Well, I don't mind if someone else wants to be a vegan, but I have no interest in trying to become one myself.
I probably wouldn't invite a vegan to my house for dinner because I have no idea how to cook that way.
I enjoy getting recipe ideas from vegans and vegetarians because I'm always looking for creative new ways to prepare vegetables.
I've had the misfortune of dining in restaurants with vegetarians who behaved badly. (Interrogating the waiter over whether the food contained meat products, whining there was nothing on the menu they could eat, insisting they could taste meat in the dish once it arrived even though other vegetarians at the table said they didn't taste any meat in it, made offensive remarks about the nice slab of meat on my plate, proselytizing to me about why I shouldn't eat meat, etc.) Because this has happened many times with different people (including one occasion where it happened three times in the same meal), and has always been extremely unpleasant, I now go out of my way to avoid going to restaurants with vegetarians or vegans unless I know them well enough to know they won't ruin my meal with their behavior.
I do agree with you that making healthy dietary decisions complements dance nicely.
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Originally Posted by rakgirl
My question is, does it seem to upset other people to you? I notice that people are sort of offended by my eating habits. They take it really personally.
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