Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?

Can't "religious identity" be a midpoint there?

Apologies if I've told this before: A few years ago, we spent spring break in the Keys. Spring break is actually Easter break and usually overlaps Passover, as it did that year.

One day at lunch, I ordered a crab sandwich and our daughter ordered a cheeseburger. When our meals arrived, we carefully set aside the buns, and proceeded to eat our utterly trayf selections.

Vers, you expressed the observant perspective perfectly in your earlier post. You either observe kashruth or you don't. There's no such thing as partial credit.

The problem is I can't justify keeping kosher. Not eating pork or shellfish or mixing meat and milk--I can imagine choosing all of that. I could buy our meat from a kosher grocer.

Separate dishes and flatware and "Oh my G-d, not that dishtowel"? No. That is reducing a system intended to safeguard human health and respect animals to .... COOTIES! Since kashruth is all or nothing, I remain outside.

But I can eschew "bakery" for eight days and feel enough constraint in my eating that I have to take account of why I'm doing it. I can fast on Yom Kippur and reach a point of discomfort by the time Isaiah tells us it's pointless that forces me to want to get it right.

Yes, I'll always be an a la carte Jew. That works, too.

 

Fish is not a middle ground for vegans who are morally opposed to eating meat. Now, you may disagree with their principles. But given their principles, fish is not a middle ground. It may be polite to serve meat to guests, but it would compromise their most cherished belief. I can't imagine being angry at someone for abiding by their principles like that.

 

Not sure 93 has to worry about this because if I was vegan/vegetarian and was having a party, I wouldn't want him around dripping his disdain for my life choices.

 

Are you aware that many people who are not vegetarians will not eat red meat? Red meat, to me, is the far side of eating meat.

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/Pescatarian.htm - Ragu can learn something new today.

 

We had a couple of them over the other night. They brought their own chicken sausages for me to throw on the grill. The husband gave in, though, and ate one of my tasty burgers.

I had a friend a few years ago who is a cop now who gave up red meat. That was for health reasons, though. I try to eat it rarely. It's amazing how your body can react just from a really simple diet change. About a week ago, I decided that I needed to stop having a casual beer or two at home at night. As of today, without changing anything else at all, I'm down three pounds.

 

Enough with the vegetarian propaganda, Ragu. Everyone knows Cookie Monster doesn't eat meat.

 

Ragu must be Italian for "never wrong."

Have you figured this out yet? Yes and no are good answers.

You championing a vegetarian diet answers this thread's initial question. You can condescend with Sesame Street answers, but then again that just reaffirms what I was getting at all along.

 

Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?

Dyno, do you see what you are doing?

 

Why don't you tell me?

 

So are you going to walk back the fish point then?