How to completely miss the point and look like a giant douchebag
It’s easy really. You just need to write an article like this: Why are these vegans sent to plague us?
It’s so stupid and so clearly, so desperately trying to get a rise that it’s barely even worth commenting on. But I will make a small note about this paragraph:
The problem is with zealotry. When a vegetarian comes to dinner, I wouldn’t feed them meat, nor would I lecture them on the benefits of doing so. Because, if there’s one thing worse than having high-minded zealots jam their dogma down your throat, it’s when they want to do it literally.
The funny thing is, I only know one vego who is in-your-face and preachy (and that vego is also preachy about other things, so I don’t necessarily think it’s a vego thing, more a personality thing). But the number of times I’ve had meat-eaters lecture me about veganism, tell me rudely how unhealthy it is, or go on at length defending their food choices (it’s always about the organic chicken!) is literally uncountable. This article is another prime example. I love that he talks about jamming dogma down throats in an article where he is attempting to jam dogma down throats. Oh the irony.
And of course he’s an ex-vegetarian. Of course.

nuttycow
7:09pm, 30 Mar 09
Ah! So this is where you’re hiding!
How are things?!
Miss T
10:41pm, 30 Mar 09
Bless my sister, she cut out this article to show me. Cue rant from Miss T about how many times she has been mocked, deliberately offended, made fun of, intensely questioned, pointed at, tried to be ‘tricked’ and scorned over dinner.
Chloe
1:59pm, 31 Mar 09
Is dogma vegan? If so, what exactly is it made of?
lisa
8:55pm, 31 Mar 09
Dogma is made of MONKEYS!
philippa O
10:49pm, 31 Mar 09
i don’t know about you but i’m glad he said what i was never able to say – I’m anti-human and proud! burn the freaking lot of us!
Mandee
8:56am, 2 Apr 09
Great response, Lisa. I sent him an email as well because clearly he wanted zealots to write to him.
LiteraryMinded
4:17pm, 3 Apr 09
This guy is a douche and I have never met a preachy vegan. You’re all lovely, accepting, ethical beings.
bronwen
12:59am, 24 Apr 09
i love the way he gives a disclaimer that he used to be vegetarian as a way to preemptively placate the people he’s obviously intending to rile up. the phrase “some of my best friends are homosexual / black / jewish” comes to mind in his ending note. i saw this when it ran and i ignored it because to me the article just came off like someone baiting their hook.
the thing that always annoys me about the stereotype of ranting / preaching vegetarians / vegans is that usually, as you’ve mentioned, it’s the meat-eaters that instigate the discussion, as though they feel they need to defend their choice to eat meat before i attack them (which i have no intention to do), as if they feel guilty about their choice. then when i answer their questions about my choice without preaching, it’s again usually them coming out with the oh-so-boring cracks at me every time i see them again (eg. “wow, this pizza is great, but it’s missing something – meat”, or “are you sure you don’t want some of this delicious meaty barbeque”, etc). seriously, about 90% of the conversations / mentions of my distaste for meat and the smell of it cooking, etc., are brought up by meat-eaters. not by me.
if others want to eat meat, that’s their call, just be considerate about not ramming it down my throat (literally or figuratively) and i promise i won’t ram it down yours…
lisa
10:13am, 24 Apr 09
Yeah, agree about the ex-veg thing. It seems like all the really crappy veg-bashing articles that appear in the media are written by ex-vegans or ex-vegetarians. You know what – if you can’t make a veg lifestyle work for you, that’s your failure, not the failure of veganism. So STFU!