I had cheese put into my food before, but now I was given meat-meat and not only once but twice (different places).
It wasn't even by people not understanding what veganism is, it was just a very blatant swap.
Sure, I got money back, but I'm wondering: has the acceptance of vegans gone down and malice towards us gone up? I would've thought it would've gotten better over time.
I'm asking because I'm so far removed from the vegan community I forget I'm vegan because the store being "empty" for me is the norm, as is checking labels etc; I've no clue whether other vegans are facing similar issues as of late.
i just envy you being in an area where you can tell people you're vegan and they know how to maliciously target you based on it. where i live "vegan" may as well not be a word, because I have to go back and forth with them about "no, i dont eat fish either. yes, butter is an animal product. right, so is milk. yes, cheese is also the same thing. yes, even skim milk. no, almond milk is made of almonds and those arent animals. ah, you'd think I would eat that, but for some reason they put a dye made of bugs in it."
What kind of place was this at? Anybody who's ever worked at anything like a bar/restaurant knows people not getting what they ordered happens about a dozen times a day. I think you'd have to invoke Hanlon on this one.
Or do you have reason to think it was targeted at you specifically because you are vegan? Please give us some more background info.
One thing was premade meals sold by a company which solely sold vegan meals... Until it didn't. They swapped one of the meal, keeping it looking identical, same name and all, but now made it with meat. Listed with meat on the new ingredients: but again, same meal they sold, all vegan previously, now all vegan expect for this one meal, made to look identical to the previously vegan meal.
Another one was very clearly meat at a non-vegan with vegan options place where I ate previously so I know how their meat replacement looks (and I also know what real meat looks/smell etc like and it was very clearly actual meat) put into a box marked as vegan. If it wasn't put into the vegan marked packaging, I would've thought it was just a mistake during packing, but I know they prepare vegan food in a different section of the kitchen and they have different grills for it etc.
Feel free to tell me I'm wrong, but to me both of those feel like targetting vegans.
Definitely not blaming you. I guess I don't have this problem as most of the places I visit are vegan. Maybe I'm lucky as there are more options in my city. If it makes you feel any better, I accidentally bought the real pork version of something cuz I was tired, and ate two bites because before I realised.
Thanks for the effort you're putting in. Things will get better in the future.
I used to live somewhere with vegan places, but I now live in a country which seems to have high "flexi"-veganism (carnists opting to buy some vegan stuff) rate, which seemingly also translates into there being practically no vegan places, but more of mixed places. I will be leaving this place in the near future.
I love my butt bidet. You've a great nickname.
