Militant vegans can leave a nasty taste
NOW I’m sure I’ve told you this before, er, many times, but I have existed very happily, thank you, on a vegetarian diet for over three decades.
Not because I’m a faddy fool, but because I abhor the ongoing animal holocaust misery that goes on behind closed doors each and every day.
Maybe not Christmas Day, but by then the nation’s scoffing the 10 million turkeys bought in the run-up to Christmas – bred and brought up in misery so we can pile on the pounds, while the meat industry piles on the ££££££s.
However, I do have a problem with vegans. It started last New Year’s Eve in a Dorset cafe when I overheard two slim souls chink green smoothie glasses and wish each other a “Happy Veganuary”.
Oh, do me a favour. Or feed me a Quorn chickenstyle nugget (yummy btw), a Quorn burger (delicious), let me make my very special Quorn Tikka Masala (beyond scrumptious), if you like, but don’t bloody go on about being bloody vegan.
I don’t have a problem with veganism at all; in fact I admire it, but it’s become a badge now and I don’t like lifestyles that become badges. Badges of superiority. Badges that declare the rest of us as uninformed morons. As I said, it’s admirable and I’ve often thought of adopting a vegan
It’s become a badge of superiority declaring us all morons
lifestyle myself. I almost have anyway apart from cheese. However, there are humans who couldn’t give a monkey’s about animal welfare. Their eyes and stomachs are bigger than their brains I often think, but as I live with three meat-eating ignoramuses, who quite often exhibit acts of human kindness and intelligence, such as not moaning too much about not being able to scoff animal flesh at home – my theory is daily disproved.
At this point, btw, I’d like to ask the manufacturers of Quorn why they’ve suddenly decided to plaster their packaging with a great big, green VEGAN logo. Quorn has ALWAYS been a vegan food product. The new branding is a complete buy-in to the vegan hype.
Sadly, in some corners, veganism is now a movement and a profit opportunity rather than a proudly compassionate, healthy lifestyle choice.
In some dark corners it is also a nasty, militant movement, as evidenced by the recent experience of chef Laura Goodman, who spent three hours in the kitchen of her Italian restaurant preparing meat-free, fishfree, egg and dairy-free dishes for a party of vegans.
She claims one of the customers then decided to order a non-veganfriendly Margherita pizza with mozzarella, from the normal menu.
Frustrated, Laura posted on Facebook: “Pious, judgmental vegan (who I spent all day cooking for) has gone to bed, still believing she’s a vegan,” and wrote about how she “spiked a vegan”.
She has since been bombarded by vegans calling for her to be prosecuted for assault and forced to apologise. What? She has received death threats, threats of lawsuits and threats of assault. All from kind, compassionate people who love animals, but love belonging to a smug, vicious movement, with a superiority complex, even more. I’m already battening down the hatches.