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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

RufusTFirefly

(8,812 posts)

10. I'm fascinated by the widespread susceptibility to fads

Reply to Skittles (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:42 AM

Sep 2015

Almost no one takes kindly to being told that they've fallen for a fad or fashion.
It's like telling someone who insists on something that "really happened" to a friend of a friend that their "true story" is actually a tired old urban legend.
It tends to elicit an angry, insistent, and decidedly defensive response.

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The paleo diet bites the dust as new evidence is unearthed [View all] Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 OP

Plus, depending on what part of the world SheilaT Sep 2015 #1

Of course yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #2

True with one addition..... daleanime Sep 2015 #9

Good point and thanks for the additional info. yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #11

Paleolithic people ate whatever was edible Scootaloo Sep 2015 #3

yep d_r Sep 2015 #5

To the Paleolithic people gladium et scutum Sep 2015 #8

Oh no! Guess I'd better sell all my high-flying "gluten free" stock! RufusTFirefly Sep 2015 #4

I hear you Skittles Sep 2015 #7

I'm fascinated by the widespread susceptibility to fads RufusTFirefly Sep 2015 #10

they spend so so much time being proud of what they will or will not eat Skittles Sep 2015 #12

mares eat oats and does eat oats but little lambs eat ivy lunasun Sep 2015 #6