Too funny

Anthony Bourdain calls them the Hezbollah of the vegetarian world

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMdSgj-AUQ4

I don't have anything at all against vegans or vegetarians, or carnivores, or omnivores or locavores or any other -tarians or -vores. Like Sol, I'm not willing to give up eggs or milk, although I seem to have lost my taste for bacon. I could give up chicken and pork without a thought, but I do like beef and seafood. Occasionally, not every day, and many days I'm happy with beans or peanut butter or eggs.

I do have a problem with people who are always right and think they need to tell everyone else what to do, and that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong.

My Dad used to tell me that "vegetarian" was the Native American word for lousy hunter, LOL.

Annie

I used to be a vegetarian until I got pregnant :)....I craved beef! I don't have anything against anyone taking a food out of their diet, but when I'm in line at someone's house, who has graciously invited a group over to dine, I don't want to hear..."eww..meat...I can't stand it"! That's just rude. I just hope our hostess didn't hear the girl complaining.

My food choices have significantly narrowed because of health issues, my appetite also suffers from that. I find humor in odd places. I would be a vegetarian if I had to kill an animal or a fish to eat it. I consume more vegetables than anything else but not exclusively. Vegan, I haven't grasped.

Thanks, Sol! That was hysterical. The dictatoriality has actually gotten better around here as the hipsters have adopted overt carnivorousity. I'd have a lot more sympathy for the movement if so many of them weren't eating mostly sweets. I did have a really good vegan lunch out last week, however. As best as I could tell, it was well balanced, and probably nutritious as well, and most of all, it tasted good! It makes me chuckle endlessly, however, seeing that most of the food on vegan menus is named after meat. :)

That was great. I was out to lunch the other day with a friend who recently became a vegan and willed all her money to PETA, and I was trying so hard not to laugh as she made the guy strip everything from her salad and quizzed him in exhausting detail about every aspect of the entree, and then sat there virtuously sipping a vegetable soup that was obviously made with beef broth.

I loved the tag at the end, with the dog grabbing the meat! OK, living in a mixed marriage (carnivore/vegetarian) has it's challenges, that's for sure. Fortunately all of the vegans I know are very polite about it. One former colleague at work went vegan at home and would "cheat" at lunch.

There are few vegetarians in France, let alone vegans. They shake their heads and look on in wonderment and offer to take the meat out of the sauce LOL I loved that film. We eat quite a few vegetarian meals each week because..... we like them. I get very grumpy with people who carry on as if they're some type of superior being because they don't eat meat.

I agree with the theory that when humans started eating meat they evolved in intelligence. I think intelligence is what saved our species from predators since we are so lousy at running and/or fighting. I have nothing against anyone wanting to be vegan as long as they leave me to what I choose to eat in peace.

My comment about vegetarianism or, worse yet, veganism is to tell people to look in the mirror and smile. We have the teeth of omnivores--not exclusively carnivores, not exclusively herbivores. Millions of years of evolution have left us with bodies that need both meat and plants. And vegans especially cannot remain healthy without B vitamin supplements, the artificial creations of a highly sophisticated culture. Nothing natural or meant to be about that.

To me, the issue should be animals raised humanely and as close as possible to how they live in nature versus industrialized agriculture which is not good for the planet, for the animals, or for the people who eat them.