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« on: February 01, 2010, 05:01:03 AM »
I personally haven’t come across that many leather wearing vegetarians, however what you called the self centered vegetarians that hardly mind the abuse as long as they are not a part of it is a huge phenomena at least in my experience.
The easy going vegetarians that oppose preaching and respect other lifestyle choices, that go out with friends to McDonalds and have the veggie meal (as long as it’s not cooked on the same plate as the meat…), I think in their case vegetarianism has nothing to do with boycott animal exploitation, its no more than a mean of self determination like wearing Nike. Perhaps that’s why there are daft titles like ovo vegetarians, lacto vegetarians ,ovo lacto vegetarians and I think there is even a name for ones that only eat fish but I don’t recall what it was.
Once one told me that when asked to go to the market she refuses to buy meat for the other members of her family, and added - if they want meat they should go to the butcher shops and buy the meat themselves. Butcher shops don’t bother her as long as she’s not entering them.