Learn to Pick a Vegan Out of a Crowd by Looks Alone
Ah, stereotypes; they’re a funny thing. They are hard to avoid, hard to ignore, and unfortunately sometimes hard to deny. We apply preconceived notions - usually negatively - to each other based on race (white people can’t dance, right?), gender (women belong in the kitchen), age (old people can’t drive, neither can teenagers), career (cops love doughnuts), and more.
Can you guess where I am headed with this one? That’s right, vegans and vegetarians are weak, scrawny, pale hippies… or so we are stereotyped to be this way.
Now I don’t know about you, but this does not describe me. Nor does it describe many of the other meat-free munchers that I know. In fact, I feel that it may just describe a few people that I went to college with who were not vegetarian.
I’m not the first to pose this thought, and I won’t be last. Many have even been so inspired by this stereotyping of us for our dietary choices, that they have asked if you can pick a vegan out of a crowd, by looks alone.
Do you know what a stereotypical vegetarian looks like? Play Spot the Vegan to see how much you know.
Read about the game show Identity, and how the vegan was the hardest person for contestants to guess based on looks.
Peruse the coolest site ever - SuperVegan - and learn what superpowers a vegan possesses.
… And then eat vegan for a week or more (if you don’t already), and check out yourself in the mirror! I dare you to do it!
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November 8th, 2007 at 9:38 am
The ‘Spot the Vegan’ game is cute. Proves my friend wrong who says.. well I won’t give it away.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
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