Mom “Publicly Embarrasses” Rude Vegan Daughter-In-Law At Thanksgiving

You can't have a cruelty-free Thanksgiving by throwing money around to be cruel to your MIL, so I have a suspicion the smug b didn't do any homework to determine if any of what she bought was ACTUALLY cruelty-free, either. Being vegan DOESN'T actually guarantee that, after all, no matter what propaganda would have you believe.

Well, humans aren't cute. /snark

The b!tch uses her veganism and kids to control her in-laws. I hope she enjoys spending the thousands of dollars in extra expenses she now has incurred. OP's son is an idiot who deserves the b!tch. If the kids are smart they will make their parent's lives a living Hell until b!tch grovels for forgiveness, and OP tells her she *still* refuses to babysit ever again!

Right?!?! I have been a vegetarian and an animal rights activist for 30 years now. I have NEVER thrown a fit about other people’s food choices. I have been surprised by the number of people who go vegan purely because they enjoy feeling superior to others. Honestly I feel like they give animal rights activists a bad name and I would rather they found some other way to feel smug. They say it’s about the animals, but their actions tell a different story.

What vegans won't speak about is the fact that exponentially more animals are killed via lethal crop protection measures and drifting crop agrochemicals than are killed for meat. They'll also lie and say that the crops are all grown to feed livestock, but the grains that are fed to livestock are 90% industrial waste, such as distillers grains. Veganism is how you would eat if you wanted to cause the most death and suffering.

I agree with this SO HARD!!!!!!!

Not to mention, the dinner seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. She acted that way because she's been stepped over so many times by her son and DIL and this wasn't the first time they used their children against her. Sometimes you have to step up a bit more than you want to for your own mental health and it definitely seems like this is what is happening here.

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For me it’s not that she said what she said to the wife, but in front of the grandkids. She could have pulled her aside and had it out. I had some volatile family members like this once and I ended up having an emotional strain with both of them. She looks like a mean vindictive person in front of them, they were dragged into the drama by all of the s****y adults. So yes, ESH

@Sue Bradley. Especially now. The price of animal products shot up greatly. Two benefits to going vegan...it's cheaper and you can grow part of your diet yourself with very little space saving money. I don't tell people that my dishes are vegan...I just let them know if there are any allergens in it like wheat or nuts. Once they try it...most like it. But I get that some people just like a piece of chicken or a steak. I've cut off plenty of people that were the AH cruelty free vegans. Not all vegans are the same.

You sure about that I've met less than 20 sane non militant vegans irl and online including you. I legit had a vegan try to hit me for pointing out the agave nectar they were using a sweetener was putting a bat species to a higher threat level of being endangered. Vegetarians are chill in my experience

Sue, I'm neither vegan nor vegetarian, but I've family & friends who are & we do just fine. If I host, I make a few vegan/ vegetarian dishes &/or they bring something. I like many vegan dishes & often leave their homes gorged. We all accept one another as is & enjoy our time together. I think OP's situation is more about resentments than it is about who eats what.

Then you are a comparative rarity in the vegan world. I have met too many that have taken the liberty to try and cram their views down my throat- completely unsolicited by me I might add..

I wonder what ingredients she had to buy that pushed the cost up that much? I could make a vegan meal with things like brown rice and chickpeas and it would be dirt cheap. In fact years ago I was a vegetarian (never went full vegan) precisely because it was cheaper than eating meat regularly.

Good point!