Do vegans eat meals that are cooked next to meat?

I don’t know how to really express myself correctly in the title.
I come from Bosnia and Herzegovina, a small country in the Balkans, Europe.
My cousins visited us last/this week, and one of my cousins is Vegan.
Our cuisine is due to culture, geography, and climate, very balanced between meat, animal products, and vegetables (and dough).
It took some modifications but I made it work, I used Tofu instead of cheese to make cheese pie and pie with spinach, pie with potatoes doesn’t need anything, our traditional sweets are based on fruits and dough with a lot of sugar (so much that your head hurts) but it is vegan. There is this one dish called sač, sač is made of two parts of a plate and a bell, sač is put on charcoal and every few minutes we add water inside it cover it, and repeat for an hour or two.
We were to make lamb under sač, but first, we decided to cook vegetables, mostly potatoes, and sweet peppers.
It was my shift to take care of the sač since it was +30 outside and you had to be standing next to live coal, The vegetables were ready to be taken out and for meat to be put in. However, I accidentally broke the plate, so I hastily put the lamb under the sač without adding water. I went and grabbed another plate, and took out vegetables. After that, I had to explain where the plate was, and my cousin heard it, before that, she was interested in trying meals from sač, but later she didn’t want to eat. I didn’t speak to her since I kinda feel bad and now she is back in the States (or over the Atlantic as we speak).
My question is do vegans eat a meal if it was cooked next to meat, to me it is like making a pizza with one-half meatless and the other one with meat, just because you baked it in the oven doesn’t mean the meatless part is now infested. But again I am not vegan.

It is dependent upon the vegan. Generally speaking, our main concern is lowering consumption and the demand for animal products; nevertheless, after going vegan for a bit, I just found meat to be disgusting. For the simple reason that it makes me feel uneasy, I would rather not have meat close to my food.

Since I’m purely vegan for ethical reasons, I personally don’t care, but I completely understand why other people find the thought of contamination repulsive.

This happened to me last weekend. I went to a BBQ and brought some portobello mushrooms to grill and the person who took them off the grill put them on the same plate as a bunch of steaks that were also coming off the grill. Normally the adjacent thing wouldn’t bother me but these steaks were cooked very rare so my mushrooms were sloshing around in all of the raw meat juice. I didn’t say anything but I made sure to take one of the mushrooms that wasn’t meat-juiced. I don’t think it would be an ethical issue to eat them but (1) it’s just gross to me and (2) whatever bacteria and stuff that people are used to eating when they eat undercooked meat isn’t something that my body is used to so I’d prefer not to take any chances.

Since I’m the only vegan in my family, my food is frequently placed next to meat.not cooked in their own juices, but I’ll grill them simultaneously on different sides.Since I’m the only vegan in the house, I don’t have the luxury of being so particular.

This is a Romanian vegan place; it truly depends on the vegan, but I don’t really care. My tata uses separate tongs for meat and non-meat when grilling his meat ćevapi on one side of the barbecue and my tofu and veggies on the other. I really understand our culture and how we consume and see food, so it doesn’t really bother me. My mother prepares a pot of bone broth and concurrently simmers a pot of bean and vegetable soup for me. She has also done an AMAZING job making me vegan kolače, sarma, and palačinke.

In my view, having compassionate and understanding family members who go above and beyond to make things right is ultimately all that matters.

Because of the fat that would spill over, the majority of vegans would choose to share a half-sipe on a pizza with a meat eater. Awful, considering the fats in the cheese and beef. If you care about either, just be considerate and keep the two apart.

To be sure, eating prepared meals next to meat is clearly vegan. In my opinion, you can even consume food that has been cooked on the same grill as the meat. But since everyone is different and has their own likes and viewpoints, I believe it really depends on the individual.

It’s excellent that you were flexible and eager to work things out. While some vegans are quite rigorous and won’t sit at the same table as someone who eats animal products, others would have eaten the vegetables otherwise. A range exists.

Since you informed her about the touching of the meat and vegetables, I believe she was left out and you got away with it. You were truthful about edge cases and tried your hardest.

Although I would like not, life isn’t ideal.

I would be more worried about bacterial contamination from meat than about going against the “Vegan Rulebook.”

Even yet, I hardly ever eat at restaurants and even fewer times do I visit ones that aren’t strictly vegan.

I avoid eating meals prepared in the same facility as meat preparation.