Right, to clear a few things up. Apparently, with my veganism I am being a "divine crusader, preaching and alienating (myself) and (I'm) insufferable."
I don't judge people who eat meat, I just prefer it if it's not near me. I don't preach. I keep my thoughts to myself, to the point where I'm scared to argue about it. I don't want to have to keep being pecked down for my life choices. I am happy being vegan, it's something I am very passionate about. The only places I get a bit preachy are on my blogs, because I'm too afraid to get my ideas out to my self-righteous meat eating friends. So I put them on here, where hopefully no-one is affected by them because of my stupidity and poor grammar.
Admittedly, I come on here to blog when I'm down/angry about the state of affairs regarding the relationship between humanity and animals. I have not been "brainwashed" by PETA, I think they're dicks and they contradict my morals - they're sexist and not really looking out for the animals, and they benefit the cruelty industry by making people feel good for ofsetting their contributions to it by donating to PETA. The only thing I agree with them on is that meat eaters should know the journey through torture and suffering the poor animals take to their plate.
I'm 50/50 on the A.L.F, I'm against violence and think that it gives the whole animal rights side negative publicity. Just sometimes though, I think it would be a good idea to put people through what's done to animals.
It upsets me that I have to argue my way through my beliefs. I hate being put down for it. I go about it quietly, my only voice about it is "Oh no, sorry, I don't eat meat, please don't give me that" or "No, I don't eat cheese or milk or egg or anything with animal product in it either, sorry to inconvenience you". I don't bother you so much, why bother me. Let me get on with my life.
I'm glad to realize I see things a lot like you do. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't like PETA much. They approove "animal welfare" way too much. Animal welfare is bad, it gives reason to keep things as they are. The only solution is the abolitionism of animal exploitation, and it will happen, sooner or later, just like it happened for slavery in America. But indeed it's so hard to be patient for such thing, I feel some of the pain inflicted to animals. The other day, my roomate was cooking a "meat bread"... he had a huge peace of meat, I was so disgusted and I felt the pain, so weird.
Yeah I love A.L.F. but at the same time I often believe the right way to fight for animal rights is a non-violent way. I still really admire some of their actions.
Who's bothering you about being vegan? This year I have been "bothering" my friends on Facebook a lot about veganism, I keep talking about it a few times a day, spraying powerfull toughts and ideas, showing and sharing awesome videos... I believe it has a strong effect now since I've been talking about it on Facebook for about 5 months now.
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Ahhhh, just one friend is being a total douche and it really upset me. he reads my blogs and here's the only place I talk about my veganism, and he thought I was "brainwashed by PETA", but I've been thinking about this for a very long time. I don't like talking about it with my friends/family so much because they don't see things the way I do, so it's pretty hard arguing all the time. This whole thing has taught me that I need to air my opinions more! It's a big part of my life and I shouldn't try to cover it up.
ReplyDeleteWow, you're really brave, or my friends are reaaallly set in their ways. I'd be shouted at for doing that! But again, I should probably put my thoughts out there more :)