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From: Jack (kroger-p-outside.randomhouse.com -170.171.252.130)
Subject: Vegans and socializing
Date: December 16, 2005 at 6:21 pm PST
I bet this has been discussed before and I missed it. I am a
vegetarian but not a vegan. I see no way to be a vegan and still fully
socialize at the same time. Let me explane by way of some examples. I
recently had a job interview where the interviewer took me to a very
nice restaurant. It was not a vegan/vegetarian establishment. I was
not about to blow the chance at a great job by appearing antisocial,
weird or strange by saying, "oh, you go on
and eat. I'm a vegan. I'll have the salad without dressing. Instead I
ordered shrimp(I should hear something about the job within a month).
Also, the company I currently work for had a big dinner for all the
employees(about 350) and barbequed a whole pig. Many of the employees
brought covered dishes such as macronni and cheese, green beans with
ham, cole slaw, potato salad...etc. I don't think any of these dishes
were pure vegan. Well, I am not ready to give up socalizing with
friends and co-workers so I had the macronni and cheese, green beans(I
picked out the ham), potato salad(not vegan), and coconut cake. I
don't expect the world to bend to my lifestyle If I choose an
alternate path from the rest of society. So, I think to be purely
vegan one either must have a circle of family and friends who are very
supportative or they are willing to cut themselves off from the rest
of society(or at least to a degree) which I do not want to do. I
already get strange looks and comments when I tell people I am
vegetarian. Now I know some will say, "if your friends were truly
friends they would take your lifestyle into account when planning
meals." They do but when we go out I am not going to insist they go
vegan or vegetarian just to please me. Anyway, I think to go vegan or
raw vegan is to cut yourself off socially to a certain degree and I
don't think that is good for anyone either. I'm not about to drop
family, friends and lovers just because they don't think exactly like
me.
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