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Odd experience - diet related
6 years ago
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So I decided recently that I wanted to make changes to my diet. Namely I wanted to reduce my meat intake, and go semi-vegetarian. This was both for health reasons, and in light of some jarring views into the animal cruelty that is the food industry.
This came up in conversation with a friend of mine. We were just doing some small talk, I mentioned this off-the-cuff. He paused for a moment and was like, "...really?" And I expected him to be mostly supportive, at least in a moral-support sort of way. But he wasn't. Instead, he just about lost his goddamn mind.
He started frantically interrogating me about what impact I thought I could possibly have in the world, why I'd torture myself for "fucking nothing", and stuff like that. Like, he went on an entire tirade about it, getting louder, more obnoxious, and more frantic the more he went on.
This psychotic outburst I was laughing at, at first. Because I thought he was doing a bit or something. He likes to engage in humor that's over-the-top, so I really thought that's what he was going for. But he didn't stop; he was dead serious. He was, at this point, in a frothing rage, over my casual choice to limit my meat intake. Like, where was any of this hatred coming from? Does it really effect him if I eat less meat? What's the problem, exactly?
And this guy is normally one of the more level-headed and thoughtful people I've met. To see him regress into a seething rage over something so innocuous was really baffling.
Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? Like, I've never gotten any crap for telling people I don't like olives, or mushrooms. Apparently that's okay, people don't think it's controversial. But say that you'd like to reduce your own meat intake, and suddenly you need to be drawn and quartered for it?
It's also not like I was crusading about it or trying to make a moral statement about it. I was just filling the time by talking about a life choice I wanted to make for myself. It was almost surreal to see someone absolutely lose their shit over it.
This came up in conversation with a friend of mine. We were just doing some small talk, I mentioned this off-the-cuff. He paused for a moment and was like, "...really?" And I expected him to be mostly supportive, at least in a moral-support sort of way. But he wasn't. Instead, he just about lost his goddamn mind.
He started frantically interrogating me about what impact I thought I could possibly have in the world, why I'd torture myself for "fucking nothing", and stuff like that. Like, he went on an entire tirade about it, getting louder, more obnoxious, and more frantic the more he went on.
This psychotic outburst I was laughing at, at first. Because I thought he was doing a bit or something. He likes to engage in humor that's over-the-top, so I really thought that's what he was going for. But he didn't stop; he was dead serious. He was, at this point, in a frothing rage, over my casual choice to limit my meat intake. Like, where was any of this hatred coming from? Does it really effect him if I eat less meat? What's the problem, exactly?
And this guy is normally one of the more level-headed and thoughtful people I've met. To see him regress into a seething rage over something so innocuous was really baffling.
Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? Like, I've never gotten any crap for telling people I don't like olives, or mushrooms. Apparently that's okay, people don't think it's controversial. But say that you'd like to reduce your own meat intake, and suddenly you need to be drawn and quartered for it?
It's also not like I was crusading about it or trying to make a moral statement about it. I was just filling the time by talking about a life choice I wanted to make for myself. It was almost surreal to see someone absolutely lose their shit over it.
but hay, more for me!