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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Cleanse week
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
Digging my heels in
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
Paranoid
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
Missed the point
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
Disloyal!
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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Grimmerie 31
what kind of animal? and do you have to eat the whole thing? these are important questions.
the_ace1337 0
it's a turtle.
Jrefinne 7
And OP must eat the whole thing, including the shell.
redbluegreen 41
Everything but the beak and feet.
Timmy_Boy 17
they are made into necklaces
SchiTzenGiglez 0
hats and ashtrays?
TheRealFamilyGuy 5
just remember we eat cows, pigs, sheep etc to keep them in check. Those eating, farting devious animals are actually hell bent on world domination and it is our job to slaughter them and devour their delicious flesh.
dudeitsdanny 10
Animal Farm was a work of fiction ;)
DudeImBetter 0
can you also tell us what this animal's name is, I mean "was" if you already killed it and all ya stupid animal murderer.
Jrefinne 7
64, Animal Farm was a portrayal of society, and not as unreal as most would believe. FYI.
ydi_4_suking 20
poor animal. it has to die cuz your dumbass decided to go to another country
thaney18 0
When I was 8 my uncle killed a chicken in front of me and we ate it for dinner. No biggie
simply_improper 1
The whole point of exchange programs is to experience different cultures, learn and do stuff you would not normally have a chance to do. Get over it and chow down. Becareful what you ask/wish for.
dudeitsdanny 10
69- No shit, but how does the Soviet Union relate to 61's post?
YourEvilHero 12
vegans usually get sick from eating meat if they go a while without doing it, usually eat it by accident. she can drop out
Kitsi 14
that is disgusting
insanesna1l 0
when i was 3 i hunted and killed a rabid T-rex with nothing but a pointy stick and my wits. i also don't eat food but absorb it through my skin. you may also notice T-rex havent brought out an album in a while
CitrusGirl 0
89- it's about the horrors of Stalinist communism that's what it has to do with it.
ismokeweedalot 0
69. Generally someone puts a winky face after what they say to imply sarcasm or that they're jk. But go ahead and try to sound intelligent by "correcting" someone.
Hugh_Spreadum 4
Thats why we need those new fonts. Like sarcastica.
sematariux 7
lmao
timetoshare 0
probably pig
JPabla03 0
dude how you gonna call him an animal murder when it's not his choice and he's a vegan
Anai08 17
I agree with 88. OP's dilemma sounds like a first world problem to me. Experiencing and learning about different cultures is what you signed up for, don't complain about it once stuff outside your western society comfort zone starts happening.
edteach 0
mayhaps... didn't work out for my friend she claims to have done everything right..... on a side note I've never met a healthy vegan... they are usually all so fragile
edteach 0
sure I agree completely all those grow naturally and locally everywhere... and are completely affordable and have no carbon footprint to import whatsoever ever just in case someone lives in the 1 spot that isn't covered
edteach 0
she did all that, I lived with her, if it works for you, yay!! not everyones body metabolizes the same... I never call any of your friends names quit being a douche
ImInHawaiiBITCH 0
ohhh geez this sucks
whoisthisgirl 4
yeah right? I actually feel bad. I eat meat but I would not kill an animal and eat it. the family should have ask first though..
nate_msm 0
I eat meat and have killed and ate an animal but this is me and everyone is of there own mind so I agree with you op FYL
cornedbeef2016 5
what the heck is wrong with killing and eating animals!?!?!?!?!? they taste good and were put here to eat as food for humans. YDI for being afraid of meat!!!! it won't kill u!
johnnydudeman 0
#32 That's the majority of Americans today; they'll eat whatever someone gives them as long as they don't have to see it processed. I think these people should either go slaughter and butcher a cow or become vegitarians, but that's just me. i agree with this thread, FYL OP. Tell them your religion doesn't allow you to consume meat, and so the slaughtering of the animal would be wasted.
aquariusangel420 0
Hope they don't eat you or something sounds like some Texas Chainsaw Massacre shit to me be careful hope you don't get slaughtered HAHAHAHAHA
TheDrifter 24
But be prepared for questions about said "religion" and its practices and etiquette. An exchange program is not just for you to learn about their culture, it's also for them to learn about yours. I'm actually kind of frightened by the impression op is likely to leave them with.
ilovejorgerabara 3
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that is horrible!! I'm not even a vegan but I would never kill an animal. or even kill an animal and then eat the animal I just killed. FYL op
cowsgomooatyou 8
Well it's just a good job that most of these FMLs are made up.
gregomania_fml 0
53 = win!!
SeasonedLemur 5
#3 you're a ******* idiot if you aren't prepared to kill an animal you shouldn't allow yourself to munch down on one.
CitrusGirl 0
I'm not going to pretend to be high and mighty. I wouldn't kill an animal, because blood and guts scare me- not because i think its wrong to kill them (but right to eat them). I've helped clean fish before, at the point where you're just picking bones out and it looks like food instead of living (dead) creature. I'll eat animal if it's put in front of me, but I avoid companies that I know make the animals suffer.
Lizza330 28
That's why I'm vegetarian now. On Oprah they showed how they kill the cows, and I felt so bad for the cows that I haven't eaten meat since that day.
IbanezSprinter 0
so you couldn't kill one but you eat them like it's nothing and don't care if animals are killed on assembly lines daily for you to eat?
Rusty325 4
the thing is, if people had always been vegetarians then our brains would not have developed to the point it has. This is because the protein helps the brain to grow easier. admittedly, you can ingest protein in different ways as a vegetarian but not in the same concentration as meat. On a different note, i would kill and eat an animal but not gut and skin the animal etc.
I_Iz_Emo 0
Well just refuse the "gift" or perhaps try saying no thank you, did you ever think of that one?
KristinaKreme 0
Or maybe he can say he's a vegan?
sundayporch 2
Please never travel.
SteelCladAngel 0
if the op has travelled to s country where it's custom to fees one of your own money making animals it's very likely that refusing the gift would be a huge insult to the family
SteelCladAngel 0
*a *feed dang typos
Theguy614 0
op stop being a b* tch and kill the thing that's one of the problems with America people are so f*cking sensitive, it will probably do you some good
giantsfan2010 23
Time to move out.
dirtyblond 4
But he barely moved in! :(
SeasonedLemur 5
Anyone else think baseball uniforms look really lame?!!
Cjeezy 0
I think they do as well.
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!
penflower 0
Haha me too!! Creepy stuff.
beastly_dubstep6 0
Same! As soon as I heard 'slaughterhouse' I thought it would be OP in the animals place.
The_Voytek_Bear 14
Tell them you can pull out and eat a carrot instead ;)
kingtz 6
LOL! tell the family that carrots are considered magic animals in your country.
Lizza330 28
Who is that stupid?
darkmis1 18
You'd be surprised.
forthepainx3 0
NOMNOMNOM
GotParamore 2
murder the **** out of it
stenn0606 0
I agree
SpectSelf 0
looks like your not gonna be a vegan for too much longer hahahahaha
svlenta 0
try being considerate, prick
SpectSelf 0
ok there, justin beiber.