I’m a vegan and feel the burden of being vegan in Halifax. I waste time shopping at many grocery stores sense not one can provide all the items I want. My favourite vegan snack is usually restocked a month later after I buy them all causing me to have to shop at nearly 10 grocery stores. Then, I feel the struggle finding a girlfriend since I’m constantly rejected for how I eat. Where is a vegan to go to feel happy in Halifax? —Lonely, hungry vegan
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2017.
Well, there’s this: http://www.veggiedate.org/nova_scotia/hali…
Poor baby carrots…
Stop the madness! There is a very tender cut of steak waiting for you at Sobeys. Eat that or don’t complain. Being a veggie/vegan/pescatarian/whoobley-jesus will not save the world, chickens, cows or even those tasty goats!
Troll
There are many of your kind doing just fine here. It’s you.
If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?
move to hipsterville.
It’s supply and demand. If there was a demand, someone would have opened a vegan store. maybe you could.
I was like, great, another vegan bitching about not being able to find those elusive greens. Then you mentioned you were lez and I had a good chuckle – I’m really not sure why yet but there’s a reason out there, somewhere!
Better finish up your studies quick so you can get back to Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal and cram your pie hole so full of tofu salad that you’ll forget all about that terrible coastal city that gave you your education and only had like 2 vegan restaurants ; with no wifi 🙂
Thanks for the $$$
Vegan here. Stop buying up all the tasty snacks. (just kidding)
Anyone who rejects you because of what you eat is shallow and not worthy of you.
Oceanchick,
You said, “Anyone who rejects you because of what you eat is shallow and not worthy of you.”
I have several friends who are vegetarian. They don’t make a big deal about it and most people don’t even know they are vegetarians. They will eat at any restaurant suggested without making a fuss. They also tend to have a live and let live attitude about others’ diets. A couple even have meat eating partners.
Vegans, on the other hand, seem to be a lot more politicized and evangelical. (We’ve seen a number of Bitches from vegans … but I don’t recall a single vegetarian Bitch. ) The vegan Bitcher usually starts out complaining about lack of food options in the city but then throw in how disgusting eating meat is. I’ve also personally seen vegans literally turn up their nose in disgust at what other people eat. So, I just don’t see how a meat eater and a vegan could be in a relationship when the vegan has such disdain for the other’s dietary practices. The meat- eater would feel that they were subjected to constant disapproval or, if they went along with the vegan, feel like they were being controlled.
Sharing meals is a big part of peoples’ relationships. I just don’t ever envisage a vegan and a rare steak munching person getting together. I think they would reject each other.
Feel free to disagree.
Being a vegan in a meat eating household where I prepare the majority of the meals, I’m not sure what stereotype you are pushing, Minimus Maximus.
Both the vegetarian and vegan eaters of my acquaintance cite their main reason as disgust with the horrors of factory farms. I all my many years I have not met one vegetarian or vegan who has pushed their beliefs on anyone.
“*In* all my years”
So many dislikes for my comment. Guess it’s easier to believe the stereotypes about vegetarians and vegans than it is to consider the truth.
Stereotypes? Every single vegan Ive ever met spends more time talking about being vegan than any other topic. They even find a way to work it into every topic of discussion somehow. Then come the unsolicited “health tips”, suggestions and proselytizing. No thanks. Its no different than the cults who want to “save my soul”. No thanks.
Where are these mythical proselytizing vegans? I am not one, nor have I ever met one. I have however met lots of meat eating folks who make unsolicited comments about what is on MY plate. Since omnivores are the majority, simple mathematics suggest the comments directed at vegetarians and vegans far outnumber any they might offer.
Honey, if you think the soul vocal vegans want to save is yours then you are missing the point. I know vegans who are not opposed to eating meat. They are horrified at eating something that suffered its whole life in factory farm conditions.
you chose to be that way
LOL! Seriously OB?! Try living in Newfoundland, see how long you last on turnips, rocks and iceberg lettuce, with only one clique-y awful gay bar in St.John’s. Halifax is a vegan dream for fresh veg (ever try shopping at both the farmers markets downtown or Pete’s? Try checking out the urban farms around the city in the spring and volunteer! Grow your own goodies!) and vegan restaurants/options are plenty in this city. Maybe you need to buy a recipe book and a cat perhaps?
Remember, meat can escape, plants cannot.
If it was evolutionarily prudent for plants to escape they would have grown feet, not roots.