There’s a new fad in New Zealand among the Vegan population there, which is bound to catch on in California and other insane asylums; “Vegansexuals”. That is, Vegans refusing to date or otherwise have intimate relations with an omnivore. This is according to an article in the “Daily Mail”.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.
She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
“When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals,” she said.
If this talking compost heap wants to avoid anthropomorphic animal graveyards, so be it. As an omnivore, I wouldn’t want to suffer the endless criticism concerning my lifestyle, which is apt to spew from this sort of mindset every time I grilled a steak. Like attracts like, after all, and in this festival of metaphorically laden hyperbole, I find myself having difficulty being attracted to a cow. Give me a wolf, any day.
I’m all for Vegansexuals, actually. It’s a winning situation for human evolution. Considering that Vegan’s represent less than 1% of the planetary population, we’re starting with an isolated number of individuals with which to breed and continue the Vegan lifestyle. With the potential for reproductive problems and thyroid disease from their heavy use of soy products, the herd is further culled. Net result – probably fewer Vegans than before, while the more diverse omnivores continue to flourish.
It’s been claimed by many a Vegan that the smarter people in the world turn to vegetarianism and Vegan lifestyles, because they posses the capability for empathy with the animals in question – with the implication that us omnivore dumb asses are utterly stupid in our thinking for not taking into account the feelings of the animals, or simply cruel for being able to kill such animals irregardless. Perhaps that is the case.
It may also be that grazers are simply unable to come to grips with the nature of nature itself – understanding, but unwilling to embrace the simple concept that life eats life – and choosing to ignore two million years of evolution making us unmistakably omnivorous, over what amounts to a phobia of eating anything with a spinal column. Perhaps Vegans are merely chordata bigots?
With such well thought out arguments like this one, with everything from global warming to the end of the world being the fault of eating animals, who could possibly refuse to turn to Veganism?
To each their own and I hope it works out for them. I just feel sorry for their cats.
