So what's the dumbest question/comment you've gotten as a veg*n?

[Mirabilis]

Other than the ubiquitous, "Do you eat fish?" of course.

I think the one that took the cake for me was, "But if everyone stopped eating animals, we'd be overrun! What would we do with all those cows??" I'd heard about it before, but never actually encountered it. This person was dead serious. I couldn't decide whether to laugh in her face or throw something at her.

[pradtf]

this is such an interesting question you ask! it reveals how completely dissociated people have become from the food they eat. some no doubt think that meat grows inside plastic.

in friendship,
prad

[Tivrusky]

Or that the meat fairies magically grow it, wrap it, and put it in the supermarkets overnight.

[pradtf]

that's even better!

i wonder how many kids would eat meat if they hadn't been grossly lied to and subsequently brainwashed by their guardians.

in friendship,
prad

[Michelle Lilly]

A girlfriend was worried about me getting hurt, because I would be so weak. She said that if I got into a car accident, I would break bones and so I had to be careful. Uh, ok....

[pradtf]

that is excellent the way you completely tore up that second question into the shreds it is so deserving of!

in friendship,
prad

[Paul Sanders]

The question I've heard numerous times, and I'm sure you have too is:

"You aren't vegetarian because you care about animals, right?"

It's always spoken with that tone of "I can accept any other reason except that you care about animals". I always respond the same: 'every reason is a good reason to be vegetarian'.

[pradtf]

wanda,

the problem i think some people have with the ar issue is they want to look like they care for animals and eat them. they find it difficult to deal with those who realize that these two actions don't really go well together.

in friendship,
prad

[Donnelle]

Chicken. Somehow, people don't think of chicken as meat. Seriously? Its an animal. But no, I always get the question "do you eat chicken?".

And another one is that by being vegetarian, we're actually ruining the world because we need so much soy that its going to ruin all our soil. Again....what? You just don't monocrop. Its as easy as that. Sigh.

[pradtf]

there is reason to give credence to the contents of this study:
High IQ link to being vegetarian

and seeing some of the comments people have received, it would appear to be easy to do an article on the inverse of title as well :D

in friendship,
prad

[Alice]

Couple of things I have heard is ' you will waste away to nothing' and the other was 'veggie girls can be sexy, but veggie or vegan men are just gay!'..the last one was my ex (for obvious reasons) ;0)

[Dreamlight]

By someone who already knew I was vegetarian, after attempting to serve something with fish in it:
Oh, are you a strict vegetarian?

My answer was: As opposed to what, a lax one?

[Marie E. Pollnow (Samadhiatman500)]

Why? LOL