People s Responses to the question: You know someone is vegan when they___________________________(fill in the blank).* You know someone is really vegan when they act like a vegan and mince neither meat nor words.
* You know someone is vegan when they never refer to it as a diet.
* You know someone is really vegan when they get angry at dairy industry commercials.
* You know someone is really vegan when they look at clothing made of wool, fur, leather, or any other skin and just see horrific pain and suffering.
* You know someone is really vegan when they can no longer use euphemisms for animal exploitation. Instead of saying filet they would say the dismembered flesh of a corpse of a sentient creature. They would not say putting them to sleep or euthanasia endash but instead sayendash killing them .
* You know someone is really vegan when they are ready to talk about veganism and answer the same old question for the millionth timeö85because there s always someone truly interested in learning how to avoid animal exploitation.
* You know someone is really vegan when they say he or she rather than it , and when they say who or whom rather than that and what when referring to non-human animals.
* You know someone is really vegan when there is no way in the world they will ever be tempted by a non-vegan product because they can t look at them without seeing the horrendous suffering behind the pretty wrappings.
* You know someone is really vegan when they gently relocate insects rather than killing them unnecessarily.
* You know someone is really vegan when they are abolitionist and know the true principle of animal rights.
* You know someone is really vegan when they bring their own soap to work so they don t have to use dead animal soap.
* You know someone is really vegan when they have a deep connection with, and a true heartfelt awe for all nonhuman beings, and refuse to eat or exploit them in any way.
* You know someone is really vegan when they ask (out of habit) another vegan is that vegan? about something they cooked!
* You know someone is really vegan when they can t even kill a cockroach without feeling guilty.
* You know someone is really vegan when they tell a stranger in the grocery store check out line the reasons to give up dairy.
* You know someone is really vegan when they can t see a piece of meat without imagining the being it was before the murder.
* You know someone is really vegan when they look younger than their age.
* You know someone is really vegan when they don t automatically kill an insect that s in their way!
* You know someone is really vegan when they refuse to take medication with animal ingredients, tested on animals, sometimes even to death.
* You know someone is really vegan when they leaflet.
* You know someone is really vegan when they check the ingredients of every item they are buying, including those they ve bought before.
* You know someone is really vegan when they care enough to nurture other people into becoming vegan.
* You know someone is really vegan when they won t kiss anyone that has flesh-breath.
* You know someone is really vegan when they put their life on the line for an animal.
* You know someone is really vegan when they stop coddling over-sensitive vegetarians.
* You know someone is really vegan when they refuse to go anywhere that has ham in the place s name or never shop at Winn Dixie because they call themselves the beef people .
* You know someone is really vegan when they cover their nose as they hurry past the stinky meat and dairy sections of the supermarket.
* You know someone is really vegan when they don t miss any animal products, crave veggies, and look like a walking advertisement for cruelty-free living.
* You know someone is really vegan when they catch and release mice in their home (and try to keep the family together!).
* You know someone is really vegan when they won t let anyone kill spiders and snakes.
* You know someone is really vegan when they ask waiters in restaurants if there are any animal products in the food.
* You know someone is really vegan when they use the phrase you cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist .
* You know someone is really vegan when they object to the idea of happy cows , free-range chickens and sustainable animal agriculture as speciesist greenwash.
* You know someone is really vegan when they don t use honey or bee products and is prepared to talk about the exploitation of bees.
* You know someone is really vegan when they will balk at the term humane slaughter calling it an oxymoron.
* You know someone is really vegan when they compare factory farms to Nazi death camps.
* You know someone is really vegan when they refer to cats and dogs as rescued companion animals and rejects the notion of ownership of animals.
* You know someone is really vegan when they refuse to ride a horse and objects to horseback riding, even if the horses are well-treated otherwise.
* You know someone is really vegan when they object to the notion of zoos and sees them as animal prisons and exploitive.
* You know someone is really vegan when they consider artificial insemination of cows to be the moral equivalent of rape.
* You know someone is really vegan when they refer to eggs as chicken menstruation and honey as bee vomit, and makes references to pus and blood in cow s milk.
* You know someone is really vegan when they say that cow s milk is only meant for a cow s calf.
* You know someone is really vegan when they believe the only proper place for cows, pigs, sheep and chickens is on a farm that is a sanctuary for them.
* You now someone is really vegan when they think ahead and clean their kitchen at night so as not to attract rodents that companion animals might attack.
* You know someone is really vegan when they promote no-kill shelters; rejects high-kill shelters (according to this definition endash PETA doesn t qualify as vegan).
* You know someone is really vegan when they reject welfarism ; curses Temple Grandin
* You know someone is really vegan when they open the refrigerator at a friend s house and know they are looking at a large section of a pig s body, not a ham.
* You know someone is really vegan when you see them hunched over every label at a grocery store!
* You know someone is really vegan when they are repulsed at the smell of animals being cooked.
* You know someone is really vegan when they feed a vegan diet to their canine companions.
* You know someone is really vegan when they reject the argument that subsistence hunting and culling to keep animal populations down is justified.
* You know someone is really vegan when they call meat-eaters carnists or corpse-munchers and view them this way.
* You know someone is really vegan when they dread hearing the words, I m a vegetarian!
* You know someone is really vegan when they doggedly research ways to feed their obligate-carnivore feline companion safely, without relying on slaughterhouses.
* You know someone is really vegan when they know that being vegan is not enoughö85it s simply the starting pointö85we need to be activists! We need to educate and reach out to others.
* You know someone is really vegan when they had their violin bow re-strung with synthetics.
* You know someone is really vegan when they "google" vegan restaurants before they've even visited the town!
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