If I had a dollar for every time I heard
someone say something along the lines of “How do you not drink milk, or things
with milk in them?” or “So, you can’t eat cheese or eggs?” I would have a lot
of dollars, believe me. It is unreal. It is actually really baffling to me that
so many people do not know the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan. I
am pretty sure I have at least known what a vegetarian was since I was about
ten probably, and I am also pretty sure I learned what a vegan was around the
time when I was twelve, give or take a few years.
I have also come across a couple of people that had
looked at me funny when I told them that I was a vegetarian, as if they had
never even heard that word before in their lives or like it was from an
entirely different language. Then, there are the people who have never heard of
the word vegan before, let alone what it means. I honestly do not understand
how a person who is my age, and especially even older than me does not know the
difference between a vegan and a vegetarian, and especially never heard it
enough to the point where they felt the need to ask around about it or look it
up online, or even in the dictionary. Like, do you not own a dictionary at your
house? I certainly hope you do, even if it is in the back of a bookshelf
layered with a thick sheet of dust.
I mean, I
guess it is just a little bit annoying for me to have to explain to the
majority of the people that I tell I am a vegetarian the difference between a
vegan and a vegetarian, or the fact that there are two words that are
apparently foreign to them that can be found easily in a dictionary, online, or
from another person that are in the English language, the language that they
fluently speak that they have never heard of in their lives.
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