An Open Letter To A Special Group Of Morons

I’m not here to debate, or tell you the benefits of being a vegetarian. I’m not here to act like an all pure saint looking down on bloody sinners. This blog is also not to make you pity a non non-veg eater; it is definitely not to patronize non-vegetarians neither an attempt to turn them into becoming complete vegetarians.  This blog is not to generalize or hate non-vegetarians.

This blog has solely been written for the kind of non-vegetarians who feel it is their birth right to mock, insult and harass vegetarians and vegans or anyone who doesn’t eat meat. Every word is being served to this special group of morons who feel and act superior because they can eat a dead animal before a person who chooses not to. This blog is a statement and a warning to this superior race; watch your mouth and stay within a respectable boundary. Because next time you ask me in a horrified screeching voice, “How can you eat ghaans phoos (grass and weed) or how can you live like this?” you will be blasted so hard you would wish you had kept your mouth shut when you learned to speak. Oh, and please save your sorry ass excuses, “I was just pulling your leg. Why are you taking this personally? I didn’t mean it that way, what’s wrong with you?” Bullshit! There’s a very fine line between harmless joking and repeatedly saying awful things.

If I had a penny for every time I was given a shocked, “drop dead you freak” look for being a vegetarian I would have beeen richer than Mark Zuckerberg and at a much younger age too! People are suddenly interested in what I am or not eating. That awkward silence before a sarcastic comment like, “Seriously, not even egg? Come on, egg is vegetarian! Yeah, right, you ignorant idiot… 

The sarcasm and insults doesn’t end there, here’s what some of my friends had to put up with for being vegetarians.

Shiva Sharma, a writer and a socially aware citizen, faced these annoying comments repeatedly…

·         “You are not really enjoying life” Disappointment…

·         “How can you live like this?” Shock!!!

·         “Oh...The ghaas phoos type” With a screwed up face.

·         “You don't know the real enjoyment of life” Arrogance.

·         “It is high time you try it” Challenging tone.

·         One guy went to the extent of saying that, “My rule is clear...I don't want to pay for veg food”. How polite.

An 18 year old shares the kind of pressure he is put under by bossy non-vegetarians.     “Animals are supposed to be eaten, by not consuming them you are going against the nature”. He had a traumatic experience, something he wouldn’t have expected from his relatives.

“Once I was cheated by my cousin who got rolls. I had specifically asked for paneer roll but after finishing it I realized it was actually chicken.” Deliberately trying to make someone eat non-veg food through trickery or by force just to look cool and feel powerful makes you look like an utter loser! Which you are!

Akshay Gupta, an activist and a responsible citizen, felt angry and hurt when these things were being said to him. He tried to reason with them but his words fell on deaf ears.

·         “You are killing plants…they also have lives”

·         “How can you live by eating this ghaas phoos”

·         “If you want to put on weight, you have to eat meat”

·         "You are saying no because you haven't tasted it”

·         “Animals are meant to be eaten”

“There have been times when I know people are just joking but they take it too far; someone asked me if the baby pigeon I’m taking care of has been kept for supper soup.” Akshay took a deep sigh and continued, “Just the way we wouldn’t appreciate jokes about rape and abuse we have to be sensitive towards animals and animal caring people”.

What a wonderfully sweet thing to say to a person who cares for animal, isn’t it?  Talking about murdering or cooking their pets or foster animals is certainly going to make them feel right at home. Just because some vegetarians preach and shout like fanatics doesn’t mean all vegetarians will do that. Being a vegetarian is MY CHOICE! I have never run after or badgered someone to be a vegetarian. Yet, I meet countless people who are so bothered and anxious about my choice, especially when I’m about to have my meal. And the various expressions of disgust and disappointment that follow during lunch or dinner time with full on sound effects, groans, Tch, tch and the huffing noise! Looking at me with accusing eyes while simultaneously judging me for being a vegetarian! 

As a child I used to eat non veg but as I grew up I realized that I don’t want to and made a conscious choice. I like what I eat and I don’t hold anything against my friends or acquaintances for being a non – vegetarian. I don’t embarrass them by saying mean things when they are having their meals or make them uncomfortable by preaching my views for hours.  But at the rate things are going maybe I will have to give some of them the taste of their own poison.

Now comes the nonsense which was thrown at me, the reason I decided to write about this!

·         “Why don’t you try just the gravy? Would it make you feel better if I puke all over you!?

·         No wonder you are not gaining weight, how will you if you don’t eat ‘proper food’. Because that’s what elephants and hippos do!

·         “You don’t have options, same old boring food” It seems you do, drown in your options then! Or better yet, just eat non-veg three times a day! Don’t eat any form of veg food.

·         Plant killer, you know that recent study says they can hear you! Really, so does that make you any better? Because you are eating beings that not only hear but feel as well, have blood pumping through their veins, have a brain and a heart and want to live!

·         What will you do if you go to China? Why, the hell would I go to China? Just so you can make a useless point?

·         “Animals are meant to be eaten by us, and they taste so good!” And who decided that, you self obsessed, egoistic, intolerant freak!? What is your problem if don’t want to eat something??? I still don’t get it.

·         “Don’t ever take your DOGS to China, those guys love DOG MEAT”. Ah! Taking a hit on my family is not a very wise thing to do…because I will say some really gruesome things about yours like:

1.      What if I cut your human baby up and made a non-veg gravy, would you eat it?

2.      Slaughtered your parents for that kabab roll recipe?

3.      How about if I boiled your siblings to make a delicious soup?

4.      Maybe skinned your relatives to make a nice leather bag?

Oh God! How can she compare!!!!

Did that hurt? Made you angry? Want to punch my face till nothing is left but pulp? Good!!!! Because that’s what I want to do every time you speak about my animal babies!!! I do not differentiate between human and animal babies, to me both are precious.  If you can’t understand that then keep your thoughts to yourself and your mouth shut. And… get some professional help!

Another argument thrown at me about my choice (to be a vegetarian) is…”so a murderer would say it’s my choice and murder, a rapist would say it’s my choice and rape. You can’t just say it is your choice and do anything!” My choice of being a vegetarian (smartass) is not killing an animal or a human; it is not torturing, raping or abusing them! Get it? I’m choosing not to eat meat! How the hell is it related!!??

Here's on post which came quite close to what all crap vegetarians face:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/vegetarians-dumbest-things_n_4177147.html?ir=India&adsSiteOverride=in

 

I still can’t decide whether these guys have an inferiority complex or a superiority complex! How does my not eating something can turn your sorry life upside down? Oh, you are a vegetarian!??? Floods! Earthquake! Nuclear bombs! End of the world!!! Why so much drama? Seriously, don’t you have anything better to do? Is your life that sad!?

There is a chance that many people would take this personally and may even stop interacting with me for expressing my choice and views on their wild reactions. But if you had really cared about me or how I feel we wouldn’t be here. Since you don’t respect or care about me or my loved ones there no point interacting. So next time someone says to you they are vegetarian or a vegan or whatever swallow your dirty comments, the urge to rag and nag and RESPECT them.