Vegan at a hospital: not respected (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by oldfemboy@lemmy.ml to c/vegan@lemmy.ml

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At a hospital again. I woke up to stinky meat next to me. They told me they don't have vegan food. They're very ostensibly rude about this. Had to listen to a long tirade from the room"mate" about how carnism is natural.

I'm in a lot of pain which makes me really irritable. I really didn't need to be made to gag with the meat.

Last time I was in a hospital they would throw meat into my food as well making sure it touched everything so I wasn't able to eat the veggies without the corpse taste.

I don't get why people are so malicious about it. I'm trying not to cry not to give them satisfaction. I am vegan for moral reasons. This is extremely uncomfortable.

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[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 15 points 4 months ago

I work in a hospital, and have campaigned to get vegan food included on the menus with some progress. Every year they run a staff feedback online form, and I try to press them on their "clean green image" that they keep running with. I keep asking for the menus to have plant-based food as a tickable option, rather than as a request. Hasn't happened yet.

At least they now have pre-made vegan sandwiches and wraps available. Problem is the patients here are all rich boomers who turn their noses up at the mere mention of vegetables. So a lot of the vegan sandwiches/wraps end up in the skip.

I've asked them to keep the out-of-date ones aside for me, but hospitals don't like that kind of thing unfortunately.

Point is, I'm seeing quiet mild progress in the vegan food at hospitals department.

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