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What's your experience of being a vegan in a non-vegan family?

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My situation is a little complicated, I became a vegan after I got married and we had 2 kids. My husband does spill out the same canine teeth argument, but he was brought up in rural Ireland on a farm which makes it more difficult. He just cant understand why I have a problem with the cattle constantly being Artificially impregnated and then why I wont help move them when they take the calves away. My husband is also really stubborn and now has come up with a plan to raise his own animals. I was obviously disgusted and I will fight him on this but he then turned the argument around and told me that I gave him the idea because of all the information I can give him on factory farming and how animals are treated in the meat industry. I feel like I am battling but we'll persevere. I might need a little help though. Doesnt help either that both my family and his think I'm losing my marbles :)

 

I know what you are saying and I agree for the most part.  But I want to know how to deal with them though not to condem them.


Will said:

A man doesnt understand why a woman is opposed to other females being artificially inseminated and having her children taken away? sounds like your family and his have few marbles to lose in the first place and no compassion for the suffering of others.


 
Sarah O'Hara said:

 

My situation is a little complicated, I became a vegan after I got married and we had 2 kids. My husband does spill out the same canine teeth argument, but he was brought up in rural Ireland on a farm which makes it more difficult. He just cant understand why I have a problem with the cattle constantly being Artificially impregnated and then why I wont help move them when they take the calves away. My husband is also really stubborn and now has come up with a plan to raise his own animals. I was obviously disgusted and I will fight him on this but he then turned the argument around and told me that I gave him the idea because of all the information I can give him on factory farming and how animals are treated in the meat industry. I feel like I am battling but we'll persevere. I might need a little help though. Doesnt help either that both my family and his think I'm losing my marbles :)

Sarah--

Maybe it would help you to at least get to know some other vegans in your area?  You could check out this:   https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vegan-Sligo/215528968478165  looks like they have a meetup coming up soon. 

I can't really advise, but Im familiar with how frustrating it can be when others have this disconnect--where vegans see living breathing beings with lives of their own that these creatures value, farmers and others see them as a means to an end, a profit, a livelihood, who will get sent off to the "factory" without a second thought. It is just sooo ingrained in the culture here that its difficult for people to begin to think outside the box.    It sounds like your husband may think that the issue with animals is just a welfare issue, hence his wanting your input on how to raise them differently than they are raised on factory farms, if i understand correctly. It seems then, that the bottom line may be that you will have to emphasize that it is not only the way they are raised that is a problem, but the very fact that they are raised at all for human use; the fact that each and every animal used in animal agriculture, whether for dairy or meat or eggs, all face death at the "factory" at the end, and how this, in itself, is not OK. that its not only the treatment, but its the very idea of them being a commodity itself that is a problem.  Not sure if thats helpful and sorry I dont have much else to offer; I hope you are able to connect with some other vegans locally...being able to meet other vegans "in real life" does make a world of difference in terms of feeling supported. 

West Kerry,

 

Thank you so much for your reply I found it really helpful. I am actually running the vegan sligo FB page. I set it up for the very purpose of meeting vegans as I am the only vegan I know personally as of yet. I have joined some other vegan outreach too because I feel that if I surround myself with people who know more than I do about veganism I will b able to tackle the arguments put up by others with alot more confidence.

Thank you again for your reply.  :)

haha. ohh noo. you ARE the vegan sligo group, lol.  i guess my advice wasnt very helpful then lol.  I hope you are able to connect with other vegans, sarah!  We just started up the Kerry group and it was slow getting started but slowly people are appearing. hopefully you will find the same in sligo. :) 

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