Dear Vegans

bunnicula:

jemimaaslana:

I understand that you believe being vegan is the right thing to be/do. That’s cool. I support your right to work on the solution you believe is right for whichever issue motivated you, be it environment, animal rights or something else.

BUT I DO NOT FUCKING SUPPORT IT WHEN YOU CALL PEOPLE HYPOCRITES FOR BELIEVING IN ANIMAL RIGHTS AND NOT BEING VEGAN LIKE YOURSELVES.

FUCK YOU.

Being vegan is not an option for everyone. Fresh veggies can be fucking expensive depending on where you live, not everyone has access to a farmer’s market. Not everyone has the mental capacity and/or spoons to spend the time and care to plan and prepare vegan food, which often takes more time than non-vegan foods.

I do believe we should treat animals with respect and care, BUT I can not ever live vegan. Why? I cannot keep track of what’s in my fucking fridge. Too many veggies would go bad for me and I would have to throw away several pounds of food every single fucking week. Instead I frequently live off of yoghurt, bread and cheese and such, because that’s what I can manage to eat before it goes bad. ‘Cause you know, throwing away lots of food is totally better for everyone than eating a few animal products.

And yet, I still believe we should treat animals right. This apparently makes me a hypocrite in your holier-than-the-rest of-us-lowly-sinners eyes.

Well, fuck you. When you have abolished poverty and made sure that every single human being has access (location and finance-wise) to proper vegan groceries, then your claim of hypocrisy might ring true. When you have made sure that everyone with a cognitive disability or other issues that prevent them from organising their meals like you would gets respectful help with getting and preparing fod then you might have an ear for your claims.

And then again. No. You might not. ‘Cause some of us just don’t fucking believe that veganism is the solution to every fucking thing that ails this world and its population. We are not hypocrites if we disagree with your solution.

You are, however classist and ableist (and probably a few other -ists) in the extreme for expecting people to live vegan if they are for animal rights.

And don’t fucking compare animals to slaves, women, etc etc. Marginalised people have been considered animals for so fucking long that you’re REALLY not making a good case for your cause by using the same fucking comparisons that the bigots are.

Fuck you, you classist, ableist, racist fuckers. Just fuck you and stay the fuck off my feed.

PS: mandatory disclaimer. This is, of course only directed at the vegans, who actually think and say what I outlined above, and not at the presumably vast majority of vegans who are really cool people, who has a sense of reality and respect for real people’s real live experiences in the real world.

Also, this was, of course, triggered by the quote I reblogged and commented on a little while ago, so don’t tell me vegans are not like that, ‘cause the reblogged quote and some of the commentary shows quite well that some of you fucking are.

Sorry, but I don’t buy the “I’m too poor to be vegan” excuse, because I was making maybe a hundred dollars a week (if I was lucky) at some point and I just received a paycheck for $22.56 for two weeks of work. I can still eat as a vegan, maybe not as well as I should be, but I’m eating better than someone eating animal products.

That last sentence is not to be misconstrued as “I’m better than you” because I know how you omnivores like to do that. I’m simply eating better than you, generally. I never said I was better as a person, even when I reblogged that quote you’re getting so huffy about. It’s just so funny to see someone for “animal rights” when they’re eating their burgers and fries. Animals have a right to not be eaten, don’t you think? So if you’re eating them, you’re not respecting their rights, plain and simple. You’re the one that made it personal, and attached all the hidden messages of vegan superiority, not us.

Your arguments about classism are completely irrelevant. I’m as poor as they come. The only way I could be more poor is if I was paying rent on top of my other bills, but I’m lucky enough to live in a house where that’s not necessary. There’s always a way to be vegan, if your heart is behind it. Even in my poorest, most down-trodden times, I never consumed any animal products, ever. Your excuse is just that - an excuse.

What you make per week is a really useless number to me when I cannot compare with what groceries cost where you live. Nor can you derive anything from YOUR paycheck and ability to tell you something about my paycheck and ability.

You say you eat better. What the fuck do you know about what everybody else eats. It is perfectly possible to eat well without eating vegan. The fact that you think otherwise shows your ignorance.

And you’re the one who brought up burgers and fries - so how about you stop whining about non-vegans misconstruing your words, when you do the exact same thing yourself.

No, I don’t think animals have a right to not be eaten. I think they have a right to be well while they’re alive.

I didn’t attach any messages of superiority to vegans. I referred to not-at-al hidden messages of superiority from some vegans. If that’s not you, then don’t fucking make it about you.

You have a roof over your head and you don’t even have to pay rent. You’re definitely not as poor as they come. Wake up and smells the roses. There are people out there who are poorer than you. Don’t fucking take a high horse when you have a place to stay for fucking free. I can only wish I had that option you privileged jerkwad.

My disability is just an excuse?!?!?!

Fuck you, douchenugget. You are a privileged douchefuck of the worst kind. The kind who refuses to accept that your life is not indicative of everyone else’s.

Jesus Christ on a Pogo Stick.

I think that one hundred dollars a week is a fairly universal number for “broke as fuck” and if you don’t think so, I’d really love to live in your area.

I do eat better. Meat causes cancer, dairy causes obesity. Vegetables cause… Well, nothing. No harm, no foul. (Har har, I made a joke.)

Burgers and fries was just an example I was using, calm down. If you want to talk about misconstruing words, let’s talk about how you took the fact that I don’t have to pay rent and blew it out of proportion; my other bills add up, and with my job hardly giving me any hours, the cashflow sucks ‘round these parts.

To give you a small taste of my monthly finances:

Car insurance: 160 a month.

Gas: Same. (It takes forty to fill my tank and I fill up once a week.)

Phone bill: 20 a month.

If I was getting just barely $100 a week or less and there’s four weeks in a month… You do the math.

And those are just basic essentials, not even counting anything else I do in my life such as eating and buying things for myself, the couple other bills/expenses I have, and just recently I got a traffic ticket that I have to pay off. I am privileged in many ways, but this is not one of them. Just because I’m fortunate enough to not have to pay rent does not mean that I have it any easier or any harder than you do, and assuming that I have it easier because I don’t have to pay rent is (to use your favorite word) ignorant.

Sorry, but I can’t even bring myself to put forth any more effort onto someone who seriously utters the phrases “jerkwad” and “douchenugget” in addition to throwing around profanity when I did no such thing to you.

“Jesus Christ on a pogo stick” indeed. Are you twelve?

P.S. I never said anything about your “disability”. Another way you put words in my mouth. :) Have a nice night.

Source: jemimaaslana