Well why didn’t you?
It depends entirely on whether you want a positive relationship with your son or not...
I suggest not isolating him just because he eats differently. It isn’t that important and people change.
I have a friend who lives on a farm and raised live stock to help her kids through college. The son, who recently earned a Phd in music, (cello) came home a vegan and explained to everyone how barbarous it was to raise animals for food.
I cannot believe that my friend took it. I would have never prepared another vegan meal for him. I should add that his rant occurred when his new wife was telling the story about a delicious veal dinner that she had enjoyed while on tour without her husband. They divorced less than a year later.
Redundancy.
It hurt his feelings?
He’s 28? Really? I’m so sorry.
We have two children in active military service (one Marine, one soldier). When people whine to my wife or me, our usual response is, “Well at least nobody is shooting at you.”
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.
The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It’s healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I’ve worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.
Oh, I’ll accomodate them, I’ll rummage around for something to feed them, for a ‘vegetarian plate’, if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.”
- Anthony Bourdain
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This only reenforces common views regarding vegans.
“Sorry son. There is no right to be liked.”
Are you kidding ??????????
My best friend, a world famous guitarist is a Vegan. He never bugs anyone about our eating meat. He loves animals, and made his choice. I think he may have seen a slaughterhouse video that shocked him,,,, don’t know for certain. I do know that he is one of the healthiest people I know, never gets sick, and has boundless energy!
I did the vegan thing for 3.5 months last year. Tore my guts apart from crapping 5 times a day. I did lose 40 lbs. though.
I would have told him “Son, you’re 28yrs old suck it up, being offended is part of life”.”
Also tell him that no matter what some people tell him a quality female is not going to be impressed with his "sensitivity".
It is not what he is eating, it is what he is feeding his ego. And it is some pretty rotten stuff.
“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”
God isn’t watching what you eat but he hears what you say.
I’m sorry your son turned out so sorry. That’s gotta be rough.
My now 25 year old daughter was vegan for a while when she went away to college. We didn’t change our eating habits, but tried to accommodate her when she came home to visit. We tried to understand her new preference. She said it made her feel better, that she didn’t have as many gastric problems as before. She had been taking Pepto Bismol daily until she tried the vegan lifestyle. Eventually, the novelty wore off. She isn’t vegan anymore, but she did discover that she has a barley allergy while she was experimenting with food choices. She eats meat once in a blue moon, and loves cheese. She is not someone who would worry about teasing from others, especially on TV shows.
I’m a life long vegan, and suggest you tell your son to suck it up. He will meet very few fellow vegans in his public life and we live in an America bursting with heart-diseased obese carnivores. Marching to a different drum will mean that he will not “fit in” with the masses.
Animal protein: good & good for you!
8 Ridiculous Myths About Eating Meat:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3127654/posts