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Jillian, I think you might be missing the point of all the people who seem to be freaking out about this. I just looked at your instagram for this post, and the post you just had on the sandwich, where there are a lot of people criticizing you. I get that it sucks to be criticized, and I also get that you think you are doing a really good thing and that people should focus on the positive changes you’ve made, not all the things that you could do better at. But the point is that your original blog post about all of this (that you appear to have edited, actually, along with a few other posts) has “vegan-ish” in the title. So do many of your other blog posts. So does the post that Erin Ireland wrote for your blog. There are so many references here on your blog and throughout your other social media accounts to you being “vegan-ish”. And so you know what? It is absolutely correct and legitimate for people to point out that a) there is no such thing as “vegan-ish” or being a “part-time” vegan (that veganism isn’t a fad diet or trend, that it’s a word that BY DEFINITION means a diet with no animal products. None) and b) that someone who associates themselves with the term vegan is being a flaming hypocrite and likely insulting huge swaths of people when they do things like posting recipes that contain animal products, posting pictures and videos of themselves smiling while holding animal carcasses, and posting instructions on how to buy their expensive boots and purses made out of dead animals. Despite the fact that there is increasing criticism around you using this term, you continue to insist on various defences like “I’m not perfect” and “I’m doing my best” and “I’m doing more than most people”. Why not just write a blog post admitting that you were wrong to associate your move towards locally-sourced, organic animal products and a more plant-based diet with “veganism”, that you’re sorry, and that the topic is closed? Why are you so insistent on holding onto this term? I mean, alternatively, stop reacting with shock and surprise every time someone calls you out on what is very, very clearly misinformed, uneducated, hypocrisy. It is ok that you are not very smart and clearly lack any sort of formal education (seriously, how many people who live in British Columbia make it to your age without knowing how their food is produced, how animals are treated, etc? That’s just ignorance). But your reaction to what are very legitimate complaints makes it pretty obvious that you don’t have anyone running PR for you or managing your social media accounts, because the more you stamp your foot about how amazing you are for these changes you’re making, and that we should all celebrate you for all the good you are doing for all the animals, and oh also we should buy Arnold bread and Poppy Barley boots, the more ridiculous you look.

And finally, you’re absolutely right. If someone doesn’t like what you’re doing, they don’t have to follow you. At this point, I’m actually ONLY “following” to see your petulant reactions every time someone says something that doesn’t fit your own bloated self image. Maybe it makes me a bad person, but I think it’s kind of entertaining to watch someone who’s not very bright try to “educate” others. And I think that’s what your blog and your instagram have become at this point.