Apartment Renter Banned by Landlord for Eating Meat: I Side With PETA!
An apartment building owner has sparked a wave of backlash after sharing why they tried to evict one of their tenants.
The Redditor explained that they regularly rent out the studio, which is in the basement of their building. However, they also made it clear that it is “explicitly stated in the lease agreement” that residents cannot bring non-vegetarian products into the apartment.
In the post, the apartment owner wrote that they recently saw their tenant getting groceries out of her car. After spotting meat in the bags, they confronted the woman.
The owner said they showed the tenant the lease, then asked her to get rid of the meat. They also asked that the woman remove any other meat items from her apartment — adding that they’d be back for an “inspection” in three days.
“She screamed at me and told me to go to hell, refusing to discard the package that she was carrying,” the owner wrote.
The owner returned to the tenant’s apartment three days later, and found more meat in her fridge. They told the woman she had 15 days to stop breaking the meatless rule, or face eviction.
“When I handed it to her, she went hysterical and started crying,” the Redditor wrote. “She’s claiming that I’m violating her ‘human rights’ and that she’ll starve to death.”
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As ridiculous as this is, and judging someone off of what they eat in an apartment you don’t live in is ridiculous, I agree I don’t see any wrongdoing here! Call me a monster! Call me a vegan-loving snowflake! Call me your names, they only make stronger. You just have to read the lease. You do. When you don’t, best case scenario you end up in a meatless apartment, worst case you wake up in a bathtub with a meatless body. Landlords hate you. They don’t have your best interests at heart. They’re trying to fuck you at every turn. The lease, aka one of the most boring documents ever drawn up for the every day citizen, is the perfect way to fuck you.
So you were an idiot and didn’t read the lease, that happens to the best of us. You can’t eat meat, that sucks. There’s no reason to start clamoring that your “human rights have been violated”. That’s where I draw issue, all this “I’ll starve without meat” and cry me a river type shit. You’re lucky you didn’t sign away your organs you dumb cow. Cook all the hamburger you got in the fridge and eat your fucking sliders on the stoop. Trust me, you think you need meat but you don’t. The body can survive on a remarkably terrible diet, so buckle up for a year of mac and cheese and stouffer’s french bread pizzas (meatless of course you heathen).
Maybe I’m taking this side because if I got caught in this lease I’d go down putting up the least amount of fight you’ve ever seen. I’d roll over faster than a border collie in a best in show competition. I hate confrontation, and I hate not eating meat, but even more than that I hate paperwork, and if you think I’m capable of applying for two apartments within the same year you’re high. So in the battle between Keegan eats frozen pizza for a year and Keegan is homeless, there’s a clear winner.
