On Hating Vegetarians

[substitute]

Many of my friends are vegetarian. To clear up the terminology, I am talking about people who do not eat meat of any kind (not fish or chicken either, folks), but may use other animal products, e.g., eggs or honey

Comments

[msinformation23]

In general, I don't care what people decide to eat. If you're wealthy enough to choose a restricted diet of any kind, go you. Poor people don't get food choices; it's a luxury.

I can tell you what I do hate about it though. I get really irritated when a American middle class people with voluntarily restricted diets bitch about how crazy hungry they are all the time. Or how they can't possibly shovel down as much tofu or peanut butter as they need. Generally, that sounds like it's either from martyrdom or anorexic cattiness, neither of which I have patience for.

Veggies do get a lot of shit, particularly in SoCal - but then so does anyone who eats an unconventional diet anywhere. Every few years I go on a no sugar, no white flour diet. I feel immensely better while this diet - and you'd think it wouldn't be a big deal, but people have utter shit fits when I won't eat dessert or white bread. Next time, I'm just lying and saying I'm diabetic [which if I don't lay off the sugar will be true].

[eyeteeth]

Thanks, but where's Hitler on this list???

[nyxie]

*upvote*

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He was a vegetarian but he dealt with the social aspects VERY poorly.

[frobisher]

Basically, people should just calm the fuck down and not assume everything is about them. I think this applies both to the people the above refers to as well as, for instance, militant vegetarians.

To make a long story short, even if you think a particular thing is the right thing to do, in the final analysis, you don't make those decisions for other people.

Also, I, I "attack pantaloons" and "It does not imply burgers".

In re: #5

[hotelsamurai]

The old naturalistic fallacy. I hope I live to see the day it is wiped out like polio.

[kasheri]

Thanks for mentioning the "vegetarianism is child abuse" fallacy. We've had this one thrown in our face and it really boggles the mind.

Your reason for going vegetarian twice a week is precisely my reason for being a vegetarian. I wrote an article about it once, and many readers were surprised. They thought all vegetarians were of the "meat is murder" variety.

Finally, as for surviving Pop Tarts, I would argue that the jury is still out on that one.