and

stop eating chicken. She told him she'll never eat chicken again.

 

Whew!

 

So... he turned to the gaping mouthed group of ladies she was with

and asked if any of them would like the drink he had offered to my

mom. Each one said no, and when he walked away, they all cheered.

Well, I don't think any new vegetarians were made in that group, Mom

included, but I think that the scene was dramatic enough to have

planted a seed. She told me this over a TVP non-chicken salad

sandwich on whole grain bread, that she loved. I really don't think

she'll be eating any real chicken any time soon.

 

Sorry, I didn't make it brief as promised.

Nikki

[Guest guest]

Bravo Nikki's Mom

that was one of the best stories I have heard in a while. More of

these ignoramus jerks need to be blown off.

Lynda