I hate when I say I would rather not discuss why I don’t eat meat and people get pissy. Like you get pissed at me when I tell you why, but you also get pissed if I don’t tell you why!!! I CANNOT WIN!!!

YES! I’m a vegetarian too and I get so much shit about it. I have never lectured anyone for eating meat, not once, but meat eaters will yell at me the second they find out, and work their asses off trying to tell me I’m an idiot or a hypocrite or that I can’t possibly be getting enough protein. My partner eats meat…

Ding ding ding! This is a constant. “Wow, no one has ever asked me before if all I eat is salad! You’re so creative!”

These people are mostly bonkers and PETA is an extremely problematic organization but this mostly just irritated me. You have no idea how often people challenge or flat out troll me for being vegetarian. I don’t question your eating habits so please don’t give me shit about mine (I promise I’m not preachy; I just…

There are plenty of vegan foods that are fortified with B12 (like plant based milks, nutritional yeast, yeast extract/Marmite) that are actually more easily digested by the body as they are not bound to animal proteins. You might find you actually absorb B12 better through vegan sources/if you were to cut out meat.…

Wow I am ever so confused as to how you keep losing your vegan friends. You seem so respectful & polite.

Sounds like the problem is your friends are jerks, not that they are vegan. I’m not vegan (just vegetarian) but a lot of my friends are vegan, none of us have any interest in converting/proselytizing (I came to my own decision about supporting factory farms, environmental impact, etc. and other people can come to…

B12 deficiency is a problem experienced across all diets, and certainly is not limited to vegans. My friend eats animals and has to go in each week for shots. I have been eating plant-based for 7 years and just had my blood work done... no deficiencies in any areas including B12. If you supplement B12 and are still…

I’m really sorry your friends would torture you like that. It’s really strange that educated vegetarians would be against someone who is financially supporting one of the best ways to fight factory farming: sustainable animal husbandry. As a vegetarian myself, I have never spoken to anyone like that and I don’t know…

theres just as much iron in plant based foods as meat....... ):

you can get the same amount of iron from plant based food as meats..... Nuts, seeds, beans and molasses all have the same amount of iron. Seaweed has B12. B12 and iron defiancys are not a vegan isue...... allot of people have these problems..... I use to be anemic and im not anymore and iv been vegan for 6 years.…

And so am I, ironically. I’m saying eat what you like, but at 6000 mcg daily your intake from animal protein is a neglible percentage of that. My point is that any given person with pernicious anemia can be a vegan, not that you should be if you don’t want to be.

Anemia is not lack of animal protein. I will ask these, please think carefully before answering:
1.) do you drink coffee/dark teas right after a meal ?
2.) do you eat reasonable amounts of dairy?
3.) what vegetable foods you don’t like? Do you dislike beans, tomatoes, dark leafy greens?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of…

To be fair, animal products are only an important source of B12 insofar as we supplement animal feed with them, and the amount in them is low enough that essentially all people in first world countries with our level of food sanitation and agricultural antibiotics use are at risk of deficiency and should consider…

...I think you may be misunderstanding why most vegans are vegans.

I’ll hold off on the snark (for the moment) just to say that 22 days is really not enough time to figure out if anything is going to work for you. I mean, clearly, if you hate it and you want to die and weren’t really that committed to trying it anyway - any time is a fine time to quit! I’m not a vegan (though I am a…

70 lbs in 4 months? There’s no way that’s healthy.