While she’d dipped a toe into Juan’s omnivorism at the start of their romance, Juan’s willingness to cut out meat has been less generous, and this doesn’t come without conflict. Plus, going out to restaurants and trying new things, like the Korean barbecued meats she’d never tasted as a kid, was fun to experience together.įive years into her partnership with Juan, Gooden is now wholly vegan. “I figured it’d be easier to eat what was put in front of me than to make a fuss,” especially when visiting his extended family. Juan, whose parents immigrated to California from Mexico, grew up eating a lot of meat, Gooden said. “The accommodation at the beginning came more from my end,” Gooden said of Juan and her eating choices. However, when she first started dating her now-fiance, Juan, meat began making its way onto her plate. Others question how vegans could justify romance with an omnivore, who is often referred to as “omniscum” or “death breath” on online communities like Reddit.īut there are many veg-people who don’t subscribe to this thinking, who share passionate and fulfilling lives with meat eaters who they consider their better half.Ĭindy Gooden, a 32-year-old vegan based in Los Angeles, was raised in a vegetarian household and stuck with the eating style well into her adult life. Some vegans don’t want to swap spit with a meat eater, the most fervid claiming that the act alone is unethical. While I’m not vegan, I’ve learned that all three of these relationship types can be considered controversial in certain corners of the vegan community. Overall, I’ve noticed that the plant eater typically takes on one of three roles: The compromiser, who might bend their own rules for the sake of their relationship the converter, who works to guide their partner toward a different diet or the contentious, who butts heads with their significant other because of their contradictory eating plan. In talking with about a dozen vegans and vegetarians who are in romantic relationships with omnivores - admittedly, a very small sample size - I’ve heard a variety of approaches to how these mixed-diet couples handle food. In some relationships, sharing the decision to eat strictly plant-based matters a lot less than sharing a similar worldview in others, abstaining from meat is the worldview. And as that continues to blossom, personal values around food will continue to bring people together or keep them apart. Interest in plant-based eating has grown a lot in the past two decades - though it’s tough to quantify, some data suggests that the number of vegans in the US grew 300 percent from 2004 to 2019, making up 3 percent of the country’s population, while around 5 percent of adults in the US consider themselves vegetarian. VEGETARIAN MEAT AND CHICKEN MATH PROBLEM FULLWant to eat less meat but don’t know where to start? Sign up for Vox’s five-day newsletter full of practical tips - and food for thought - to incorporate more plant-based food into your diet.įriends used to ask how we managed when it came to sharing dinner, but our story is hardly original. Sign up for the Meat/Less newsletter course
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