Look, it's fun to troll, and there's no one easier to troll than meat-eaters who show up in vegetarian threads. They're kinda like some men on Jezebel—they're there to fight back before the conversation's even started.

"Vegetarian enough" is the problem. It's kinda like being "enough of a murderer." You are or you aren't.

Another awesome paragraph, girlfriend! YOU'RE THE BOSS OF BARTERTOWN!!

Only red's allowed to talk shit to people. Talk shit back and you catch a paragraph.

Zing!

Thank christ, it's something I never hope to become.

Not every simile works, red.

Learn to soft-boil your eggs at a lower temperature (google 65 degree egg and you'll see that I'm talking about). Takes a bit of work, but produces a yolk that's almost the consistency of room-temp butter, and they taste sweet, with zero sulfur aroma. Really a revelation if you've never tried it.

They make fantastic faux pepperoni.

Then thank Christ you don't have to sit next to me the way that poor soul had to sit next to your obnoxious ass.

Being "picky" is a far cry from having a moral or ethical aversion to a food. I mean, folks can roll their eyes out of their fucking head but I'm not going to eat a dead animal. It's not a matter of taste, it's a matter of principle.

It's a good analogy, wish I'd thought of it sooner.

So, from your specific example of someone with very particular dietary requirements we can deduce that 95% of the population needs to eat meat on a constant, three-meals-a-day basis?

Look, our society is less than 5% vegetarian. So, yes, I am sure there are some people who absolutely "must" eat meat to survive (poor Travolta had to live in a friggen plastic bubble to live), but that's an infinitesimal percentage of the total meat eaters—it's a red herring to the argument.

Lol, says Captain Ad Hominem.

Says the guy who's calling me a college-level asshole. I've got a strong voice and a point of view, but unlike you I don't feel compelled to launch ad hominems as part of my argument.

People in other non-Western cultures haven't begun gorging themselves on meat simply because they've become more wealthy, or gotten better technology.

Do I think that "the only reason [your "worthless" neighbor] gorges on nutrient-dense food that tastes of fat and salt is marketing?"

"Anybody selling anything is trying to sell an ideology, and yes, it's sinister. But we knew that, right?"

I'm here for you.