Article in SLATE today

[lucystrawberry]

rticlVegetarian Myths, debunked

Meatless Like MeI may be a vegetarian, but I still love the smell of bacon.
By Taylor Clark
Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at 11:51 AM ET

Comments

[singing4every1]

MAN everything you said was awesome except for two things. One of them was in your last line. You make it seem like all vegetarians are absolute tree-hugging hippie POT smokers? Well I can definitely tell you I've never smoked pot and never will.

Also, the other thing I disagredd with, or at least shall I say got a bad feeling about, was when you called vegans "intense". I am a vegan, and I am certainly not intense (If you're meaning it the way I think you mean) and I get along with many omnivores just as you do.

Ok that is all thanks for the very informative entry,
Jennifer

[singing4every1]

Typo: *disagreed

[orphe_]

it's a copy-pasted article... the person who posted is vegan :-)

[fetishangel]

He says in the beginning of the article "...30 people went eerily quiet, undoubtedly expecting me to launch into a speech on the virtues of hemp"
I think the last line was thrown in there as a joke.

[surprisingdepth]

This was very well written, and funny!
Bacon Layer Cake....ewwwwwwww >.

[matt_nothing]

A select few herbivores go one step further and avoid all animal products-milk, eggs, honey, leather-and they call themselves vegan, which rhymes with "tree men." These people are intense.

Fuck you, Taylor Clark. Fuck you for using this article as a soapbox to promote vegetarianism and subtly bash veganism.

Vegans aren't intense, Mr. Clark - your distaste for them stems from your knowledge that you're NOT DOING ENOUGH, but just like omnivores: You are a slave to your taste buds.

[tiredshaw]

I'm backing you on this. I know it's better for everyone/everything to have vegetarians than omnivores, but really. Vegetarianism just seems to middle of the road. It's like saying murder is bad, but rape is okay.

[cannibalcountry]

yep. Vegetarians only pick on vegans because they feel really insecure about buying factory farm dairy products (as 99% of them do - I've known more meat eaters that bought their animal products from "better" farms). They know how fucking hypocritical it is (even more so than just eating meat). When it comes down to it - I euthanize my pets when they are suffering. Buying the meat is more like paying people to end that animals suffering, which is a hell of a lot better than paying people to torture animals (for the bodily fluids or vaginal discharge). I'll never understand the "death is worse than torture" view of many vegetarians who completely change that view as soon as one of their animals is fatally sick.

[friend_of_tofu]

Middle of the road != rape is OK.

They are not equivalent. Seriously.

[darkhorse43]

Ok, very nice for pointing out vegetarians are normal people but why not extend that to us vegans? "These people are intense." What's up with that? Some of us are just going about the business of being vegan in the same way this guy does being vegetarian. Maybe we just figured out it isn't that hard to find nice non-leather shoes.

[hannafrica]

Really, I freaking hated that part. Google and, oh, wow, tons of fucking non-leather business shoes.

[storytellerslie]

Seriously! I really don't get vegetarians who wear leather, I stopped wearing it when I was just veg, it is not that difficult!

[eneffigie]

Yes, exactly. Unless they're veg for health reasons, it makes no sense. I stopped wearing leather a few years before going veg simply because it thought it was gross to be wearing someone else's skin.

[hallelujahlogic]

there are a lot of points that i agree w/in here, but i think it's sort of ironic that the author of this seems to perceive vegans the way he describes omnivores as perceiving him.