Vegans are Fat Shammers

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mojo in the morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I have to tell you, you know, I've I'm not
one that ever would complain about fat shaming. You know,
I don't think that I necessarily care if somebody ever
wants to call me fat. I've always been good with whatever.
But there is a new form of fat shaming that
I'm not happy with, and I'm going to talk about
it right now. And it's people who are vegans. Vegans

(00:25):
are basically fat shamers. And I want to bring this
up right now. And none of you guys are vegans, right, No, no,
you were Presbyterian ones Presbyterian ANDESCTE and pescar.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
What's the difference between being a vegan and whatever?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Pescatarians fish? Yeah, okay, I don't think vegans.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Vegans don't even eat cheese like vegetarians will eat cheese,
but vegan.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Vegans doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
You know, you guys have probably have heard the old joke,
you know, how you can tell if someone's vegan. Oh,
they'll tell you, right. They always tell everybody that they're vegan.
You ever notice that when somebody is a vegan.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
They tell you what's the difference between them and gluten gluten.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I don't talk about gluten unless I'm ordering and I say, hey,
I have to be gluten free. I don't sit there
and go, I'm gluten and you got to be gluten.
Vegans try to make everybody vegans. They always do that.
So we have friends that are vegans and we were
eating with them and I said to Chelsea, I go,
I go. First off, Ever, since they became vegans, they
have not become fun. They're not fun enough, Like it
really is not fun like being out with them. They

(01:30):
used to be like the Wild Fun Crew, the like
I always felt like they. You know how sometimes when
people get over the age of forty, they turn either
really really fun and wild, or they turn not fun
at all.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
They get responsible. That's that's kind of what they did.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
So we go out to eat, and the whole time
they sat there asking a million questions about what the
food was cooked in and how it was cooked. And
then when I ordered my meal and I'm ordering meat,
they literally kind of started telling me about how the meat,
you know, is killed, and how it is processed and

(02:05):
what it's doing in my stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
They talked about gut health.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
If I hear another person tell me about gut health, Like,
I don't want that. I feel like there's all these
these kind of like chic terms and cheek words that
people use. Gut health is kind of the thing that
everybody starts using nowadays. So I was trying to express
to them that I really didn't want to hear about
this by googling.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Ain't vegan?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I wanted to know what is stuff that people
who are vegans don't realize is not vegan.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, okay, you did your research.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Dryer sheets and detergents. Many of the dryer sheet brands
and the cleaners are not vegan, So I said, oh,
do you use dryer sheets in? Then okay, they have tattoos.
I found out that tattoo ink is not vegan. That
while there are some plant based dyes, a lot of
the black inks are made from charcoal made by burning

(03:02):
animal bones.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Who knew.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
And then chewing gums. I said, you ever chew gum?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
And they're like, yeah, we chew gum from timetime, like
when I have bad breath or whatever, animal deriveted glucise,
get ginger, whatever the heck it is not to mention
aspartain in some of these gums see, So I just
wanted to throw that out there as a little learning lesson.
Right now, do you have people that you go out
to eat with and you hate going out to eat
with them because they are constantly like looking at you

(03:30):
differently by what you eat.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
All my people eat meat.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, I was the only outlier, I guess in my
friend group or in my family for that matter, nobody
is vegan. I was the only pescatarian, so people had
to switch up their menu to accommodate my appetite and
the things that I enjoyed. But I never tried to
like pressure people to lay off the burgers or the
ribs or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Eat what you want to eat.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
But when it comes to vegan, I think a lot
of people are just vegan for what they eat. They
don't go into, you know, the depths of it. Because
if you like vegan vegan, I think you got to
worry about what you shampoo your hair.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I don't even think you can wear leather. Yeah, I
think I got and it seems like a possible future.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
WHOA I was a seagan for it?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Ever heard of that?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
So I don't I don't like meat to begin with,
but a Seagan only eats things that don't have central
nervous systems, so like they can eat clams, muscles, scallops,
but like anything with the central nervous systems.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
So many I would never even think about something.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Have you heard of vegetarians?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh my god, we found that out yesterday.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Shout out to all the studs in my d MS.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I do want, I do want you to know
that they do have central nervous systems.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Olivia, what's going on? Olivia?

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, Hi, good morning guys.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
Friday. So, we moved into our neighborhood a couple of
years ago, and we had a black party and we
kind of set it up, and this older lady emailed
me from like one of our neighbors telling me that
she was vegan, and I was like, okay, that's cool,
like we'll definitely have veggie burgers, you know, other things,
like other options. And then after she sent me like

(05:19):
multiple articles on why we should become vegan and why
like everyone else should become vegan, and I was like, okay,
I don't even I.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Don't even know you.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
They tried to converge, you know, they're like scientologists, you
know what I mean, Like they tried to turn you
into them.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
You know the article she sent me. I was like,
where did she get these from? And like I'm happy
to accommodate, but like, no, I like me.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
We have a we have a family member and I
won't say who it is, but that when they come
to our house for Thanksgiving, they want us to make
a faux turkey or whatever it is, like a fake
turkeys and they asked us to do it. And I
look at them and they own first listen, I'm not
judging off everybody off of one person, but ever since

(06:06):
she became vegan, she looks so much more pale, like
she does not look healthy health And I don't know
if maybe she's just not wearing makeup because of it.
But yeah, if you're coming to the block party, we're
eating meat. What's going on? Angela? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (06:20):
Good morning? So I had a I had a philosophy
class in college and she happened to be vegan. She
was the teacher or whatever she brought in. She was
trying to link the ties between veganism and Marxism, and
so she she had this guy come in and he

(06:40):
he literally said, he goes. My method is scream like
scream teaching. So he's screaming at us for three hours
and showed us and showed us an animal slaughtering video.
And if we were wincing in the video, we needed
to question our morals and question our choices in life
to why we were, you know, turning away and like

(07:03):
it was the most wild experience in my life.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wow, that's crazy. First off, that's wild. That's an assumption
that you would sit there and go, oh my god,
that's crazy. But also the idea that they brought a
guest with them, like a guest speaker to come in.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
I definitely.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
Once I got because it was at OCC and once
the semester was over, I got a phone call from
the admissions office and they're like, yeah, we would love
to hear your feedback on your caperience.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm like, let me tell you, Wow, that's amazing. What's up, Sophia,
what's happening?

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Hey, how's it going guys?

Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's great. Hey.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
By the way, the Mojo in the morning show is
one hundred percent vegan free.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
We're free of all vegans. Go ahead, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Fine with me? So I got these new people working
at my work and I asked one of them if
they were vegan, and they were not, and they were
extremely extremely offended by it. And I guess, and so
I guess that saying someone is vegan when they're not
is an insult.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh real, Oh so they got it? Well, what made
you think that they were vegan? Like, why would you
ask that?

Speaker 5 (08:09):
I feel like they just have a look.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know, what's the look? Describe the look.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
Let's say, if it's a girl, for instance, they're gonna
have like short hair, maybe their hairs dyed a certain color.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, a wilder, probably grown out their armpit hair.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Exactly by the way, you are racist, against it against
I was wanting to know that what's going on, Courtney?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
How you doing?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Hi?

Speaker 8 (08:35):
Good morning, Happy Friday.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh yeah, what's up.

Speaker 8 (08:38):
I am vegetarian and gluten free and I my husband
is Italian and when we went to Chicago to visit downtown,
we talked at his family's deli and he was too
fears to tell them that I was gluten free and vegetarians,
so he ate my entire portion on my plate just
so that he did not have to tell them that.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
I was vegetar Some Italian families would kill you if
you walked in and told them that.

Speaker 8 (09:03):
I know, thankfully it's been eighteen years and we're still together.
But thankfully you made it through a butt And they
don't have little plates, they're big plates.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I would love that, by the way, Like I actually
do think that that would be kind of cool. It's
like to have your spouse be whatever it is so
that if there is food there, you can eat theirs.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
What's up, rosy high, Hi, good morning, good morning. What's
going on?

Speaker 8 (09:25):
So I'm a lunch lady and we have a little
kid in Portray who's not allowed to eat meat, and
family does it for religion purposes.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, well I understand that it's part of their religion. Yeah,
how do you all accommodate.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
Well, we'll give them like an uncrustable or pizza or
no meat you know, Bosco stick.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Bosco stick is meat free? Is it?

Speaker 4 (09:46):
What?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Is it? Just cheese and sauce? So good?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, the kids got unbelievable blood pressure though, it's like
it's like off the charts from all that high sodium
crap that he's eating.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now, thank you for the call.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
We appreciate it, all right, one last call, April, what's.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Up, April?

Speaker 9 (10:07):
Hello? I had an interesting story y'all reminded me of
back in high school. A friend of mine was a
vegan and peter and everything, but her hair and everything
was falling out because she wasn't getting nutrition. The family
that she stayed with wound up hiding meat nutrition and

(10:30):
she never knew for years.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
It would hide meat in things that she was eating
to just get her some meat in her ba My god,
how did you guys find out about that? But she
didn't find out about.

Speaker 9 (10:41):
That well, like military families and stuff when we all
hung out and band camp and everything, so we definitely
used to talk about it. And then it was you
know later like after graduation and people hung out. Wow,
that the true stop.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Finally, that's amazing though, that they were worried about her
so much they were hiding And then

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Do you know if there were any vegetarians