Yeah, right; I'm sure it has nothing to do with how pushy and arrogant vegans can be, demanding that everyone agree with their ideas! The article makes it clear that's really the case. Some examples:
"Passion is misunderstood to be aggression or hatred,” Jacqui, a nutritionist, said. "There seems to be some kind of divide where people meet vegans with aggression and resistance, when you are just trying to raise awareness about practices that people should know about.”
So, she's demanding everyone agree with her, and then pretending they dislike her because of how she eats, and not her demands that everyone around her do as she does.
But for dad Ryan, the journey to veganism was very different - as he grew up surrounded by the farming industry, and was a frequent visitor to slaughterhouses.
"Dad was a highly respected butcher and worked part-time on a farm and neighbors would bring animals around to be skinned and plucked,” he said. "It wasn't abnormal for me to be around dead animals for much of my life.”
"I would help put animals on trailers and get the animals into the slaughterhouses and it was all normal to me,” Ryan continued. "I witnessed chickens being killed on the farm, I worked on the turkey line just before Christmas and I always just thought 'we need animals to be healthy and strong'."
Seems he knows there aren't issues as she claims, and is just following along anyway.
As for the children, well, I'd say they were pressured:
Her son Skipp soon followed suit, after watching 2017 documentary “The Land of Hope and Glory” with his mother - all about the UK's farming practices.
"All of the kids have made their own decisions and have recognized why they are vegan,” Jacqui said. "Some parents say 'you're not having that and that', but we wanted the kids to understand why we do it, take on the information and decide for themselves."
For oldest child Skye, the transition took a little longer - because she was afraid to watch the documentaries.
But the teen said: "Once I watched them it was easy. I now want to know where my food has come from and how."
Youngest sibling Cadan was switched to vegan milk alternatives when he was younger, after suffering a variety of digestive issues from dairy milk.
But his mom said: "Even Cadan understands exactly - he knows that the baby animals suffer and are taken from their mommies and he doesn't believe in that."
Gee, that's "making their own decision, is it? If one decides they want meat, is their mother going to allow that?
As for why she's really losing friends:
The family says that a common misconception about vegans is that they are “militant” and “crazy.” But they claim that their problem is not with other people’s decision to eat meat, but the refusal to understand the processes behind meat and dairy.
Jacqui says she doesn't want vegans to be perceived as these things, but that she wants to inform people, by explaining the processes to them. And the family often does this through social media - but this has led to relationships with friends and family breaking down entirely.
So she doesn't want people to think that she's militant, but she behaves in a militant fashion, shoving her opinions down people's throats, and can't respect hat not everyone agrees, and that people don't want to hea about it all the time. Go figure.
“Passion is misunderstood to be aggression or hatred. I have been to parent's evenings and had people turn their backs to me,” she said. “They would rather do that than engage in a conversation that will make them feel uncomfortable."
In other words, she can't go anywhere without talking about her choices for her diet, and she's made people sick of being around her, as a result. Gee, what a surprise.
She doesn't respect anyone else, or any other opinions, as proven by her own statements:
"We are not against farmers, they are intelligent people that we need in this world - it's the process we are against and the lack of transparency,” Ryan said. "If we are moving towards a vegan world we will need farmers and we want to work with them - because we need them."
No, we are not moving towards a "vegan world", no matter how much you want to demand everyone agree with you. Vegan diets are NOT healthy, and are, in fact, harder on the environment than a normal, healthy, omnivorous diet. Raising livestock can help renew croplands that are depleted, and growing only crops taes far more energy. These people are clueless.
I really don't care how someone chooses to eat, for the most part. I'd prefer that friends and family are healthy, of course, but people can make their own decisions. The problem with most vegans us that they have no respect for the decisions of anyone who disagrees with them. I odn't need to hear why someone eats as they do. If they have an allergy, and I am cooking, that's one thing. If they just don't like something, that's fine, too. Just say you don't eat whatever, and leave it at that. I don't want or need to be preached at over food. I don't want to hear the sob stories, that aren't even honest. I don't want to hear about the supposed health benefits, from people who are often not healthy at all, and virtually always are underweight, and quite weak. I don't want to listen to some activist who is demanding everyone agree and then claiming to be a victim of bullying. Based on all she'd said in the article, she's the bully. Well boo hoo.
Now, I think we'll fire up the grill and cook some delicious cow meat. With real cheese. Yum!!
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