Post #3344324

2026-06-11 04:00 UTC

This feels similar to if you are a vegan/vegetarian and the person asking to go to a steak house. Yeah you are fully within your rights to tell that person to fuck off and be done with it, but if it were me I’d just suggest a different place. Most people are eating meat / using AI because it’s cheap, simple and normal and they don’t really know or think about the harms. If I bring up the harms on the date and they dismiss them then I’d probably move on, but if they seemed open to them, even if they ate meat that date, I may continue to date them and try and push them to be vegetarian. I know many people who have become vegetarian because of their partner, if I can get my partner to eat less / no meat then that’s a good thing for the environment/animal wellbeing etc.

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@starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-11 04:20

Wall of text but true and real

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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-06-11 05:49

I know a great steakhouse with phenomenal vegan dishes, but like I let my friends know about the vegan quarter of the menu if they have diet restrictions that you would think precludes steakhouses. I’m not taking a vegan to Schmidt’s Palace of Meat if they don’t have a decent vegan menu. I think the only vegan thing they have is smoked corn. I know many people who have become vegetarian because of their partner My wife and I have specific diet restrictions. Mine is uncommon, hers is not. She gave up the foods that would force me to bleach the whole damn kitchen every fucking day if she kept some in the fridge. Her restriction doesn’t send her to the hospital but I give her the same respect she gives me and don’t eat those foods at home. Likewise she gets her [food that causes me to die] and I get my [food that makes her moderately ill] at restaurants. And we don’t bring those leftovers (if there are any) home. They go straight in the staff fridge at our respective workplaces. That’s just what we do though.

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@Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-11 05:07

I don’t know if you should go into a relationship with the intent to change them. You should enjoy them for them, not who you could make them.

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