So there's a show called The Goode Family airing on Wednesday, May 27 at 9pm on ABC. The whole premise is that they're liberal vegan acivist do-gooders. I'm never too optimistic about how vegans are portrayed in the media, but since this show has no other plot line to focus on than "here is a vegan family," maybe they will come out as multidimensional characters, rather than a stereotype? Or maybe my hopes are too high...
According to Wikipedia, "The family dog, Che, is also vegan: he craves meat and often tries to eat neighborhood animals and pets." This part doesn't look so promising. If a dog had been raised without meat, then why would he crave it? Additionally, dogs are omnivores and can therefore live a vegetarian lifestyle. This aspect of the show worries me as it makes this vegan family appear to torture a companion animal.
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lol that part reminds me of Seven Pounds, which unfortunately I did see, in which her dog is a vegetarian and Will Smith hilariously feeds him meat, grimacing at the prospect of eating veggies and tofu.
I also have been seeing ads for that show which just kind of portrays them as wacky environmentalists. imho, they can only get into so many hijinks before they get boring and/or annoying (just like all environmentalists :D )
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