A creative solution to veganism not being taken seriously
August 15, 2014 1:10 PM   Subscribe

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I can't think of any possible downsides.
posted by 2bucksplus at 1:12 PM on August 15, 2014 [1 favorite]


She shouldn't have to.
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:12 PM on August 15, 2014 [1 favorite]


Liar.
posted by CrazyJoel at 1:12 PM on August 15, 2014


You know, if you're trying to convince me that a large number of mommybloggers aren't insufferable assholes, you're not doing a great job.

Like the gluten free fad, this is just going to result in a lot of people not taking those who have actual allergies seriously, and thinking it's just a manipulative lie.

I'm amazed this isn't on GOMI yet.
posted by emptythought at 1:14 PM on August 15, 2014 [6 favorites]


My daughter would decide to eat yogurt at every meal if we'd let her. Good luck raising an underweight kid with lifelong food issues there Miriam.
posted by Oktober at 1:16 PM on August 15, 2014


As I'm allergic to most fruits and vegetables and therefore reduced to eating mostly meat, this mom is now my worst enemy and I've set aside this weekend to posting completely irrelevant anecdotes from the bible as comments on the article
posted by MangyCarface at 1:17 PM on August 15, 2014 [8 favorites]


Awful.

Maybe she should pretend her son has other medical issues to get special treatment in other areas too. She could say he's got cancer. Get him a trip to Disneyland or something.
posted by zoo at 1:18 PM on August 15, 2014 [3 favorites]


incoherent rage
posted by ChrisR at 1:18 PM on August 15, 2014 [1 favorite]


I think 'religious requirements' could be a hard firm answer that would be closer to the truth.

I mean, it seems a bit of an early age to teach that lying is okay because then you can get your way with less hassle.

And yeah, it is a hassle being a vegan. That's part of what being a vegan entails (for the moment).

And yeah, it's hard to go out to eat - welcome to the 80's (and before) for vegetarians.
posted by el io at 1:19 PM on August 15, 2014


I've known several people who don't like a certain food, so they say they're "allergic" to it. I struggle with how that fact affects my opinion of them.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:19 PM on August 15, 2014 [1 favorite]


Pretending to have an allergy because of a personal preference is a great way to make food service professionals think that allergies aren't real, or at the very least, aren't actually a serious thing. Maybe she should talk to people with celiac disease about how much fun it is when people don't take their dietary needs seriously due to people like her who lie about being allergic to gluten.

(tl;dr: christ, what an asshole)
posted by tocts at 1:21 PM on August 15, 2014 [2 favorites]


I was taught to lie and withhold information selectively and judiciously as a child. I can say from experience, this is the stupidest way to teach a kid to lie that I have ever encountered.
posted by griphus at 1:22 PM on August 15, 2014


What possible downside could there be to teaching your child that lying is wrong, unless it's to get something you want?
posted by mrbigmuscles at 1:22 PM on August 15, 2014


I think the kernel of my rage over this is that a 5 year old deciding not to eat a wide swath of food isn't a brave moral choice, it's an abdication of parental responsibility.
posted by Oktober at 1:22 PM on August 15, 2014 [1 favorite]


On the one hand, it definitely isn't cool to be muddying the "allergy" pool.

On the other hand, though, she did try to plead his case using the truth, and was met with resistance (like from that other mother who was all "it was your kid's choice to be vegan so fuck off"); she wasn't even asking the other mothers to make a special accomodation, she was asking "let me know when kids' birthdays are so I can put a vegan cupcake in my son's lunchbox so he's not left out".

So yeah, not great for her telling this lie. But also not great for people who aren't taking a food choice seriously.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:22 PM on August 15, 2014


this is just going to result in a lot of people not taking those who have actual allergies seriously, and thinking it's just a manipulative lie.

This x 1000. As a person who has numerous food allergies and who spent my entire childhood being told by well meaning adults, "Oh, you're not really allergic, you just don't like X" and then being fed X on the sly ("Oh my, no, this chili doesn't have any peanut butter, it just has a 'secret ingredient'!)...and getting very sick/ending up in the ER, well.

I am neither amused nor impressed by the author's clever 'hack'.
posted by skye.dancer at 1:23 PM on August 15, 2014


Flagged as "Christ, what is this ridiculously grary post doing on Metafilter, kill it now and salt the Earth from which it came."
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 1:24 PM on August 15, 2014 [5 favorites]


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