My vegan girlfriend wants to come hunting with me

[smokin'stoegie]

My fiance is somewhat of a vegan. Won't eat any commercial animal products but has no problem eating locally harvested and hunted game. There's plenty of vegans out there that don't fill the typical vegan stereotype. Just like how not all gun owners/hunters fill the stereotype.

People that claim to be "somewhat of a vegan" I find humorous. You either eat meat or you don't, that's it.
I think qualifying it in some manner or fashion makes people feel good about the distinction.

 

[jjohnwm]

A lot of people here seem to be confusing "vegan" with "vegetarian".

I once worked with a young lad who was a vegetarian, and when we discussed it he explained that his choice was due to his feelings towards what he called the "meat industry".

I pointed out that becoming a vegetarian to protest the treatment of animals on factory farms made about as much sense as remaining a pedestrian simply because you don't like Fords. If you don't like Ford, you buy a GM. If you don't like the treatment of meat animals on farms, procure your meat from another source, i.e. hunt. It makes much more of a statement...and lets you eat actual food!

He mulled it over for a few weeks, and then announced that he liked the idea and wanted to learn to hunt. We didn't keep in touch, but the next time I ran into him on a jobsite, several years later, he was planning his next hunting trip for the coming fall.

 

[play.soccer]

Had to say who has the worst image in the greater world a farmer or a firearms owner.

Obvs gun owners. It's hilarious that vegans don't see how much damage those large scale soybean farms do. All the rodents and bugs and small animals killed for those thousands of acres of soybeans. Less animals are killed by hunters yet hunters are the devils.

 

[kamlooky]

Funny tawt I jest had..............most vegggieee'eeans eat eggs.
Aren't eggies a stage between the shewter and thuh grown pewlay?

 

[Garaldtao]

My son's gf is vegan because she is against the exploitation of animals but my wife feels exploited when she has to run around to get together meals catered specifically for her. My son, a medical doctor is insane to have a high school drop out dictate to him what is healthy. I will have to hatch a plan to break them apart or at least insert the idea of a prenup before things get serious because things are not going to end well.

 

[essorx]

Should be interesting. Hoping we can see a few whitetail and let her see what it's all about. It was her idea, not mine. We may have a convert!

it's a scam, she'll make enough noise to be sure you don't see anything, and the laugh at you for failing, as a man, to put meat on the table...

 

[Gatehouse]

I have a vegan friend that thinks hunting is cool and always wants to hear hunting stories. She really respects that we go out and get our own food.

 

[O d gout]

My fiance is somewhat of a vegan. Won't eat any commercial animal products but has no problem eating locally harvested and hunted game. There's plenty of vegans out there that don't fill the typical vegan stereotype. Just like how not all gun owners/hunters fill the stereotype.

"somewhat of a vegan"???. I question whether you know what a vegan is. Choosing to eat locally harvested meat over commercially farmed is no kind of vegan.

 

[Runningfool]

Funny tawt I jest had..............most vegggieee'eeans eat eggs.
Aren't eggies a stage between the shewter and thuh grown pewlay?

There are just about as many kinds of vegggieee’eeans as liberals have genders

 

[kamlooky]

Whuharchit man............

https://youtu.be/Fz1ex78QeQI

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[Butcherbill]

Funny tawt I jest had..............most vegggieee'eeans eat eggs.
Aren't eggies a stage between the shewter and thuh grown pewlay?

Ovo-lacto vegetarian, I worked with a guy that was this. Then there’s Pescatarian, they eat fish as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovo-lacto_vegetarianism

 

[mike44325]

Take her out . She may love it .

 

[blasted_saber]

I agree. There are lots of reasons for being vegan and they are not all mutually exclusive of hunting. It is always surprising for me when I see gun owners/hunters not wanting to be judged by people who have limited knowledge of what we do and then turn around and do the same to others.

A good friend of mine that I hunt with has a son who doesn’t eat commercially produced meat but has no problem enjoying wild game of all sorts. He is a young man with conviction and I cannot help but respect that. Most vegans I know, like hunters and gun owners, come in shades of grey...the black and white ones often still have some learning to do.

I had a student a few years back who worked for me who was in this boat. He didnt want anything to do with commercially produced meat, but was an avid angler and was starting into hunting when I met him.

 

[LE303]

Not vegans but I have 2 farmer friends who only eat meat that they grow or hunt

 

[tedward]

As long as everyone's intentions are up front.

 

[Sumonda]

I ate a vegan once..

 

[cant_rope_the_wind01]

when I read the heading of this thread the first thing I thought of and pictured in my mind was this
https://youtu.be/NodQ6cS_G1Y

 

[ghostguy6]

I dated a vegetarian once... lasted about an hour.....

 

[ironsighter]

People that claim to be "somewhat of a vegan" I find humorous. You either eat meat or you don't, that's it.
I think qualifying it in some manner or fashion makes people feel good about the distinction.

I agree 100%.

Anyone in this thread who has stated "I know a vegan who won't eat commercial meat but will eat game meat" (or anything like this statement) - guess what? They aren't a vegan any more than Steven Rinella is.

 

[ironsighter]

Not vegans but I have 2 farmer friends who only eat meat that they grow or hunt

Not remotely close to veganism.