Son in law - dislike

I think it’s your daughters life, and your daughters choices, you may not agree with them, but surely she’s allowed to do what she wants to isn’t she.

Chookstar73 writes: We have a daughter who has changed from being a huge off the bone meat eater to meeting her partner and now has turned vegan. All the things she has been bought up on have gone out the window to join the partners view.

This is the only evidence offered of this man's nefarious doings!

All the things she had been bought up on have gone out the window?? Do you mean the bones? I am picturing a young couple staring out at a heap of picked-clean bones piled up like a charnel house. Enough to make anyone think that a carniverous diet is not the only option.

What a dreadful DIL, Chewbacca. How could she manipulate your DS like that after all the values you have instilled into him?

Chewbacca

Over the past 12 years, my DIL has slowly but surely turned my DS towards vegetarianism. She might be a wonderful wife, mother, nurse, cook, gardener and DIL but I knew she was a wrong 'un from the start with all her new fangled notions about food!

Obviously chewbacca!

Made up story!

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Are you ok Chookstar?

I do know that some vegans in Australian have acted very militarily, have gone on to farms and let out cared-for animals
which have then been mauled and killed by dingoes etc, so they are not at all popular in some areas.

Unless your SIL is one of them, welcome him to the family.

Over the past 12 years, my DIL has slowly but surely turned my DS towards vegetarianism. She might be a wonderful wife, mother, nurse, cook, gardener and DIL but I knew she was a wrong 'un from the start with all her new fangled notions about food!

fb.watch/80qabvmGYu/ The aforementioned Famalam Sketch. Sorry if you don't have Facebook.

vegansrock, I'll have to watch that

MayBeMaw

MayBeMaw

I knew somebody who went out with a vegan once, fortunately she dumped him and now she’s with a Colombian drug baron on to his third marriage.

Fortunately he is currently serving 25 years for murder, GBH and extortion which gives her a break from being beaten up by him
But at least he’s not vegan.

???

Has anyone seen the comedy show Famelan? It’s on iplayer and has a mainly black cast. There’s a sketch in one show of a Nigerian mum and her sister who have the son and his friend to lunch - the son is terrified of telling his mum and auntie that he’s in a gay relationship with the friend - eventually he does and the mum and auntie are quite sweet with it, she then dishes up the chicken and the son says - oh I forgot to tell you- we’re vegan - cue mum and auntie wailing and chasing the son and partner out of the house with their wooden spoons.?

Vegan is worst s.i.i can do, sounds a good chap.

hanging out, even.

It's the usual progression, isn't it? First they give up red meat, next it's chicken and fish, and before you know it, they start having out with convicts and collectors of ex-wives ?

MayBeMaw

I knew somebody who went out with a vegan once, fortunately she dumped him and now she’s with a Colombian drug baron on to his third marriage.

Fortunately he is currently serving 25 years for murder, GBH and extortion which gives her a break from being beaten up by him
But at least he’s not vegan.

GillT57

Perfect comment! I am laughing so much!

Hithere

While my own narc parents went bananas when I went vegetarian, they wouldnt admit to it like that so openly on a forum.

Well think yourself lucky they went bananas, and not the full gammon!

Esspee, I agree - it's just like the (often resurrected) 'Fox problem' post that surfaces on our local neighbourhood website - guaranteed to bring out the Marmite brigade (love or hate them). So, vegans, foxes - what else stirs them up?

I knew somebody who went out with a vegan once, fortunately she dumped him and now she’s with a Colombian drug baron on to his third marriage.

I do so hate false threads and this has all the hallmarks of one.
Moving swiftly on……

Lucca, Riverwalk et al. I am in your gang.

It is not unknown for someone to change a previously held, but, perhaps automatically accepted, viewpoint and then have a different picture because someone else has opened their eyes to an alternative – in conversation, in a book, on television or on social media, for example. Just because someone grew up simply accepting their family's values, doesn't preclude them from changing their minds later on.

Get a vegan cookbook- BOSH is a good one and try a few recipes. Please let us know what “ wonderful things” you have given her that she has now rejected, apart from eating bits of dead animals.

Chookstar73, this is a wind up, surely? You haven't come back with any details - so far. I'd be very proud that she's become a vegan. It's environmentally friendly and there's no direct cruelty to animals involved. What's your objection, exactly?

It seems you are blaming him for "controlling" her but that is exactly what you want to do - retain control over everything she does and likes.

It is rather unhealthy to expect your children to have exactly the same values and beliefs as yourself. I do understand it can be upsetting if offspring end up with diametrically different political views from yourself (as this encompasses so many different things) but becoming a vegan? Why are you so upset?

I hope you are not going to make your daughter and her husband feel like outcasts in the family. That really isn't very nice.