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11 Things Nobody Cares About Until They Learn You’re Vegan
Suddenly Everyone Becomes An Advocate For Plants’ Rights and Fieldmice…
Have you ever noticed how, whenever the issue of veganism comes up in conversation, there’ll always be someone who becomes a passionate advocate for plants’ rights? Or the rights of mice in wheatfields?
If you’ve been a vegan for more than about 5 minutes, you already know what I’m talking about. That moment when someone offers you a slice of cake and you casually say, “No, thank you.”
“Oh, go on! Why not?”
“I’m vegan.”
Well, now the floodgates are open! Sometimes, you might just get the bog-standard, lazy reply of, “Oh, I’d love to go vegan, too, but I adore bacon too much!”
“You mean this chocolate cake has bacon in it?!”
…and they’re off. I previously wrote about some of the ridiculous excuses people come up with in 10 Reasons NOT To Go Vegan.
But what can be even more interesting to watch is how people suddenly develop a passionate concern for fringe issues you thought they knew nothing about and cared about even less.
I’m talking about fast-food junkies who develop a sudden overwhelming interest in nutrition, or racist…
