How to Convert You Friends and Family to Vegetarianism or Veganism

Those of you who have adopted a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle understand that the struggle is real when it comes to having your friends and family accept your new eating habits. For some reason they can’t seem to wrap their heads around why we choose to eat only the green leafy stuff and relentlessly ask us why we don’t eat meat, as if it was a crime against humanity! Well, if you want to go down that road, breeding animals for food may be more of a crime against humanity than anything, but of course they don’t think that way.🤔 If they would open their eyes to see how these animals are being raised, treated, and stored like an item on the shelf, then they might just change their minds. So one of the big problems I see the way that people try to get others to jump on board the veggie train. 🚂 When I used to eat a predominately carnivorous diet I was never swayed by people telling me I was killing an animal or what part of an animal I was eating or how cruel it was to them. I have been conditioned with the hunter gatherer mentality that has been around since the dawn of civilization. It actually gave me more ammunition to fire back at the leaf eaters and their kale burgers and chips. It was very easy to do since vegetarians and vegans are the minority. So now I ask my fellow leaf eaters to take a different approach to getting others on board the veggie train. I know the transition was a gradual one for me and I started out by eating foods I was familiar with. Today it is easier than ever to provide replacements for most of the things that people are used to eating. I pride myself in a being able to remake meals in a healthy vegetarian or vegan way. Do some research and implement a couple meat free items into a meal with your friends or family so they have options rather than a last resort. Today there are corn dogs, hamburgers, pizza, and even chicken wings to place on the table and let them try. Of course they’re not the most healthy options due to being being processed foods, but it’s a great way to get others to jump on board. Unless they are totally against the cause I can guarantee they will find something they enjoy. Mark my word when I say this approach works, good luck in the push for acceptance. Someday vegan and vegetarianism will be viewed as another choose like seafood and not something “weird” people do!