Helena Echlin has a fabulous piece on Chow.com about the dos and don'ts of dinner parties for folks with unique dietary styles. Such as vegetarians who eat bacon. This of course caused a general freak out in the posts below about who's "allowed" to call themselves a vegetarian and who's not.I say if you steer clear of all meat except smoked pig, more power to you. Just think of all the cow poop you kept out of the waterways. I call that awesome! You go baconarians!
I'm always amazed by all the new terms - which basicially in my understanding makes eating slaughtered animals acceptable and thus profitable. Basically my historical understanding is -
ReplyDeleteVegetarian - doesn't eat meat (that includes bacon!!). May or may not eat fish. Probably eats/drinks diary. Probably wears leather/wool. Somewhat interested in AR/AW, but more likely to be interested in health/self centered issues.
Vegan - doesn't eat/drink - meat, fish, diary. Doesn't wear wool/leather etc and tries to eliminate animal products as they become
more aware. Interested/active in AR/AW as a moral and right thing to do.
So to a vegetarian eating bacon - they really aren't vegetarian even in the US where calling yourself one thing and doing the exact opposite is common (compassionate conservative a la Bush) and if they can't give up bacon for taste reasons, they are pretty weak-willed and really dilute people who don't eat meat for the right reasons. A fashion statement no less.