vegetarianism is a subjective term as it turns out, so there's no way to tell. some vegetarians eat fish for god's sake. doesn't make any sense. and when asked about it, they say "well lots of vegetarians do it!" flagrant trendiness if you ask me.
my girlfriend is a vegan and i've been living with her for two years. she also works at a health food store. nobody needs meat. we don't need eggs, and if you stop drinking milk for two months, you might realize upon trying it again that you probably weren't supposed to keep drinking it past the age of 4 or 5. i work in construction. heavy, manual labour alongside men weighing over 100 pounds more than i do. i don't eat a strictly vegan diet, but i've cut 90% non-vegan stuff out, and these guys don't bug me anymore about veganism being for pussies and how you can't gain weight and you start falling apart... cuz they just look at me. i have lots of energy, and although i'm not huge, i do put on weight and i can keep up with the biggest of them.
the majority of the information people are exposed to about these sorts of lifestyles essentially amounts to propaganda. they want you to buy their meat, so being that the distributors of products are the same distributors of information, it's not hard to control peoples' perspective.
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