Reply #9: I'm a vegan and I get offended when friends order meat [View All]

[justiceischeap]

I am usually offended because, if I'm out with meat-eating friends, then they as friends know my beliefs. For me it's more about my friends being inconsiderate, it's not because I'm judgemental.

For example, I'm a smoker but when I'm with friends who don't smoke, which are most of them, I always go away from where they are to smoke. It's inconsiderate of me not to.

Plus, a lot of meat-eaters get pissed at veg/vegans because, so it seems anyway, we choose to be compassionate and we get judged all the time about it. How often are you judged, or have people look at you like you're a freak because of your choice, particularly if you make a choice out of compassion and deep conviction? I, as a vegan, get it all the time. So like anyone who has judgement passed on them for something truly silly (my choice to be compassionate) you tend to get defensive as well.