Jamie's dispatches from Belgium. Angry Vegan Rant.

[notrobsnyder]

I find it much more environmentally destructive to support companies providing soy and other vegetable products from potentially GMO ridden farms then transported to god knows where to be frozen and shipped again (in huge CO2 producing trucks, energy munching trucks, no less) to your supermarket where about half wilts and becomes "unfit for human consumption" than it is to eat a healthy, balanced, locally sourced diet that does include meat.

[mondezdurden]

God, you're adorable. So funny. I'm vegetarian now and working towards a vegan lifestyle. I travel a bit for work and this can be annoying. Solution: carry on snacks.

[lobum]

I love democracy now!

[Fallen80sChild]

Fuck yeah! I love Jamie, makes me proud to know there are other vegans out there who don't give a shit what people think and will stand up for their beliefs! XVX FOR LIFE!

[lnmissgreen]

Every time I get a little dizzy or seem cold when it's 90 degrees outside my dad blames it on me being Vegan. -_-

[joyinc30]

If I was on an island, I'd eat what the animals were eating :)

[huggablesolipist]

see I could care less about other peoples eating choices. I have vegan friends who won't eat with me or around me when I eat cause they say it makes them physically sick and they preach the vegan diet almost like the door knockers preach Jehovah or Joseph Young. and you vegans and vegetarians have to face the fact that a plant is also a living thing that you kill for your food.

[atr222]

Whats the point of this vegan thing?

[AlexRednex4Real]

Hi, im only 16 and the thought of being a vegetarian has almost always been in my brain, i know my dad really don't like the idea, so i have decided to wait untill i turned 18 or maybe when i move out, so i can buy organic food and my parents don't have to make speciel food for me.

[warbrainALK3]

@AlexRednex4Real

It's actually not nearly hard as people think.

A lot of people from what i've seen, started out by substituting, such as 'vegetarian/vegan hotdogs, sausage rolls, bacon, etc"

and then some other people just cut meat out and don't substitute at all.

There's a much easier much, and definitely healthier, it's just the same as buying fruit/vegetables for dinner, with steak or something, and instead of steak, you can make something like eggplant schnitzels.

Tons of recipes online.

[carogreyify]

@AlexRednex4Real Try to educate your dad. I went vegetarian when I was 13 and my dad was kind of against it at first. You need to inform him (I know it seems funny because you are much younger than him) of why you are doing what you are doing and HOW you get your nutrients.. some people really, genuinely, do not understand. People are trying to look out for you.. but it seems very different when you're in our shoes.

[furseiseki]

The non-vegan friend trying to get to you eat meat thing -- I think it's like if you're a crackhead and you try to get your friends to smoke crack so they can have someone to smoke crack with. It's like SecondLife.

[BobbysOtherDebutante]

I've been vegan for nearly a year now and would never go back. I laughed so many times during this video. I really am surprised at how many people think we eat FISH!

[emilylouisechurchos]

I've literally just gone vegan on January the 1st and all of my friends have tried to talk me out of it, I couldn't believe it.

[acblencowe1]

I used to get the desert island thing all the fucking time from guys at college. It drove me insane. I feel your pain.

You know you've now made me paranoid about travelling by plane? Next time I get on a plane you can be sure I will have phoned the airline at least a billion times beforehand to check they understand what to feed me!

[Roberodification]

I hope to be vegan by next year......:)

[CitizenRadio]

@Roberodification Hooray! :)

[tejo29se]

@Roberodification Why next year? Why not now?

[666norton420]

i don't mind vegans, just as long as they don't bitch at me.

i like eating dead animals. i wish i liked lobster, that way i could pick the one i wanted to eat at a restaurant and sing them a short song before they took em back to the boiling water. :)

i just wish the animals were kept and killed more humanely. i mean, how hard is it to kill something efficiently?

;d

[mellamosean]

@666norton420

oh how kind of you. not minding vegans.

how do you humanely kill something?

[HoratioSpielberg]

Wow, all of your horror storys scare me. I just recently became a vegan and I'm surprised at how accepting people have been about it. But so far not that many people know so maybe so far I've just been lucky. ;)

[Belishabeacon1]

people never really got mad at me when I became vegetarian. they just assumed it was my religion or part of my culture. people who know me would just think they are funny and make comments to me at meal time. but when I became a VEGAN, THEN people started to get ugly. like Jamie said- ANGRY at just knowing that I am vegan- without me adding any other information... they became totally defensive right off the bat. I've learned this is clearly a defense mechanism to coping with their own guilt

[kelind10]

the shortcut was the man trying to give you an acting gig, don't worry about it

[jamiekilstein]

@kelind10 HAHA!

[colibri1]

I'm lucky that I haven't encountered people fucking with me like that when I've been vegan, but I hear that a lot of vegans encounter exactly that kind of thing. I never got real righteous about it, though, even though the animal cruelty really ought to move people to think about their food choices. I always try to remember that humans are omnivores, not obligate meat-eaters, but omnivores who can, if they want, not eat flesh. That thought keeps me from going off on people.

[madeleinesokay]

The weirdest thing is when people try to trick you into eating non-vegan stuff. I used to go to my friends house and she would make me cups of tea and coffe, then a couple of months ago I was telling someone about being a vegan and she bursts out "NO YOU'RE NOT I'VE BEEN PUTTING HONEY IN YOUR TEA HAHAHA!" It was the most fucking retarded thing ever. I was like "no, that doesn't make me not a vegan, that makes you a bitch".

[CitizenRadio]

@madeleinesokay Wow, your friend sounds like an atrocious little monster. No offense. :) PS: Yes, you're still a vegan.

[madeleinesokay]

@CitizenRadio Oh yeah, dreadful person. Probably should have clarified ex-friend.

[madeleinesokay]

@CitizenRadio Oh yeah, dreadful person. Probably should have clarified ex-friend.

[itsmandydammit]

Some people are hilarious when I tell them I'm a vegetarian.

I get the desert island theory a lot, and people always say "Oh okay, I'll just make you some fish." I don't know when fish stopped being counted as meat. My favourite story though is ordering a veggie sub and having the server ask me what meat I wanted on it.

[jamiekilstein]

@itsmandydammit ha we just had this comic Myq Kaplin from Last Comic Standing on Citizen Radio who is great and we talk all about our vegan horror stories. Airs tomorrow.

[itsmandydammit]

@jamiekilstein Awesome, I look forward to people thinking I'm a nutjob laughing to myself on the metro, as is what usually happens when I'm listening to the show.

[Belishabeacon1]

@itsmandydammit i think we have the bible to blame for the fish thing. a lot of people eat fish on Fridays during Lent when they are supposed to be avoiding meat.