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Now, if one of these city kids then decides they're against meat and want to be vegetarian — or vegan, even — it's no problem for me. I was a vegan for some months (and yes, a woman was involved) and a vegetarian for about six years for various reasons, and was perfectly happy as an ovo-lacto vegetarian. Your body, your choice, as they say. What annoyed me was the subtext, the underlying apparent motivation of the speaker, which pretty clearly could be summed up as "If those ignorant hicks only knew, they'd agree with me." This attitude, that the...