*eyeroll*

[conuly]

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/a-thanksgiving-feast-no-turkeys-allowed

It's a post with some vegetarian recipes for Thanksgiving. As the author says, even non-vegetarians can use these recipes as side dishes along with their meat-of-choice.

And some of those recipes look really good, although fat chance trying to convince the nieces to eat butternut anything. (Still, do you think it'd go well with that shrimp dish?)

92 comments in, and most of them are "OMG! Vegetarians are so terrible! This is an assault on my freedom! How stupid they are to think they'll stop me from eating meat! Nom nom nom! Those meanies!"

Now, I agree, some veg*ns can be terrible, annoying people who are determined to convince everybody to stop eating what they like ever. (And to them I say you do much more good convincing three people to eat half as much meat than you do convincing one person to eat no meat and two people to eat twice as much because they hate you.) There are people like that in EVERY group.

None of them are posting comments over there today, though. Bunch of hypocrites, all of them, whining about how vegetarians are judging THEIR diets!

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[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Preachy vegetarians spoil my appetite.

[conuly]

Indeed, but at the time that I posted this most of them were overdefensive non-vegetarians railing against the preachy vegetarians who had failed to materialize in the first place.

And now some of them have materialized and it's all getting sillier. "Oh, that mean vegetarian judged me! She said I'm going to eat a dead bird on Thanksgiving!"

Seriously? If you're going to eat a dead bird on Thanksgiving (as compared to what, a live bird? If so, that's all you), nobody cares to stop you. If it really squicks you out that much contemplating that you're eating a dead bird, go eat something else!

I mean, honestly, on the list of judgmental name-calling, "dead bird eater" is fairly far down. And it's freaking honest!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

With some people in our family Gabe doesn't even have to say he's a vegetarian. He says can I have fruit instead of sausages and they go apeshit thinking he's going to get preachy!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the post by an Inuk saying that they didn't mind being called an Eskimo even if it means (as some people think) "eaters of raw meat". Because, duh, he does eat raw meat! And so what?

(From what I heard, an etymology along the lines of "people who net snowshoes" is more satisfactory.)