Reply #8: My vote for a first topic: what is vegetarian? [View All]

[yewberry]

I totally understand why people want to call themselves vegetarian if they give up beef or pork or chicken or whatever. I don't want to take anything away from them.

At the same time, it's damned inconvenient for real vegetarians or vegans to have to deal the fallout from those folks. Sure, they may be serious about the decisions they make and they may be on the path toward being vegetarian, but they're not vegetarian.

I know that no one among us wants to turn away people who are on the path toward vegetarianism, but there has to be a way to make those folks understand that their public food choices are the reason I get chicken caesar salad or fish as a 'vegetarian' meal.


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