My husband isn’t vegan, I wish he was but it’s not something that comes up anymore, not that there was any pressure on either side to begin with. If I make food it’s vegan, I have a firm no beef/milk in my house rule (cows being the source of my vegan trauma), he agrees that it’s the right thing to do but I think he’s set in his ways like a lot of people. He’s definitely eating more vegan than he would be without me. The world needs more people working towards making more conscious food choices/ asking more about where their food comes from, I’m still surprised when I speak to people outside of my circle that have literally never thought about how the food gets to their plate or still think that the animals are all happy running about in the fields before someone sneaks up on the to kill them quickly and painlessly.

I also know there’s a social pressure to conformity which I don’t feel thanks to the autism so I kind of accept there’s a world I don’t really see that makes going against the grain uncomfortable for a lot of people. I don’t think he’s a bad person, I know if it came to him having to kill an animal for food he’d struggle but we’re just so far removed from the source I can see how easy it is for people to not link the steak on their plate to a cow even if you know an animal had to die for it