Is it okay to tell a meat eater not to eat?!
Is it okay to tell a meat eater not to eat?
Is it okay to tell a meat eater not eat meat in the house? I have been converted to a vegetarian diet because it is the most healthiest diet. I have a neighbor who is a meat eater and I told him that he would have to sit out on the porch if he wanted to eat his hamburger. We were watching the game on T.V. so I faced the T.V. towards the window so he could eat his hamburger and watch the game with the rest of us vegetarians. I felt bad because I knew he was getting eat up by mosquitos, but I just don't want meat in my house anymore. People who eat meat are murderers.
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Hi Foxy, nice to see the intellectual arguements are still holding up.
All you do here is drag out svchool kids who know no better and encourage meat-eaters to say things like "plansts feel pain as well"... just makes you look daft because all you can bait is kids, and makes meat-eaters look stupid ( of which you are one ) because of thier inane responses.
Its perfectly valid to ask meat-eaters not to eat meat in a vegetarians house.
WOW. hahah that's how i am; i even make sure people who eat meat wash their hands thoroughly (and i supervise) before touching/hugging me.
i would tell him not to eat in my house, but maybe because im a vegetarian?
im sure all the nonveg-s will tell you to leave him alone, but heyy. whatever
you make no sense. First you say you converted because it was healthier. If that were true, you wouldn't care what he ate. But then you say people who eat meat are murderers. I think you're making this up, or trying to impress someone
Both of your arguments are spurious by the way
You know plants are living things too? Just cuz they don't moo doesn't mean you didn't rip their lives from the earth.
That's pretty silly. Why can't you eat and let eat? If you went over to his house would he make you sit on the porch while you ate your artichoke? If you want people to respect your beliefs then you need to be more tolerant as well.
Lol....if it's you're house u have that right...but don't try and push you're vegetarian diet on anyone, ppl have the right to choose what they eat IMHO
hmmmmm...it's interesting that your name is Foxhunter!
I eat meat but I respect your opinions. This is a tough scenario...your friend needs to also respect your beliefs, but you should make your feelings known, before someone shows up to your house with a burger in hand.
And speaking of mosquito's....you don't kill those either, right?
Making someone eat outside is just ignorant. We are all free to choose our diets.
ENCLOSE YOUR PORCH, CALL THE COPS AND ARREST THOSE MOSQUITOES....YOUR POOR FRIEND!!!
OK, i have nothing against vegetarians and the like, but it really annoys me when they try to force their habits onto me. but if it is your house you can stop people eating foods that you don't want in your house.
im sure hes ok with you being vegetarian so don't be such a dick because hes not.
he could call you a plant eating twat for saying hes a murderer.
maybe murder you so he gets nicer neighbours?
No. If you know your neighbor is a meat-eater, you shouldn't have invited him to watch the game. Since he agreed to eat outside, he obviously respects you more that you do him.
Byb showing a zealous intorerance for meat eaters, you are more likely to prevent any of them from ever agreeing to give up meat, that if you accepted them for now and worked a more subtle form of persuasion.
No, it isn't. In this case, it was it was your house. However, in your city, in your town, on your street, and in your state it is definitely not alright to tell meat eaters not to eat meat. I have never murdered anyone in my life, and I have tried the vegetarian diet. I got very sick. For those of you whose bodies adapt to this diet, great. For some of us, it cannot be done, unless you lie comatose and cannot function. I do need to eat meat, and have tried all the substitutes and supplements. It would be great, cool, to be able to be a vegetarian. My body doesn't allow it, and I am not willing to die for a cause which is supported by less than half the worlds population. I don't wear fur.
Be careful with your emotionally charged use of the word murderer, because if you ever experience it close, you will never toss the word about in reference to food again.
I think that you are the king of your own castle and if your house rules are no meat, then anyone who's worth thier salt will uphold and respect those rules. If anyone has a problem with it, or does n't understand, just say it's like a smoker lighting up in a non-smokers house. Just be kind as you have been (repositioning the tele) and it'll be fine in the future, also, I'm sure if you let your mates know the house rules, they will respect you and uphold them.
LOL from a veggie who lives with a meat-eater!
I think you might have taken it a little too far. So you were converted for the reason of health, thats fine. And you believe that killing an animal is murder. You are so entitled to your beliefs. However everything we own came from a living thing, from the table that your computer is sitting on right now to the vegetables that are in your crisper drawer.
You made a friend stand outside your house not because of your beliefs, but because of a lack of understanding or compassion for his. If your friend was a Baptist and you were Muslim would you not invite him in? So he was eating meat! In the meantime the mosquitoes were also eating him, which by your own testimony you call wrong and murder since he is a living animal too. Get a clue guy.
Oh, and a real friend would take their pals just how they are. Makes me glad I have real friends.
Your house = your rules.
Do you think you should change your name?
you are very rude. I am not a vegeterian, but i have friends who are. Anytime i have a party, i not only allow them to eat inside or outside or where ever they wish, i even buy food just for them or offer to cook what they want if the bring it with them. I am getting married, and i just payed extra money to make sure there are vegetarian dishes available to my vegi eating friends.
some one else answered by saying its like smoking in a non-smokers house, not true, there is second hand smoke, not second hand eating, unless you pick at his plate.
again... you are rude, would your neighbor do that to you.
Im embarrased for you and for him.
and you say you re his friend? wow id like to see his enemies? smoking in your house yes,but hes not exactly committing the crime of the century is he,and what an hypocrite,you've been converted,by your missus perhaps,and now the rest of us are murderers?tell me, how long have you been veggie?oh and while iam at it,i hope he boots you into the garden with your salad when and if he invites you round to his house?hang on a minute as well,you dont happen to own any leather gloves,shoes ,jackets by any chance do you?
Odd so you have changed your view therefore everyone should change there's to suit you.
I say bollocks to you. in my opinion you are as bad as a Islamic hate preacher it's the same thing I eat meat so I am a murderer bit lame if you ask me.
Have you any idea how many products in your home are made with bits of animals, from soaps to wallpapers I suggest you completely rip your home apart and start again. only if you live up to your claims can you then preach to others
YOU ARE AMAZING! :D
Have you never heard the scream of a lettuce being pulled from the ground or the groan of a grape being pulled away from its brothers and sisters.You surely could have been a bit more polite than asking the bloke to eat outside still I expect he won't be eating in your house again
You are not making yourself clear. Are you a vegetarian because its healty or because you dont like murderers??? You should never force your diet on others.. Imagine if someone tried to force meat on you. It goes both ways. I am vegetarian and I never tried to convert anyone. I tell them what my standards are and why i do it.. but never forced. If this guy is really your friend. I would have to say i never want a friend like you. I would never come to your house again to tell you the truth, because all that stuff is just plain nuts if you ask me. It was very cruel of you and if you dont like murderers.. get over it already!!!!
Your not a very good friend or host. His hamburger being in your house was not going to hurt you in anyway (like say second hand smoke would). Would you rather him throw the burger away? Then the cow would have died for nothing. To me that would be more upsetting. My best friend has always been a vegetarian. She would never ask me to leave her house because of meat.What you did was no doubt shameful, embarrassing, and degrading to your guest. All he wanted to do was come over to your house and hang out with the guys. He got hungry and you punished him for it. Next time why not invite a cow over instead. I'm sure you would have no trouble at all finding one who like to cheer the game on.
If I was your friend,and you did that too me! See ya! Dont even try to hang out anymore! What an a#*hole! Dont treat people like sh@t b/c you dont like meat! Would you have done the same thing too your mom? If your answer to that question is yes! Then your just out and over and over again a low life! Smokers is another subject, smoking around you can harm you,so if you kicked someone out of your house or made them step out side to smoke,then I could understand your decision,but your so called friend! that you made sit out side to eat his burger, its not gonna harm you ! Your lucky im not your friend, you did this too! MEAT!,would have been your last thing on your worry list!
Basically, although I have some meat-eating friends I will never let any of them bring meat back to my place. Either we eat out or they eat the veggi stuff out of my fridge but apart from my pets' food, no meat ever crosses the front door! It gets quite problematic actually with boyfriends, especially at the start of relationships when they wanna impress you by taking you out to dinner. If they are adament on eating meat in front of me, I'll either brood during the whole evening (great fun!) or refuse to let their dirty, murderous, blood-covered lips kiss me. I was in a relationship once with this guy who just couldn't adapt to my values and one day I came home to find him eating a massive turkey carcass while hiding in the loo, sitting on the bog... and before I had time to ask him what the hell he thought he was doing, he just pointed to my darling doggy who was sitting patiently by his feet and said - "It's for the dog"!!!!!!!
Well thats a good one but i will tell you a better one i know an entire family near us who claim to be vegitarians, but every friday they treat themselves to a McDonalds and they all have cheese burgers. Now if thats a vegitarian i am an irish man who walks backwards instead of forwards. McDonalds don't use vegitarian oil to cook their products and they never will they just claim to do so. My mate works for them and he told me ....
of course not! his eating meat does not have to affect you in any way. you can eschew meat and animal derivatives but to encroach on someone else's freedom to eat whatever they want is just wrong.
you need to learn general consideration and etiquette. when you eat out at a restaurant where they serve both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food, are you going to tell everyone who eats meat there to stop just because you are there?
and if you can't treat a meat-eating friend with some respect, then maybe he'd be better off finding friends who are more accepting of what he eats or doesn't eat.
house rules are house rules. it's no different than smoking in the house, wearing your shoes in the house, etc -- except meat eaters will find it unfair because they're so used to mindlessly shoveling dead animals down their throat.
LMAO!!!!!
YAYYY GO U DUDE omg i never thought i'd see a man vegetarian u rock yaaaaaay!!!
I'm a fellow veggie i moan at my dad all the time he is so ignorant grrr
anyways keep the veggieness lol
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I think everyone should be allowed to eat what they want to eat whether it's meat or vegetables, but it's your house so you have the right to do and say whatever you want to in your house.If he doesn't want to go by your rules, he shouldn't be there.