No Sex, Please - You're a Carnivore

[palomino-72]

This is one of the wackiest things I've read in a while.
I respect veganism, but the movement really needs an image consultant and a PR strategy, doesn't it?

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www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL01219920070801

No intimate "meatings" for vegan romantics
Wed Aug 1, 2007 1:34AM EDT

SINGAPORE, Aug 1 (Reuters Life!) - Vegans have long turned their noses up at meat, but in New Zealand they're now giving the thumbs down to meat eaters, the Press newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The paper's online edition said that a new trend of "vegansexuals" had emerged in the country, where vegans -- who eschew meat or other animal products -- would not even get intimate with anyone who was a meat eater.

"It's a whole new thing -- I have not come across it before," said Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University.

She coined the term after doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".

Potts said that while many female respondents to a survey described being attracted to people who ate meat, they did not want to have sex with them because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.

One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."

"I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance," another vegan said.

(Link: www.stuff.co.nz/4147483a6009.html)

© Reuters 2006.

[Glamour Tiger Baby Junkie]

This is quite an extreme example of veganism. I'm a vegetarian and though I personally don't eat meat or fish, I consume eggs and dairy. Some people who are strickly Vegan or strick Vegetarians may not see eye-to-eye on some of my choices. Being an ovo-lacto vegetarian, I only chose to take the ideals so far. I can't beat myself up everytime I accidently eat/wear something that contains animal products, but I'm not going to forget that I don't buy leather. In other words, I don't try to monitor every aspect of being a vegitarian and can only do so much.
When it comes to this article, I think its ridiculous. I would never tell a partner I couldn't be with them because they ate meat. As long as the other person doesn't judge me for not eatting meat, I've got no problem with them ripping into a steak sitting next to me. This vegan article doesn't take into account that some vegans were raised on meat and could only change their lifestyle when they were old enough to do so. Just that seems hypocritical to me.

[americanmom]

I had a vegetarian friend who said that meat-eaters just smelled funny to her.

[jen68]

well, i wouldn't sleep with a smoker. it's not really that different.

[ivyagogo]

It's completely different. I wouldn't sleep with a smoker either -- because they smell like cigarettes. If people who eat meat truly smell like meat, then I could understand but this is really nuts.

[Glamour Tiger Baby Junkie]

quick fix-Brush Yer Teeth after a meal-problem solved! I don't think meat eaters smell like meat. If it were true, i'd be handing a bar of soap to lots of people...

[nooks1]

If that's what they want to be like, let them. I'm a vegetarian and I have no problem with meat eaters.

[ultimatemind]

Whatever floats their boat, says the girl woofing down a hot dog as she types.

[daisybell911]

So how do they feel about oral sex?

[jen68]

A LOT of people say that meat eaters smell different than vegans and I don't think a bar of soap can change what's coming out of your pores. Plus, it's a major difference of opinion isn't it? I hate smoking and everything it involves. I certainly wouldn't want a partner who didn't agree. I think that's how the person in that article feels as well.

Many things fall into that category, it's just that the vegans in question have managed to make it sound so creepy that they come off as ridiculous.

also not sleeping with:
right wing conservatives
roadside bombers
married men
men with beards/moustaches
women
members of NAMBLA (though i'm guessing they're not offering)
Hulk Hogan


Please don't tell me if Matt McConnehey falls into any of these categories. I prefer to life in ignorance there.

jen