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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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)
notquite69 0
You'd have to know the basics of a family to stay with them in an exchange program.The idea of the whole exchange program is to see what life is like in an environment that's different that yours. If you're vegan, why would you agree to stay with a family that owns a slaughterhouse farm? YDI.
exemplify 0
kill and eat them inatead, works for me
Sprocket 5
What is the point of being an exchange student if you refuse to partake in the culture fully? It isn't a fetus you're killing.
thorney 2
Guys , enough of the vegan bashing, I am a butcher and I can respect OP's choice, having said that it is in some cultures a mark of great respect to be allowed to cull an animal for a celebatory feast. OP, you need to be prepared to perform this act so as not to offend, or as previously stated, find a more siutable family.
Swono 0
Your life does suck....sorry
cdude200 10
you deserve it for being a vegan
mattrd_fml 31
YDI for being a vegan.
jdogy 0
well you should hve thought bout tht b4 becoming a vegan
alym1617 0
ummm, why would you go to another country if you're such a picky prick that you won't even eat meat? personal views aside, in the real world people eat meat so they don't die. maybe you've been blessed with diversity enough that you haven't had to, but it's also turned you into an ungrateful brat. people like you give a bad name to Americans around the world
KidOnBlock 0
explain that your veagan?