Hallo my lovely Interwebs 🙂

This is another personal post today about a topic that has recently occurred and at first I was going to leave it alone but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to write this blog posts. Anyways, as you all know I have a tumblr blog that I spend the majority of my time and energy on (instead of doing my work…oops). So the other day I was just looking around my dashboard and I happened to come across this girl online who was vegan and very very angry at… well… us? And by “us” I mean all of those out there who aren’t vegan, she was even upset at vegetarians! Pretty crazy!

Here are some of her post:

And this rather demeaning poem:

“Oh I love the animals”,
The meat eater replied,
Eating a meal
For which animals died.
“I care about animals”,
The meat eater claimed,
(But only the ones
That I pet and give names).
“I could never go vegan”,
The meat eater lied,
Because how could they know?
It’s not like they tried…
“But milk doesn’t hurt them”,
The meat eater said,
Ignoring the calf
Chained up in the shed.
“We’re top of the food-chain”,
The meat eater swore,
‘Hunting’ meat from the shelves
Of the grocery store.
And they’ll dine on dead flesh,
And they’ll call us judgemental,
And they’ll pretend that their actions
Are inconsequential.

Many angry, such frustration, much hatred.

Now I’m not talking about all vegans, but I have seen some out there who are really angry about us eating meat or animal by-products. Don’t get me wrong, I do not condone vegans, vegetarians or anyone in between, however I personally do eat meat and enjoy it. Coming from someone who supports feminism, I can see the frustration that occurs when someone insults or belittles your beliefs or ideals, it’s not cool.

However my views in life, are that people should be allowed to live out their ideals/cultures/beliefs/religion in peace without having others discriminate. A lot of vegans argue that we should not eat meat and that we have no “compassion” and are “selfish” for not putting the rights of animals in front of us. This is where the conflict lies for me, whatever belief you have, you do not have the right to spread hatred or anger. That is exactly the same as Christians/Religious Groups who don’t allow same-sex marriage to be legalised, because they don’t agree with the view they instead shun any who don’t follow their ideals. Being a “carnist” may seem wrong to certain vegans but our actions do not hurt you personally on a physically level nor does it really emotionally damage you. The only thing you really suffer from is the moral comfort that comes from us agreeing with you.

And before you make the argument that if I was in the same boat I would do exactly as you would, no, no I wouldn’t. There is a difference between having a discussion and accepting the fact that someone won’t agree with you and cursing anyone who doesn’t see things from the same way that you do.

“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
Stephen Hawking