I’m getting really quite frustrated with people’s snide comments and remarks when they find out I’m vegan.

I have been fully vegan for 3+months now and it’s been the most amazing thing for me physically and mentally (I’ve suffered with eating disorders for the past 6 years) and being vegan has drastically changed my relationship with food and the environment.

Being vegan for me has been a very personal choice and so it really hurts when people make comments about vegans.

For some reason every time someone finds out I’m vegan they start rambling on about vegan activists who have done “this or that”. And then my mum will join in and say that she doesn’t have anything against vegans but she doesn’t understand “the whole egg thing”, and whenever I try to explain it she doesn’t listen and will start complaining more about it.

And people are so miseducated about nutrition and veganism. Why is it that when people hear something once they claim it to be true? Like they have done no research and then they will start slamming “facts” down my throat. It is so frustrating. I never actually tell people I’m vegan because I hate hearing all of their smart ass comments. I’ve never shoved my thoughts, beliefs or ACTUAL RESEARCH down their throats so why can’t they respectfully do the same

(And to top it all off, I live in a rural area that is full of farmers so they always have to chime in)