Most ridiculous comments you ever got?

Let's do a best of of the most ridiculous comments/questions you ever got for being veggie or vegan. Nothing nasty, just for fun ;-)

I once got "you kill children". I still don't know how or why, but apparently, to this woman walking past or pro-veggie stall, this was true of all vegetarians.

Most ridiculous comments you ever got?

1. "So you just eat fish, right?"

2. "Have some stir-fry-- there's not much meat in it."

3. "That means you can't eat nuts, either, doesn't it?"

4. "I thought vegetarians were supposed to be thin."

5. "But animals are *here* to be eaten."

6. "I just try not to think about it." (where her meal came from)

7. "(Gasp!) That means you're going to h_ll."

It's actually a little disturbing that so many ppl seem to associate being vegetarian with being some kinda satanist.

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my boss told me that his cousin was a vegetarian and she died of brain cancer. like its linked?!!!!

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My sister is vegetarian, so I tell everyone she doesn't eat anything with a face. (lolol)

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When I became Vegetarian I was 10 and goign to a REALLY country hick school in Arkansas.

Here's an acutal conversation that took place more than once between me and various classmates

Classmate: "Want half my balogna sandwich?"

Me: "No thanks.. I don't eat meat anymore, remember?"

Classmate: "oh yeah, that's right. Sorry I forgot your a veterenarian now."

They were in dead earnest, too.. LOL.. crazy hick kids didn't know the difference between a vegetarian and a DVM..

Yup.. that's me.. the 10-year-old DVM.. If I'm that smart.. why am I still in 6th grade Science LOL

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I was given tuna flakes in my salad once after specifically asking for no meat, fish or animal products. When I asked what it was the woman said... "That's not fish, it's tuna"!

Then there was the time a 300 pound man I'd just met said "Vegan diets aren't healthy, you're going to die young" hahaha ummm I think I'll stick to it but thanks for your concern!

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I'm veggie and was told by my brother that its stupid because the animal is dead anyway.

But I think it is all a very ''green'' way to live.

veggies rule. we have better everything, and by definition get more antioxidants. Result!

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"you can eat fish when you're vegeterian!"

i'm sorry BUT NO, you're not a proper veg. if you eat fish. lol

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i'm not a veggie, but my aunt is and i once asked her: "can you eat animal crackers if your a vegetarian?" (like as a joke) and she like answered seriously with: "no! they're made out of animal parts! why do you think they are in those shapes?!"

idk this may not qualify as a ridiculous comment, but i thought it was kinda funny.

:D

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i was told that because i eat more plants more animals were dying, i found this quiete ironic/moronic.

bloodycorrine - i dont get it!

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While I was donating blood I told the nurse I was a vegetarian. She said, "Maybe I could do that... you still get to eat fish, right?" I let her down easy so she wouldn't make a "mistake" when stabbing me with a needle.

When I first became a vegetarian, I sent an email to one of my hardcore carnivorous friends about milk production (because he told me cows were always treated nicely). He sent me an email back saying, "You just ruined my breakfast... Also, f*** you for trying."

The only meat my cousin will eat is fish, but his friends constantly ask him when he is going to stop this "stupid vegetarian thing". Which he always replies by saying, "I'M NOT A F***ING VEGETARIAN!"

A friend tried to be accomodating to me and got me a baked potato and a ceasar salad (which is covered in bacon) from Wendy's. I told her thanks for the potato, but I couldn't eat the salad because of the bacon. She looked at it and said, "... but they're really little... they don't count."

One of my co-workers constantly asks me, "Can't you just eat the meat from the happy cows?"

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Oh I have to quote this one:

"How could NOT eating meat possibly be healthier when it has protein for muscles and the heart is just one big muscle?"

Yes someone actually said this to me.

Now I have to quote wikipedia, though I realize it's not a medical source, it just goes to show how well known this is:

"Research has shown that a low fat,VEGETARIAN diet can reduce the chance of cardiovascular disease and may also REVERSE conditions such as restriction of the blood vessels or "clogging."

(emphasis mine).

I swear, I'm just going to tell them to read...well, ANYTHING on it for now on.

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I'm not sure if you're looking for pro-veggie or anti-veggie ridiculous comments. Your wording isn't clear; sorry.

Anti-veggie:

1. "You don't eat meat? Not even bologna?"

2. "My daughter used to be vegetarian, and she got Hepatitis from contaminated water on a camping trip so now she isn't."

3. Actress Susan St. James said on a talk show "I was a vegetarian once, but Rock Hudson told me that was no way to do business."

4. "How can people be vegetarian when there is so much homelessness in the world?"

5. "Do you realize you are putting people in the meat industry out of work?"

Pro-veggie:

Sorry, I can't think of any. I guess I'm biased though. I suppose somebody might find it ridiculous if they don't agree with the person's spiritual views or how they believe it effects the environment.

Neither pro or con, just funny:

There were two guys my dad worked with, they were real country boys. One was supposedly a vegetarian, but he was eating meat. The other guy said, "You eatin' meat? I thought you was a vegetation."

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Most of my husband's family and we are vegan. For a gathering one time my sister's in-law family brought a dish which looked vegegarian. When we asked if there was any meat in it she said there's no meat and that it was just cooked with turkey necks.

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"You need meat to live."

- Do I appear dead - the corpse groom? Am I just that ugly?

I'm a theist, I don't even believe I need my body to live, let alone to eat another animal's corpse. Even cats don't 'need' meat, though at least for them it is a preferred food.

God bless.

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Here is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard from a vegan.

Vegan websites claim that it takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. Yet they site no sources for this info.

So, I do the math and was shocked. By the vegan websites figures a cow that produces 1000 pounds of beef would use 2.5 million gallons of water.

You find it shocking that numerous vegan websites claim that it takes 2.5 million gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, me too

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Water is not wasted. When water is used it does not vanish from the face of the earth, if that was true then earth would have no water. Every drop of water that is used will in one way or another evaporate "which cleans the water" and then it will rain back down to earth. This is the simple water cycle that 2nd graders are taught. No need for you to get smart mouthed with me.

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No matter how much of the water you calculate, rain, dew, or the water used to grow the crops to feed the cattle it still does not equate to millions of gallons for a single cow.

2.5 million gallons for a single market cow that yields 1000 pounds of beef by the vegans figures

There are an estimated 1.5 billion head of cattle worldwide. Multiply 1.5 billion by 2.5 million and you get 3,750,000,000,000,000. You really believe that the worlds population of cattle consumes that amount of water. Get real, do the math for yourself. Vegan websites and animal rights groups lie.