Thoughtful And Snappy Retorts
Vegan Street, a homemade-looking site with so much information it is hard to find it all, offers a set of alternative responses to typical omnivore questions. First the thoughtful response, then the snappy one. For example, in answer to the question about plants feeling pain (recently admirably explored in these very pages by Alex Melonas), Vegan Street offers several paragraphs about what is necessary to feel pain and then notes that, of course, meat animals eat more plants than people do. The snappy responses (there are two in this case) take up less room but still require several sentences. Is it possible to condense a snappy response into just one sentence? Pithy yet reasonably complete?
Whether or not the snappy responses are snappy enough, this page does offer a nice collection of answers for those common questions in a nice, neat format. Good for those about to embark on a holiday dinner with the fam or a buffet with the office gang.
I was going to wonder why you didn’t have a direct link to the snappy responses section and then I explored the site and realized it’s a frame-based site so the links aren’t readily accessible. I dug around a bit and here are some good links from that site:
How to handle an angry omnivore:
http://www.veganstreet.com/handbook/ahchapter2.html
Vegan radar (knowing when someone else is vegan):
http://www.veganstreet.com/veganliving/veganradar.html
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