Non-vegans act so weird around me

Well, thanks to your family's obnoxious behavior regarding your veganism you know exactly how not to treat other people who just happen to be non vegans. Nobody likes to be teased or preached at so keep that in mind and you will be a credit to vegans everywhere.

I just wanna let everyone know I am a vegan. Because I am a vegan.

The truth, from a biological standpoint, is that veganism is not natural for humans. Can veganism be healthy? Yes, if done properly. Is it normal for omnivorous humans to find it strange/unhealthy/deviant? Yes. Does family, in general, like to tease those who deviate from the perceived norm? Yep...

I've never known a vegan to not prosthelytize about veganism. Not a single one. I'd place bets that you, Anon, are no exception. I'd suggest that you provide for your own sustenance, knowing best your nutritional requirements, and save the lessons on veganism for those who are interested. Do these two things, and the incidences of your family reacting teasingly to your choice will lessen (though probably never go away entirely).

And when they do tease, don't react. Eventually, maybe, they'll get bored and move on.

Ah yes, nothing like a big chunk of tofu made from GMO beans and fried in GMO bean oil.
I think I'll go eat something healthy like a rat or a cow or whatever.
All you vegans out there, I'll eat extra animals just to make up for the ones you don't eat.

Because I eat meat do I not ensure the survival of these animals? We will continue to breed them as we continue to eat them and how can you not understand it's completely natural for humans to eat every fucking thing on this delicious planet.

Vegans are actually more destructive to the animals you hold so dearly to your hearts.

I know what you mean I'm vegan and the comments ppl sometimes make get really annoying after a while. Don't worry about them do what you want its your body.

Damn! Being vegan takes guts! Ignore their witty comments, you know that you're healthy, and that's none of their business on what you choose to eat. I personally have had a classmate like this whom went vegetarian and would throw away your food if it had meat in it.

It is normal
People fear what they don't understand
I bet non of them tried to really understand veganism
You can be malnourished at any diet if you are not eating in a healthy way
You need B12 supplement and prepare your meals as your body needs

One of my four sisters is vegan who think of herself better than others BUT the truth might be opposite. We have limited earth and if we do not eat or keep animal population in check, humans will be in danger because reproduction rate of animals is much higher than humans. Likewise among others species one keeps the other in check like cat eating rat.

To be honest with you I AM BEING REALLY HONEST !!
Tell them you cant live in the same house if they
Keep teasing you like this !
IF they love you they will agree
if not
Pack you bags !!

Most vegans I know are more than a little crazy. I knew one English vegan who refused to take heart medication because they were tested on animals - 15 years ago when they were first being developed! Another will launch into full on preacher mode if you so much as wear leather shoes around her.

That being said, there are some (including one who is a regular on this site) who are decent, respectful, well informed individuals who will keep their vegan views to themselves unless asked, and can partake in a sensible debate without immediately accusing all and sundry of being animal torturing barbarians.

Depending on which end of the spectrum the OP is, her family is either being a bunch of morons, or having a shot at the annoying twit that gives them the shits with her weird dietary / clothing / etc requirements.

Serious question.

I have always been confused about why vegans don't eat eggs.

I may not agree with the reasons for being vegan but I don't have to its your choice, as long as you don't try to take away my bacon we're cool.
I just want to know why no eggs? If the reason is to be kind to animals I get the no meat thing, I sorta get no milk but I don't understand the no eggs. Chickens will lay them no matter what, and if they are unfertilized they will never become baby chicks so why don't vegans eat them? This has been something that's always confused me, can you explain?

Because of you and your vegan comrades, millions of rats die horrible deaths by poisoning while farmers try to protect the beans and grain you people love so much.
I only eat about 1 cow every couple of years.
I'm killing a lot less animals than you.

Vegans are lame, attention seekers just like gays and most women.

"No matter what you eat, animals die to enable it to happen. If you're going to eat a vegetarian diet, monocultures have been established at the expense of our naturally bio-diverse environments. Land has been swept clean for vegans too.

Take the example of what happens when you grow grains or pulses. In all the towns around Australia that are wheat producing towns or centres, on average about every five years they have a mouse plague.

And these mice get killed in the millions and millions, mass slaughtered in horrible ways that cause their deaths to be really unpleasant. And that is going into producing grains. Some of those grains are fed to cattle, but they are also the core of the diets for a lot of people who don't want to eat any meat.

So when you think about mice, and we are talking now here about sentient lives, is the vegetarian or vegan's claim that their diets involve less death of sentient beings correct or not?

When you actually do the sums you find, oh no, it's not clear at all that they are correct because all these mice, among other things, are being killed to make sure that we get those grains.

Now, what can we do about it? Maybe there are other diets we can eat?

I think we can just stop being hypocritical.

That's what I'm really asking for; just accept the fact that in order for us to survive, other animals are going to die. It has been the way of life in ecosystems long before humans were on the planet. We can't change that, we can't stop death out there."

source: Professor Mike Archer, The Science Show

Professor Mike Archer is from the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales.

Vegan diets causing less deaths to sentient beings is actually a myth, sorry.