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I cannot believe that calling someone a Vegan in the news is relevant to their story when it is regarding a marriage breakdown!\u00a0 \u201cThe Vegan Perception\u201d, as Canook phrased it is alive and well in the Media. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0The article was about Sir Paul McCartney who is ready to offer estranged wife Heather Mills \u00a330 million to “get her off my back” (reported on the 15th<\/sup> of Feb in Melbourne\u2019s The Age<\/em> newspaper).\u00a0 It describes Heather mills as: \u201cThe 40-year-old vegan – who is representing herself in the settlement\u2026\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now honestly, can anyone explain to me why someone being vegan is relevant to her description? Does this mean that she will not be eating Paul McCartney, or that she won\u2019t be asking for the leather couches?!\u00a0\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we hear about \u201cthe meat eating defendant\u201d, or \u201che who only eats fish\u201d, (does that make him fishy?).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

My feeling is, that it really is about the characterization of her personality as being difficult and a little out there!\u00a0 It has a negative connotation, and fosters that attitude in the community, the community being \u201cnormal\u201d.\u00a0 Vegan is not \u201cnormal, therefore it is strange and odd and something to be feared.\u00a0 It is evidently alright to make fun of us; it\u2019s not discrimination is it?\u00a0 Or is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot believe that calling someone a Vegan in the news is relevant to their story when it is regarding a marriage breakdown!\u00a0 \u201cThe Vegan Perception\u201d, as Canook phrased it is alive and well in the Media. \u00a0 \u00a0The article was about Sir Paul McCartney who is ready to offer estranged wife Heather Mills \u00a330 million to “get her off my back” (reported on the 15th of Feb in Melbourne\u2019s The Age newspaper).\u00a0 It describes Heather mills as: \u201cThe 40-year-old vegan – who is representing herself in the settlement\u2026\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now honestly, can anyone explain to me why someone being vegan is relevant to her description? Does this mean that she will not be eating Paul McCartney, or that she won\u2019t be asking for the leather couches?!\u00a0\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we hear about \u201cthe meat eating defendant\u201d, or \u201che who only eats fish\u201d, (does that make him fishy?).\u00a0 \u00a0 My feeling is, that it really is about the characterization of her personality as being difficult and a little out there!\u00a0 It has a negative connotation, and fosters that attitude in the community, the community being \u201cnormal\u201d.\u00a0 Vegan is not \u201cnormal, therefore it is strange and odd and something to be feared.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,3],"tags":[26,27,28,16],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-vegan","tag-healther-mills","tag-media","tag-perception","tag-veganism"],"yoast_head":"\nNot so Vegan Friendly, the media - HappyCow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/not-so-vegan-friendly-the-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not so Vegan Friendly, the media - HappyCow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I cannot believe that calling someone a Vegan in the news is relevant to their story when it is regarding a marriage breakdown!\u00a0 \u201cThe Vegan Perception\u201d, as Canook phrased it is alive and well in the Media. \u00a0 \u00a0The article was about Sir Paul McCartney who is ready to offer estranged wife Heather Mills \u00a330 million to “get her off my back” (reported on the 15th of Feb in Melbourne\u2019s The Age newspaper).\u00a0 It describes Heather mills as: \u201cThe 40-year-old vegan – who is representing herself in the settlement\u2026\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now honestly, can anyone explain to me why someone being vegan is relevant to her description? 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