Confused Logic: If You Love Animals You Must Hate Humans
A hot-headed teenage boy and an old, crazy homeless man got in a fight over me today.
As I was walking out of a coffee house (where I had an iced soy latte and vegan chili), carrying my messenger bag that features the Humane League’s logo with a pig on it, a man started following me yelling at me:
“I am a homeless vet and I’m hungry and I want to know why it is that your heart cares more about a stupid dog then me.”
I chose to ignore him, which only angered him more. He picked up speed and began screaming and cursing louder, telling me to answer him “or else.”
There was a young guy who was already watching to make sure I was okay and at that point he came running over. He started out polite, “leave her alone, sir.” But when the homeless man began acting aggressive toward him, the guy quickly became combative - and they were yelling about me the whole time.
Luckily it ended. Even more than being upset at the thought of being accosted by a man, I am upset that for some reason people continue to believe that animal lovers don’t care about human beings.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Sorry you had such an upsetting experience. I think that if you’re compassionate towards animals you can’t help but be compassionate towards humans, because you want to alleviate/eliminate the suffering of any living being. Also, if we don’t change our food consumption habits, it will lead directly to human poverty. The destruction of our environment has the greatest impact on the poor.
Many people are living with tremendous frustration right now, I think unfortunately you were just an innocent target. Let’s hope we can find some way to help alleviate all the suffering right now, human and non-human. Compassion is universal!
June 30th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Glad it was resolved without violence. And, yummo on your choice of pics!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Honey, get over yourself already. It’s not about you! Why would your choice of diet be of interest to anyone?