I'm probably going to get insanely flamed for this... but I'm gonna come out and say it: I'm a vegan (been vegan for 6 years now, I'm 19). However, I am not one of those tree-hugging bleeding-heart hippies you all have been describing. I have a black Kenneth Cole leather jacket for christ's sake. The reason why I'm a vegan is because I'm into the whole be-as-healthy-as-you-can-be thing. I don't want to have a heart attack at the age of 60, and I don't want colon cancer, and a host of other things that can be avoided through a vegan diet. And if you ask "ok, but it's not unhealthy to eat an egg or some milk every once in a while" my simple answer to that is just that animal products gross me out. I'll be honest: my mom used to force me to drink a glass of milk per day. I hated it. Despise the texture of eggs as well. And I'd much rather just keep the wonderful cholesterol levels I have from being a vegan.
So there you go, a rational explanation for someone being a vegan. Right?
Good for you and fuck what people think. Most of them are uninformed dumbasses anyway. Why should you be made fun of for not eating meat? When I didn't eat it, I didn't brag about it, but other people gave me hell, wanted to know why I didn't eat meat. When I told them, it made some of them uncomfortable so they chastised me. Ignorant fucks. Because I am not ambitious, and because of circumstances beyond my control that I'm not going to get into right now, I have worked at jobs well below what I am capable of. I work with dumbasses every day. I used to bring my Mega Mass Shake to work for breakfast and some of the other older men would think that I was weird and gave me hell about it. Funny, I didn't say shit to them about them eating their cancer causing bacon and sausage, but they felt the need to criticize me, I guess I threaten dumb people like that because they don't understand someone being different than them.
- CollegeKid