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The wine wasn’t drunk because it wasn’t vegan. End of. I find it weird to say that you were amused though.
Had it been a dinner party for coeliac sufferers and a wheat item was discovered, that too would have been treated like a live bomb, but I’m guessing that wouldn’t be as funny due it being a medical rather than ethical issue?
The most important thing, I think, is to respect other people’s life choices without assimilating or mocking them. I know you guys eat eggs from your own chooks and consider that to be part of your definition of veganism, but I’m sorry to say that a vegan lifestyle is black and white: no animal products at all. Plant based is another matter and might not tickle you so much.
Not being deliberately obtuse here or asking for a “#cba” response, just suggesting that a more empathic approach might be better.
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I’m sorry to say that a vegan lifestyle is black and white
This is interesting to me as a non vegan, because if I were to become vegan I wouldn't, for example, just throw away my leather belt which has many years of service left as that is a waste. But I would still be a vegan, at least in my mind I would be, and I think a lot of others would accept that I was vegan despite my continued use of an animal product I had for years before becoming vegan.
Not trying to be argumentative, but I think how people define the term and themselves can be more complex.
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Yes, I suppose that came across a bit sneery, and no, I wouldn't have expected them to drink it of course. However, having been subjected to some of the most bizarre holier-than-thou dietary and lifestyle one-upmanship I've ever encountered (including some awful anti-vaxer bollocks), the glaring error in reading comprehension and subsequent literal arms-length handling of the bottle couldn't help but be a bit absurd.
Shitty attitudes and schadenfreude I guess.
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That eggscalated quickly.
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We once went to a dinner party that we thought was for our friend's birthday, but actually turned out to be more of a big ol' vegan bring-a-dish with her housemate's friends, who seemed somewhat surprised that we brought a birthday cake. After a couple of hours of the worst sort of vegan (and "wellness") gossip and bitching, some wine was produced that the host had thought was vegan, but was actually vegetarian. Cue it being handled like a live bomb and confined to the furthest corner of the lounge away from the party in the dining room, to be thrown out.
Needless to say we were quite amused and kindly took care of it for them. Can't abide waste...