Nobody likes a twenty-year-old in a dirty poncho
People always get really upset with me when I tell them I’m a vegan. If the topic ever comes up, my admission is almost inevitably met with stares of condescension, rolled eyes and furrowed brows. It makes me feel weak and emasculated, when really all I want is to show my solidarity for animals and let the world know how much I love them.
I find that the only time I’m really comfortable admitting that is when I’m in the company of other vegans. Whenever I spot the telltale signs of a vegan — bare feet in public and a Subaru wagon with a Kerry Edwards ’04 sticker on it — I can’t...
Well, your Esperanto is LOUSY!
Vilchjo de Mesao Arizono, Usono.
How does this kind of nonsense get published??
I really like the part about the struggle between intelligent beings and non-intelligent beings. Because we're somehow more intelligent than animal X means that they're ours for the eatin'!
That means your veganism must not only include people with low IQs, but the mentally disabled and babies, too.
Good show. A crude attempt at humor that obviously would not be tolerated towards feminists or student-athletes.
And you go to Yale?
Cleary the YDN has become trash. What is this? Another stupid attempt at humor. If you need to fill space find another way.
scene has once again raised the bar
This is the saddest piece of drivel I've ever had the misfortune to read in the YDN. Not only does the author's attempt at humor go over like a lead balloon, the article itself doesn't even make sense!
I'm beginning to see how George W Bush was able to graduate from Yale now. The once esteemed school seems to be overun with idiots.
So let's see... To vegans, life and the minimization of suffering are sacred. To you, buttered sirloin and pork ribs are sacred.
I think that pretty much sums up the article, but I do have one comment: it honestly took me a while to ascertain that you weren't really trying to support veganism by taking such a ridiculous opposing stance.
Do you really expect anyone, meat eaters or otherwise, to associate with your so-called values?
The moral of this story is that extremism is ineffective no matter which side of the argument you're trying to support.
It's funny that those who are unable to comprehend sarcasm feel they are in a position to question the intelligence of others.
I wish you didn't write so well because then I wouldn't have such a hard time writing what I am about to write... in about two sentences. You're witty and funny, but you're snide and inconsiderate. You expected this reaction from a vegan and for that you are an awful human being nothing like anything you want to be.
We're not trying to make you stop eating steak. We're trying to make you understand that what brought that steak to you was tyranny, and unfair domination of man over animal. Speciesism is a word that comes to mind.
But if you want to make fun of dirty hippies, go ahead. Most vegans aren't dirty hippies. I know plenty who are better dressed in their pleather than you can imagine. People with low cholesterol and happy hearts. People you'll never meet or understand cause you've just offended every one of them.
Congrats on your prejudice.
Wow, really, no Yalies can stop taking themselves so seriously, for even a minute? To read a piece of sarcasm? To roll their eyes and laugh, and then go back to their serious, self-important lives? Here's one thing I have learned since graduating 20 years ago, young Yalies...not every single thing in this world is meant as an ethical, social, political, humanistic affront. Sometimes, when people leave New Haven, they grow up a bit and lose this endless self-absorption. Let it go. How sad to listen to you all bicker and behave in such an uptight manner.
I don't even know how to respond to the stupidity of this article. It is ignorant, hateful, stereotyping, insulting, uninformed, etc etc forever. I can't believe this was even published.
If you actually open your eyes a little bit you will learn that veganism is an extrememly healthy way of eating which demonstrates and builds compassion for not just every other living being on this planet, but also for the sake of the environment itself. It points out the obvious contradictions in modern society and is a pretty logical response to the knowledge that is out there to be learned. There are very few reasons to not become a vegan that are not rooted in selfishness.
Becoming vegan is just about the most positive thing a person can do with the way they live their life. Please let me know if there is another lifestyle change that will have a bigger impact on helping the world, because I would love to do it. Thanks.