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

I don't care about the distinction.

 

He eats meat. There's no distinction in anyone's mind except maybe Devil's.

He was vegan for a while. (Though I'm not sure he was ever "strict".) He no longer is. His daughter isn't either.

 

If you're hosting folks who only eat organic, be sure you don't let the store slice your organic bread with a slicer that is also used on conventional bread:

 

If you're truly concerned about the "organic integrity" of your home, you should never leave that home.

 

Giving up meat for Lent, again, starting tomorrow.

That's just red meat and poultry. Fish and such is still on the menu.

About the only thing I miss during Lent is cheeseburgers, which I adore.

 

Wait... so some people do not consider fish a meat?

They are called Catholics? That's with a "c", right?

Damn, I wonder if anyone else has ever heard about this small subculture of America that still eats fish when giving up meat? Wow, they must have a little secret meeting place in some vague place like Italy. They probably have some secret chant or some sign they wear like a cross. Fuck, I gotta stay on the lookout for these people? Is this a new thing, or have they been around for a few thousand years?

 

I'm not Catholic. I don't give up fish/seafood because Orthodox rules are peculiar as I think fish with backbones are to avoided, but shellfish are okay.

But I think the backbone rule only applies to saltwater fish, while freshwater fish are okay. So I couldn't sea bass but I could eat two pounds of fried catfish.

Beats the blankity blank out of me.

 

If you ate two pounds of fried catfish, you'd have an unorthodox shittin' problem!

 

Pretty steep curve there, I'd wager.

 

Wow. That discussion is much more awesome than I remembered. Thanks for the revisit.

 

I am not religious, but I was raised in a very traditional Catholic home.
We abstained from meat, including poultry, every Friday, not just during Lent.
Never once was that referred to as vegetarian.

There really is no issue of distinctions or opinions. It is just a matter of definitions and the denotative meanings of words.

Would one start referring to "red" as "blue" because one doesn't care about the distinction or because one has developed a different definition for "red"?