A recent friend's Facebook post touting her completion of one week as a vegetarian got me first into a "congratulatory" mood and then into one of concern as it's quite obvious the Meat-Eating Intervention Network (or as I like to call them Chow MEIN) has yet to "sink their teeth" into her.
Personally I'm of the omnivorous type who has bandied about the idea of coming out to the alternative food style, but you know once you're out you have to stay out and there's just something about the taste of a particularly good piece of beef that keeps me from turning those thoughts into reality. Besides, I feel I've made it this long why quit now.
One thing I've noticed about people who have "outed" themselves as a vegetarian is the immediate defense mechanisms they have to put up to fight off the herd-eating homos (of the sapien variety).
Many people seem offended when they learn someone has given up the flesh to eat the fresh and it's like a natural instinct kicks in as they try to bring said offender back to the well-done side of the food chain.
How do I know this? I used to be that way until my sister announced her preference for eating tofurkey over actual turkey and tof*&k ourselves if we didn't like it.
It was then I did a bit of self analysis and realized the need to understand "why?" should be well overshadowed by the realization that it means more for the rest of us!
I'm sure there are cases out there where gay vegetarians had an easier time coming out of the closet instead of out of the meat locker because how personal some people take it that one of what they thought was their own has abandoned the ship.
Anyway, hopefully my friend's change in lifestyle brings plenty of rewards and in many ways I'm "green" with envy.
P.S. -- A new joke just came to mind: Q: What did one cannibal say to another cannibal who decided to become a vegetarian? A: "Don't you like me anymore?"
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