vegetvs

I’m happy to find this post, because I can relate 100%. Yes, I do try to avoid these situations as much as possible, but like you said, sometimes you can’t, so I face them anyways. Why? Because just by being vegan myself, people around me will already question their own choices, in a sort of a silent activism. That sometimes leads to conflict, but it’s because carnists intrinsically know they are wrong. It’s just through the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance that they fight their own reason and we’re usually caught in that crossfire, because we’ve found the way out of the net of lies.

There’s a balance between standing my ground and showing everyone that my values not only matter but are well founded, and my own well being. I’m often not in the mood to endure a war against carnism everyday, when all I want to do it enjoy my lunch, so I check my own energy levels before making any decision. After being vegan for so long, two things usually happen: you don’t need to rethink about it anymore, because it’s so obvious, and because of that, the disappointment of interacting with people who still didn’t make the connection only gets worse.

When I share a table with carnists, they will more often than not make comments about how tasty their food is and such. I’m pretty sure some of them will weaponize what seems to be an “innocent comment” about their food just to try and make the vegans around them feel bad. They can always argue that they were doing nothing wrong, because of the status quo, even though they can probably notice they are making us vegans uncomfortable.

I don’t really have a manual for this, but I usually ignore them the first time they make these comments or depending on my mood I space out on purpose, to signal how alienating their comments can be to someone with my values. If they insist on the topic, I usually remind them politely about any random fact surrounding the obvious exploitation of animals. I try to keep it as cool as possible, with remarks such as “I bet the cow disagrees with that” and the sort. It’s surprisingly effective, as most not-die-hard carnists in the table will simply laugh out loud and there’s hardly any counter-argument the die-hard carnists could make about that.

That being said, this is easier said than done, and it took me many years to get to this state of mind. I used to be mildly depressed about this for a very long time. But when you are sure about your values, meaning you are sure you are (obviously) right about your stance, it becomes more natural. On the positive side, when I became vegan carnists were way more aggressive, because they had probably never heard about someone who would voluntarily avoid exploiting animals. Nowadays most people have heard of or directly interacted with at least one vegan, so they have become more silent and less prone to question everything. I mean, it’s on the Internet for anyone to read about it, if they really want to educate themselves.

Unfortunately not true. Some people still think Facebook is the Internet.

Not even that, you just need to emulate the original platform.

They could have also left the media out. I’m sure misinformation is spread through all messenger apps.

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Nothing new here. PS3 games were famous for requiring an install from the optical media to the internal drive first, and then also downloading some mandatory major update before running. The role of the physical media was mostly symbolic.

I came here thinking this was related to Dogecoin.