“When I moved in a year ago, my roommate was an ovo-lacto vegetarian, whereas I was (and still am) an omnivore,” explains our submitter in Brooklyn. “She used to not care about my eating habits, but about four months ago she decided to become a full-blown vegan and has been insufferable since then. Yesterday I went food shopping for myself, and when I came back from work today I found this letter on my bedside table.”
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#1
Windsor Grace
I gotta be honest, I’m totally not going to read all of that nonsense. If I saw it in real life, I’d probably laugh and either throw in away or keep walking
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:07 pm rating: 166
#2
Luke
I have never wanted to slap someone more than the writer of this note.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:10 pm rating: 640
#3
Melba Toast
Wow… sounds like someone needs to SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!!!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:10 pm rating: 348
#4
k8thagr8
ugly ass carnivore!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:10 pm rating: 10
#5
Sarah W
Wow. Just wow.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm rating: 11
#6
shwo!
To: Vegan Roommate
Re: Your latest letter
tl;dr
PS: I plan to fry up some bacon in the morning.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm rating: 383
#7
Lou
High horse? Wow, she is militant! Makes me want to go and put some eggs in her bed.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm rating: 50
#8
Seek
Guy must be packing a lot of meat.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm rating: 40
#9
Rob
This is also a reason why people hate Brooklynites.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm rating: 43
#10
ace713
WTF, sounds like a lunatic, how is eating meat anywhere as bad as beating a child.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:12 pm rating: 102
#11
heavy d
I especially enjoyed the closing. Not only is she now a meat-eating child abuse espouser, but frankly she could look better.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:12 pm rating: 131
#12
Erin
Why doesn’t the intolerant vegan go find herself a new living space? What a fucking retard.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:12 pm rating: 60
#13
tishi
I had an annoying co-worker who would do this… i took odd joy at eating ribs or the giant turkey leg in front of her when ever the cafeteria served it…
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:13 pm rating: 70
#14
AMoparGirl
Eff YOU LADY! Unless she owns the house & even then I don’t think she has a gripe. Would LOVE to see her try to evict him cause he eats REAL food. I’d be cooking up a storm of rare meats just for her to smell. Then get a pet snake so you can feet it mice.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:13 pm rating: 63
#15
Ann D
I think it’s time to get a new roommate.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:13 pm rating: 22
#16
elocin277
I’d have a pig roast in the living room the next day, with whole fishes as garnishes, a side of beef as an appetizer and whole roast chickens for dessert. How’d ya like me now, BITCH? lol
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:14 pm rating: 46
#17
lagne
Holy mother of BEEF. My blood pressure just went through the roof.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:14 pm rating: 29
#18
JJ
If she has a problem with these animal products, I hope she is forking over the cash for the roommate to move out. Since this was not something agreed upon at the time they moved in together, she cannot be forced to move without proper notice. I guarantee you these ladies live in Park Slope.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:15 pm rating: 66
#19
MeatEater
I would buy half a pig and stuff it in the fridge!
Where exactly does this chick get off?
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:15 pm rating: 13
#20
Mamie
TL;DR
That self-righteous dumbfuck is probably suffering from a severe shortage of B-12, thus the tantrum.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:15 pm rating: 69
#21
dani
I wonder what her response to the note was!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:16 pm rating: 17
#22
Jammin
Hate the haters!
I can invent all kinds of passive-aggressive responses for this roomie: 1. print some fake labels, and fill the fridge with vacuum-sealed babies, kittens & puppies (stuffed ones, of course).
2. find some video filmed inside a slaughterhouse to view on the community TV.
3. leave a copy of the essay “A Modest Proposal” by Swift on the kitchen table.
4. Take up tanning leather and animal hides, or taxidermy – in the kitchen.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:16 pm rating: 57
#23
Bex
No problem with the vegan thing but they clearly cannot be roommates any more. Why even write a note? One of them should just move out.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:16 pm rating: 39
#24
Darrow
I really want to see the backlash to this note. Why do they think they can dictate your diet? Is it her house?
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 pm rating: 51
#25
Tara
This poor person has to move. You can’t make a lifestyle change and then expect your roommates to conform.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:18 pm rating: 62
#26
Shannon
I would laugh my ass off then cook and eat as much meat as I could in one setting. I’d let the roommate know that her bs smugness is why people hate vegetarians. I may also try to sneak animal products in her food, just for the fun of it.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:18 pm rating: 32
#27
Amber
#4 especially sounded eerily like one of those pamphlets the religious proselytizers hand out. “I know you will continue to be a filthy Satan-worshipper outside of our gracious home, but I beg of you to save your soul and take the path of God!”
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:18 pm rating: 45
#28
Trish
I would love to know what the submitter said to their roomie after this.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm rating: 34
#29
Bob
I guess I’ll never understand vegans. No milk? The cows NEED you to milk them! Otherwise they get all grumpy and in pain, right? If I had to live with this person I would be nice enough to compromise on abandoning meat, but the rest of it..honey? Come on! However, I do agree with the condemnation of Slim Jims, canned sardines, and Spam. I mean, is Spam even food? (Or Slim Jims, for that matter…)
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm rating: 23
#30
Kaitlyn
I would write her a nice reply letting her know she had to move out immediately as I no longer wished to compromise her “morals”.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:20 pm rating: 62
#31
shat
So did you beat her with a leg of lamb or what? I really need to hear the outcome of this…
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:20 pm rating: 30
#32
McFiesty
I hope the meat eater brought home some McD’s and ate it in front of the vegan! oh yeah when did bees become animals?
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:21 pm rating: 4
#33
Kathy
Jeebus. This is beyond PA and grounds for a super big pummeling with a chicken leg.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:21 pm rating: 21
#34
CJ
Wow. Just, wow. The only way this is semi-allowable is if the roommate owns the place and is renting to her. Either way, I’d suggest finding herself another living situation.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:21 pm rating: 13
#35
illuminaut
equating eating meat with child abuse? nice touch
I also enjoyed the last part: just in case you want to become a total nutcase like me, it’s not too late to hop on the militant vegan train.
I’ve seen this transformation before; it must be something they teach in those vegan self-help courses.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:22 pm rating: 28
#36
Danny
I don’t see any consequences listed. The roommate won’t be killed, since killing animals is wrong – so who cares what the fanatic wants?
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:22 pm rating: 16
#37
Emily
what the hell? who does this lady think she is?! as someone already said, unless she owns this apartment, she has no right to tell anyone what they’re allowed to eat in their own home. Or banish them to eat in their bedroom. What a psycho. I say move out as soon as you can and warn everyone you know to STAY AWAY!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:22 pm rating: 16
#38
Erica
This is why we omnivores HATE self-righteous vegans and veggies. Its FINE that you make that choice, but unless you’re PAYING THE FULL RENT then you can’t dictate what your roommate can and can’t do. I hope this person kicked the veganite out of their apartment or stopped paying rent. If you don’t like what someone does, then instead of trying to dictate their life, go live ALONE!!! ughughugh, i hate roomie situations. Never again!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:23 pm rating: 42
#39
oi
Whoa vegan Nazi! Is it in Berkeley?
ok read the back story. WOW ! Brooklyn beat Berkeley!
I am a lacto- vegetarian and I would not go anywhere near to this person let alone living with her. Probably would start eating meat, just out of spite.
Do they ever consider this? Their naziness about it might make people do exact opposite.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:23 pm rating: 34
#40
Fred Furz
Thanks so much for caring!
Bring back cannibalism – eat a vegan
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:24 pm rating: 43
#41
Fatfur
Oh wow, I would want to slap them and tell them to stfu. Whats wrong with that person. How can you be so crazy. But really what’s her meat got to do with what she chooses not to sticks in her mouth.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:24 pm rating: 3
#42
sdedit
The meat eater should tell the vegan she’s just converted to Orthodox Judaism, and will now take offense if the roomie uses her phone, computer, TV, cooking appliances, or light switches in the apartment on the Sabbath.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:25 pm rating: 217
#43
Country Angel
Unfriggin’ believable! The writer of this toxic missive should be sodomized with a Slim Jim.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:26 pm rating: 11
#44
Molly Mouse
I don’t eat beef or pork, and that’s my personal choice. I could care less what the person next to me is eating, and I would never try to force someone to eat the way I do.
On a side note, people are crazy.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:26 pm rating: 24
#45
Cara
Can we PLEASE get a follow up? Did the note writer leave the apt? Did the awesome omnivore fry up lots of tasty animal? What the heck happened next?!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:26 pm rating: 65
#46
TheTGM
I actually read that mess. Man, listen I would’ve simply told her to get the fuck over it.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:29 pm rating: 7
#47
Erika
Maybe said vegan needs to find another place to live if they’re that disturbed by honey. Get a friggin’ life.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:30 pm rating: 13
#48
beekeeper
I’d like to slap this person too – what a pompous self-righteous arse!
And what the hell is wrong with honey anyway? If it weren’t for beekeepers, bees would probably lack the protection they have now against pesticides/herbicides, etc
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:30 pm rating: 6
#49
tsel
Dear Submitter,
Kick roommate the fuck out. I’ll find a job and come live there instead. I promise to cook with bacon.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:31 pm rating: 13
#50
Rita
What utter nonsense. Some of the unhealthiest looking people I’ve met are vegans. I know twin girls in their late 20′s and both are vegans. They’re so skinny their bones stick out, their hair is thin, skin is bad, and anemic looking with dark circles around the eyes. They seem moody most of the time probably because they’re hungry and not getting enough nutrition. I think your room mate needs to find her own place and make herself a nice ham and cheese sandwich.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:32 pm rating: 31
#51
Diana
As a vegetarian, I’m appalled at her attitude. I hate the thought of meat in my house, but I wouldn’t become a shrieking Joan Crawford bitch about it. I’m embarrassed by this; we have a hard enough time as it is….
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:32 pm rating: 56
#52
illuminaut
to be fair, it’s probably not the note writer’s fault that she’s turned into a maniac. the diet must cause an hormonal imbalance of some sorts. get help.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:33 pm rating: 13
#53
jellydonut
I had whale steak yesterday. Yeah, I ate Moby Dick and he was fucking tasty.
Note recipient, please share this knowledge with your shrill bitch of a vegan room-mate. Also pix of facial expression. ^_^
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:33 pm rating: 4
#54
Not shitty vegan
I hate militant vegans. And I’m vegan myself.
Where do people get off thinking they can tell other people what to do? I’ve had more productive conversations of actual interest exactly because I don’t beat people over the head with my practices.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:36 pm rating: 63
#55
Mindy
I love how the note writer changes the rules AFTER his/her roommate has already lived there for a while and then calls the roommate inconsiderate because all of a sudden he/she is not supposed to use the fridge that they pay for to store whatever food they eat. I’d move out with no notice. Good luck with that food nazi finding another roommate.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:36 pm rating: 36
#56
Joshi
There’s a simple way out of this, simply put: one extremist viewpoint deserves another. I suggest not allowing her to leave the house unless she’s wearing a full face mask, as per your new “beliefs”.
I mean, “you’ve got to draw the line somewhere” right?
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:36 pm rating: 18
#57
jill
Holy cow (pun totally intended)!
I once had a roommate that told me I had to fluff and reposition the couch cushions after I got up off the couch, and that really pissed me off. If I got a letter like this, not only would I wave as much meat as possible in front of her face as I ate it, I would make a copy and show every single friend of mine so they’d know to do the same. What a whore!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:37 pm rating: 6
#58
Psycho
The roommate should take up sausage making or bacon curing as a hobby.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:41 pm rating: 13
#59
Matt DW
My gf’s ex is seeking a court order that she keep their 4 and 6 year-old children vegan when they are with her!
I want to be down with veganism, but it’s a pain in the ass and it’s practitioners all seem to behave like this.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:42 pm rating: 17
#60
Sof
I’d order take-out for dinner. Sit down together, all nice and polite. Then the delivery guy shows up. Drop the box on the table, open, and BAM – a bucketload of sushi. Eat it by hand, making deliciousness-induced moans, right across the table from the vegan-douche. Offer to share. If the horror of the proposal is enough for a shock-induced CVA, problem solved.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:42 pm rating: 10
#61
Bevlar
I LOVE the fact that the veggies that your vegan friend eats will be fertilised with animal shit… what about fabric softener? animal products in there! Does she have any leather anywhere? Bet she does!!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:43 pm rating: 14
#62
Ginger
I used to live with a bunch of angry vegans in college. We lived in cooperative living and had to cook for each other. We got a lot of complaints if we didn’t cook a vegan option, but then our vegan option was sneered at and never eaten when we did cook it. It really pissed me off.
In the last year I’ve stopped using animal products when I cook at home, which was a personal health choice. However, if I go out with friends or over to someone’s house and they serve meat/animal products, I say thank you and eat it. Big deal. Note writer needs to get over herself.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:44 pm rating: 15
#63
mike
I am a vegetarian and I LOATHE vegans. I think these self righteous idiots should be shot in the throat and left to bleed out where they fall. Seriously.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:44 pm rating: 17
#64
Lila_Reign
I hope the self-righteous vegan knows that no one can be 100% vegan; the human body needs vitamin B-12 to function properly, and it cannot be found in nature in a plant (or fungus). It can only be found in animals- mainly cows, sheep, poultry and pigs. That multivitamin she should be taking everyday to maintain her B-12 levels probably gets the B-12 from beef.
On a horribly vindictive and slightly cruel note- if I was the omnivore roomie, I’d offer the vegan McDonald’s french fries- they’re fried in 98% vegetable oil, 2% beef tallow.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:47 pm rating: 12
#65
KDW
Dear Crazy-Vegan Roommate,
I am really getting more serious about my omnivore way of eating. I find it really disturbing that you shun my diet and refuse to eat the meat, eggs, dairy, and honey that I go out of my way to purchase and bring into our home. I really can’t believe you would treat me and my morals this way. Please stop storing your tofu, seitan, and fake cheese in our refrigerator. That stuff creeps me out. Eat a burger! You’ll feel (and look) much better.
Thanks!
Your Omnivorous Roomie who has the right to eat whatever the heck I want!!!!
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:51 pm rating: 82
#66
LM
I love how they compare eating meat to child abuse.
If I were the submitter I would ask that douche to move out.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:53 pm rating: 6
#67
Shannon
My solution (if I were in this situation): Tell the roommate you’re going vegan too, and were really inspired by her efforts to change you. Then follow these steps:
Step 1: Buy a bunch of vegan food (it’s costly, but it’ll be worth it).
Step 2: Cook a meal for your roommate to share with you. But, while cooking, toss in a bunch of random meat products, milk, whatever. Stuff she won’t notice, or will think is tofu or something.
Step 3: Watch in delight as she eats what you’ve prepared.
Step 4: Inform her of what you’ve done.
Step 5: Probably gonna wanna move out at this point, lest ye wish to face the wrath of an angry, malnourished roommate.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:53 pm rating: 6
#68
lw
Submitter should buy a whole hog head and leave that in the fridge.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:54 pm rating: 9
#69
R2P2
What do you even say to that?! I would tell the recipient to keep doing what she’s doing, but I would worry that crazy roommate would throw out any meat-product, thus costing the recipient tons of money. All the other passive-aggressive ideas are hilarious, but let’s face it: such an unhinged militant is never going to see her own hypocrisy. Submitter just needs to get out of there and fast. I’m actually curious about a follow-up. Submitter, please tell us you are still alive and haven’t been arrested for understandably assaulting this idiot.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:56 pm rating: 20
#70
T'laryth Phalyn
Oh holy shyt. The submitters roomie has lost her little mind. I’m a beekeeper (and an omnivore) and once or twice a year I’ll have some began twats screaming at me at a farmer’s market about how horrible I am. I keep bacon with me in a cooler just for those times. I take out a piece and start munching, commenting on how delicious it is. If they continue I offer them a piece.
I made a vegan cry this way.
I have no problem with folks doing what they think is right for themselves (even if I do think they’re horribly misguided) but leave me and my diet out of it. Otherwise I may just have to toss you on a BBQ to make a point.
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:57 pm rating: 124
#71
Tori
My kids and I went to a playgroup christmas party last year. One of the other mothers kicked up a big stink the week before that jelly products – jellybeans, snake lollies etc – were not to be served (one mother was making a jellybean cake for the occasion).
The reason? – she was vegan and so her poor 3 year old was not allowed to eat animal products, which apparently includes gelatin. And shame on us other mothers for torturing her poor little one with food right in front of her that she would not be allowed to eat as it would taint her precious little body. And of course we would be discriminating against her child by making her feel different from the other kids because she couldn’t eat everything on the table.
I had no words. And still don’t.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:00 pm rating: 36
#72
Mama Wrench
“I’ve just made a deeply personal decision and I demand that you respect it by behaving in every way as though you’ve made the same decision, or else you’re being intolerant.”
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:00 pm rating: 75
#73
meeper
I’m not sure which are worse – militant vegans or preachy born again Christians.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:05 pm rating: 30
#74
Jessica
Wow. This person sounds like they should join Peta. I live in a state with a high number of vegans (I have several vegan friends)–and only one vegan I’ve come across personally has pissed me off (really, vegans should not work as prep cooks in non-vegan restaurants). This person, though, needs a swift kick to the balls, and the recipient of the letter needs a new roommate that isn’t so pushy.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:08 pm rating: 21
#75
IKilled007
Is it still considered vegan if the roommate force-feeds this paper with ink on it to the bitch?
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:09 pm rating: 2
#76
Sunny
oh my, there is so many things wrong in this letter that i cannot even start… i wouldn’t blame all vegan… just this one!!! i wanna slap her in the face!!! with a steak!!! xD
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:09 pm rating: 8
#77
Coco
Hey roomie,
Gone big game hunting – be back soon. Please make sure I have a big space in the kitchen when I get back – I’ll be skinning, quartering and butchering the animals for consumption later (BBQ!). I know it’s a time consuming and grueling task. It is a lot of work but, fresh meat is so worth while and delicious. You should put down that soy mush shaped like a burger and try it. It could make you feel better, look better and change your ugly judgemental holier then thou arrogant vile spewing you’ve been prone to.
xoxo
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:11 pm rating: 22
#78
Slim Jim
I’ve been a vegetarian for years, even went vegan for awhile, but if a roommate hit me with this I would immediately go buy a side of beef and a chest freezer.
I mean, if we’re thinking of renting a place together and you want to insist on this, fine, I’ll find someone else. but you don’t change the rules in the middle of a lease.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:15 pm rating: 23
#79
deprogrammed
Kill the vegan tramp and grill her apparently USDA Prime corn and grain fed meat. Barring that, kick her snot-nosed self-righteousness to any curb that won’t make her bounce.
I guess tolerance is unilateral.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:16 pm rating: 3
#80
applewench
Dear Submitter:
Please, for me, do two things…
1)Befriend a baby deer. Bring said baby deer home as a pet, and let anal vegan roommate become attached. Keep baby deer at the apartment for a month or two, and keep feeding baby deer lots of good food. Take baby deer to farm one day while roommate is out, and drop her off to run and play and live in peace forever.
On your way home, drop by the exotic meats section of your local grocery store, and pick up several packages of venison. Repackage venison meat in butcher paper, write “Bambi” on the outside and place in the freezer. (Or cook “Bambi” up…yum!)
2) Adopt a low carb lifestyle.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:18 pm rating: 24
#81
Susie Bright
I don’t think this letter has anything to do with meat or meat eating. It has “sexual neuroses” written between every word, with a healthy helping of “barely suppressed rage.” I would be moving out there so fast you’d barely see my dust.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:23 pm rating: 24
#82
johnny2hats
It seems to me like there are far far more omnivores bitching about self-righteous militant vegans/vegetarians than there are actual self-righteous militant vegans/vegetarians in the world. I was a vegetarian for about 15 years and I never encountered one who was even fractionally as much of a prick about it as this note writer. And yet I met quite a few wankers who tried to convince me to eat a hamburger or a bacon sandwich or what have you. funny that.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:26 pm rating: 42
#83
gina
This is rage-inducing and extremely hypocritical. Why did she go vegan? To impress the skinny guy at the avant garde coffee shop with the pierre moustache who wears ski-hats even though it’s summer?
I just finished making delicious tacos, and now I’m planning on defrosting a rib-eye steak to cook before work tomorrow. Meat is awesome.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:30 pm rating: 15
#84
KT
I certainly hope the letter writer doesn’t perform oral sex on her boyfriend (which she probably doesn’t, as she’s obviously a royal bitch and a pain in the ass). If she does, then she is breaking her own vows of food chastity by eating meat.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:31 pm rating: 13
#85
Meghan
We need a follow up on this. Seriously.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:31 pm rating: 2
#86
Alell
I’m a vegan. (13 years now.) My husband and my seven children are vegans.
And I can’t stand vegans. For this reason! They’re so damn self-righteous.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:33 pm rating: 21
#87
Kain
Veggies come from the ground. The Ground is fertilizes by animal waste and carcass…so unless you are manning your own garden. Where do you draw the line. What kind of cloths are you wearing? Wool? Oh Damn…your wearing some poor sheep! Shoes? Unless you wear Hemp. Even those plastic shoes….oil. Animal. Did she write in pen or pencil? Pens are made with plastic…which happens to also be a break down of an oil product. Perfectly fine to live your life the way you want it. But its wrong to force others to live your life. Time to get a new roommate.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:37 pm rating: 13
#88
Connie
Wow!! So her roommate cannot have ANY type of meat in the house not even in her ROOM??? This must not be her roommate at ALL!! This must be a free loader that isn’t paying any bills and is just eating, sleeping, and pooping. That’s the ONLY way this vegan roommate can dictate what SHE will allow in HER apartment. I hope this roommate woke her vegan ass up to what’s reality and what is fantasy. You cannot dictate what YOU want if YOU aren’t paying all of the bills. That’s HER kitchen as well, that’s HER living quarters as well not just yours!! I would have a MEAT-ONLY party, and have meat in the appetizers, the salad, the main meal, and the desert, and have meat in gift bags as well. Yea let’s see you tell me what YOU won’t be having in YOUR house smh
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:47 pm rating: 7
#89
kermit
This note is just beginning for a response in kind, something like the following (on a white board or in email form, but definitely not paper):
Dear Vegan,
I have to say, I thought you were a lot smarter and considerate than you have proven yourself to be. You are very well aware that I have been getting more serious about the plight of trees and the chemicals in the environment.
You know I feel uncomfortable around paper, but here I find two whole pages, written in ink! Do you have any idea how much ball point ink pollutes the environment or how many trees have to be cut down every day because people are too inconsiderate to use environmentally friendly means of communication?
Why didn’t you use the environmentally friendly white board that specifically bought for this purpose? Also, why do you persist on using toilet paper instead of the bidet I had installed? I guess you’re the kind of vegan that hates the environment.
Yes, I know we live in a world where we’re supposed to be “tolerant”. However, I believe we have to stick up for our beliefs and draw the line somewhere.
1) I can no longer tolerate seeing you waste so much paper and ink anywhere in the apartment, do you understand?
2) I am truly disturbed by your lack of respect for my feelings and morals. You could at the very least confine your wasteful use of paper to your own room, away from me so that I don’t see how much paper you’re wasting writing your study notes for class.
3) Why do you buy so much paper and ink? You never use it all and you throw it in the garbage after your classes are done anyway. This is a waste.
4) Please think about changing your habits. I realize that you will continue to use paper and ink outside our apartment, but let that small grain of doubt lead you to a better path. Millions of trees don’t have to die early deaths and waterways don’t have to be polluted with ink if you just start using a netbook or an iPad.
With love and gratitude – the one person in this house who cares about the environment.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:51 pm rating: 72
#90
Suzi
Hey, Vegan Nutcase is being reasonable: she says the submitter can eat as much meat as she wants to outside the apartment! and since this is to convenience her, clearly she’ll be paying for her to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the odd snack, at restaurants each and every day. Sounds dead generous to me!
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:57 pm rating: 11
#91
Chicon
I live for this kind of crap. Seriously. Here’s what you do.
Build a little cabin out of Slim Jims. You know, kind of like a Lincoln Log cabin. Within the meat abode, you place a note explaining why exclusive plant consumption is offensive to you. Deforestation and a lack of green space, perhaps? Or you could find a kooky cult that worships plant and say you’ve converted. Whatever suits your fancy.
At the end of the note, beg her to find a non-plant source of Vitamin A. Explain that her eyesight is failing. After all, she doesn’t look any better than she did before.
Other options include finding some weird cut of meat, preferably a head, at your local butcher shop and putting it in her bead. Or creating a drumstick mobile and assembling a meat art installation in the common area.
Jul 6, 2011 at 5:59 pm rating: 6
#92
Dawn
Oh this is so ridiculous! I’m an omnivore and have lived in roommate situations with several vegetarian/vegan roommates just fine without anyone demanding that the other not bring home any sort of food that they ate. Its out of control to thing that your personal food choices MUST be the food choices of those around you as well. Also I know two couples, one the wife is vegan and the husband is an omnivore. She’ll cook meat for her husband and they are raising their two sons omnivore with lots of vegetarian/vegan recipies alternated in so that they can make up their minds when they get older. The other couple, the wife is a strict vegan and her husband is a vegetarian who eats dairy, fish and occasionally chicken. She eats what she eats, he eats what he eats and they are raising their daughter the same as the other couple I know so that she can make her own choice because both of the wives realize that veganism is a PERSONAL CHOICE that is yours to make and not to be forced on others just because you live with them.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:03 pm rating: 11
#93
CrazyVeganHater
Ugh. I used to work with one. She insisted that ALL company functions be Vegan-only. Which is funny, because another woman in the office was also Vegan, and management ALWAYS provided not just a vegetarian option, but a full-on Vegan option. But no. That wasn’t good enough. So most of us stopped contributing money toward catering for office events and started bringing our own food instead, which was expressly non-Vegan.
Your beliefs are your beliefs, and that’s fine, UNTIL you start lecturing me on mine. I would have left an equally tart note explaining that I am wholly disgusted by the mere smell of vegetables (which I am, but I would not normally say that to someone) and would also request that in addition to no dairy, honey, or animal products being kept in the house that all plant-based products also be kept out of the house as well, you know, in fairness to BOTH parties.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:03 pm rating: 19
#94
Flora
Thanks a lot, rude-ass vegan, for making my mostly-vegan life just a little harder.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:07 pm rating: 28
#95
Jasmine
I think Epic Meal Time would need to become a reality in our household. I pay rent. You will not dictate to me what my diet looks like, you lunatic.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm rating: 9
#96
Tanith
Where’s the consideration for the meat-eater??? It goes both ways!!! The vegan should respect that the roommate eats meat!
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:15 pm rating: 6
#97
DS
I’m pretty sure I’d buy a cheap roast or two, cut all the meat into hundreds of small chunks and hide them all over the house the day before I left.
Leave a fake forwarding address and take her calls only to laugh at her outrage.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:19 pm rating: 8
#98
I, anonymous
That vegan was fucking delicious.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:21 pm rating: 10
#99
Moe
Infer from the intro that the vegan owns the house and the omnivore moved in.
This letter is essentially an eviction. The omnivore can simply move out without notice and sue for return of unused rent and deposits.
She’d easily win. Even with a vegetarian judge.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:27 pm rating: 8
#100
snazzygina
Wow. This really proves that vegans *ARE* a pain in the ASS!
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:30 pm rating: 4
#101
magilmer
So, I was vegan for 5 years, vegetarian for two years prior to that. I was admittedly self-righteous, but never did I attack someone for their dietary choices unless mine were attacked first. When I finally gave in and ate bacon for the first time in seven years, I realized how misguided I had been. This roommate has a hell of a lot more wrong with her than her self-imposed dietary restrictions.
Again, SELF-IMPOSED, as in not insisting everyone else anywhere near you should also deprive themselves.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:40 pm rating: 8
#102
noey1210
Miss Note Writer here needs to eat a bacon burger covered in cheese, some fries, drink a milkshake and STFU.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:47 pm rating: 3
#103
Ugh
Wow not much to say that hasn’t been covered. I know some great vegans and this shit would really piss them off. My favorite PA part is that note writer has been dropping hints for weeks. I can only imagine those hints. Damn run far, run fast, don’t look back.
P.S. Honey is fucking delicious
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:49 pm rating: 6
#104
Fred Butters
“The sight of honey makes me want to cry because of the animals – I mean insects, whatever!”
But every time I cry, I instantly fall asleep from lack of energy.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:51 pm rating: 9
#105
Scott
This is why nobody likes vegans – all that smug, holier-than-thou, “I know what’s best for you, not you!” attitude. Was this person paying rent? If so, the lunatic needs to mind their own business. Bossy vegans needs to get a life – they should just stick together so they can drive each other nuts playing that “I hold the key to life” crap. Vegans must be a bunch of welfare queens to have that kinda time on their hands. I wouldn’t befriend a vegan because I guarantee I’d deck you on the first day. If we want to hear a bunch of naggy BS, most of us already have a mom.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:51 pm rating: 7
#106
homer
I became a vegetarian in 1983. I have never commented on other people’s choice of foods. I don’t care what other people eat.
In contrast, you would not believe the nasty things people have said to me because I don’t eat meat. For whatever reason, other men sometimes feel the need to chastise me and tell me how unhealthy and unmasculine it is to be a vegetarian.
My father was particularly angry and would demand that I eat bologna or hot dogs (I refused). Of course he dropped dead at age 65 from a heart attack caused by eating a diet of crappy foods, but that is another story.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:53 pm rating: 37
#107
Emland
Time to load up the fridge with organ meats!
I would be looking for a new place myself. Living with a crazy like that will only get worse.
Jul 6, 2011 at 6:56 pm rating: 2
#108
Uninspired Required Name
Wow, screw that chick, get a new roommate ASAP. You’re both paying to live there, b*tch can deal with the groceries that you choose to pay for yourself. It’s not like you’re preparing meals for the both of you out of this. Seriously demented chicka.
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:05 pm rating: 4
#109
Ashley
I am a vegan (for moral, ecological, and health reasons), and I am open to answering questions that people often ask – but I do NOT proselytize. As an atheist who grew up in the bible belt, I find unsolicited preaching repulsive and would never do it to others.
I will say that I receive equally hateful treatment from christians and meat-eaters, despite minding my own business about religion and food.
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:10 pm rating: 39
#110
RigaToni
Note Writer: Rub bacon on everything. Everything. EVERY light switch, the fridge door handle, the underside of every couch cushion.
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:12 pm rating: 8
#111
Dalamara
If I recieved this note, I would immediately start up on the Atkins diet.
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:24 pm rating: 5
#112
Crystal
urrrghhh. As a vegan, I’m totally embarassed by ridiculous fanatics like this who make all vegans look bad. Forking idiot, you don’t like someone eating meat around you, then YOU find a new place to live.
Seriously, not all vegans are crazy, I promise.
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:45 pm rating: 17
#113
Katy
Okay… WHAT?!
#1 – They’re ROOMMATES. Her beliefs are HER OWN, and she CAN’T force them upon anyone else. She has absolutely no right to tell her roommate to eat meat outside of the house and “not allow” meats inside the house anymore, or even suggesting her to hide in her room.
#2 – Equating “tolerance of child abuse” with having meat in the house? How does that even compare?
Oh, wait. I get it. I’m sure there are a few omnivores who would show that exact tolerance when the meat-eating roommate kicks that vegan’s ass… And then throws her out on the curb.
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:50 pm rating: 4
#114
Kelly
Yeah, for serious. I’m a vegan and most vegans are not militant cray-crays who accost their friends. Time for a new roommate!
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:52 pm rating: 2
#115
Coco
MEAT IS MURDER…tasty tasty murder!
Jul 6, 2011 at 7:56 pm rating: 9
#116
Fanuto
I’d suggest slitting the throat of a goat and then skinning it, in your living room.
That would put things into perspective for her. And you could go with the “ok i admit the goat killing was a bit too much, I won’t do that again, if you let me eat my pork chops in peace…”
Jul 6, 2011 at 8:00 pm rating: 4
#117
GG
I am dying to know what the submitter said in reply. I am almost sure if this person directly confronted the writer of this note, the writer would back down and shit her pants. People like this can’t handle crap like that, and I, for one, would like to see her squirm. Oh, and I hope she sees this post and is embarrassed.
Jul 6, 2011 at 8:03 pm rating: 7
#118
Doug
The BAWWWWWWWWWWWWW is strong with this one.
Jul 6, 2011 at 8:26 pm rating: 3
#119
havingfitz
Someone’s waking up next to a side of beef…
Jul 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm rating: 3
#120
Willliam
The tragic irony, of course, is that veganism is child abuse that has resulted in the deaths of several babies around the world.
Jul 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm rating: 13
#121
ME
I partake not in the meat, nor the breastmilk, nor the ovum, of any creature, with a face.
Short answer, vegans are just better than everyone else.
bingo.
ahahaha…great movie
anyways, this woman is ridiculous. People like her make us vegans look insane.
Jul 6, 2011 at 8:56 pm rating: 6
#122
Biddy
I think we should fire up the grill and cook the writer of the note and eat them!
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:04 pm rating: 1
#123
Pay The Piper
So I have to know — did the submitter of the note continue to live with the vegetarian?
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:14 pm rating: 1
#124
Britt
This. Is. Amazing. And exactly the kind of note my brother’s wife would leave, unfortunately.
My boss is a vegetarian, but still buys and cooks meat for her kids. I thought veganism had a lot to do with HARMONY?
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:14 pm rating: 1
#125
Kay
Dear Leonard,
Section 11, subsection K of our Roommate Agreement clearly states that you have 48 hours to conform to any dietary changes I make as they occur, and likewise adopt all related morals dictating said changes. Now hop to it!
Sheldon
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:25 pm rating: 47
#126
devyn
This girl is going about promoting veganism in the worst way possible! As a vegan myself, I know that these types of accusatory notes are no way to get people to change their habits. What a crazy roommate! Show your roommate the benefits of being a vegan, don’t chastise her!
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:32 pm rating: 6
#127
Ho-Ju
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say ‘Yo Goober! Where’s the meat?’. I’m trying to impress people here. You don’t win friends with salad.
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:36 pm rating: 12
#128
Ashley
Damn it! I’m a vegetarian and couldn’t give crap what other people eat. I hate people like this because they give the rest of us a bad name! My husband is a dye in the wool carnivore as is the rest of the family. When I went veggie, I made it very clear that it was my personal choice and I did not expect anyone to change their diet because of me.
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:37 pm rating: 7
#129
Ella Jay
the last time that humankind was supposed to only eat vegetables was when we couldn’t catch anything faster. and then for a long, long time we caught and ate less fast and/or less smart animals. a long, long time.
being a vegan is like saying ‘i am a cave person. with a small club.’
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:37 pm rating: 10
#130
Elizabeth
Wow, seriously giving vegans an awful name. I’d never judge someone for their eating habits. If she has that big of an issue with it, MOVE OUT. What a sanctimonious, self-righteous buttface.
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:43 pm rating: 4
#131
nic
I am a vegetarian currently and have been vegan in the past but had to stop as it was bad for my health, so this is coming from that point of view. Okay, your room mate is a total asshat. The thing is that people should put whatever the fuck they feel like into their bodies IT IS THEIR BODY, you know? She can get her nutrition how she wants to and you can get your nutrition the way you want to, no big fucking deal. The problem is that a lot of vegans feel the need to convert people. They’re like super hardcore Christians that way. They want you to see the light (shining out of their own ass, of course) so that you too can be a vegan. This is utter bullshit. You don’t want to be a fucking vegan and you want to eat the diet you chose for yourself, and she also doesn’t have to eat any goddamn slim jims. (You know, I am preaching to the choir here.) If I were you, I would tell her all of this.
But I felt the need to say that not ALL vegans think the sun shines out of their ass. Some of ‘em just want to be vegan for whatever reason (health, ethics, religion) and they are fine chilling out being vegan without disrupting any one else’s chilling out being an omnivore. And they don’t think that they are better than anyone. So I think it’s important to acknowledge that these vegans do exist (although they are not as common as I’d like them to be) and I also feel it is important to acknowledge that you should give a self-righteous vegan a swift kick right off that self-proclaimed pedestal of theirs.
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:47 pm rating: 23
#132
DLW
OMG. I’m vegetarian and I want to slap the shit out of this note writer. What a douche. Sounds like the vegan needs to live alone.
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:49 pm rating: 6
#133
Crazymissdaisy
What a twat
Jul 6, 2011 at 9:57 pm rating: 3
#134
lis
The best part of this note of the first paragraph. She uses 300 words to basically say: “My passive aggressiveness is totally NOT working, so I’ve got no other option than to just go PSYCHO!”
Jul 6, 2011 at 10:02 pm rating: 36
#135
Buck
I’d make a note using strips of bacon that read: “Get your crazy ass out of the house, bitch!”
Jul 6, 2011 at 10:07 pm rating: 6
#136
mita
based on my short-lived adventures with a raw food/vegan diet, i can only conclude that this lunatic isn’t getting enough calories and the constant starvation is causing her to have psychotic tendencies. i don’t know how people can live day to day on these diets, but i sure do get why they’re such angry little people. of course, if your only exercise consists of perusing the racks at your neighborhood urban outfitters for ironic t-shirts and floppy knit hats, i guess you’re okay eating 120 calories a meal…. but as someone trying to log 35 miles a week on the pavement and train for a triathlon, there was just no way to pack in all the calories i needed each day. besides, who wants to eat kale and sprouted whole grain bread and veganaise and cheeze when you can have a big bloody steak and a baked potato loaded with cheesy, sour creamy goodness?
Jul 6, 2011 at 10:35 pm rating: 13
#137
Anna
I’m a vegan myself, but hate vegans like this one, they give us a bad name. Some of the comments in this post are really ridiculous though. “She needs to eat a bacon cheeseburger and STFU!”. Really?
Jul 6, 2011 at 10:52 pm rating: 12
#138
Chris of Seattle
It’s not cannibalism if we eat vegans, right?
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:04 pm rating: 6
#139
anonymous
i would love to see her reaction to the labor day tradition we have of grilling 90 pounds of ribs
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:11 pm rating: 1
#140
andi*pandi
I thought the first page was bad enough, but then, page 2? Criminy.
Claim that fridge in the name of carnivore, she can keep her greens in a dorm fridge in her room.
Or just get the heck out of crazytown.
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:11 pm rating: 3
#141
Neil
Obviously someone has to move out, you can’t live with someone so fundamentally opposed to everything you are. Whoever’s name is on the lease has to tell the other person to go; end of story.
But I need to add that this is pretty atypical behaviour from a vegetarian. I’ve known a couple of dozen serious vegetarians over the years, including a handful of really serious vegans… and not one of them would be capable of writing a letter like that. Usually, people who are enlightened enough to make serious commitments to something like veganism are also enlightened enough to understand how offensive it can be to crusade against the diets of people you live with. I’ve seen vegans get upset because some idiot has deliberately tricked them into eating some sort of animal product, but I’ve never seen one be so militant about the mere *presence* of meat in a house that they share.
I think most vegans would join the queue to punch this person in the face; she makes all vegans look bad and needs some corrective therapy. And to live alone.
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:20 pm rating: 5
#142
Paige
As a nearly-vegan vegetarian myself (how do you tell if there’s a vegetarian in the room? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you), I think note-writer is indeed insufferable, and totally in the wrong. Submitter has the right to buy and eat whatever she wants to in her own home, for which (I assume) she pays an equal share of the rent. Vegan can GTFO if it bothers her. Classic “If you don’t like it, leave” situation.
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:30 pm rating: 17
#143
FLZ
I need to send you a hog carcass. What’s your address?
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:31 pm rating: 2
#144
Sarah Kay
What do vegans say about the fact that some animals eat other animals? Some animals steal the produce of other animals. It’s part of nature.
This letter made me puke.
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:32 pm rating: 7
#145
Ishie
I lived in Brooklyn for two years. Much love. It is virtually impossible to evict someone even if they have the lease, ownership, or whatever. Once you can prove you’ve lived there, you’re golden. If there’s no “anti meat” clause in the lease, tell her to suck it, and you’ll leave when the cops force you out.
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:36 pm rating: 15
#146
Diana
I’d laugh, throw it away and buy more meat. And make a barbecue party. And I’d invite the neighbor that abuses his child.
Jul 6, 2011 at 11:50 pm rating: 2
#147
ET
Wow. Just wow. I’m an omnivore currently living with two veggies and we’re moving in with a pescatarian next month. We haven’t had any altercations about our varied diet choices…I keep my animal products out of her food and other than the once or twice that I tried it, she doesn’t try to get me to eat her soy crap. Unless you’re as obviously intolerant as this bitch is, it’s really not that difficult to live with a veggie or vegan, or vice versa.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:04 am rating: 14
#148
Kate
If I were the OP I would hide eggs in her room and let ‘em rot.
Without the vegans knowledge of course >:)
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:09 am rating: 0
#149
friendly vegan
I am a vegan. We are not all like this.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:13 am rating: 11
#150
Eat my meat
If I was the roommate of this food Nazi, I’d go buy some meat, season and tenderize then hang it all over the apartment to dry out. Tell her, “I’m making beef jerky, get used to it. ” “It’s my new second job.” that would teach her. Then I’d throw it out, I hate beef jerky.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:19 am rating: 1
#151
imashelcha
Two words: horse’s head.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:34 am rating: 3
#152
Hippietown Dweller
Google passive aggressive vegan grocery cashier. Click on the first hit. Enjoy.
But the one here — the real one — is scarier. Add my vote to those who want a follow up on this one.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:36 am rating: 5
#153
gallifreyseven
Oh wow. Just…wow.
Eating meat to child abuse in a couple of sentences? Why not go ahead and invoke Hitler while you’re at it?
Here we have our prime suspect in any future sociopathic murders in Brooklyn.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:54 am rating: 3
#154
lozerette
Dear roomie:
No products from animals anywhere in the apartment, huh? (Your words, not mine.) Per your new rules, I will get rid of my meat right after you get rid of anything made from plastic or other petroleum-based products. Most of your synthetic “non-animal” replacements contain these substances in some form, so good luck with that.
First things first, stop brushing your teeth with dead dinosaurs, you sicko.
Short list of some other things you will almost certainly have to throw out:
The Pen You Used to Write Your Note
Any Other Pens
The Carpet
Any Hardwood Flooring that is Varnished or Waxed
Linoleum
Any Non-Plant Fabric (Clothing, Furniture, etc.)
The Plastic Containers for Storing Your Vegan Food
Refrigerator
Microwave
Any Electronics
Hair Dryer
Hair Brush
Plastic Razors
Deodorant (If in a plastic container.)
…I think you get the drift.
The alternative is that you just pull the (wooden, right?) stick out of your ass and we learn to get along like civilized people. Your call.
Sincerely,
The Sane One
Jul 7, 2011 at 1:14 am rating: 19
#155
snatchbeast
It’d be different if she moved in with these stipulations in advance, but screw her for her judgmental and nasty attitude.
As a vegan, I hate vegans like this.
I can get behind separate shelves in the refrigerator, separate plates and silverware, etc for vegan vs omni items, but outright banning one roommates food source is just uncool.
Jul 7, 2011 at 1:24 am rating: 9
#156
Fannyaddams
As a vegan living with 3 omnivores I can only say WTF???
Possibly the only sensible solution is to replace her wardrobe with a lady gaga-esque meat closet(!)
Jul 7, 2011 at 1:27 am rating: 8
#157
CS
Where is the update??? I read all 32457107 comments because I must know.
Incidentally, I was ovo-lacto vegetarian for 6 years. My boyfriend through most of that ate meat. *Most* of the meals I cooked us were vegetarian, but I occasionally cooked him meat, and he could always cook meat if he wanted to. At restaurants? Eat your meat rare, babe! It’s all good!
Then we would make out and have hot inter-dietary-choice sex. It was great.
Jul 7, 2011 at 1:37 am rating: 17
#158
CS
Oh, and, apparently the President of PETA has diabetes. Diabetes is treated with insulin. Insulin treatment for diabetes was developed via animal testing. Just in case anyone wanted to mock PETA more.
Jul 7, 2011 at 1:39 am rating: 13
#159
jadefirefly
One of my previous roommates was vegetarian. Amazingly, her food co-existed in the same refrigerator as the fish and chicken my other roomie bought at the chinese market, and the eggs and sausage I bought for myself.
At no point did her head explode, her health suffer, or a complaint even come out of her mouth. She understood that we weren’t expected to live by her dietary choices. To that end she even kept her own cooking pans, so she wouldn’t use a frypan that someone else used for meat.
Unless vegan-bitch is paying the rent AND buying ALL the food, she has no claim to dictate what roomie has in the apartment she pays for.
Jul 7, 2011 at 1:42 am rating: 12
#160
Emily
I can’t believe she used the line, “I’m truly disturbed by your lack of respect for my feelings.” What about the person to whom she wrote the note? She certainly has to respect for the addressee’s feelings!
I would have slapped her silly.
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:09 am rating: 8
#161
Juniper
I’m going to need an update on this one please. I really need to know that sometime has kicked this person in the teeth, metaphorically or literally.
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:03 am rating: 6
#162
Ben
Letter recipient clearly needs to invite Epic Meal Time round to film a special episode in their kitchen…
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:28 am rating: 1
#163
jetjackson
Time to wear the lady gaga meat dress home!!
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:41 am rating: 2
#164
Grant
(1) Write a reply, simply “Move the f*** out then” and
(2) Bacon. Lots and lots of frying bacon.
Jul 7, 2011 at 4:04 am rating: 3
#165
Grant
Also, I take it she doesn’t swallow.
Jul 7, 2011 at 4:05 am rating: 5
#166
Marcel
This is no matter being vegan or not. This is a personal problem. Your flatmate is obviously using the whole vegan idea for distancing herself from other people. This happens all the time. It doesn’t matter if it’s religion, nature, the way you eat or even personal hygiene. Often they do it because they want to reach some moral high ground because they are feeling left alone and not understood at all by the world. Look at any kind of scene a little closer and you will see what I mean.
I’d just tell her that you’re respecting her way to live and eat (if you really do that that is) and that she should respect yours. That the letter was a passive aggressive and utterly unneccessary form of letting you know how she feels. If you two are not compatible at all and/or cannot reach some sort of agreement, so be it. There are times when the best course of action is to part with people.
It’s “live and let live”. There is no final, conclusive truth and every person has to find it’s own way – how to live, how to feel, how to be.
Again, this is not about veganism. You could exchange the “veganism” with “christianism” and the food with the discussion about creationism vs. evolution and you’ll get the same result. People who are taking things to their extreme and claim to have found the “true truth” for whatever reason are toxic to a liberal society. And they piss people off on a grand scale.
There is absolutely no sane way to discuss rationally about feelings. However, you can show compassion and empathy for the motives of these people and try to find a way that works for both. If that does not work, you need to leave (resp. she needs to).
Jul 7, 2011 at 5:11 am rating: 25
#167
laurajane
it’s terrifying how much this reminds me of my ex-housemate. not the vegan thing, just the entitlement issues.
Jul 7, 2011 at 5:14 am rating: 5
#168
Annette
I love how she tells her roommate to respect her believes and be considerate while in their home but at the same time just plainly forbids her to eat meat there.
Yes, my dear. I’m all for freemdom of speech. As long as you only say what I want to hear, that is.
Jul 7, 2011 at 5:31 am rating: 9
#169
H
Less kf the veggie bashing please im vegetarian & share with2meat eaters. We keep some pans separate & it’s not an issue.
The note writer seems really stressed & unhappy with the vegan martyrdom (seen it happen do many times) if she can’t talk about her needs/wants openly or compromise its Probably better she lives with vegans, especially if she us so badly affected.
Jul 7, 2011 at 6:12 am rating: 1
#170
Jen
To all the people who suggested putting meat/eggs or milk in the note writers food, I hope you were joking.
While it might be pleasing on a PA level, in the end you could seriously put someone’s health in danger.
No doubt this letter was so far out of line it skipped several state lines, but some people are vegans/vegetarians due to severe allergies and intolerences and “spiking” their food to get back at them would be just as irresponsible and possibly deadly as feeding someone with a nut allergy nuts.
There’s no excuse for bad behaviour like this, but accidentally killing someone for “laughs” isn’t funny.
Jul 7, 2011 at 6:47 am rating: 17
#171
Andy
She should kill her vegan roommate now. Dated one for about 6 weeks – ended in a screaming match in the Village when he couldn’t pick a $&#^#^ restaurant that met his approval for the 6 millionth time. Never. Again.
Jul 7, 2011 at 7:16 am rating: 5
#172
ObviousCommenter
I just can’t get over the fact that (at the bottom of the first page) the writer compares eating meat to child abuse!
Jul 7, 2011 at 8:13 am rating: 4
#173
AC
I’m stunned. Like religious people she feels the need to push her lifestyle and beliefs on other people. If she doesnt like the fact that the other roomie eats meat products she can move the hell out.
Humans are a omnivore species, stop crying over the fact that we eat meat products like we are supposed to you idiot
Jul 7, 2011 at 8:19 am rating: 8
#174
Mikey
Live & let live I say.
But remember this. Civilisation will one day come to an end. I’ve read ‘The Road’. I know how it works.
And we’ll be eating the vegans first. They’re more wholesome.
Jul 7, 2011 at 8:22 am rating: 14
#175
Cliff Poncier
I went to Catholic school from 2nd through 5th grade and since I had a big family my mother would let us make our own lunches. During Lent I would be the only kid in class eating a ham & cheese sandwich on Fridays. Even at 9 years old I didn’t give two sh1ts.
Jul 7, 2011 at 8:40 am rating: 10
#176
This or That
Dear Roommate,
I have a bone to pick with you. I got your note and you are such a chicken not to talk to me face to face. It just seems so fishy that you would choose to confront me on paper rather than in person. I have a real beef with you over that. You’re such a pig. Honey, if you really have such a problem with my eating habits, you’re going to have to find a way to deal with it like an adult without clamming up and retreating into your shell.
Love,
Roommate
Jul 7, 2011 at 8:46 am rating: 57
#177
Kick
Decent courses of action to take:
a. Kick the bitch in the head
b. Kick the bitch out of the house (if it’s not hers)
c. Move from the house (if it’s hers)
d. Leave meat to rot in the fridge
e. Any valid combination of the above (b and c don’t mix)
Jul 7, 2011 at 8:52 am rating: 2
#178
Ellen
As a vegan… I particularly want to slap the author if this note. I have a can of condensed milk in my kitchen from “before” that I have not been able to either consume or waste. That is all.
Jul 7, 2011 at 9:40 am rating: 2
#179
Yolanda
I’ve had to deal with these horrible preachers far too often. They think that because they’re championing the cause of helpless voiceless animals that it justifies all manner of abusive control behaviour. I don’t eat dead mammals. I do find the eating of them extremely offensive. I won’t tolerate the cooking of mammal meat in my kitchen. Hubby can bbq steak, reheat canned chili or frozen meat dinners, or eat snack food like pepperoni (yech) but that’s it! I always made it clear to roommates that much and did not change the rules mid-stream either. If they didn’t like it, we didn’t live together. It’s MY choice, and just as I won’t let someone else tell me what to eat, I dont’ tell you.
Jul 7, 2011 at 9:49 am rating: 0
#180
Canthz_B
#2 is far too long. Should have stopped at “I’m truly disturbed.”
Jul 7, 2011 at 9:57 am rating: 10
#181
Bob
What a piece of meat… I mean work… I mean meat. Mmm, meat.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:01 am rating: 5
#182
Linda
W.O.W 8-0
Ok……sounds like she wants to go “tit-for-tat”…..so here it is “roomie”…..You won’t eat meat….just veggies, and some “vegan” diet…..interesting……I hate to inform you, but you ARE, in fact, eating animals by proxy……what do you think helps in the fertalization of our lands????? Animal poop…..dead animal carcasses…..are you picturing that dead bird, laying in the patch of carrots, rotting into the root system, as you’re munching on your “healthy” snack??????? What about the worms underground???? Or hedgehog…whatever…..you get my point…….unless you starve yourself……you will NEVER be trully vegetarian….or vegan, for that matter, because EVERYTHING that comes from this earth, food and otherwise, has some part of animal within it…..it’s the circle of life….and who is she to judge anyone for what the good Lord has saw fit to provide us with nourishment???? I wonder if she would think if everyone turned “vegan”, or whatever….animal overpopulation???? They wander into her garden…..eating her “stash”……I bet if that happened enough, she’d be having steak for dinner!!!!! Self-rightious hypocrite………
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:01 am rating: 4
#183
Canthz_B
Well, thank God someone saw fit to eat meat 1.5 million years ago or we wouldn’t be here with our large brains to have this debate!
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:10 am rating: 10
#184
Tara
I will bet $100 that this crazy vegan was wearing leather shoes as she wrote this note.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:18 am rating: 4
#185
emcd
Meat didn’t like her anyway, so there.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:30 am rating: 7
#186
meeper
I think we’re all missing the true meaning of the letter here. Reading between the lines tells me that what she’s really saying isn’t that she wants the roommate to be courteous about having meat, etc. in the house, but that she is being tempted by all the non-vegan food in the household and would even stoop to sneaking into the roommate’s room to lick honey off of the bedpost if she knew it was there.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:34 am rating: 22
#187
fayegasm
People treat me like I’m like the note-writer when I ask them not to eat beef or pork while I’m present at home. I only ask because I was raised not to eat either, and the smell makes me feel sick, and if accidentally ingested, I’m in bed clutching my stomach all day.
Otherwise, I couldn’t care less about other people’s diets. I don’t care if you eat a panda. I don’t care if you go to buffets and load 3 plates full of bacon.
I think I’m a pretty reasonable pollo-pesco-ovo-lacto vegetarian. (Thank you random chart from middle school Home Ec.)
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:35 am rating: 0
#188
gozar
Make sure she sees this:
http://tinyurl.com/3edet7y
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:44 am rating: 0
#189
thelma
I’m vegan, but people like this are why I don’t have any other vegan friends. It’s not like they brought home kitten meat, for god’s sake. People are free to eat what they like, so don’t Mommy them.
It’s people like this that also make me not tell people I’m vegan, because you get the big eyeroll and people stop talking to you.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:54 am rating: 9
#190
Jeneener
I think a big part of the problem is that ethical vegans/vegetarians (and I’m one of ‘em) seem to confuse “can’t” with “won’t”. It’s not that you can’t eat a burger, you just don’t want to. You’re not going to die if you eat a burger, it’s a personal choice.
Jul 7, 2011 at 11:03 am rating: 9
#191
Jay
The perfect response: I am not going to change my eating habits to suit your wants. You compared apples to oranges with the eating meat and beating children comparison, and I’ll keep buying meat if I want to.
Vegetarians READ ON!
@thelma
I totally agree, and I am not slamming any form of vegetarianism nor trying to offend vegetarians, I’m slamming the “mommying” that this person is trying to do.
Jul 7, 2011 at 11:06 am rating: 1
#192
oi
As much as I hate this note writer I think I can see how vegans would have hard time in eating whatever they want to eat. I think for me it’s easy, being from India, they automatically assume my vegetarian diet is because of my religion. It’s not true but at least I don’t have to come up with an explanation for my choice of food for myself!
But the people who were born here they do not have that luxury. One of my friend here is vegetarian and her family is typical american. She has told me numerous time how hard it is to be a vegetarian, her family is ok, it’s the strangers. I was very surprised and told her that my experience was totally different. Except for one or two idiots, nobody has tried to pity/laugh on me for being vegetarian and even those idiots have not told me anything to my face. For her every gathering is like torture, there is always someone who either tries to convert her back or pity her or shame or demands an explanation (because of their own guilt of eating meat I guess) as if it’s their business! I did not believe her completely, thought may be she is exaggerating a little. Reading comments here now I don’t think that she is exaggerating at all.
Jul 7, 2011 at 11:17 am rating: 10
#193
bookworm
I would have prepared a steak and allowed the blood to drip on the note. Which I would leave in the exact same spot, of course.
Jul 7, 2011 at 11:55 am rating: 1
#194
gnomestress
I was lacto-ovo for a few years when I was younger. After I developed a serious B-vitamin deficiency, I got back on the meat train (heh heh, meat train)
That said, even when I was vegetarian I despised PETA and its crazy militant brainwashed vegan clones. Notewriter is all to common in that community. PETA specifically targets the young and gullible and fill their heads with lies and dogma. Meanwhile, they kill 90% of the animals in their shelters. Sheer douchebaggery, at its worst.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:25 pm rating: 12
#195
A
Wow! As a vegan, I am offended by this letter! Veganism is choice that people have to make for themselves, not be bullied into it via a passive aggressive note. FAIL!
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:53 pm rating: 5
#196
Saar
Lol! I am vegan, but have never done or said anything like this.
People choose what they choose…
If you want to eat meat, that’s your choice. Haha.
Gotta say it’s very bold though.
Gutsy chick.
Jul 7, 2011 at 12:57 pm rating: 0
#197
*snerk*
Has anyone else found that all these comments about steaks, roast pig, and cheeseburgers are making you really hungry?
I seriously went out for a roast beef sandwich for lunch today, and I never get roast beef. And boy, am I looking forward to the Italian sausage on the dinner menu tonight.
Jul 7, 2011 at 1:39 pm rating: 14
#198
Frizzy
Looks like someone needs a Fridge Locker
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:01 pm rating: 1
#199
So Meaty
Wow, stupid vegan! Stop putting your beliefs on someone else! You may not eat meat, but you know what….The other has a choice on weither they want to eat meat or not.
MEAT IS MURDER….TASTY, TASTY MURDER!
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:09 pm rating: 5
#200
bored@work
I think note-writer is totally on point here. Just because you don’t agree with her beliefs doesn’t mean that she is wrong. She has a right to stand up for what she believes in and even fight for it if necessary. Someone has to make a stand or nothing will change. If you don’t have a right to exercise your beliefs in your own home, then we are lost.
Okay, okay – jes’ kidding. So how many of you started to get wound-up while reading?
Note-writer totally needs therapy with a side of bacon.
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:21 pm rating: 15
#201
Lain
Just in case anyone is interested in facts beyond our erroneous, enslaving and exploiting “beliefs” (passive-aggressive or not)… humans are anatomically and physiologically herbivore/frugivore and our meat and dairy (MAD) consumption is killing our beautiful planet and ALL her sentient beings: http://veganstreams.com/our-beliefs-meat-dairy-mad-eaters-facts-plant-based-diet/
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:32 pm rating: 2
#202
anonymous001
aaaaagh! this note is actually making me angry as I’m sitting here reading it. What a moron – she’s a total hypocrite & gives other nice non-shoving-their-beliefs-down-your-throat-vegans a bad name… please PLEASE roast her up a big fat shepard’s pie with this note baked in & force feed it to her. Seriously – if she’s got such serious issues that she can’t tolerate someone else’s groceries then she should have been more selective when advertising for a roommate.
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:35 pm rating: 4
#203
S
“Congratulations, you have just converted me to Bacotarianism!”
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:39 pm rating: 9
#204
Meggers
I find that the most effective reply to passive aggressive (mostly aggressive) morally preachy notes like this is simply a 2 line Q & A:
Q: You know who agreed with you?
A: Hitler
Then they’ll argue the veracity of the statement, and you get to watch. So fun.
Jul 7, 2011 at 2:56 pm rating: 5
#205
Ella
A good 40% of young people that are vegan are vegan because they think it makes them hip and edgy. My generation is disgusting. Remember when vegans actually had a message everyday people could respect, and PETA didn’t resort to using nudity to sell people on choosing carrots over chicken wings?
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:01 pm rating: 16
#206
Adriana
I have known a lot of fat vegetarians and vegans. I’ll just say that. It’s not inherently a healthier lifestyle, especially if you’re eating potato chips and lots of sweet foods all the time.
I’m on a low-carbohydrate diet that contains quite a bit of meat. I’ve lost a serious amount of weight and my lipids have improved. A diet rich in meat doesn’t have to be unhealthy, but if you’re breading and frying it, then it’s going to be.
I just hate when vegans try to claim the dietary upper hand. I eat bun-less burgers three times a week with cheddar cheese and I’ve never been healthier.
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:08 pm rating: 9
#207
Jackie
She’s lucky her roomate isn’t a horror film fan. Us horror film fans, are well aware of the use of rejected parts of animals in horror films. We would know how to go to a butcher, ask for that stuff, and then place it all over their room. See how they would like that, muwahahaha! If you really wanted to be mean, let the meat rot awhile then watch as they puke from the stench.
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:27 pm rating: 3
#208
porky
i’d like to meat her!!
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:36 pm rating: 4
#209
Rhi
I was eating a chicken sandwich while reading this and began to enjoy it THAT MUCH more.
Thank you for that.
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:40 pm rating: 7
#210
Lili
To me this is like the laundry note.
You don’t like to look at dead animals? Move out. You changed, she didn’t.
That said I doubt the note-writer will in fact move out. Good luck to the submitter in finding a new place.
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:58 pm rating: 6
#211
Adrian
As a vegetarian, I cringe at things like this. It makes me sad that the worst retaliation I could give is eating some cheese in front of them.
Jul 7, 2011 at 3:58 pm rating: 9
#212
Sarah Ashley
I would have immediately gone into the kitchen and started frying bacon.
Jul 7, 2011 at 4:01 pm rating: 3
#213
Yup I said it
Sounds like this girl needs to get some…meat
Jul 7, 2011 at 4:28 pm rating: 0
#214
Scible
The whole bee argument is stupid — it’s a symbiotic relationship, people! We provide them with a clean, safe place to live; they provide us with some of their honey. (They can relocate if they want — it’s not like they are chained to the hive.)
If anything, MORE people should keep bees in order to bolster the struggling bee population.
Vegans…can’t live with ‘em, and they probably taste terrible.
Jul 7, 2011 at 5:10 pm rating: 11
#215
Chesire Cat
Wow so many comments. I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian and have been since I was 14. When I first became one I would hassle people about eating meat a bit but I was 14. I got over it. Now I don’t care at all what others eat. I might get grossed out if someone ate something like veal or if I saw one of those roasted whole pigs around me but I would not say anything to them about it. I just try to excuse myself in such situations.
We are not all buttholes. I actually have cooked meat for my husband and kids. I did an okay job with chicken for not actually eating it. Its so hard to cook meat without eating it too.
This notewriter is full of it. If you don’t want to see meat, then live with other vegans or on your own. I am the only vegetarian I know right now. So what?!
Also the few full vegans I knew were crazy and assy about it. I am sure some aren’t, but the ones I have known were. The regular vegetarians though are pretty chill.
Jul 7, 2011 at 5:48 pm rating: 6
#216
Mindy
My vegan friends must simply be exceptional people. Never once have they commented about what I eat. Never once have they complained about the food I serve (I know they are vegan, I always serve vegan dishes, as well). Heck, one of them routinely goes with me to a steak house where he gets a large spinach salad with olive oil and vinegar and a bowl of steamed veggies and rice. And I know several pescatarians and vegetarians, too. The only thing that has ever been said was to my gluten free,celiac son, and it was “it must suck not to be able to eat this bread!” and he shrugged and said “that’s ok, I get to eat bacon!” Everyone laughed and that was the end of it.
Letter writer is an ass – and I suspect she is an ass about other things in her life, as well. Find a new place to live, term your lease, and get out. No one needs to put up with that.
Jul 7, 2011 at 6:06 pm rating: 22
#217
anonymouse
I am shocked, shocked, to learn eating honey is considered animal abuse.
One wonders the roommates opinion on the death penalty.
Jul 7, 2011 at 6:43 pm rating: 7
#218
Charlie Bluefish
I am a happy omnivore.
Wondering if crazy Vegan chick knows how many products contain ingredients made from animals. I’m sure she would just implode.
soap
fabric conditioner
jelly sweets, marshmellows
plastic bags (plastic is mixed with animal fat)
car tires (rubber mixed with animal fat)
tennis racket strings
harp strings
fine bone china
fireworks
hair shampoo and conditioner
toothpaste
liquid hand soap
moisturizer
sugar (bones are used in the refining process)
glue (such as used for book binding)
some buttons
some condoms
wallpaper paste
linoleum
medication
fertilisers such as blood, fish n’ bone
and probably lots more
On average 98% of an animal is used, virtually nothing is wasted.
You can’t get away from it in out modern world – animals are incredibly useful. They are hidden in everyday use.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0120dx3
Unless she goes to live in a cave and eat carrots, she’s screwed.
Jul 7, 2011 at 6:48 pm rating: 8
#219
Geek Goddess
At least meat is dead when you eat it. Would somebody please think of the vegetables??!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
Jul 7, 2011 at 7:26 pm rating: 6
#220
Guin
I love how so many omnivores in these comments are just as zealous and preachy as the note-writer but don’t even realize it because they’re all so busy patting each other on the back.
Jul 7, 2011 at 7:37 pm rating: 14
#221
Trekkmom
The only thing I can agree with is her statement that she is “disturbed”, that she most certainly is. What a loon. If I were her roommate I’d be looking for a new place asap.
Jul 7, 2011 at 8:02 pm rating: 5
#222
Korla Pundit
Does vegan know how many microbes she massacred by pressing down so hard on that piece of paper (poor tree!) with a pen? How many mites she suffocated by sitting her fat ass down to write this missive? How much dust mite poo she inhaled (exploiting helpless dust mite labor!) while she growled out the words as she wrote them? Look, even now, she’s stepping on some Air Men!
Jul 7, 2011 at 9:18 pm rating: 7
#223
Selphie
haha this entry would have more than 400 comments.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:20 pm rating: 2
#224
Ben
This note gives us a bad name. I’m a vegan because that’s how I want to eat. I’m not comfortable with the condition of the living space, food, drugs, etc of the animals bred for these purposes. That’s my own feeling. Eat whatever you want. If you know where your food comes from and you have no problem with it, then eat whatever you want. It’s the clichéd, vocal 1% of vegan douchebags that give them a bad name.
I’ve never been at a party and complained about the lack of stuff I can eat. It was my decision to have this diet, so I’ll eat my plate of green beans. I don’t get mad at people eating meat. The only time I even bring up my diet is when someone says the diet is unhealthy or doesn’t provide protein (cue me listing 10-20 protein rich foods I eat all the time), or when someone says that it’s crazy not to eat x, y, or z (cue me describing the extensive research I did before coming to my decision, purposely leaving out gory details in favor of less bombastic facts). That conversation comes up once or twice a year.
I don’t care what you eat as long as you don’t assume I’m crazy and you’re sane because of what you eat.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:26 pm rating: 16
#225
Alyssa
I follow a mostly vegan diet and share my recipes and food with others to encourage people to give it a try, but this letter from this newly vegan chick has me seeing red. Assholes like her just set veganism back 2,000 light years and help to uphold negative stereotypes. She should be ashamed.
Jul 7, 2011 at 10:45 pm rating: 7
#226
DL
The Omnivore should cook up a Turducken. Her vegan roommate wouldn’t stay in an apartment where a turkey stuffed with duck (who is stuffed with chicken) had been served. End of story.
Jul 7, 2011 at 11:08 pm rating: 3
#227
Jay
Yeah, what a jerk. I was vegan for a few years and was NEVER like that. Most of them are pricks. I think it’s lack of B vitamins and Omega’s that rots their brain and turns them into huge a-holes.
Seriously though, lacking those nutrients can cause/trigger mood disorders.
Jul 7, 2011 at 11:46 pm rating: 4
#228
Becca
I EAT VEGANS FOR BREAKFAST
Jul 8, 2011 at 12:13 am rating: 2
#229
Lucie
Dear Vegan roommate,
You’re NOT MY MOM. I’ll eat what I want thank you very much. kthanxbai
Jul 8, 2011 at 2:13 am rating: 5
#230
Mrs.Beasley
Jesus H. Christ on a cracker, what mad narrative is this?? Praise the Lord and pass the Xanax!
Jul 8, 2011 at 4:01 am rating: 3
#231
bl00per
You want me to be a vegan, you’d better explain to me why there are so many carnivorous and omnivorous species other than humans. And as for the living conditions of animals bred for food, I know they can be appalling. I’m careful about where I get my meat from for this reason. Wanting the animals to live a good life is all well and good, but I’m only going to go as far as ensuring they’re comfortable until they meet the delicious, meaty death that most of them would inevitably face against predators in the wild anyway. Nature provides, I consume. In the most thoughtful way possible, of course >=)
Jul 8, 2011 at 6:56 am rating: 2
#232
Dr Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff
It’s the whole “I won’t allow these kinds of foods in our house” thing that gets me. If she’s (this can only be a woman) that uncomfortable, she should move out and go and live with her own kind where she can be happy.
Jul 8, 2011 at 7:26 am rating: 5
#233
Jimi
This note did nothing but make me angry. Seriously, who are you to tell me what i can eat. F*!# off, and go eat your plants.
Jul 8, 2011 at 8:16 am rating: 3
#234
Boiing
I’d put a beehive in the chick’s room, tell her how sweet her note was and ask her if she’d like a blood sausage for supper.
Jul 8, 2011 at 9:49 am rating: 0
#235
speachless
I don’t even know where to start! This chick is C-R-A-Z-Y! What gives her the right to dictate what her roommate, who pays half the bills, brings into the house or puts in his body? Time for a new living arrangement before she superglues his mouth closed in the middle of the night as a protest against his obviously heathen meat eating ways.
Jul 8, 2011 at 9:57 am rating: 3
#236
OrangeXenon54
Wow. What a fucking bitch. I would totally kick her out/move out/call social services on her. I guess eating animal products is the same as child abuse. Fuck you.
Jul 8, 2011 at 10:14 am rating: 0
#237
-k-
Wow, what a douche!
Jul 8, 2011 at 10:15 am rating: 0
#238
Alan
Hi, my name’s Alan, and one time I cooked dinner for a vegan only for her to tell me in a snotty voice that she didn’t eat Quorn cos it has dairy in it.
I mean, I thought I’d done all the right things by buying that shitty stuff and I still didn’t win. On top of that, it turned out that it was a ‘friendship date’ so no sex either.
Needless to say, I didn’t cook for her again…
That’s my story, I hope you liked it.
Jul 8, 2011 at 10:59 am rating: 4
#239
Elyn
The internal logic of the note doesn’t even make sense. “What you are doing is like child abuse. . . the least you could do is not do it in front of me.”
What?
Jul 8, 2011 at 11:03 am rating: 18
#240
ClAllen
Does this vegan realize, that if bees do not polinate the vegis THERE WOULDN’T BE ANY VEGIS FOR THEM TO EAT !!! Get with the cycle, that’s 6th grade life science!!!
Jul 8, 2011 at 11:07 am rating: 8
#241
sbaimee
Why does a vegan need a refrigerator? I’d just pad lock the thing.
Jul 8, 2011 at 11:31 am rating: 5
#242
Tiam
“Selfishness is not wishing as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde
Jul 8, 2011 at 12:00 pm rating: 14
#243
Fred
After giving much thought to the matter, my sincere, heartfelt response would be, “MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS YOU VEGETABLE EATING ASSHOLE.”
Jul 8, 2011 at 1:19 pm rating: 11
#244
Indeed
How ironic that the same vegans crying about humane treatment of animals don’t seem to care about the exlpoitation and inhumane treatment experienced by the illegal immigrants who pick all their “non-animal food products”…..
Jul 8, 2011 at 1:57 pm rating: 17
#245
insectchin
I’d tell her to shove her vegan brownies up her ass.
Jul 8, 2011 at 2:07 pm rating: 3
#246
Turkey Vulture
God, I fucking HATE vegans. I hope the submitter from Brooklyn called her room mate out on her stupid bullshit and then told her to go find a hippie commune to live on.
What an entitled, small-minded c*nt.
Jul 8, 2011 at 4:26 pm rating: 5
#247
Turkey Vulture
Daniforest, I totally agree with you here:
“Animals are not meat-machines. They are living, breathing, sensing beings. Ask any pet-owner — this is not a philosophy, belief system, or debatable issue. Thus, wasting their meat, and raising them in torturous conditions is wrong and reprehensible. It’s not ok, nor is it a “lifestyle choice.” ”
I eat meat, but I eat only meat and other animal products which I know were raised humanely (as in, I know the farmers who raised the animals, I know they were butchered on-site and not shipped to slaughterhouses.
I feel VERY strongly about not treating animals like non-sentient, unfeeling production units. It’s fucked up to do that to living things.
But if you and a room mate move in during May when you are still consuming animal products, and if you say in May that you’re okay with your room mate being an omnivore and not supporting humane farming like you do, then you are totally outside the realm of reason to say in December that they have to change their philosophy as you have or GTFO. It’s just wrong. It’s disrespectful and unreasonable.
The note-writer is an unreasonable bitch because she’s being bitchy and unreasonable, not because she’s a vegan.
Although, vegans still annoy the shit out of me.
Jul 8, 2011 at 4:32 pm rating: 6
#248
Michael
Clearly this chick is a nut job but that is no reason to insult vegans or veganism. Just like it would be wrong to say all gays are nut jobs because you know this one messed up gay person. You haters should all be ashamed of your behaviour.
Jul 8, 2011 at 4:51 pm rating: 5
#249
Jessica_Iowa
While I find changing the rules mid stream appalling. What most bothers me is that the note was left on the bedside table. I don’t know what kind of relationship they had before but I’d never let any roommate into my room without me.
Jul 8, 2011 at 5:30 pm rating: 8
#250
kimbo
as a vegan i have to say, i can’t stand vegans. especially those who author notes such as these. really lady? so freaking pretentious!
this is why i only have one vegan friend. most of us are ca-razy!
Jul 9, 2011 at 12:14 am rating: 4
#251
Get on your bikes and ride
If I were the submitter, by the time I got to the last sentence of this note I would definitely be thinking about “changing my diet”. To cannibalism.
Jul 9, 2011 at 1:20 am rating: 11
#252
Meri
WOW! Since when did eating meat become ILLEGAL?? LOL. I am a vegetarian and my fiance is not. We are both very respectful of each others choices and eating habits. He handles and cooks the meat products (which I am not opposed to picking up for him at the store, as I do the grocery shopping). I will not touch or eat the meat but I can have it in the house and I can watch him eat it. Doesn’t bother me one bit. This girl who wrote the letter needs a swift kick out of the apartment.
Jul 9, 2011 at 1:46 am rating: 6
#253
66scarylion44
I was an asshole vegetarian, so my friends held an intervention with bacon for me. I am no longer an asshole vegetarian (!) but I still don’t eat cow.
The only species of meat
I will never, ever eat
Is the calf and the cow
Because they won’t chow
On me whenever we meet.
Jul 9, 2011 at 2:06 am rating: 6
#254
Anon
Tsk tsk. See how quickly the vegan brain degenerates when it doesn’t get enough protein?
Jul 9, 2011 at 2:32 am rating: 7
#255
mike
Ask her if she is pro-choice or pro-life. If she says pro-choice, then snap into a slim jim and tell her to shut the hell up.
Jul 9, 2011 at 3:00 am rating: 5
#256
Annie
Everyone, anyone who eats anything – please read ‘the Vegetarian Myth’ by Lierre Keith
http://www.lierrekeith.com/vegmyth.htm
It is such an important book.
Jul 9, 2011 at 3:15 am rating: 2
#257
COOOSTANZA
i seriously can’t believe she compared keeping meat around the house to ignoring child abuse. what a stupid bitch.
Jul 9, 2011 at 6:13 am rating: 4
#258
john
I’m vegan, and this person’s problem isn’t their veganism, its that they are an a-hole.
Jul 9, 2011 at 6:17 am rating: 16
#259
Melonia
I am a vegan. The note still made me angry, because those people give “normal” vegans a bad reputation. Peopele should eat what they think is good to eat. When I’m eating with all my non-vegan-friends, I let them eat whatever they want. I try to accept them. Sadly most people don’t accept the way I’m eating. Don’t you think it’s a bit hypocritical to expect vegans to never comment on your eating habits, but always comment on theirs? Eating big amounts of meat in front of a vegan just to provocate them isn’t the nicest behaviour…
Jul 9, 2011 at 8:28 am rating: 4
#260
The Elf
Is this the most popular PAN on the site? I have never seen so many comments! It must be the trifecta of entitlement, dickishness, and sanctimony that does it.
Jul 9, 2011 at 9:08 am rating: 12
#261
tBoy
The cure – gouge her eyes out.
Jul 9, 2011 at 10:17 am rating: 0
#262
Amy
I think that the only sensible compromise would be to ban any and all food from the apartment.
That, or someone moves out.
Jul 9, 2011 at 11:07 am rating: 10
#263
the_accomplice
WHAT THE FUCK!? O_O
i hope she has been eating meat all over the house..
YOU BITCHY VEGAN!
Jul 10, 2011 at 1:51 pm rating: 2
#264
fifilafou
That’s a lot of outrage. I’d be keeping a daily meat inventory.
Jul 10, 2011 at 1:54 pm rating: 2
#265
Bayo
I am a vegetarian and this really fucks me off. Mostly because I’ve been there and lived with a vegan like this. Vegans are the most intolerant people I’ve ever met, along with religous fanatics. I’m so sick of people trying to shove that kind of thing down my throat and change me. I don’t force you to eat eggs and dairy and meat, so don’t force me to eat your cheese made entirely of non-dairy plastic and your fake meat made of god knows what. What annoys me the most is how ignorant they are – like my ex flatmate who’s vegan – once asked me why they say “Dairy free” on packs but then contain eggs. (Clearly because they’re designed for lactose intolerants not vegans) But the reason she asked this was because she though eggs were dairy!!! WTF!! If you’re going to make a life choice like that and force others to follow it then at least know what you’re talking about. I couldn’t get out of my lease and neither could she until it was up so I just tried to stay away from her. But if she’d written me a note like this I would have written her one back saying, “If you’re so bothered by my methods of survival YOU can move.” [/rant]
Jul 10, 2011 at 4:37 pm rating: 13
#266
Megan
Wow, I expected this to be bad as soon as the writer was identified as a former ‘lacto ovo vegetarian’. Or, in laymen’s terms, a vegetarian. Lacto ovo means they eat milk products and eggs, and is a completely unnecessary to add on as *that’s what everyone already assumes about a vegetarian.*
I have yet to meet someone who describes themselves like this, as the crazy roommate must have several times to get the submitter to phrase it that way, who wasn’t full of it.
The note itself was horrible, especially how the writer doesn’t phrase anything as a (passively aggressive) suggestion, but blatantly tells the omnivore roommate that she/he can no longer have non-vegan foods in the house, etc.
Jul 10, 2011 at 7:03 pm rating: 5
#267
Brandi
I’m a vegan, and I do not understand why so many vegans get their panties in a wad about what other people eat. There’s no need to be an ass about it; everyone just eat what you eat and go on with it! Both of my roommates are meat eaters, and I don’t care. My diet is MY choice, just as their diets are THEIRS. Why can’t everyone just mind their own business??
Jul 10, 2011 at 8:02 pm rating: 12
#268
Penny
I was the submitter of this note. Since I see that a lot of you want to know what happened after I read this, I’ll say fill you in.
My roommate is actually a bit of a coward in face-to-face conversations. I confronted her and let her know that I had no intentions of following her demands, especially since she doesn’t own our apartment (neither of us does). She backed down pretty fast.
This also happened at a very convenient time. I got this note like a week ago, if I recall correctly, and I’m currently on a two-week vacation with my relatives in Jersey.
I’m actually moving out in September. I’d been planning on moving for a while now. I’ve always managed to become friends with the roommates I’ve had before this, but me and this girl just never clicked. I got an offer to move in with one of my friends even before I received this, and I’m taking it.
That’s pretty much it!
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:09 pm rating: 120
#269
Callyn
Ugh. I’m going through this with a friend of mine right now. We’ve been friends for the better part of 20 years, and about 6 months ago she decided she wants to be a vegetarian. It threw me for a loop, but I’ve done my best to support her any way I know how, I’ve learned to make some vegetarian dishes for when it’s my turn to host girls’ night, and I’ve been on the lookout for new vegetarian offerings at restaurants. And I NEVER make plans to go somewhere that doesn’t offer actual vegetarian MEALS (not just a pithy offering of a few leafy greens).
Lately though, she’s been pressuring me to give up meat myself. It’s especially hard for me because I’m on the carnivore end of the omni spectrum, and I really (outside of carrots) cannot stand the taste of vegetables (I can choke down a salad if that’s my only option, but it’s not my first choice). It started out with her lecturing me about where meat comes from, how animals are treated, etc. In the past 6 weeks or so it’s escalated to an all-out assault on my diet. When I went to her and her new fiancee’s housewarming party it was vegetarian-only, and not wanting to be rude, I sampled some food. I didn’t like it (it tasted horrible!), and I couldn’t force it down, she took it as a personal insult even though she KNOWS and has known for many years that I cannot stomach vegetables. The past few weeks when we’ve gone out to eat, it’s been to vegetarian-only restaurants. I’ve gone along to enjoy her company, but she gets pissed off that I won’t pay for food that I don’t want to eat.
I thought I was doing the good friend thing by being supportive. I have a VERY difficult time with food and I know what it’s like to be hounded constantly about what you eat. Now I feel like someone who’s known me long enough to know better is turning the tables on me. If we hadn’t had a long-standing friendship I would have walked away by now.
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:15 pm rating: 28
#270
Meghan
I just blogged about this note here: http://meghantheveghan.blogspot.com/2011/07/see-this-is-why-people-hate-vegans.html?spref=fb
I’m a vegan and it’s upsetting to me when one intolerant, demanding vegan is seen as representing us all! My roommates are omnivores and we get along famously.
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:22 pm rating: 25
#271
Lynne
So, you’re supposed to tolerate her diet and even conform? I bet if you instructed her that eating meat would make her look and feel better she’d be pissed. Glad you get to move out from that place and from her!
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:28 pm rating: 6
#272
Blackie
I printed out the letter and pissed on it
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:43 pm rating: 10
#273
Diggerjohn111
I would have used the note to light an hibachi with steaks on it, taped it and e-mailed it to her.
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:44 pm rating: 2
#274
Ben
This isn’t even really an issue of veganism. Its an issue of arrogance, self-righteousness, and evangelism. Now you know how non-Christians feel about Missionaries.
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:46 pm rating: 33
#275
Patrick
What’s worse is that every single omnivore here is a perfect example of why some vegans are so uptight. Yes, threaten to smear eggs on our walls. So mature fellas. I mean, come on.
And most importantly, you have no idea what their relationship was like prior to this letter. You happily assume things because you’re taking one for the team. That is no better.
Jul 10, 2011 at 10:01 pm rating: 4
#276
person
You should print out these comments & leave them on her bed for her!
Jul 10, 2011 at 10:04 pm rating: 2
#277
Jake
I’m a vegan and this note is stupid. When I’ve lived with other diets we simply laid out ground rules at the start. I don’t clean your animal dishes and please make sure there are pots and pans to be used. I clean extra dishes to make up for the fact. Don’t put your food in mine, I won’t touch most of yours anyway. Finally, if you wave it in my face I will shit in your pillow. Don’t be passive aggressive about it, be upfront and set out rules. This gives us all a bad name.
Jul 10, 2011 at 10:09 pm rating: 8
#278
Dawn
I’d just buy this t-shirt
http://www.threadless.com/product/490/Meat_is_murder_Tasty_tasty_murder/tab,guys/style,shirt
Jul 10, 2011 at 10:42 pm rating: 1
#279
Penny
I have one other thing to add:
I visited the Facebook page for this website and noticed that some people were questioning the legitimacy of this letter. I’ll reply to them here because replying on FB would reveal my full name and what I look like.
All I can say is: it’s real.
I didn’t even know this website existed until the day I sent it in. I googled “replying to a passive aggressive note” and this site was one of the first results. After reading it for a while, I obviously had to send this in. How could I not?
Edit: Never mind, I just realized I was looking at the wrong post.
Jul 10, 2011 at 10:51 pm rating: 16
#280
Baconsplatterz
This article made me hungry for cow. I will go eat cow now. Mmm… cow. I should probably kill it first, it’s giving me a funny look as I bite into it. It actually tastes like soft, weird fur, but I’m sure it’s better on the inside.
Ok, that’s better, I stabbed it in the eyeball and slit it’s throat. Made one hell of a mess, but I can see red now in the holes I’ve made, that must be where the juicy NOM NOM stuff is.
Yup, confirmed people! The cow bits inside TASTE BETTER than the fur on the outside. I can’t believe it, I seriously didn’t think this would be the case.
The cow seems to be a little pissed at me for making all these holes in it though, and taking 50% of it’s vision. But…it’s a cow right? Last I checked, they had no rights. Us humans rule the earth, so therefore I feel I am within my right to carve a large Nike “swoosh” symbol into the side of it.
DONE! The symbol looks AMAZING. Nike should pay me for this.
OH CRAP…the cow finally fell. Either from massive blood loss or maybe it’s just tired because … well, it’s a cow. They do that – get tired.
I kicked it, it twitched, so bloody inner-juices must still be flowing somewhat, well, except for what’s now on the outside.
Great, now my cat wants a nibble. Stupid cat.
Ok, for some reason now, it’s tongue is hanging out like someone shot it. WTF? Are cows supposed to do that? Maybe it’s just asleep.
Nope, it’s dead. Deliciously dead.
I don’t often eat cow, but when I do …. I prefer Dos Bovine. Stay hungry my friends.
Jul 10, 2011 at 10:51 pm rating: 3
#281
Drew Curtis
I farted.
Jul 10, 2011 at 11:40 pm rating: 0
#282
Darth Val
As a tolerant vegetarian of ten years, I have to agree a little with both sides. If all the submitter was doing was simply keeping animal products in the fridge and house, then yeah, her roommate is an idiot and needs to calm the f down. Even though being a vegetarian is extremely important to me, I never expected anyone around me to feel the same way I did about it or change their lifestyle to accomodate me. I never argue with anyone about their eating habits unless they’re trying to start something with me first.
On the other hand, omnivores are frequently immature asses to vegetarians and vegans- making fun of us, flaunting their meat eating in our faces, etc, so I understand why some can get a tad defensive. EVERYONE needs to respect each others’ personal choices.
Jul 10, 2011 at 11:40 pm rating: 10
#283
Valiant
I had a roomate a few years ago who told me he was a vegan. He made sure to share this with me the day I moved in, and then he never mentioned it again, so it didn’t bother me. Then one day I came into the kitchen and he was making a protien shake with whey powder. I asked him when he gave up the vegan thing. He didn’t know what I was talking about. It turned out the healthfood store clerk who started him out with the vegan thing told him it was “soy whey”. Once he found out the truth about that, he started looking into the B12 issue and the problems with getting all the essential amino acids from purely plant sources. He came to the conclusion (rightly) that humans are supposed to be omnivores. He didn’t go back to being a regular vegetarian though, he had a bacon cheeseburger.
Jul 11, 2011 at 12:30 am rating: 4
#284
Zamiel
Every time a vegan eats a piece of fruit, or a vegetable, or a grain product, they are eating BILLIONS of tiny animals. Every time they scratch, bathe, step, or roll over in bed, they are killing BILLIONS or TRILLIONS of these tiny animals. Microscopic they may be, but they’re just as alive as the cute chicken, fish, or bees they seek to protect with their veganism.
So just how big does an animal have to be before these hypocrites decide they’re worth saving? Obviously, they care about simple, nearly-brainless creatures like bees, clams, fish, and lobsters. What about planarians, mites, copepods, tardigrades and nematodes? If you say that a bee is worth saving, but a mite is not, then you’re a damned hypocrite… And if you say they ARE worth saving, you’re still a hypocrite because you kill billions of them all the time.
A vegan– or any human– honestly cannot exist without killing animals. Eat a carrot, kill a billion microscopic animals, hundreds of larger animals in the harvesting, and even a few mice, rabbits, and other creatures. Eat tofu, kill a trillion animals. You really can’t eat anything that does not have an animal death-toll.
SO HOW BIG DOES AN ANIMAL HAVE TO BE FOR A VEGAN TO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IT?
Answer that question, you smarmy bitch.
Jul 11, 2011 at 1:20 am rating: 9
#285
Loribl
Let’s really mess with her. Vegetables are often the VEGETABLE’S BABIES! Sooo, she’s killing the veggies’ little ones. Oh boy…this oughta be good…
Jul 11, 2011 at 1:27 am rating: 1
#286
anon
I thought this was passive aggressive NOTES. not passive aggressive ESSAYS?
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:07 am rating: 3
#287
Mark
I bet she smells funny, most vegens do. Also, the fact that she is so hypocritical in not respecting your dietary needs is ridiculous. It’s typical stupid logic and lack of awareness by a vegen that makes them impose their radical ways on us. We are, by genetic design, omnivores. If I got that note, I would leave chunks of ground beef all over the apartment. What a hypocrite bitch.
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:12 am rating: 2
#288
KlaatuWolf
My question is, if tofu is so great and such a staple of the vegan diet, why do they spend so much time making it taste like meat?
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:19 am rating: 18
#289
pony girl
Bad eat you!
or something like that
Jul 11, 2011 at 3:13 am rating: 2
#290
Ruth
Being a vegan myself I understand where she is coming from and I agree with SOME of her logic. However, I think it is unfair and wrong of her to try and push her beliefs on someone else. I don’t mind people eating meat, it is their choice to do that just as it is mine to not eat meat. If it weren’t for meat eaters some of the animals eaten would probably be extinct.
Jul 11, 2011 at 3:56 am rating: 1
#291
Nahhh
I hear the broccoli screaming!
Jul 11, 2011 at 6:16 am rating: 4
#292
bob hoska
You should use the pages to wrap some meat.
Jul 11, 2011 at 7:26 am rating: 0
#293
The Master of Awesomeness
I like the part where this self righteous prick accuses him of not respecting her feelings, whilst simultaneously not respecting his.
Brilliant.
Jul 11, 2011 at 7:33 am rating: 4
#294
OctoFools
I love how the vegan/vegetarian/octolascivious whatevers commenting here have so expertly and unintentionally proved “our” point – that you’re all nutrient starved intolerant assholes who would be happier if you ate more bacon. REALLY. I’ve never known a happy veggo whatever – they are to a ONE nasty, judgmental, spacey, incompetent and unable to focus at work (lack of meat seems to be a big cause of being ungrounded and ADD, I’ve observed.)
So keep it coming! It’s fun seeing the inmates try to run the asylum.
*chews on some bacon*
Jul 11, 2011 at 8:25 am rating: 2
#295
blahblah78
So she’s more concerned about frickin’ bees than being a self-righteous d-bag to her fellow human beings?
Jul 11, 2011 at 8:40 am rating: 3
#296
Rose
Oh my, this is very disturbing. I understand where the vegan roommate is coming from as I am a vegan myself. But she could have done this in a less aggressive way and been more civil about it.
If anything she should have talked w/her roommate in person and not insulted her in any fashion, and simply expressed that she is uncomfortable with animal products. Making someone out to be an idiot for their life choices is terrible regardless of what they are.
I really hope both of these people have worked out their problems, especially the one who has decided to go vegan. Despite the world we live in, she has to understand that not everyone is going to abide by veganism and she does have to get used to it.
Jul 11, 2011 at 10:58 am rating: 1
#297
Cliff
What’s her issue with honey? Bees are gonna make that regardless and it doesn’t hurt the bees
Jul 11, 2011 at 11:07 am rating: 3
#298
Serax
Having meat in the apartment/fridge is equated to ignoring child abuse from a next door neighbor?
Just f-ing wow.
Jul 11, 2011 at 11:45 am rating: 3
#299
yaz
Can we take turns slapping this bitch around? Just for fun?
Jul 11, 2011 at 11:55 am rating: 0
#300
Cuvis
Leave a note back to your roommate with two sentences:
“I am going to continue eating the way I have always eaten. If you are suddenly uncomfortable with this, you know where the door is.”
Jul 11, 2011 at 12:07 pm rating: 8
#301
Cate
I guess she doesn’t like soy either, because when they plow fields for soybeans, it kills millions of mice and other burrowing rodents every year.
Jul 11, 2011 at 12:59 pm rating: 2
#302
Corona
If it were me I’d remind the vegan that humans taste like pork and I just ran out of bubble gum.
Jul 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm rating: 1
#303
ilikecheese
Dear vegan, you have pointy teeth for a reason.
Jul 11, 2011 at 1:19 pm rating: 1
#304
Perri_Rhoades
I can sympathize with the letter writer. I tried going vegetarian for 2 years back in the early 80′s. It was absolutely impossible with people eating meat around me all the time.
I can state from experience that the biggest drawback to trying to live a moral life in human society is that practically no one in your life will have enough respect for the statement you’re trying to make to support you.
What this person is dealing with is peanuts compared to what I had to put up with. At least she never opened her freezer door to find tinfoil wrapped objects marked “Deer meat,” freshly killed by her own brother.
I suspect that, if Vegans seem insane or insensitive, this is probably a big reason for it. It’s the nearly unresolvable conflict generated by watching the people you love doing what seem to be atrocious and unconscionable things. While at the same time, their friends and loved ones don’t see any reason why they should care about what they’re doing to the unfortunate idealist in their life.
It’s also a common problem for anyone trying to diet for any kind of reason. I’ve had to put up with this as well. “So what if your doctor has put you under the gun to diet or die? Where do you get off even suggesting I shouldn’t be filling the house with ice cream and cookies, and eating them in your face every minute of the day?”
And when you ask them to stop, because your life is literally on the line, “How dare you be so insensitive as to even suggest I change my eating habits to help you diet? You’re some kind of lunatic for suggesting I’m killing you by not letting you control the kinds of food that come into the house.”
So, here’s this wanna-be Vegan, struggling against the best efforts of society to make a moral statement, with her room-mate wasting no opportunity to throw temptation and mockery in her face at every possible turn.
She’s tried to tolerate this for who knows how long, and finally she snaps – she can’t take it anymore. So she lays down the law in a note so there’ll be no misunderstanding. And what does the room-mate do? He/she puts the note on the internet, holding note writer up to the world for ridicule.
If I was the writer of this note, the person I wrote it to would now so be homeless. After all, I can not think of a more clear way of telling the writer of this note, “I don’t love you or give a damn about anything that’s important to you. And you’re not worth 10 seconds of my time to even think about supporting your efforts to live by what you believe in.” And I can just see the room-mate taking a big chomp out of a fried chicken leg at the end of that statement for emphasis.
Basically, the writer of this note has a choice, make a stand or be corrupted. I chose to be corrupted. And I’ve had to live my whole life with that shame. More power to the note writer if she’s got the stuff to kick this loser out of her life and live by her beliefs.
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:06 pm rating: 0
#305
kenkosky
Eat Her…….See If She taste Like chicken,or Fish !
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:13 pm rating: 1
#306
Dball213
Carnivore roommate better be careful of those special vegan powers.
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:31 pm rating: 1
#307
Rush
I’d have made a point to make sure that I had a burger, steak and 15 slim-jims in front of me, reading that note when the roomie came home one day, and then proceeded to LAUGH my ASS OFF
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:50 pm rating: 1
#308
Charlie
She/he is a nut. I live with a vegetarian and whilst she isn’t a full on pain in the arse, she is still a pain in the arse. Why do these fuckwits think that their life decisions should be imposed on everyone else? My advice, find somewhere else to live and most of all do not bother to get into an argument with her. As they say never get into an argument with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Jul 11, 2011 at 2:50 pm rating: 3
#309
Paul
If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?
Jul 11, 2011 at 3:31 pm rating: 1
#310
esurio
A hundred bucks says she’s pro-abortion.
Jul 11, 2011 at 3:33 pm rating: 13
#311
el
Why are people still commenting on this? Why do we need to vegan-bash all week long? If you’re so concerned about vegans shutting the hell up about omnis, then please, omnis, leave vegans alone.
Jul 11, 2011 at 3:54 pm rating: 4
#312
kingston
Maybe you should stop eating meat and start eating vegans.
Jul 11, 2011 at 3:57 pm rating: 0
#313
Bitch please
You’re an idiot.
What makes you assume that the roommate was flaunting meat around the vegan? The omni can eat whatever the fuck she wants. If the vegan is “tempted” by simply seeing someone have a different diet that’s her own fucking problem.
What a joke.
If I met someone like you or the roommate, I’d punch you in the face so hard you’d still be black and blue a year later.
An good luck trying to evict someone based on these grounds. Seriously you’d get completely dismissed by the police and courts. The bitch who wrote this letter has no right to “lay down the law” of someone else’s eating habits and deserves to be mocked.
Jul 11, 2011 at 4:47 pm rating: 10
#314
Caroline
To be fair, I don’t think Spam counts as meat
Jul 11, 2011 at 4:48 pm rating: 5
#315
Uli
Dear vegans, nuts are unborn trees. Ever thought about that?
Jul 11, 2011 at 4:51 pm rating: 6
#316
Zaphod
Have the bitch arrested for going into your room without your permission. What an insufferable liberal dumb ass you have to live with. If you have an outdoor space I’d start grilling veal on Saturdays… and bacon and eggs for breakfast every morning you can make time to cook it. She need to go find another nut job to live with.
Jul 11, 2011 at 4:58 pm rating: 1
#317
John Galt
As a lacto-vegetarian, I will apologize on behalf of her. Honestly, I enjoy my diet, but it’s not for everyone, and I can accept that.
And yes, I can still pay for my sister’s birthday dinner at a seafood place, thank you very much.
Jul 11, 2011 at 4:59 pm rating: 4
#318
Zaphod
On a serious note…. I did live with a Vegan once. She wasn’t like this wack job, but she did start to loose her mind and all muscle mass after a while. She would cry for no reason, and couldn’t carry a bag of groceries from the car into the house. It was sad as she was always just a beautiful girl I had known growing up. She moved in for a few months after my buddy… who married her…. got a job in another state. I was amazed when I saw her again a year or so later. She had stopped the vegan BS and started eating a normal omnivore kind of diet again. She looked terrific… and she was once again herself. Not the feeble minded wack job she had turned into. BTW…. I’m now watching another old girlfriend go the same route. She is always sick…. go figure.
Jul 11, 2011 at 5:07 pm rating: 5
#319
Cretinous
If Vegetarians/Vegans like animals so much; why do they eat all of their food?
Jul 11, 2011 at 5:23 pm rating: 10
#320
Hannah
I think this sums it up nicely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKTsWjbjQ8E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Jul 11, 2011 at 5:56 pm rating: 1
#321
StanBowles
She is offended by your use of honey.
Superb….I only wish I had a flatmate like that.
Endless fun.
Jul 11, 2011 at 6:18 pm rating: 1
#322
Hahahahaha
I would start using bacon scented air freshener.
Jul 11, 2011 at 7:33 pm rating: 3
#323
jay
Tell her that all the animals of the grain fields don’t always escape the harvester.
Jul 11, 2011 at 7:38 pm rating: 4
#324
Chaz
Wow…if this had been written to me…I’d go out to a butcher who sold sides of beef and turned the living room into a god damn meat locker.
Where the hell do vegans get off thinking they are so much superior to the rest of the world? I’m not saying all vegans are uppity assholes…but a majority of them are pretty righteous about their diets. One wonders if these people were sick on the days we learned that humans are by design omnivores (if we were meant to eat only plants we wouldn’t have canine teeth).
This note is just too much…makes me wish the Vegan Police from Scott Pilgrim were around…so when she slips up just once they could be all over her dumb ass.
Jul 11, 2011 at 7:45 pm rating: 2
#325
Dena Wilson
This is why I hate people. Just because you’re a vegan/vegetarian doesn’t mean you’re healthy lol. People like this are stupid and should be treated with “special” care. And what does child abuse have to do with eating meat? Seriously? -sigh- I would torture her until she moved out lol.
Jul 11, 2011 at 8:24 pm rating: 2
#326
Tina
Wow! Way to make vegetarians and vegans look bad. I’m a vegetarian on my way to veganism and I care about animal rights and I try to inform others (if they ask or if they’re lecturing me on not eating meat) but honestly if they don’t care then I’m not going to force my morals, opinions, and beliefs on them. In the same way that I hate when religious people tell me I shouldn’t be athiest. I would never in a million years tell someone they had to keep animal products out of their home! What a bitch move that she would say she’s not tolerating animal products in their house anymore. Move in with another vegan then you dumb ass. Stop giving fellow veg people a bad name. Fuck!
Jul 11, 2011 at 11:46 pm rating: 3
#327
GirlyTomboy
So lemme get this straight…the whacko LW wants her roomie to join her in vegan-land…so they can both quit exploiting animals and instead start exploiting all the humans who spend 8-12 hours every day bent over, walking up and down rows in fields weeding their organic veggies; and give up wearing leather because animals are dying so they can start wearing pleather – made from oil, over which people fight wars and die.
Let’s see – I eat meat/wear leather at the risk animals; or I eat vegan/wear pleather at the expense of humans.
Sounds like a no-brainer to me
Jul 11, 2011 at 11:59 pm rating: 4
#328
dysfunctionalbachelor
lol.
I would have nailed a raw sirloin steak to her door.
Jul 12, 2011 at 1:57 am rating: 1
#329
Fridayweed
Just sub vegan for vegetarian:
Vegetarians are cruel, unthinking people.
Everybody knows that a carrot screams when grated.
That a peach bleeds when torn apart.
Do you believe an orange insensitive
to thumbs gouging out its flesh?
That tomatoes spill their brains painlessly?
Potatoes, skinned alive and boiled,
the soil’s little lobsters.
Don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt
when peas are ripped from the scrotum,
the hide flayed off sprouts,
cabbage shredded, onions beheaded.
Throw in the trowel
and lay down the hoe.
Mow no more
Let my people go!
- Roger McGough
Jul 12, 2011 at 5:18 am rating: 7
#330
vegedarian
alright, I’m a vegetarian and I know for a fact that you cannot have “great-tasting vegan food”. Vegetarian meat sucks. It’s probably worse than actually eating an animals carcass.
Jul 12, 2011 at 10:12 am rating: 2
#331
Rufus T. Firefly
I have a simple solution: the vegan pays the full rent and the other roommate doesn’t bring meat/dairy/honey etc. into the house.
If she’s not “allowing” the items in the house, then she should definitely be paying 100% of the rent.
PROBLEM SOLVED.
Jul 12, 2011 at 12:55 pm rating: 5
#332
Perri_Rhoades
@Rattus and various others.
Most people are weak willed when it comes to any kind of dramatic shift in diet, or beating any other kind of addiction for that matter.
While some people may just be arrogant about their views, most people who ask you not to bring something into the house are trying to beat an addiction, and if you show no sympathy or concern, you’re not helping.
Many here have shown indignation at being asked to help. Well, if you care nothing for the person who’s asking, fine. You can simply leave, or kick the person out if you happen to own the place.
But, if you’re a family member, or someone who is otherwise supposed to love and care about the person who’s asking, you are indeed under an obligation to care and be supportive.
Every human being with a conscience is not a rock of strength. Everyone trying to learn how to do something and get secure enough in it that they can show greater strength has a right to feel resentful of loved ones who continuously throw obstacles for them to trip over.
It’s just not a loving way to be. Though I hardly expect 95% of the people posting here to know anything about being loving, supportive or even moderately considerate.
Be that as it may, yes, you can expect a struggling vegetarian or vegan to be under considerable mental and emotional stress, which isn’t going to make them the easiest people to live with.
Yes, you might say that makes them look pathetically weak in your eyes. But then, most people of any sense don’t measure the worth of a friend by their weakness or strength. Some very strong people judge others who are weak and in need of special care to be quite valuable as friends for various other reasons.
But someone who can’t even be bothered to care if keeping certain kinds of food in the house is emotionally or physically harmful to someone they live with is no friend, or is a poor excuse for a family member.
Looking at this note, I see a plea for help and consideration to someone who is expected to care for some reason. It looks extreme because the writer is in a desperate situation. And also because the note was written for one person with a background on the situation, not an entire internet of insensitive jerks.
What I see when I read the comments is an unbelievably large collection of insensitive people I’d never even invite into my own house for a visit. Because, as friends, well, there’s just not much friendship value in people who think friendship implies no obligation to care.
Ok, someone will probably respond to that with, what about the vegan’s obligation to care? Well, if the vegan hasn’t thrown the recipient of this note out yet, she must care very much. She’s saying they have to find a way they can live together. She’s already made a sacrifice by having this unsympathetic person in her life. Now she needs that person to make a small sacrifice.
Not filling the house with meat is not a huge thing to ask. The meat eater could eat out a lot, or in some way put the meat somewhere where the vegan isn’t constantly faced with it.
All people who share a residence have to make concessions like these. I mean, if she liked classical music and the roommate was constantly blasting death metal in her vicinity, they’d be getting along about as well as they are now. Most people in that situation quickly learn that’s what headphones were invented for.
That’s what everyone here seems to be missing about this note. She’s not complaining that her roommate eats meat as much as that he/she is loud and disrespectful about it. I think if she didn’t care she’d have thrown the person out by now, or have been looking for a better place to live. She wouldn’t be struggling to put up with a disrespectful roommate or taking the trouble to write notes that she hopes will result in some change that will allow them to go on living together.
And she’s not really asking a lot. After all, you people who think yourselves so strong could easily get by on a little meat deprivation for a friend’s sake. It’s just the excuse you need to pay more visits to your local steakhouse or buffett – or an excuse to form tighter friendships with neighbors who like to have cookouts. As a matter of fact, if you can’t have meat at home, it’s only going to make it more tasty when you get it out.
Basically, it doesn’t hurt anyone to care or be considerate of a roommate. But being inconsiderate will hurt you more than anyone, because you probably wouldn’t be there in the first place if you didn’t need your roommate for some reason. You’re the one with something to loose through your arrogant and inconsiderate ways. Keep it up. It’ll get you exactly what you deserve in the end.
Jul 12, 2011 at 1:41 pm rating: 0
#333
Myia
I am a vegan, but I actually date an omnivore. We briefly lived together when he needed a place to stay, and I let him bring in milk and meat as long as he bought it/prepared it.
The only thing I want to point out here, is someone posted “Aren’t vegans aware of the rodents/insects/ect killed in plant production?” Or something along those lines.
Most vegans (And I swear we are not all nut jobs) recognize that, just like we recognize that our cars have animal products in them. It shouldn’t stop us from still limiting our intake in our life. I am way more about limiting animal intake to take the pressure off slaughterhouses and the wasted meat industry, not some self-righteous nothing I do hurts an animal.
I also don’t buy products tested on animals or from companies that test on animals. True theory would be that most everything has been tested at animals at some point, even to simple Aloe Vera. But that doesn’t mean I should continue to support animal testing, especially with viable options now available and ESPECIALLY on cosmetics.
In the same breath, I practice natural health, but if I get Cancer, I am not going to reject chemotherapy (tested on animals) or other options.
Jul 12, 2011 at 1:53 pm rating: 18
#334
Bubba
I seriously hate New York transplants. I hate hipsters and I hate vegans like this. Animals were put on this earth to feed humans. It’s simple biology. We consume what is around to feed us. I understand the “nobility” of being vegan but this is ridiculous. If this was religious and she was Christian and you were Jewish – would she not want any evidence of your beliefs? I’m a lifer New Yorker, born in Queens – We BBQ in our backyards when it’s summer and eat Deli sandwiches all GD day. F new brooklynites, F veganism F hipsters F my morning jacket F the fact that FTW means for the win and not F*** the world! We need to bring back the old school New York attitude as ignorant as it may be! Who’s with me!?
Jul 12, 2011 at 6:42 pm rating: 5
#335
anne
These militant, self-righteous types don’t often last for long in the veganism. They’ll be raiding your meat stash in no time. If they want a vegan flat, then move into a vegan flat. Free choice!!!
(I’m a vegetarian, but not a judgemental one, and these kinds of vegans make me wanna eat meat!)
Jul 12, 2011 at 7:11 pm rating: 6
#336
Another Vegan
Wow, people are all about jumping on the chance to make anonymous lame comments about a particular group, huh?
I’m vegan, and I usually find this site hilarious. But the title of this post, coupled with the delightful comments are seriously getting to me. I’ll admit, I didn’t read all the comments. Scanning them has already frustrated me way too much.
I’m vegan, and not about to insult other vegans (as other vegan posters have done in these comments). People suck from any religion, race, gender, socioeconomic status, age group, etc. This person didn’t leave a lame letter because she’s vegan, but just because she’s lame.
I know a lot of awesome vegans. I also know a lot of awesome non-vegans. Seriously, there’s no need to become all awful and suddenly start insulting a group of people for a belief. I find this incredibly similar to insulting a group of people for religion or ethnic heritage.
I grew up vegan, as an ethical practice taught by my family and religion (yep, religion). And, though I no longer practice that religion, I will be vegan as long as I live. It makes sense ethically.
You all can insult vegans in your anonymous comments as much as please. But, take a second to realize it is offensive to insult an entire belief. My beliefs are about trying to help, not hurt, and I have done nothing to offend you; yet many of you find it entertaining to say incredible offensive things about my beliefs. Lame.
I hope nobody jumps on my comment as another attempt to insult vegans. Please realize that vegans, like every other group, have feelings and thoughts, and we’re doing the best we know how. My name is Lydia, and I’m not doing this anonymously. At least put a name to the insults you are leaving.
Jul 13, 2011 at 12:51 am rating: 4
#337
Zack
Send them my way!
unvegan.com
Jul 13, 2011 at 1:34 am rating: 0
#338
malty
Man, there is only on solution to this, troll, troll to your hearts content. Someone even went ahead and created accessories for trolling this type of self righteous twat.
http://store.theworstpageintheuniverse.com/shirts.html#EVERYANIMAL
Jul 13, 2011 at 8:05 am rating: 1
#339
kriszy
White sugar is refined with the use of bones of dead cows from India. Whatever we eat involves the death of some living creature, like it or not. Also there’s child slavery.
If I got that note I’d slap the girl as well. They could at least divide the fridge, one side is for the special veganess and the other for the normie .
Jul 13, 2011 at 9:55 am rating: 3
#340
RP
The submitter’s (Penny in the comments) roommate is both a bitch and a coward.
If you have dietary restrictions then you’re the one who has to deal with them. If roomie wants a meat free apartment then she needs to live alone or find a vegan roommate who feels the same way. As has already been said she should have talked this over withe Penny like an sane & reasonable adult.
Instead she follows up one passive aggressive action with another and tops it off self-entitlement. Honestly, does this person go into restaurants and then screech at every customer who dared to order meat?
I absolutely hate people who think that just because they’re right that other people should do what they say. You see this all the time with political and religious zealotry. People who can’t let others live their own lives and think that it’s “disrespectful” to do anything they disagree with. People like that spend their whole lives being pissed off at things that don’t affect them at all and Penny is completely right not to give in to that bullshit.
Penny’s rommie: Stop being an entitlement whore and get the Hell over yourself.
Jul 13, 2011 at 10:03 am rating: 8
#341
Meatatarian
I would have read the letter out loud to the writer while rubbing a raw steak all over my naked chest.
Jul 13, 2011 at 10:17 am rating: 8
#342
Hi
If you want to harass people with insulting notes, tell them they can’t buy certain items and force them to agree with you, then you’re not only a bad roommate, you’re pretty much a shitty person, too.
Jul 13, 2011 at 10:50 am rating: 5
#343
Becca
No honey or milk? She doesn’t like animal labor but eats vegetables picked by underpaid immigrants?
Tell her to get her morals straight!
Jul 13, 2011 at 11:13 am rating: 9
#344
Kris
I am a vegan and this note offends me. This idiot knew what she was getting into when she moved in! I am one of those rare vegans tho, who really wouldn’t mind all that. I say decide who takes up more room in the fridge, and make the other one get a mini-fridge (as others have suggested). Other than that, you are so screwed to have to live with that vegan!
Jul 13, 2011 at 11:59 am rating: 4
#345
Rachel
People like this make me NOT want to be vegan anymore because it just keeps getting associated with ‘intolerant whiny brat’. I swear we’re not all like this!
Jul 13, 2011 at 7:07 pm rating: 3
#346
Lillian
hehehe: http://imgur.com/gallery/8tc3D
Jul 14, 2011 at 2:43 pm rating: 1
#347
jason
seriously, perhaps this person needs to find something better to do with their time, like work. If this was my roommate I would throw that letter in their face and tell them to shut the fuck up and and stop being such a follower.
Jul 14, 2011 at 3:05 pm rating: 2
#348
Jill
This particular vegan is douche. That is all.
Jul 14, 2011 at 9:06 pm rating: 1
#349
TripHerSwitch
This doesn’t even seem passive aggressive to me, it seems more just in-your-face bitchy. She knew damn well that she was moving in with someone who still ate meat and if she was so gung-ho about this whole thing, she would move out. Who the fuck is she to tell you what you can and cannot do in your own home when she knew what she was getting into when you two moved in together? I had a roommate like this who tried to do this same damn thing all the time and it drove me up the fucking wall and now I can barely stand to be in the same room as her. You’re better off finding a new living situation. Good luck :/
Jul 15, 2011 at 1:13 am rating: 3
#350
Jessica
I’d like to eat a big, juicy steak right in front of her.
Jul 18, 2011 at 12:51 pm rating: 0
#351
rostik @ #2.8 Daniforest
“Despite being a true omnivore (I’ve eaten dozens of types of meat, including dog in China)”+”Animals are not meat-machines. They are living, breathing, sensing beings. ” = WTF?
Jul 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm rating: 4
#352
Deviled Egg
Let’s face it the roomate needs to leave asap so stock that fridge with boxes of hot dogs and bacon. The RM is a bipolar mess hiding behind her /his self righteousness food bullshit when she really needs meds. Bite the bullet and start looking for a new place or person!
Jul 18, 2011 at 11:45 pm rating: 0
#353
Evilbeagle
I realize that this is a bit old and who’s going to read the comments to even care about mine? But I can’t help but throw in my two cents here.
First of all, when you see omnivores being rude to vegetarians and vegans, while it’s not right and it’s not nice, it’s far less prevalent than the self righteous vegan types that put omnivores on the defensive. Guaranteed, everyone that has made a snide comment to a vegetarian has had experience with a jackass vege-whatever who thought themselves soooo much better for not eating meat.
I went vegetarian for two years. I did not eat junk food. I did it only because I thought it was a healthier way to go. In those two years, I was constantly sick, and always exhausted. I know that this is not always the case for everyone, but the moment I began to eat meat again, my health improved. We are omnivores. Get over it. If you choose not to eat meat, that’s fine and I couldn’t give two shits, but don’t tell me it’s better, because it certainly wasn’t better FOR ME.
The note writer is a douche and I hope she has seen the comments here. Were I Penny, I probably would not have been as nice about the way I handled it. Self righteous people like this room mate need a rude awakening to reality. The world doesn’t care about your self imposed sensitivities and never will.
Jul 20, 2011 at 7:18 am rating: 6
#354
lisa
Wow – some people! I’m vegan and I wouldn’t pull this crap with anyone! People choose what they want to eat, and you can’t force them to change their diet unless they WANT to!
(But then again, I try to be a little shit disturber with my BF and go – “MMmmmm, dead cow – yummy!” when he eats a burger. *evil giggle*)
Jul 21, 2011 at 6:23 am rating: 3
#355
ben therean
***** [Free Range 100% Prime Vegans...?] ***** “When i moved in a year ago…” Well, that seems to imply that it was the other person’s apartment that “the (non-vegan) person moved into…”, doesn’t it? Personally i don’t believe i would want to live with anyone as pushily-deranged as that vegan…, however, if it IS her place, (and why do i asume that it’s a “her”…? )(and didn’t you?)…if it’s her place, things are going to get worse, not better, because this vegan-person is trying to control the beliefs, and behavior, of another person, and that never works out well… Even a complete and immediate conversion to Shiite-Veganism wouldn’t be enough. More problems would “arise”… “How can you wear THAT!? Don’t you realize…”, … etc. Just stay away from people like this and the solution here is to: … move in with people who like to Bar-B-Q !!! Semper Carnivor! Bacon Forever, Forever Bacon! Cheese Rules! Serve MY Eggs with Ham! And i’d like a Fried Chicken Milkshake with that, please. (But we SHOULD encourage vegans, just in case there is an apocalyptic-type famine, and we have to go cannibal, those corn-fed cuties will make GOOD EATIN’ !! (And…., as the man said, everybody hates ‘em and nobody will miss ‘em… ).
Jul 22, 2011 at 4:22 am rating: 1
#356
Anna the Vegan
Oh Jesus fuck. Listen, I’m a vegan, and I think the above notes are absolutely insane. Like, for real. Bitches be crazy.
my advice on dealing with the pretentious psycho: The meat-eating roommate should now eat exclusively meat in the house, and eat fruits/veggies/grains out. Just to piss them off.
Do it.
It will be beautiful.
Jul 25, 2011 at 11:58 am rating: 10
#357
Kat
Self-righteous vegetarians/vegans make me want to ask:
Do you get your vegetables from a guaranteed no-hunting farm? Because in order to keep the excess deer/rabbit/other rodent population from completely destroying a farmer’s livelihood, animals have to die. It’s a fact of life.
If there were no hunters helping with deer population control, and no pest control companies helping with rat population control, you wouldn’t be able to be a vegan, because the animals will eat it all.
Well, actually, they won’t always eat it ALL, sometimes those bastards will walk up to your tomato plant, the one that had an enormous juicy green tomato that was just turning a bit pink around the edges, take ONE FREAKING BITE, then drop it and leave it there to mock you.
Forget the whole idyllic anthropomorphic “Bambi” concept. It’s bull. Deer spread Lyme disease, decimate crops, cause billions of dollars in automobile damage per year, and they taste DELICIOUS.
Every human being on this planet depends on the deaths of something else in order to eat. Whether it’s the death of insects by insecticide, the death of vermin like rats and mice by pest control, or the death of deer by hunting (which is really much more humane than when they become overpopulated and die of starvation and disease). There are no exceptions, no matter how much some people want to believe in a fantasy world where they prance through life farting rainbow sparkles and “harming no living thing.”
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:36 am rating: 14
#358
Hannah-May
Totally agree with Anna the Vegan. I’m a vegetarian but my husband eats whatever the fuck he wants because that’s his choice! I’ll never hassle him about it – my diet is my personal choice.
If I owned a house and lived by myself and went all anal in my habits and didn’t allow meat in the house (which I’ll never do), I think that would be fine. But you cannot expect to be flatting and have everyone you live with cowtow to your dietary whims. This person clearly has something wrong with them.
Jul 27, 2011 at 10:44 pm rating: 2
#359
Stephen
This girl should really just kill herself. Really.
Jul 29, 2011 at 2:50 pm rating: 2
#360
ariane
Dear Newly Vegan Roommate:
You knew who I was and what my eating habits were when I signed the rental agreement. I have not changed. You have. I don’t remember your asking my permission, nor would I expect you to. That’s the difference between you and me. I accept you as you are, while you want me to be you.
You want to find a vegan to share your place, fine, but return my deposit and first month’s rent that you grabbed and spent the day I signed the contract. And give me a month to find a new pad. You’ll need at least that long to find someone willing to pay the exorbitant rent and put up with your “compassion”…which apparently does not extend to your fellow humans.
Trust me, I’m as eager to get away from you as you are from me.
Signed,
Your Soon-to-Be-Ex Roomie
Jul 30, 2011 at 2:57 am rating: 8
#361
miss v
What a self-absorbed lil cunty. Since SHE decides to be a vegan, everyone around her has to change their lifestyles to accommodate hers. I had a roomie once who moved in with a smoker and then a week later, asked them to stop smoking in the apartment.
Jul 31, 2011 at 1:52 pm rating: 1
#362
elefsiniotis
Listen up brothers and sisters,
come hear my desperate tale.
I speak of our friends of nature,
trapped in the dirt like a jail.
Vegetables live in oppression,
served on our tables each night.
This killing of veggies is madness,
I say we take up the fight.
Salads are only for murderers,
coleslaw’s a fascist regime.
Don’t think that they don’t have feelings,
just cause a radish can’t scream.
I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)
Carrot juice constitutes murder (and that’s a real crime)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables go)
It’s time to stop all this gardening (it’s dirty as hell)
Let’s call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade)
Jul 31, 2011 at 8:08 pm rating: 6
#363
Aneres
I’m a level 5 Vegan – I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow.
Aug 1, 2011 at 8:45 pm rating: 9
#364
Lucy
Plants cast shadows. It’s called “shade.”
Aug 1, 2011 at 8:53 pm rating: 3
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