Today, I got a letter back from the family I will be staying with as a part of an exchange program. Apparently they own a slaughterhouse type farm, and I'm expected to kill one of their animals and eat it as a gift from the family. I'm a vegan. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I have to pretend to be vegan for a week while visiting my in-laws to avoid eating there. While they are absolutely wonderful, kind, loving people, their kitchen is absolutely disgusting, and their food handling habits are atrocious. I’m so hungry. FML
Today, my family dragged me to a steakhouse, knowing full well I'm vegan. I sat there, with my sad little salad, watching as they stuffed themselves with burned animal flesh and laughed at me. They wonder why I hate them all. FML
Today, my boss was hosting some client representatives for a meeting and had offered to buy everyone lunch. The "healthy" place he's ordering from made me sick last time, so I'd politely opted out. At lunch, the reps glared at me in the meeting room as I ate my homemade chili con carne. Turns out they're all vegans. FML
Today, it has been my lifelong dream to work with animals. My dream sorta came true. I now work at the slaughterhouse. FML
Today, I was at work training for a new position. The girl who's been training me since I started decided to share about one of her tribe's proud, sacred traditions of eating raw, human flesh. I have another month shadowing her before I can work independently. I'm beyond disturbed. FML
Today, my vegan step-mom found out I ate at McDonald's yesterday. She gave me hell and asked me how it feels to give money to "murderers". All while my dad sat quietly by because he's too whipped to speak his mind. It wasn't even her house a month ago. FML
Today, when I told my family I was a vegetarian, I expected them to make fun of me because that's just my family. But what I wasn't expecting was my dad to use raw meat as a puppet and make it say, "Eat me! Eat me!" then throw it at my face. FML
Today, after working all day to make a big vegan meal for my family, hoping it would get them to become vegans as well, my brother thought it appropriate to pass around a block of cheese for everyone to grate over the pasta dish. FML
Today, I was at my boyfriend's house for dinner with his family. His mom cooked up a steak dinner, except that I'm a vegan, but trying to be a good girlfriend, I forced it down. Upon his mother finding out I was a vegan, she called me "disloyal to my beliefs." FML
Today, the only birthday present I got was a gift card to a steak house. Not a bad gift, but I'm a vegan. FML
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Grimmerie 31
what kind of animal? and do you have to eat the whole thing? these are important questions.
KristinaKreme 0
Woah! At least they didn't threaten to kill you in the slaughter house! For a second I thought that's where the FML was going!
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Comments (231)
emmkaycee 0
YDI for being vegan, but more for not expecting a family overseas to want you to eat meat.
fmavie 10
Why do they deserve it for being vegan?!
gotbiscuits 0
Countries with such traditions don't suite everyone. Chances are you'd need to put up with other "gifts" when you got there. Cancel the trip.
chanma 0
oh wow that's more sad for the animals
dreadbeat69 12
Get the **** over it. You're an omnivore, just like every other human on the planet. You not eating meat isn't going to save any animals, and people don't think you're cool just because you're a vegan. You were born to eat meat. Suck it up.
fontanadevil 0
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oh_hi_there 1
The key part of this, is the "I got a letter back". Now, anyone with two braincells can see that means you already sent them a letter. Why the **** didn't you mention that you were a vegan in your letter? What were you going to do? Just turn up and let them know on the day? If you have any dietary requirements at all, and are going to stay with someone for any length of time, if you don't tell them in advance of that, anything you have to deal with is your own fault. Thank them for the offer, tell them you're incredibly grateful for their generosity, then politely explain that you're a vegan, explain what that is if their country is unfamiliar with such absurdities, and decline as politely as you can.
pinkpicture 0
its amazing how stupid some people are. they know nothing about vegans, yet they openly bash them asif they killed their mother or something. vegans are helping U and the world, reagrdless if u know them or not. be thankful!! jerks!
Kitsi 14
i agree.
ReynshineCutting 10
And how exactly are vegans helping the world? By saving meat for the rest of us? I don't have a problem if someone is vegan as long as THEY get their facts straight and stop believing all the lies fed to them by PETA.
Bcfrmkc816 17
what the **** is wrong with you? a vegan might as well save the earth som oxygen and go ahead and die.
iwouldliketocomm 0
it wont kill you... man up
Kitsi 14
I really find it pathetic how many people are bashing the op. Get over yourselves. Does it really matter whether it is for dietary,ethical, or religious reasons that they don't eat meat? What is this big thing about proving how tough and macho you are because you eat meat? Most of you probably just go to the grocery store and buy meat from god knows where. Yeah, eating the decaying remains of a tortured animal makes you such a badass. Grow up. Furthermore to the people saying chicken and fish aren't animals.....read a book.
ReynshineCutting 10
Maybe you should be the one to go read a book. You clearly are a little brainwashed PETA follower who doesn't know the first thing about how food animals are treated.