Is it normal to be completely annoyed of vegans and peta?

I'm vegetarian and I'll be the first to admitt that PETA needs to calm the heck down sometimes!

Nothing is mor irritating than a vegan that thinks they are better than you because of their diet.

Alright war really irks me is that humanity didn't climb to the top of the food chain to become vegans and vegitarians.

i'm a vegan, but i dont act like that, and i could care less if my veggies burgers were touching the meat juices, it not like i'm supporting meat eating by it touching the juices

I'm a meat eater.

That being said I don't mind accommodating vegans or vegetarians. If hosting a party where I know a non-meat eater will be there, I'd make a point of having considerable options for them.

However in your case it sounds like your friend invited himself and then got pissy that you didn't accommodate him.

Does no one realize that the world is not animals moving against a green background? Plants are alive just the same as animals. The perform all the same functions and everything! Plants have DNA too. By vegan logic we should not eat plants either...or fungi or bacteria...or they are hypocrites! What makes animals so special? No one objects when the mighty lioness brings down a gazelle. No one says we must stop this lion pride and make them vegetarian...

I was a vegetarian for about 10 years until I started eating meat again. After discovering I was allergic to soy my options became limited. My militant vegan friends learned to shut up about their holier than thou diets. I don't eat meat everyday and often switch to a vegan diet when I feel unwell. When I have people over I almost always have vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options for guests. I respect their choices (or health in the case of gluten) and ask them to do the same. It works.

For me, it is more about the quality of life and sustainability. I need to take life to sustain myself. I am comfortable with this now. I do what I can to give back and create more life. I take the parts of plants I don't eat and add it to my compost pile. It feeds worms, centipedes, millipedes, bacteria, fungi, sow bugs, ants, spiders, earwigs, etc. They love me. In turn, I get a rich soil that will hopefully produce some yummy veggies this summer.

Although I think I will need to cut down a tree that is shading my little garden. This makes me sad. I love the tree. It is an invasive species that I couldn't sacrifice when I first discovered it. (and I tried) It was a little sapling growing in the space between two fences. It came back. It is stubbornly beautiful and now I can't bring myself to remove it. It has pushed it way through a chain link fence and has healed around it. This tree really wants to be here. When it goes, I think it will be time to move.

But to get back to the point. I think people who get angry over meat juice touching are just looking for confrontation. Vegans know they're different and those who make a scene, just want to draw attention to themselves. This is the reality of every BBQ I go to and the grill master must learn to accommodate these wishes or add to the drama. And who wants drama at a BBQ, you should be having fun.

if people decide not to eat meat its their problem. but there is absoltely no justification for arguing with people who eat meat.

just face it guys - if humans had been vegetarians in the past, we would not be as far as develped as we are now. so live your fashion and don't argue with other people and its ok.

Vegans have super powers (scott pilgrim).

Vegans aren't hippies, they just don't wish to eat animals.

Talk about small minded

You are being an inconsiderate jerk. Being vegan is a lifestle. I bet you did not clean your grill after cooking meat on it. That could have made your friend sick. My dad while I was cooking before I had a say in it put butter flavored spray in MY vegan goodness. Gosh I was mad because it contained butter and maybe some other animal or animal product.

I'm a meat eater and through my vegetarian experience people are going to say you're a pain in the arse. You need meat so you don't become anaemic. A hermit's diet mixed with some meat would be safe: you choose certain foods but you can enjoy ascetic eating with dignity and pride, but to be a vegetarian/vegan is the devil himself, your soul with possess you, you suffer and you do NOTHING! Vegetarianism is evil and vegies deserve to die.

I feel the exactly same way. Honestly I would love to destroy PETA's Headquarters but that makes me a terrorist because I don't live in US. The only think i can do is protest against them with a free BBQ for signatures to ban PETA.

@Dappled.....I agree with you're entire comment, and I'll back you on what you believe in and doing what you have to do, even if it goes against everything you believe in. I have had to do some immoral things that I disagree with but sometimes, things just have to get done. Even if you don't believe it's right, everyone has to make hard decisions in life and it's those decisions that makes us who we are. If anyone wants to pick a fight with you I've got your back.

theres nothing better than a nice juicy t-bone steak or lamb roast.... mmmmm.... sounds like something i might have for dindins tonight!

Im a PETA, People for the eating of tasty animals, yum!

When the worlds meat sources completely deplete.
Im eating a vegan.

Well I'm a huge meat lover.

I try not to eat meat more often than I feel the need to, and that's not out of pity for animals (well for most at least), as more doing my part on conserving earth's food resources. What i mean if i'm don't feel like i must eat meat, i try to go for another healthier perhaps choice.

But as op said. If anyone even complains about me eating meat. I gonna crack a skull.

p.s plants live too. go eat shit. fck bacteria live too so... go starve?

There seems to be a veggie theme to IIN recently. I was posting to DannyKanes recently about my relationship with food being complex and you've tapped into one of those complexities. As a vegetarian, I'm probably one of the last people you'd expect to attack vegetarians, but here goes...

Many vegans and vegetarians get their idea of veganism or vegetarianism from what other vegans or vegetarians are like. It's almost a fashion. This idea of not letting their food be near meat (because they'll technically then be eating parts of an animal) does make sense on first inspection. But you don't have to think too hard to see the ridiculousness of it.

I am a vegetarian (now) because I don't want animals to die for my own needs. Meat isn't poison to me. If it's my choice that my food is cooked near meat then I'm a bad vegetarian. But if it just happens regardless of my choice, then no more or fewer animals have died than would have done anyway. It makes absolutely no difference. The ONLY thing that matters to me is whether my choice ends a life. And, in this case, it doesn't. If I was a vegetarian because I was allergic to meat, fair enough, but I'm very open about how much I liked meat.

The complications are, for instance, say I finished off someone's cheeseburger if they weren't going to do so themselves. By my own logic, that's okay, but I don't think it is. If I didn't eat it, people would eventually have smaller portions, and fewer animals die.

If you make the choice to be vegetarian, I think you also need to think about your own reasons. If you eat meat, the same is so. Much as I could criticise vegetarians, I think they do think harder about the choices they make than meat eaters do. But they still make mistakes by not thinking hard enough.

As for PETA, I'm in a similar bind. I work for an organisation that experiments on animals, yet I am a staunch PETA supporter. My views have nearly cost me my livelihood twice. The first time, I think I only survived because nobody could actually believe I did what I did. But if anyone ever wants to pick a fight with me, then this is the area to go for, because I'll lose every time. I can't justify myself at all.

Vegetarians and vegans need to realize there is an in-betwen. I and people I know realise animals can be raised in a humane way, which would be the typical way that most people would if they HAD to raise their own food...To try to force the MAJORITYY of people to be vegans is stupid when you technically COULD help MORE people become educated and aware of where and how their food comes from is more effecient is much smarter...pick your battles and think....