ANGRY VEGANS TURN PEOPLE AWAY FROM HEALTHY DIETS

Everyone who eats food, at one time or another, has been confronted by an ANGRY VEGAN while eating.  In the 1999 movie, Notting Hill starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, Roberts’s character is asked how she likes the poultry and abruptly remarks, “I am a vegetarian.” It is met with the usual thud and negative response by the theatre audience. 

Julia Roberts is playing a role so it’s not her that comes off rude. Her character had been invited or more precisely had invited herself to the small family dinner and birthday party for Grant’s younger sister. Her character’s remark was rude. When diet preferences are used as a wedge, others at the table feel it. As Ben Franklin remarked about food, it is far less important than good conversation. 

The problem with VEGANs is they just can’t eat without foisting their political views on others. Most Americans would not eat meat if they had to kill the animal with their own hands. But in our society that is not necessary. The human body has in fact evolved to eat meat as compared to a Gorilla that does not eat meat. 

But the Vegan rarely stops with their public display. Instead of simply saying “no thank you” they start talking about how eating eggs and drinking milk makes them hurl. Here you are eating a piece of chicken or a shrimp cocktail and called a murderer. Oh, in that case, let’s call the police. 

Pescatarians don’t want to start food wars. They invite the Mediterranean diet as well as the flexitarian diet into their tent. The simple fact is fish helps you live a longer healthy life even if you only eat fish once a week. Research from the Seventh Day Adventists and Loma Linda University have pointed this out. A Pescatarian eats meat. They eat fish. That’s meat. Pescatarians may draw their own lines and choose not to eat mammals or poultry or eggs, or dairy, but a vegan bickering over fish consumption loses scientifically. 

Pescatarians may eat eggs and dairy. and even chicken and not be thrown out of the club or shamed when they dine with others who don’t share their eating habits. It is called tolerance for others, and that is more important than anything you eat or drink.

Vegans may be in the food punishment business but Pescatarians are not.