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Vegansexuals: 'I don't want your meat'
by ryan | July 31, 2007 at 10:45 am
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These vegans have taken what usually remained in the kitchen into the bedroom. A New Zealand survey documents a growing trend labeled, vegansexuality.
No sex, please, you're a carnivore.A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.
Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.
Vegans (or non-vegans) what do you think about this?
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at 11:41 on July 31st, 2007
I can't imagine a more ridiculous claim. Apparently, vegansexuals are unfamilair with their own bodies and how they break everything they eat down before reconstituting it. Following the same logic, plants are made up of dead animals, since they use nutrients from dead animals that have been broken down by bacteria - so, they're the second cousins of animals.
at 12:11 on July 31st, 2007
As an equal opportunity consumer I have become very aware of the general discrimination against plants. While the animal rights movement is going strong with bleeting of sheep headed to the abbatoir, well descibed in 'The Silence of the Lambs', as a rallying call, The wholesale destruction and rebuilding of plant communities on an annual basis continues, silently ignored. While I must say I find some vegan's attractive, I do not believe I could be intimate with someone who proposes the slaughter of mute plants, who cannot protest the atrocities visited to their cultures as a solution to the atrocities of the slaughterhouse. Often consumers of plants do not even stop to consider whether the living organism they're slicing and dicing has feelings or emotions.
at 12:41 on July 31st, 2007
I also wondered about why some people are so picky about eating meat. Plants are also living, they are just not moving as fast as animals ;)
at 12:52 on July 31st, 2007
Bambi is cuter than a plant. But Bambi is tasty too!
at 13:05 on July 31st, 2007
Well, the process of harvesting plants slaughters a whole lot of mice and snakes and things, so really you can only have sex with people who harvest their own soybeans by hand.
I must admit, the argument that seems to be most convincing to men I am dating about why they should be vegan relies on sex as leverage... I guess it's manipulative and controlling but I'm doing it for the little fluffy animals, so.
at 13:49 on July 31st, 2007
You're a blue meanie. :) If veganism is such an important aspect of your life, why do you want to change someone you meet, instead of finding someone who shares the same values in the first place?
at 15:10 on July 31st, 2007
Oh, well, mostly because vegan men are such fruity hippies... and they're so pale and weak...
I mean, also I live in Buffalo. I think there are only two vegan men here.
at 13:31 on July 31st, 2007
Brilliant headline Ryan
at 03:45 on August 1st, 2007
Hello everyone, I have been a vegan for 3 years now and all your comments make me laugh. You obviously don't know anything about VEGANISM, sorry but I have to say you are totally ignorant on this issue. So go on and carefully read www.goveg.com before making any comment. Thanks!
Saying that vegetables are also 'living' and talking about discrimination!!! this is hilarious:))) It takes many more living plants to make a pound of meat than a pound of edible vegetables. Animals in factory farm eat tons and tons of cereals... (that could be used to feed hungry people!)
So please read www.goveg.com
PS: I am not pale or weak... pleeease!!! this is so so so so hilarious!!!!
at 08:19 on August 1st, 2007
I know enough to be tongue in cheek about it. :) I'm glad you laughed.
On a side note.. All the factory farms could be shut down tomorrow and I would be a happy camper.
at 03:52 on August 1st, 2007
They say "you are what you eat" I don't want to be a cabbage.
at 09:44 on August 1st, 2007
mmm... I see.... you prefere to be a pig! that's nice!
:))))
at 20:24 on August 1st, 2007
I think it is fine for people to choose who they want to be intimate with and who they do not want to be intimate with on whatever basis they wish. That's what people have been doing all along vegan or not.
To call it a "vegansexual trend" is a bit silly, because vegans are such a small percentage of the general populace. If there's the idea of commitment in the relationship and the idea of a future and family together, naturally vegans would pair off with vegans lovers since they share at least that much in common lifestyle-wise and likely more.
The teaser for the article is inaccurate to start with -- "vegan" doesn't stay in the kitchen. It goes all over -- the type of clothes you weat, the make-up you use, the camera you take on vacation. So... both this blurb and original article need to deinfe "vegan" correctly for the readers that don't know what it is.
The original article talks about the non-vegetarian lover's bodies being like death and some brief mention of body fluid squeamishness. Well, if you are going to bother going there,lay it out there! Your diet affects your smell and your taste.
For instance, when Americans first went to Japan during WWII, they were refered to as "Butter People" because the scent of dairy (which is not common in traditional Japanese food) was so strong. There's many joke shirts with "I'd rather eat (a) Vegan" or "Vegans Taste Better."
at 20:34 on August 1st, 2007
veganmom30, that is an excellent critical response. I hope to see more of your comments appearing here on NowPublic.