Answer to a nagging question in endometriosis diet

The Christmas season is coming, and with it comes lots of party invitations and eating out with friends and family.

As an endometriosis dieter, you're sure to find some of the following common comments that ring a familiar bell, which you've heard your loved ones try to drive you crazy out of sheer concern, love or teasing:-) smile a big smile at them, even if you don't have to say them, just think about them in your head and you're laughing instead of getting annoyed...have fun at family/friends/work lunches/reunions:-)

Finally, here are the punchy answers to those tedious questions. The braver ones can laugh and make jokes, the more modest ones will just smile to themselves. Here's the second in our series of articles. Have fun!

Isn't it deadly boring to eat salad all the time? 

But, you are right. Szechwan ravioli with cashew cream and mushroom sauce is awfully boring, and I think I'm going to go crazy if I have to eat a rainbow Buddha bowl for breakfast again. It would be more exciting if I had scrambled eggs every day and scrambled meat on holidays, right?

But a cow's udder will burst if it's not milked... we're just doing it a favour. 

Of course, I remember my breasts would burst when I was breastfeeding, until my baby was well and truly full. Cow calves-conceived by artificial insemination extremely quickly compared to the previous calving-are separated from their mothers no later than two days after they come into the world. Milk production would then stop on its own - unless the animals were given a diet enriched with oestrogen and other drugs to make the milking period as long and intense as possible. Are we sure we're doing them a favour by milking them?

I knew a vegan once, you know, he was so skinny/sick/glasses...

Well yes, I have never, ever seen a lean/sick/eyeglasses wearing meat eater. It must be a vegan thing.

Plants feel it too, I read in an article that carrots scream when you eat them. 

Imagine that I'm taking this carrot, sticking it up your nostril, which one of you do you think would hurt more:-D

Being vegan is so expensive! 

Yes, now that I've lost 4 kilos, reached my ideal body weight, got my blood sugar and insulin resistance back to normal, my cholesterol is fine and my acne is gone, my hair is finally not falling out and I'm more energetic than ever, my medical bills are skyrocketing!:-D

Agriculture is also responsible for the death of many living things!

Okay. Watch a video of the slaughterhouse and I promise to watch a bloody raspberry and currant harvest without blinking.

Being vegan is too extreme! 

Yes, being empathetic to other sentient beings is really extreme.

You can read more on this topic and get more canned answers atz EnDossier!