[Jan Fisher]

A vegan has written to a neighbour complaining about them cooking meat.

The irate – and maybe even irrational – neighbour claimed the smell was making them “sick and upset” and could they please shut the window when cooking?

There were a few ‘pleases’ in the missive, but are you serious?

Walk down any Australian road on a warm weekend afternoon and the smell of barbecues can be smelt up and down the street. Are they going to write letters across the suburb?

Here’s a realistic answer, if the smell of cooking meat upsets you, then that’s on you, so close your windows and stay inside.

Would you close your windows to save your neighbours some second-hand angst?

[ronloby]

I would tell them “Hey get a house out in the middle of nowhere if you don’t like the smell of meat cooking”.

[Karl Marx]

Typical vegan. Only aout themselves and pushing their lifestyle on to others. It’s there lifestyle choice same as the majority of others choice is not being a vegan. If they don’t like the smell etc then that’s just to bad. Don’t complain to your neighbours about their lifestyle habits. I bet your neighbour doesn’t complain about yours. So close your windows, stay inside. If it makes you ill take medication for it.

[Jacka]

Strangely enough I sympathise with the vegan. How people can be vegans and vegetarians is totally beyond me but that’s their choice. I do find it someone disgusting the smell or stench of burning meat flooding through your windows. I’m a big meat eater just finished off a turkey chicken and ham sandwich with a little coleslaw, yum. A number of years ago when I was living in apartment block at Kirra not far from the beach, my neighbour would come home every night at around 7:00-7:30pm,(long after I had finished my dinner), and he would fire up the BBQ. His balcony virtually touched mine and although he did have his BBQ down the far end, he would go in and out in and out how many times I don’t know, opening and slamming his sliding door to keep the smoke and stench of the burning meat out of his apartment. However, it was flooding into my apartment, which does leave grime and grease all over the walls and ceiling. Winter wasn’t too bad as I had my sliding door closed. However for 9 months of the year it was not alright. So yes , I do have sympathy for our strange little Vegan friends, and it’s not only Vegans who don’t appreciate being smoked out by ignorant neighbours. Jacka.

[KSS]

I would never complain about the neighbors’ cooking meat/fish/fowl even though I have been vegetarian for over 50 years. However, I will, and have in the past, complained about thick acrid smoke coming from a BBQ nearby in the unit block as a result of the owner’s lack of cleaning skills. Failure to properly clean the BBQ grill/plates after use results in very offensive greasy smoke and smells that linger well after the snag, fish, steak etc have been devoured. And it is particularly offensive when that smoke gets into a bedroom! And like you Jacka, these selfish neighbours take great care to prevent their smoke from entering their own appartment – much like smokers who insist on sm oking on their balcony so the smoke does not make their own unit stink!

[Tood]

Nice to hear there are reasonable people like you around Jacka a lot of other get nasty when vegans/vegetarians are mentioned more likely out of guilt, selfishness or ignorance.

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