Vegan Gets Served A Real Burger Without Even Knowing It, And Her Experience Ignites An Important Discussion

You need to eat the foods that you are comfortable eating. Food is so important in our daily lives. But to be told that you have to eat this or have to eat that is just total bs. I was vegetarian for 23 years. I'm not now, but I also eat very little meat. I don't care who you are, or why you eat what you do, it is Your choice, or decision, and Nobody has the right to substitute other foods or dictate what is right for you. Only you.

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I stopped drinking all types of alcohol about 3 and a half years ago. I don't mind telling people who ask that it's because alcohol in any quantity and concentration above 0.5% proof WILL make me acutely suicidal within the week. Yes a single glass of wine will do it, no, I don't miss the 'buzz' because I never particularly liked being drunk anyway. My family, friends and colleagues have been great about it and the rare occasions when someone else has been a d**k about it, the mention of suicide usually shuts them up pretty quickly!

I don't drink alcohol and drinkers just CAN'T stand it😎 they demand to know why and what's wrong with ME! I tell them I don't NEED alcohol as much as they seem too, lol

As someone who doesn't drink, I've learned some tricks to make sure I don't get served alcohol without my knowledge. The important points are (1) only let someone you trust fetch you a drink; otherwise, fetch it yourself; and (2) never set your drink down somewhere where anyone can put something into it. If you have to set it down, don't pick it up again; just get a new beverage. If you do those two things, odds are pretty good that you'll never have to worry about getting served what you don't want to drink or can't drink. That works for women on dates with people you don't know well, too. You have to be vigilant so nothing bad happens! Serving someone against their wishes? Is a d**k move. Decent people don't do that!

This so much. I have stomach/GI issues and I have to be very careful with what foods/beverages I consume. Alcohol is one of those things that will absolutely make it worse. Most people are super cool about it. I don't mind discussing it with people, however, every once in a while I meet some clown that will insist that "You just haven't found the right alcohol yet" or "You're just a lightweight. You need to drink more often and you won't feel sick".

Someone here made a nasty commented asking "what type of 'meat'" implying this is fake. Her condition is called Alpha-gal syndrome, it is a sugar molicule in her body that causes an immuno-response allergic reaction to meat. Most people it only affects "red meat" like Beef or Pork, but in some cases it can react with poultry as well. Some very severe cases (not hers), they can get reactions to any animal byproducts they injest as well, like Milk. Hers was not that bad.

I don't know why people don't think it's possible. Chicken intolerance & allergies are pretty common in our cats & dogs, no reason they wouldn't be for us. I'm also horrified at the cruelty you've experienced. I've kin & friends with allergies and I've sometimes had to stomp on urges to roll my eyes as they've fussed ... but then again, after reading this thread, I doubt I'll feel the urge. Clearly, there are people just that cruel and stupid, and there are more reasons than I knew for their fear.

My Dad is allergic to poultry too! You're the only other person I've heard of with the same problem!

I knew a woman who, growing up, had an egg allergy that her doctor had diagnosed. Every time she ate one of her mother's hamburgers, she couldn't understand why her mouth would swell up. It wasn't till she was an adult that her mother told her she'd been mixing eggs into her hamburgers! She was trying to "prove" her daughter's allergy wasn't real, and instead she made her sick through her entire childhood! What a witch of a mother!

Food intolerances cover any sort of range you can imagine, and can cause inflamed bowels, diarrhea, or are actual allergies (eg., you get hives, anaphylactic shock), and we don't always know why, medically. Just is what it is, and people need to *stop* bugging us. I don't shove asparagus at them, to prove they have a "problem" with it.

Yeah, and then, they call you preachy. I once had a stern talk to my Grandma. Felt weird, but it consisted of "Try that again and I'm off for good!", for the exact same reason. Overreacted ... no. This is a serious topic, a decision that is neither up to anyone else, nor lacks any justification or reasoning behind it, but has plenty more than needed. Even if nonhuman animals would not feel a single thing, but plants did, even then, being a vegetarian would be the choice causing less suffering. Even if that is totally irrelevant, the greenhouse gasses emitted in order to produce meat would qualify as a valid reason, this fact alone, at least for a massice reduction of meat. I mean ... imagine that: as I have a chronic pain issue, I use Oxycodon. If I'd sneak some into Grandma's dish, after she refused to take it, would this be ok? In a nonthreatining dose even - no. Meat into a vegetarian's dish is a totally different level, still...

I don't know about you Bored, but many "good" people just cannot stand when somebody does something positive and useful for common good - for other people, for our planet and, what they really cannot stand is when one has feeling for any sentient life. I don't get it.

I'm allergic to pork and I had a family member do the same exact thing. Luckily it's not severe enough to go into anaphylaxis but I did vomit right on the table in front of them which I feel like was kind of just payback for kind of just being poisoned.