• Answer me this, people with nonveg*n partners

    Avatar of Sagojyou

    9 months ago

    If everyone is all veg*n and that’s important to you, why do you cook/is it okay to cook meat for your partner/bf/gf?
    I mean, if you cook veg*n meals for them all the time whenever they’re with you or eat only veg*n food, that’s no problem. But I’m saying to those of you that cook MEAT for you partner; why is that okay?
    I’ve always wondered about that. Is it because they’re your partner so they’re special and is an exception?
    I NEVER cook anything nonvegan for my boyfriend. Why? Because I’m vegan and using/cooking animal products goes against my morals.

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  • Avatar of holly7

    9 months ago

    I live with my meat eating boyfriend, I refuse to buy any products for him. He knows I don’t give my money to anything that supports cruelty.
    However, he was working extremely long days and I had cooked him chicken once and a roast another time. I figured it was going to get cooked anyways and I was just helping him out. Some of you may think that wrong, but oh well.

  • Avatar of VeganCaramel

    9 months ago

    Any partner who demands that their vegan significant other cook meat for them is a dick. But of course, demanding your significant other to do anything is controlling and unethical.

    And I certainly won’t condone the death of animals by cooking them for anyone. It has nothing to do with whether or not someone is “uncomfortable” cooking meat – it’s realizing that if you make it for someone, you’ve participated in treating animals like a commodity no more worthy than a vegetable.
    It’s not even about controlling their life – it’s about controlling your own and trying to make a change, rather than bending to the whim of others. “Personal choice” stops being personal when it kills someone else.

  • Avatar of Dagmar

    9 months ago

    I won’t cook meat for anyone period. It goes against my principles.

  • Avatar of SkiPPy333

    9 months ago

    It’s okay to cook non-veg*n meals for my partner because they are not me. They choose what they eat, just as I choose what I eat. If they can only eat veg*n food around me, then it’s right for me to say I can only eat omnivore food around them.
    They are a completely different person than I am, and I have to right to control what they eat. If I am uncomfortable cooking them meat, I will ask them to do it themself. Just as they are able to cook veg*n food for me if I ask, but they do not have to if they are uncomfortable.
    I would never try to change his diet, just like he would never try to change mine. I am vegan, he isn’t, so there’s no reason for him to eat vegan food, just like there is no reason for me to eat meat.
    Sometime’s he want’s to try some of my food, and I let him. Since we’ve been together, he’s stopped eating so much meat, but that is his choice.
    I have no right to try to control his life or what he eats. If he decided to become vegetarian or vegan, great, I’d be totally supportive. BUT I’ll be just as supportive if he decides to keep eating meat.

  • Avatar of Slayla

    9 months ago

    I don’t cook meat for my man either. If he wants it, he can prepare it for himself because that’s a choice he’s making. I might crack at him about it but I don’t berate him. I understand that he was a very picky child growing up and as an adult he has tried and liked a lot of the foods I’ve made so I support him on that front. His kids, however, they used to eat and enjoy my veg cooking for a long time until they visited their mother and now all they want is meat.

  • Avatar of Brosia

    9 months ago

    It’s simple. My partner never eats animal products in my presence. On the rare occasions when she does eat meat, she does so when dining out with her friends. At home we enjoy cooking vegan meals together.

  • Avatar of Sagojyou

    9 months ago

    If everyone is all veg*n and that’s important to you, why do you cook/is it okay to cook meat for your partner/bf/gf?
    I mean, if you cook veg*n meals for them all the time whenever they’re with you or eat only veg*n food, that’s no problem. But I’m saying to those of you that cook MEAT for you partner; why is that okay?
    I’ve always wondered about that. Is it because they’re your partner so they’re special and is an exception?
    I NEVER cook anything nonvegan for my boyfriend. Why? Because I’m vegan and using/cooking animal products goes against my morals.

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