45. Your friends introduce you as a vegetarian sometimes before your name is even mentioned.

46. The inhabitants of this world will never be equipped to accept people with unpopular lifestyles.

47. People in your church (or mosque, synagogue, temple, etc.) tell you that “God told us to eat meat.”

48. When your mother stares strangely at your bowl of fruit because you declined her offer to pour milk over it.

49. When she then goes on her rampage about how horrible soymilk and rice milk tasted to her. I repeatedly tell her that no one is forcing her to drink soy milk. I didn’t like it at first either but now I love it.

50. Before you switch to vegan, you should:

• Learn to explain clearly to waiters what do you want. Then learn to reject politely what they bring to you. Then learn to cook.
• Study eastern philosophy, animal rights, agriculture and medicine. You will need it in your future conversation.

51. For the sake of not to feel offended or bored with the same questions and jokes, learn to give surprising answers to the question of why you are vegan:

• “It was my grandmother’s last wish on her death-bed.”
• “All people are vegan. Some just eat animal products still.”
• “I want to get into Guinness’ Records Book with the lowest cholesterol level.”
• “My doc advised me to eat this diet in order to live with this bottle of vodka and 60 cigarettes daily, you know.”
• “I tried to force my dog not to beg at every meal. And I got used to this diet.”

52. Business lunches and dinners are hell because:

• 8 to 12 people become completely silent and stare at you when it’s your turn to order because they want to hear just what it is you’ve found to eat.
• When the food arrives, eight to 12 people become simultaneously shifty-eyed to try to see what you’re getting (without appearing to look like they’re trying to see what you’re getting).

53. Because you can’t stand telling one more person that Jell-O is an animal product and having them say, “Oh no it’s not.”

54. You hear about once or twice a night from your mother “You’re on your own…I’ll support a vegetarian diet happily but not vegan. You guys are extremists.”

55. You get such bizare questions and comments that are in some nature sticking up for meat/dairy/egg eating and being so baffled that you can’t think of anything to say in return except “huh” at which point they think they have won the debate.