Random Stories about Vegans Who Went Too Far (16 items)

• (#15) Big Boss With The Big Rules

  I work in an office that is considered "vegan." The owner of my company is a huge animal rights activist and detests the eating of meat on company property, so much so that we eat outside or in our cars if we have meat or animal products. We all follow this pretty regularly and I admit that eating vegan does have some dietary advantages about being healthy. Sometimes I'll even buy vegan burritos and such from the taqueria close by and they are delicious!

  However.

  What really bugs me is that when he's not around we all eat meat like normal, me, my coworkers, even my boss. The unwritten rule sort of stands that we just don't eat it when he's around. The problem with this is the owner shows up unannounced maybe once a week or so and often catches me eating animal products. Every time I'm caught he lectures me on how I should respect the company's decision to be vegan and all that jazz.

  To make this clear, I have no issue with veganism, but it is not a choice in life I have made that I want to follow 24/7.

  What can I say to him that isn't rude but allows me to express myself that I should not have to follow his dietary restrictions? I sometimes feel that he pushes vegan on us like it's a religion; my coworkers and boss even joke around with it. After working here for close to a year, it now just bothers me that he does this. I signed nothing saying I would follow these dietary habits and such restrictions weren't mandated as part of my hiring.
• (#7) Someone's Never Had To Buy Groceries

  My friend goes into my fridge and literally throws away all my meat, but I'm not sure if veganism or simple craziness is to blame for this
• (#13) There's Nothing Worse Than Hypocritical Vegans

  I became vegetarian last summer, and went full vegan on January 1st this year. As a heads up, Veganuary really provides the needed push into a full transition. My brother also became vegetarian and went mostly vegan when he married his wife, who has been vegan for years (most of her life, I think), so I got excited to have something to connect with them over.

  But I know now they're just vegetarian, even eating fish and chicken sometimes. These are the people who made me feel like a monster for eating meat, and pushed me to not eat dairy or eggs because it was inhumane. They, mostly my sister-in-law, would berate me for calling myself an animal lover when I contributed to animal suffering, and now the f*cking hypocrites contribute to animal suffering themselves.

  Am I wrong to be horribly pissed that they did this? It would be different if they'd been chill about being vegan, but they were awful.
• (#6) The First Mistake Was Going To The Warped Tour

  The setting is the Vans Warped Tour 2007 in Dallas. Boyfriend and I discover we can get backstage passes if we sign up on the bone marrow donor list, so we do.

  We get our wristbands and we begin wandering around behind the stages and the trailers and whatnot. Some security guy comes up to us to ask if we would like to meet some of the bands, to which we say "F**k yeah!"  

  We follow him into a building where there are other "back stagers." They inform us that we get to serve the bands their dinner!

  So we stay and are each put in charge of different items. My station is corn-on-the-cob, which also requires me to butter said corn using either regular butter and vegan butter depending on the person's preference. 

  Turns out there are a lot of vegan band members, many I don't recognize. Some of them, like Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage and Haley Williams from Paramore, are incredibly nice to us. There were others though, that bitched if I gave them 'too much butter' on their corn. Others, however, just pass by and ignore me flat out when I ask them nicely if they want some corn. Some guy comes back and actually throws the corn down and says "that butter is nasty," as if I churned it myself. I never actually tried the vegan butter, but I'm guessing it was bad?
• (#2) That's One Way To Get Out Of Class

  During school, a classmate is explaining her vegan lifestyle to our class. I ask why do you do it, she responds by asking if I drink milk. I say yes, which sets her off and leads to her saying things like "Don't you know milk actually decreases calcium in your body?" and proceeds to yell for a few minutes before she just storms out the room.
• (#9) Is This Veganism Considered Child Abuse?

  I grew up vegan, and my family educated us diligently us about veganism. My dad showed us candid videos of slaughterhouses with animals hanging by their ankles as their blood pooled to fast to drain. Making a nine and seven-year-old watch this stuff? That was pretty crappy.

  I still can't eat meat.

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