People in this generation are pretty ignorant if I may say so myself. It’s just how their mindset is, you can keep trying but maybe in time when she’s more mature she’ll understand better. I know a bit about people like her myself, because my grade is full of ‘em.

Feed her vegan bacon without telling her its vegan.
If she likes it, then inform her its vegan and ask her -why- she wont even consider going vegetarian when she obviously doesn’t have to give up her favorite foods.

It’s just the way people seem to be… bloody annoying is what it is.

oh god. that is. . that is awful. I feel you. 100 %

I’ve seen that how it’s made you’re talking about, it’s absolutely heartbreaking. Those poor babies /: The thing is though, she as well as the rest of my family are a bunch of carnies, so she won’t even watch the videos. She just doesn’t think it would make a difference, and she’s actually been talking about going hunting with my dad again, and it kills me because she hasn’t done that since she was small.It feels like she’s regressing, and I’m starting to lose hope in her, I feel like I’m trying to resucitate a zombie, you know? My efforts are all in vain. I think I should just move on and try to do what I can with others, since she seems to be a lost cause. But there was nothing anyone did to trigger it for you, it just sort of happened?

As a child, I would always pick the meat out of my food and put it on the side. For the most part I just didn’t like it. I would only eat the meat from animals that didn’t have anything in it to remind me that it actually was an animal that I was eating. I wouldn’t eat things with bones or a whole lot of fat, etc. I did eat chicken nuggets and turkey slices ocassionally. Eventually I came to my senses and realized that although it may no longer resemble an animal, it still is one. I was more disgusted at first than I was saddened for the animals. I believe I was watching a “How It’s Made” on eggs when I decided to go vegan. I remember a friend attempting to go veg long ago, and I actually talked her out of it. Out of my mind crazy! I told her “it’s already there, so you might as well eat it” as she struggled to refrain from eating what she’d passed up in the lunch line. Of course, I was wrong.. and I totally regret that. I think the videos I watched stuck with me in the back of my mind, and years later I stopped eating animals.

@hakred, I’m glad to hear you changed (: what was it that made you want to,if I may ask? I mean I know it sounds strange, but it’s really always been a ‘thing’ for me, even as a little kid something about eating animals felt wrong in my heart. But she just isn’t like that. So any advice on that front would be awesome, thanks (:
@Sagojyou, I totally agree. People say that, but they don’t really understand ‘never’. Never is a long time! And yeah, I really do wish it could be though, you know?
@OneBadassChick, Exactly. And I hate that. People don’t understand that they’re either part of the problem, or part of the solution, and by staying ignorant, they’re a maaaaaaajor part of the problem. I’ve been fortunate enough to have never encountered much judgement from others for my choices, but I definitely agree that it’s a major obstacle to others changing their lifestyles. Normally when people are too ‘afraid’ to do something because it’s different, I don’t care, because if they don’t have the balls to do it, it’s nobody’s fault/problem but theirs. Sucks to suck. But in this case, when them being ‘afraid’ (or more accurately, weak, since unlike these poor animals they probably don’t even know what afraid is) costs millions of living beings their life, freedom, and happiness, all because the only people that can save them are too weak to do what they know in their heart is right? It’s discouraging and infuriating at the same time. I just feel like when people prefer to stay ignorant, to keep doing what is easiest for them rather than what is best for everyone, they’re just like lemmings. (sp?) Only, instead of just runnning off cliffs, to their own end, *chlorinate the gene pool– wuut?* these people are taking others out with them. I wish being vegan, vegetarian, just living a compassionate lifestyle in general would become a trend or something, so everyone would WANT to hop on the bandwagon. I mean, I know that’s kind of a bad way to put it out there, but it’s better than nothing, right? I don’t really know where I was going with that, but it felt good to put it all out there. People just upset me, I guess.

People are stuck in their ways. People are afriad of change. Afriad of really actually living and being “different”. I wish going veg was just about food and helping animals and the environment and bettering our health but its not. The toughest part of veganism is people,pressure and judgement. I can handle it,the others on this site can handle it but pressure and other people are the reason most people go back to meat. Its what makes going veg difficult. Finding food is easy but getting other people to understand that is what makes it hard.

A lot of people just don’t want to see the reality!
And also, when people say “I’ll never be veg*n” is funny, because what if all the meat becomes contaminated or it becomes too much of a world problem that it’s going to be crucial to go veg? Then would they want to die instead of eating veggies and live? Don’t think so. So no one never knows if they’re “never going to be veg”.
And I mean, lots of people are like that. And it can’t be helped. Those people will just have to eat the poor animals, have bad karma, and miss out on being veg! They really don’t know what they’re missing!

I watched videos as a meat eater, and all they did was make me sad – they didn’t make me want to change my diet. There’s still hope for your sister!

And @tally, I just had to say this, what you said couldn’t have been more true. If I could like that comment, I’d like it a million times, that’s EXACTLY how I feel. It’s like, if they’re not gonna hear it, there’s nothing I can do, you know? It’s the worst feeling in the world.

Thanks so much to everyone for all your support, I don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t get on here and vent about things like this :l it’s just so frustrating when people won’t even listen to the facts, how can someone make judgements on something they don’t even understand, you know? People like that are just impossible. I mean, I know that if she just heard half the stuff that goes on, she could do it, but she doesn’t want to hear it so she can keep on doing what she wants! I mean, have you guys ever had any luck with talking to people like this? I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but I at least want her to hear me out on it. Urgh, it’s just so irritating /:

@love.saves.lives You’re lucky your sister even gets sad about it. My older sister isn’t even phased by that sort of thing. She won’t change her ways because she’s a meat addict.

Sheltered eyes see blind

Story of my life sweetie. My mom says the EXACT same thing to me every time I mention the treatment of animals. Once I called her out on it and her excuse was, well they just taste too good. The hypocrisy of the general population makes me want to pull my hair out.

Sadly what you experienced is very common place, and is something you will have to listen to/deal with for pretty much the rest of your life. I’m not saying give up, but you have to learn to not let it piss you off too much.