Don’t call me vegan!
In the end of last week, if my memory serves me right, I started an article with the same name as this one “Don’t call me vegan!” I was looking over it today and I honestly found it to be pure shit. To be honest, I’m not good at editing. When I write stuff I have to first write the first draft in my mind, and then sit down and write it on the computer. The only editing I’m comfortable is correction of grammar, spelling and minor errors. If I end up having to rewrite the whole piece I see no other reason than just to sit down and write it again.
I personally felt it was too long and not touching the main issue hard enough.
As I started out as a pescetarian I gradually went vegan after a while. I mainly became pescetarian because I actually found it easier and healthier to change my diet, rather than devouring medication and no-food everyday. Most people with common sense would be able to understand that forcing yourself to eat something your body naturally rejects will only backfire later in your life.
Now that I’ve been vegan for a while I meet more and more vegans. Most of the time that is a great experience, but sadly there is a few vegans that leaves a really horrible taste in my mouth. The taste is so rancid and foul that it almost makes me want to revolt by not giving a crap about animals at all anymore, just to be a jerk and not being associated with anti-vax abolitionist vegan hippies.
personally I could never go back to hurting animals, but I feel some vegans are still doing a good job at giving veganism a stigma it doesn’t deserve; and making non-vegans more scared of us. Of course I wish that people would go vegan, as we actually don’t need the bad nutrition that animal products barely contain, but being a realist I luckily understand we don’t live in an utopia. If we lived in an utopia we would have no wars, pollution, extinct animals, starvation, murderers and on and on and on…
The irony here is that I’ve had more heated and useless discussions with vegans (mostly anti-vax vegans and abolitionist vegans) than non-vegans. I honestly don’t know any other minority than vegans that has this much internal fights and issues with elitism. It’s also funny that we all fight for the same end result; only difference is that some are using reason while others use fanaticism.
As an introvert and watching how introverts gather and communicate is like stepping into a different world. There is technically different types of introverts, but some how that doesn’t matter. We stick together like a family (at least that is what I’ve experienced).
Fellow vegans shouldn’t worry though, I will still be vegan; but I don’t have that passion I had when I started out as a vegan anymore. I actually dare to be so annoying that I’m almost wanting to say I’m only following a vegan diet; or that I’m on a strict vegetarian diet (only consuming non-animal products, everything else is fair game).
The true meaning of vegetarian and vegan has already been watered-down and changed several times; and also having people making up new terms to suit their deviance. Do we really need to deter more people from going and staying vegan? Get your bloody act together and start living in the real world!
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