Friday, January 7, 2011

The problem with vegans

Ok, I am going to piss off a small segment of society but I have to get this off my chest.  I just don't understand vegans. 

I lived and worked in India for two and a half years and for those of you who don't know it, India is about 75% vegetarian.  Living there I learned there are different types of vegetarians so for today's lesson I will explain them to you.
Fishitarians-vegetarians that eat fish (if you are puzzled by this you are not alone).
Jain vegetarians-in addition to being vegetarians, don't eat anything from the ground, such as potatoes. That must suck. Not even French fries?!
Egg and Cheesetarians-vegetarians who eat eggs and cheese
Full-on vegans-don't eat anything even related to a living animal or wear leather or animal products.
For those of you who don't know, the definition of a vegan is: one who consumes no animal food or dairy products and one who abstains from wearing animal products, such as leather. I bet most of you didn't know that a proper vegan should not even wear animal products.  I do believe they can own a cat though.

To be clear, I don't have a problem with vegetarians, many of my friends are vegetarian. I don't care what someone's choice of diet is.  To each his own I say.  It is certainly healthier to be vegetarian than not to my knowledge but I just love my steak too much. The problem I have is with this last class of vegetarians: Hypocritical vegans.  I don't know how many times a vegan has come in to a restaurant or hotel I have been working in and they eat cheese or eggs.  On top of that I see them wearing leather! I mean if you are going to call yourself a vegan than be a vegan.  I mean, are you going to call yourself a Muslim and then go to Denny's and have the Grand Slam breakfast complete with bacon? Don't think so.

Here is my favorite vegan story. The hotel I worked in India had a restaurant with an open kitchen where we served Sunday brunch. A guy approached the kitchen and I asked him if he would like some eggs or an omelette.  He said "no I am a vegan." As he told me this I couldn't help but be puzzled by his brunch choices. He had a plate full of desserts that all had eggs in them.  Friggin' cheesecake, chocolate cake, mousse and so forth.  I asked him, "sir, not to be rude but every dessert on your plate has eggs in it but you won't eat an omelette?" He replied "in these desserts I can't see the eggs."
I had no idea how to respond to that.  I was dumbfounded.  Freak!!

3 comments:

  1. I totally agree with you. I am a vegetarian but it's practically impossible to not wear or use anything that has animal products (i.e. leather and other non-edible things). It would be like trying to avoid buying things that are not made in China.

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