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“Have you been tested to know eating beef is physically harmful to you?” is a question nobody would dream of asking a vegetarian/vegan. Veggie/vegan people excl
by CodeWriter23 9y ago
“Have you been tested to know eating beef is physically harmful to you?” is a question nobody would dream of asking a vegetarian/vegan. Veggie/vegan people exclude meat for reasons ranging from allergies, other health issues, political stance, an understanding (or misunderstanding) of how the food chain works, or just as a matter of personal choice. Does anyone subject a person’s choice to not eat meat to any kind of qualification?
But talk about omitting gluten from one’s diet, and suddenly one’s personal health information is fair game for any stranger to inquire about.
Just an observation from this wheat- and gluten-loving individual.
- code_duck 9y agoI agree with that and disagree from various viewpoints. When I'm trying allergy elimination diets, I really, really care about whether something has the allergen in it, even though I've yet to be diagnosed or proved harm from it. I still treat it like I am avoiding it 100%, since you have to for the trial, and expect other people to. On the other hand, when people without true severe gluten sensitivity claim they have celiac, it muddies the waters for those who do in terms of public perception. On the other hand, it kind of doesn't matter if people see one of those people eat gluten and not react, though. I wouldn't react instantly so they'd never see me suffering either.
- CodeWriter23 9y agoPeople running around with false claims of celiac disease is not something I’ve encountered. I know a lot of people who don the moniker “gluten free”.
- code_duck 9y agoWhat I mean is when people somehow determine they have some form of gluten sensitivity, ranging from mild bloating to celiac-like symptoms of NCGS, and call it ‘celiac’ without realizing how specific that is.
- yesenadam 9y agoWell, I have to read on here, apropos of nothing, the BS that vegans/vegetarians are so because of reasons like "political stance" or "misunderstanding of how the food chain works", whatever either of those are supposed to mean. Ironically it was used as an example of people with some diet not being 'fair game' to random intrusion.
- code_duck 9y agoI responded to this earlier, but I wanted to add that having been a vegetarian, in my experience people routinely question it, and often the only reason they accept without taking some shade of umbrage is that you are doing it for your health.