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My family absoultly hates that i chose to go vegetarian, in one day, my whole family knows without me telling them, i already got into a huge fight with my aunt, does your family support your choice???
My family absoultly hates that i chose to go vegetarian, in one day, my whole family knows without me telling them, i already got into a huge fight with my aunt, does your family support your choice???
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My dad hates it, my mother will buy the food for me.
nooope im asain so i HAVE to eat meat >_>
My parents thought I was nuts! Still do. They are the kind of people who eat steak 5 nights a week…
I think they were slightly offended, like I disapproved of their eating meat.
they dont care. they think its my choice what i eat.
My family absolutely supports my choice of vegetarianism. I have been for 17 years though, so I guess they’re quite used to it by now (even though I’m the only one in the family).
My dad supports me so far and he said he will buy me the food himself if it isnt to exspensive.
I dont think my grandparents are very happy about it though.
And my mom doesnt even know. hehe
But oh well life goes on im just glad i have one supporter.
as far as i know – yes
i too have an aunt who does not approve
but it’s not her life choice
I just made this decision about 4 days ago, and my parents support me 100%! They are happy that I am following what I believe in, and have already taken me to the store to explore the vegetarian options. I would just tell them that it is your choice that you have made, and you would really appreciate if they would support it. You obviously believe in it, so I would just keep at it. I really hope that everything works out for you! Good luck!
my parents are very supportive about it
its not your parents desision what you eat
My family at first sort of made fun of it, but I was already married when I went veg. They don’t “support” it, but they no longer try to sabotage me.
My family doesn’t care. If my dad was still alive, he’d probably get super pissed at me. Sorry, dad.
I live in the Deep South, so one would think I’d have it tough. My parents were always fine with it. Some of my other family joked about it or made fun of me, but once they saw I wasn’t going to budge and didn’t give a shit what they said about it, they let it go.
They sure do eat the hell out of some of the vegan food I make. Be nice about your decision and ask them to accept it. That’s all you can do. If they don’t try to accept it, tell them to screw off. Not eating meat is not something foreign– the average American eats WAY more meat than just about any other nation, save maybe Germany. There are plenty of people, even in history, who didn’t eat meat and did just fine.
Like these: Einstein, Isaac Newton, da Vinci, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Thoreau, Ovid, Mary Shelley, Voltaire, and John Wesley, just to name a few. There are historical people, athletes, politicians, actors and actresses, you name it– vegetarianism is not weird or uncommon as some might have you believe!
No! They hate that I am not eating meat. My mother kept telling me that everything has to die. Eh! I don’t care because since becoming a vegetarian my cholesterol has dropped from 254 to 194. Not only am I saving some animals I’m also saving myself
My dad doesn’t mind and both my sisters are vegetarians so they don’t mind.
However my mom hates it. When I was 12 i became a vegetarian and my mom kept telling me that it wasn’t going to last and that I would give it up. Now I’m 14 and still a vegetarian so my mom has stopped trying to convince me to eat meat but she doesn’t make me dinner anymore. I have to make my own dinner if i want it to be meatless, but I don’t mind making my own food because i love to cook.
My cousins all make fun of me for it and my aunts and uncles try to tell me it’s unhealthy and you can love animals but still eat them. I just try to ignore them.
Um, I’m not sure.
I really don’t know what my family thinks about my being vegan, allthough I’m 100% positive they don’t “get it.” That said, I’m not concerned what their opinion on it is – if they don’t like it, it’s their problem, not mine.
I’m the Mrs. of the house, and I do all the shopping and cooking. My husband still eats meat, and that’s fine – it’s his perrogative. But he thinks I’m 100x more awesome cuz I’m vegan. And he’s talking about going vegetarian in the near future.
If you don’t want to fight with your family about your choice, then just don’t fight. If they get in your face, simply tell them “I’m sorry you feel that way,” and carry-on being your radical self.
I was in my early 30s when I went veg, so it was fairly easy for me. My family, I think, tries to be supportive, but I sometimes get the feeling they pay lip service to it. After a very short visit up here that involved a fundraiser holiday party for an organization I support, my mom decided to do Vegan Mondays. My sister does Vegetarian Mondays.
After a couple of disastrous family “vacations,” I get the sense that it’s really easy for them to support my veganism from 800 miles away. But when we’re in the same jurisdiction, and it’s mealtime, things fall apart. I’m tempted to avoid family get-togethers because I cannot be sure I will be properly fed.
At first, they were very confused and thought that I was crazy…and now they just got used to it. They now realize that nothing will ever make me eat meat. If my mom is cooking something that has meat, she always makes something for me that is meatless! My family is very supportive of me being vegetarian!
I went vegetarian in the 1950s. my family were 100% against my decision and did everything to thawt my efforts. i lived off tomatoe sandwiches, cucumbers from the garden and salads. my aunt gave me a recipe for barley and vegetable soup which i made for years.
in those days there was not the choices there are now just perservere . Sandwiches are good, baked beans are good, tinned spaghetti is healthy. My father would insist that my mother cooked in lard – so if there were mashed potaoes – there was lard in them, fried tomatoes cooked in lard, soup – you guessed it the vegetables were fried in lard and then put in the pot. THe cakes had lard in them the quiche pasty had lard in them so the safest bet was a tomatoe sandwich and barley soup I made. Good luck.
No.
My immediate family as well as my extended family tends to look at me like a weirdo.
My parents (for some reason) think this is just a phase even though I’ve been a vegetarian for quite some time now. They still offer meat to me when I am over at their house.
At first we actually fought about it, but since I’ve done my research and found great food that is actually healthier for me than meat and meat by-products, they tend to not be as critical about the nutrition part of things. (Though my mother does like to pick the occasional fight with me about the dairy industry and how “they just take the milk from the cow”. {grimace} And I must then defend my choice to abstain from milk, eggs, cheese, etc.).
Holidays are hell.
Maybe we should all “adopt” one another and be the understanding family that everyone needs.
lol
Seriously. My family’s been pretty supportive of all that I do, up until this point.
See, I’ve never really liked eating meat, it’s always kinda grossed me out, but it pleased my mother if I ate the food that she made and cleaned my plate.
But fortunately, I grew up from that to recognize that what I put into my body is my choice and unless I want to feel disgusting I have to eat less disgusting foods.
And one of my close friends recently became vegan, which at first I thought was crazy, until I read Skinny Bitch (EVERYONE SHOULD) Turns out, all animal products are detromental to your health, but meat / vegetarianism is the most publicized (the rest, excuse the pun, is too hard to swallow)
So I started not eating the meats that she made, but heaping my plate with the healthy veggies and carbs.
They make fun of the ‘new Hannah’ and think that I’m going to die because I’m ‘not getting protein’.
Please, if they even read this book they might understand how well planned out my eating can be.
Still, three months later now, they use the phrase, “Now that Hannah doesn’t eat meat anymore” as though I’ve violated some sacred tradition, and disgraced them!
However my mother did do me the sort-of justice of buying me vegetarian heat-ups like chickenless nuggets and meatless corn dogs. (Which, to my dismay, contain animal products. Yuck.)
In conclusion I have accepted the fact that I may not be totally vegan until college (1 more year…)
I sincerely hope that your family will enlighten themselves (buy them the book?)
Although I’m proud of myself I want them to be happier and healthier too.
well im 1 and my dad was kinda supportive but my mom totally hated it and my bro just called me stupid so ya my fam just didnt like it at all….but ive been 1 for a while now and my parents totally 4got idk y but i dnt eat their food i make my own just about a week ago i decide 2 go vegan so its a little harder but by my family not knowing was ALOT easier 4 me
I am 14 now and I decided a few days ago that I wanted to be a vegetarian. I had a Vegetarian Site open in one of the tabs on my computer while I was on it yesterday and my sister ((twins:also 14 years old)) came into my room to see what I was up to and saw the tab at the top of my screen that said “GOVeg” and she laughed. Then I asked what she was laughing at and she pointed at it and said, “You want to be a vegetarian, Sadi, that’s stupid.” It really offended me, I tried to explain that it’s healthier, etc, but she told me “whatever, it won’t last.” I really don’t like it, I mean, it is my choice of what I want to eat, isn’t it? Next year is my first year of high school and I am going to try to not eat any meat through all of it to really jump start my decision. I am trying to cut out all meats at once right now. I already don’t like: some sausages, pork, steak, and ribs.
I do like: breakfast sausage and ground beef.
I don’t like liking meat but I do and I want to stop. I posted on Facebook that “I want to go Veg.
” and my stepmother ((of whom is not the evil type: I love her more than my blood related mom)) commented “You want to give up juicy burgers and that delicious meat in the Chinese food at the mall?”… I do currently like those things but I’m going to try to slowly cut types of meats out, and work my way up.
Please email me for tips and or recipes that would help me in my vegetarian decision.
I’ve been a vegan for a few years now, my adult kids are also vegans. My dad use to make fun of us when he found out, he even made it a point to invite us over for beef burritos. I no longer talk to him or my sister, they just couldnt accept our lifestyle change. Its been 2 years since I last saw him, since hes had open heart surgery for 3 clogged arteries due to his obsession for meat. Anyhow my mom and brother think were extremist and no one invites us over anymore. Disclaimer: I have never shoved my choices down anyones throat. I just stood my ground and never let anyone bully me or my kids into some pathetic debate over my personal decisions. Im proud to be vegan, if it means I have to sacrifice family then so be it.
My dad doesn’t mind, but my three brothers and my mom absolutely despise me for it. They think it is a waste of time and constantly taunt me. My mom even sneaks meat in my food, but she’s not very stealthy and I always find out before i eat it. They ask me almost every day why I do it and I constantly tell them that I don’t support the barbaric slaughterhouse methods. Actually, just the other week, my mom and I saw some man beating his cows with a stick. I was about to walk over and tell him off when my mom grabbed my arm. She said “What do you think you’re doing?” When I told her, she laughed and said “They are wild animals. You have to best them to get them to listen.” It was the sickest thing I had ever heard!! Beat an animal to make it do what you want? I wanted to slap her. But I resisted. And I will never eat meat again, despite my family’s objections.
I chose to be a vegetarian this weekend actually and it’s been going good. Then I realized that all I have been eating these past 3 days is rice. My mom is the only one in family because my dad left us and when I told her I needed more supplies to eat she said “you’re 15 years old, you are not becoming a vegetarian, you are being stupid and ignorant. you’re gonna need to get protein from somewhere, but I’m not gonna buy you stuff to do this, so either you eat me or you starve”
i was like wtf??I bursted into tears because she has no idea how hard it is for me to sit there and eat something that went through pain to become food. Like what does it matter if I eat meat or not????? if i dont wanna eat meat then i dont have to. I am still hurt and shocked. Nothing I say or do is right. All i want is a supportive family. I really need advice from somewhere or someone, because it hurts not having your family by your side.
no they dont.. my mother hates it. she cried to me about it and i love her but i love animals too. i love my choice to be a vegetarian. God. help us all. i havent changed YET.
I went veg about 2 weeks ago and my mom ABSOLUTELY hates it. At the begining she though it was only going to be a few day thing. After she realized i was serious she went out of her way to make all my favorite foods (meat filled of course) and is always saying how good it is. If I want to eat anything vggie i have to cook it myself. Its getting really hard to not eat it but I want to stand up for what i believe in. She still doesn’t support me after we watched Food Inc. together.
Pleease email me if you have any tips on how to stay strong
Ive been fighting with myself for a long time about becoming vegan. A part of me feels like I should the other part of me says if everyone in the world became vegan then how much more wildlife lands would be destroyed for agricultuler growth. Plus I dont think my family or boyfriend supports the idea which really sucks because he wants to be a Chef so he should know about how healthy the food is for you. In the Garden of Eden we were all Vegan at one point. For now until I can pay for the food myself im just going to settle with being vegitarian.
i told my mum and she thought i was joking and then i started throwing away the meat on my plate. she said that i was being silly and that animals are made to be killed. I thought that was harsh! I wasn’t completely sure at first but then i watched several videos and that made me sure that i wanted to become vegetarian. if you type “meet your meat” into youtube, you’ll find a pretty horrible video about farm animals and stuff. I am a big animal lover anyway so i don’t know why i ate meat in the first place.