Trolling was last week, Vagabond ;-).
I see your point, though. I went out with a veggie for three years and the dullness of her diet never ceased to amaze me. She never had a problem with me eating meat, to her credit; the worst are those small ads from people looking for a new flatmate that say "We are vegetarians so you're not even allowed to keep meat in the fridge, and if we catch you nibbling at your stash of bacon hidden in your sock under the bed there'll be hell to pay."

If you practise a religion that forbids you from eating certain types of meat, that's your own affair. Not eating meat for ethical considerations though has to rank as pretty dense, for two reasons: a) you can perfectly well eat meat from animals who've enjoyed a reasonable quality of life, and the fact that they've been killed to provide you with food is not proof of cruelty in and of itself; and b) how many other omnivorous animals show that kind of compassion to their potential prey? Do bears decide not to eat salmon because it looks at them imploringly, or because it's cute? Do badgers refrain from eating small animals because the manner of their death might be painful? You don't see that many bears or badgers with falling hair, no energy and pallid skin from vitamin deficiencies.

Ooh...I fancy a cheeseburger now.
( .Yeti., Fri 27 May 2011, 15:51, 2 replies)

^^^^^ This.
( AWPS, Fri 27 May 2011, 16:49, closed)

Wooly-headed liberal veggies are twats
Those who avoid it due to the vast waste of energy that it causes aren't
( clockworkrat has nice pants, Fri 27 May 2011, 21:40, closed)