Vegetarians Can Be Tiresome

I used to be one, so I know of what I speak.

Vegetarians, vegans, and all those other people with severe dietary restrictions that are not purely medical need to learn manners. Or stop being churlish, one of the two.

What does that mean? It means that vegetarians always expect everyone else to cater to them but they never cater to anyone else. Ever been to a vegetarian's house? Ever hear them offer you anything with meat? No?

But if they come to your house, guess what you're supposed to do? Offer them something vegetarian, of course!

You'll hear them protest, but vegetarianism is good for you. It's ethical.

And there's the rub. They're always being superior, so they think, morally and ethically. There is always an implied critique on your lifestyle if you do eat meat.

So to recap, 1) they always expect you to cater to them but they never cater to you, a clear case of bad manners, and 2) they act as if you should be grateful to them for not feeding you meat and demanding that you eat more vegetables, which implies

1) you are inferior, you have no morals, ethics, and hence again they are being presumptuous and showing bad manners, and 2) that you don't know what's best for you. Maybe you have a dietary need that requires meat. But that is never considered, either.

And what's more, there is such a level of hypocrisy in these assumnptions that it's almost comical.

Here are the questions that need to be answered by people who think they are superior for not eating meat.
1) Do you take antibiotics?
2) Do you wear leather anywhere on your body?
3) Have you ever taken any other kinds of medicine?

Yes to any of these? Then let's rethink the "moral superiority."

Plus, many local beef providers are actually quite humane and have been actively courting people to consider meat that is locally husbanded. That's right. It keeps smaller animal husbandry purveyors in business.