I've had this IRL discussion too many times, where the non-veg person says that a lack of meat affects their sleep, energy level, digestion, etc. I'm not a dickhead, and I don't argue with people's lived experience, even if it feels very sus.
I've done a good faith search for evidence of how certain people might have negative health effects from not eating meat, and nothing turns up. (Short of just having a bad veg diet) Maybe I'm missing something. It's just frustrating how often people use this as an excuse, and they're often anti-vegan in their wider ideology.
I'm sharing my thoughts here but I'm not trying to argue with you about your approach. This is just what I do for my own well-being.
As soon as someone starts to give me an excuse about why they aren't vegan, I stop listening. They aren't trying to share roadblocks they want help overcoming, they are trying to protect themselves from feeling guilty.
I can show people they can live a healthy life with delicious, low cost, low effort foods without enslaving animals. If they wanted to know about that, they would ask, like: "Hey, I notice when I don't eat corpses I feel a little run down..." and then we can approach it together. Otherwise I just assume they have a terminal case of meat brain and they get mentally filed away in the carnist slot 🤷🏻♀️
Truly this is my opinion on this. To me, they're a lost cause until they're forced to watch 30 seconds of slaughterhouse footage. It's just frustrating when I need to here this all the time without my soliciting it.
Lol, yeah I call that being their vegan confessor. I didn't ask if they were vegan, I certainly didn't ask why, and I definitely don't care. And yes, I am judging them.