I decided I would be willing to date a non-vegan since despite the conveniences and shared ethics of other vegans, it can be hard to find them in general, and maybe I could influence people positively, though probably without any expectation for them to go vegan (but still hoping society will move toward it one day anyway).

But online questions asking people (non-vegans) if they would date a vegan really shocked and surprised me when most of the answers were no, mostly for reasons of inconvenience and a fear of being pulled into veganism. This leaves me feeling like finding other vegans may be my only option after all. Is this somewhat accurate?

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I dated a vegan long-term. Only problem was she was picky and beyond that always wanted “good vegan options”. So a few times it happened that it was pretty inconvenient to find food that: 1) was vegan 2) she liked/found “exciting” and 3) didn’t contain mushrooms. Also, she kept adding items to the list of things she wouldn’t eat. Even peta is ok with Cheerios despite it having trace amounts of lanolin from sheep. Once she found that out, she wasn’t okay with Cheerios anymore. I guess all of this is about her not minding that her diet affected other people, even when it was inconvenient because she was just being super particular/picky. It’s certainly not why we broke up, but it was a part of it…