Ummm… maybe because a lot of restaurants put chicken/beef broth, fish sauce, etc. into seeming vegetarian dishes? I know I always ask about hidden stuff like that when I dine out. The waiters always seem quite happy to help. And we tip well to show we appreciated their assistance with our food.

Yeah, we vegans sure are jerks! Asking polite questions about the food we’re going to eat. The nerve!

I had a completely vegan wedding reception and was a bit worried about the cake. I got a small one and baked a bunch of vegan cookie bars and such. The desserts were DEVOURED and even my Uncle, who is a total douche about veganism, complemented the cake. He actually sought me out to tell me how great it was. Go go Chicago Diner!

Not a soul complained about the food. We served “normal” stuff like pasta, veggies, chips and vegan french onion dip, fruit, etc. Those who kneejerk at the word vegan just strike me as childish. Vegan =/= weird tofu and mushy sprouts.

Well, meat-eaters still eat more plants than vegetarians…just indirectly.

http://blog.liberationbc.org/2009/07/arguments-against-veganism-part-4/

If choosing not to eat certain foods on the basis that they’re cruel or gross or unhealthy is a “borderline eating disorder”, than I suppose you eat everything–dog, cat, monkey, and human?

Why does it threaten you so much when someone orders a meal without meat in it? Does it remind you of something you’d rather not think about?

Besides, as someone with a lot of food allergies, I can tell you right now that it’s not fun. Maybe Kim is a huge attention whore about it, in which case I can see her friends losing patience with her, but this is still really mean. And it makes me appreciate my friends even more, who understand that I’m not being melodramatic by avoiding foods that make me itchy/vomit/dead.

Tell you what, “friends”–why don’t y’all just go out for whatever and leave Kim in peace. It’s probably the best gift you could give her.

My bestie has a severe allergy to not just dairy, but eggs as well. Although the eggs thing is usually fine, zie constantly has to harp on how zie can’t have dairy; it’s so fucking severe that zie has gone into seizures from it before when people have slipped zem dairy because they didn’t believe zie had an allergy.

This doesn’t happen with eggs. Zie is not forced constantly into saying, “I have an allergy to eggs,” but zie IS forced into doing that with dairy. Why? BECAUSE ALL YOU TWITS EAT DAIRY IN EVERY GODDAMN THING, THAT’S WHY. And even more, people will start unconsciously upping their dairy intake once they know, simply because of some screwed up cognitive dissonance thing, like: no, it’s fine to eat dairy, i swarez it it must be fine thats what they told me and animals are here for my pleasure scream.

On top of that, zie has to come off as annoying because people will assume it’s lactose intolerance instead of an actual life-or-death allergy and refuse to admit there’s whey or casein in the food.

If you don’t want someone with an allergy to continuously bitch about it, maybe you should take a second and think that they might not trust you.

P.S. Getting a separate cake makes you a shitty friend, too. If vegan cakes are crappy, then there’s two options: 1) the person who made them is crappy at baking, 2) you are so convinced it won’t taste good that it doesn’t.

Sounds like you want mommy and daddy…not a friend.

I have no food allergies…but I do know that I don’t tolerate ingesting bleach for example. So, I try to steer clear of drinking bleach. Not that hard.

Additionally, circumstance will affect us as much as diet, or can, such as the case of the Peppered Moth, and it might be that in the future some people who eat a certain way because they have had to seek out food alternatives will actually survive if other more regularly used food alternatives dry up, develop blight or disease, are patented so that no-one can use them and so on.

Additionally, even though people with allergies should die according to your logic (due to God), you do not think that the earthquake in Haiti was an act of god because you had heard of tectonic plates. Was the word allergy foreign to you before you joined this thread? Unfortunate things happen, it is true. I think it is unwise to blame them on a God. I think it is not necessarily wise to justify them due to science at all times, either.