Why Vegetarians are Eating Meat

Food and Wine ^ | Aug 2007 | Christine Lennon

[kalee]

A growing number of vegetarians are starting to eat humanely raised meat. Christine Lennon talks to a few converts— including her husband and famed author Mollie Katzen.

To a die-hard meat eater, there's nothing more irritating than a smug vegetarian. I feel at liberty to say this because I am one (a steak lover) and I married the other (a vegetarian with a pulpit). For me, "Do you now, or would you ever, eat meat?" has always been a question on par with "Do you ever want to get married?" and "Do you want children?" The answer to one reveals as much about a person's interior life, and our compatibility, as the response to the others. My husband Andrew's reply to all of those questions when I asked him three years ago was, "No."

Obviously, we're now married. We had twins earlier this year. And somewhere in between those two events, the answer to the third question was also re-evaluated, and the vegetarian soapbox was put to rest, too.

Yes, my husband has started eating meat again after a seven-year hiatus as an ethically motivated and health-conscious vegetarian.

[kalee]

I haved always laughed at vegetarions who would say they were having soy turkey for Thanksgiving. I mean how "natural" is that? On the other hand I am amazed at those Texas steak houses that have the 2 1/2 pounders or more where you get a t-shirt and you picture on the wall if you eat the whole thing.

[kinoxi]

cuz there hungry, hyuck hyuck...

[kalee]

For some reason this article posted while I was proof reading it.

vegetarions = vegetarians

[Salvation]

For one, they should have a higher red blood cell count! As well as more iron in their blood. Both are important.

[mnehring]

I actually dropped a letter to their editor after reading this a few weeks back.. the comments about ‘taking down corporate farming’ just struck me the wrong way.. I’ll see if I still have a draft of that letter, but basically, I dogged them for promoting starvation as the corporate farms they love to trash allow food production on such a scale that one farm can send food around the entire world instead of just their community.

[ConservaTexan]

Vegetarian: Old Indian word for ‘Bad Hunter’

[econjack]

Awh geez...does everything have to have a cause behind it?

[irishtenor]

Vegetarian: Old Native American term for “poor hunter.”

[kalee]

I’d like to read your letter.

[irishtenor]

You beat me by a minute :>)

[Fido969]

“humanely raised meat”

Humanely raised meat is a deer that grew up in the forest.

[kalee]

ping for the food list

[paltz]

I’ve also met vegetarians/vegans who simply prefer the diet, for plain food preferences. They’ll happily wear leather goods and say their diet has nothing to do with “saving the whales”, it’s just what they prefer. If I take them to a steak house, they’re cool with it and end up eating portabello mushrooms on pasta or something.

[Old Sarge]

Awh geez...does everything have to have a cause behind it?

Welcome to 21st Century America.

[bubbacluck]

"humanely raised meat”

Is there a HUMANE way to butcher "humanely raised meat" Do they use lethal injection? At some point the animal has to die in order to be eaten.

[D Rider]

Humanely raised meat is a deer that grew up in the forest.

...and was blasted with a good neck or lung shot.

[bannie]

Complete amino acids are mandatory for good health.

They're not optional.

[HungarianGypsy]

**Freeper Kitchen Ping**

[HungarianGypsy]

Ah! Beat me by mere seconds.

[irishtenor]

If Vegetarians eat vegetables... what do Humanitarians eat?