The vegetarian rant
Sometimes I feel like being a vegetarian is like being a pregnant woman. You know how strangers seem to like rushing up to a pregnant woman to stroke her belly and tell her how outlandishly ‘big’ she is? Well, being a vegetarian is a similar experience (although thankfully we don’t have to go through childbirth at the end of it).
Admitting that you’re a vegetarian somehow invites every person in the world, whether they’re a family member, close friend, passing acquaintance, or a busker on a street corner, to give you all sorts of advice about your diet, and to profess great concern about your iron and protein levels, and whether it’s possible to get the right nutrients eating that tofu and gloopy bean stuff.
Sometimes it’s enough to make me want to fake a swoon to get them away from me, but that would only support their point. I have no idea what the history behind it is, but admitting that you’re vegetarian (especially if you’ve done it in a proud manner), is somehow an affront to the meat eaters around us. As they sit there chowing down on BigMac and fries, complaining about our dietary choices, they begin to extol the virtues of meat. Which is all very well and good. For them. Personally, I have no problem at all with other people eating meat.
Like someone’s personal hygiene habits, it is, quite frankly, none of my business. If you want to eat meat, that’s perfectly fine with me, and I won’t call you on it. However, the same should go both ways—if I choose not to eat meat, and to take the vegetarian path instead, that’s my business, and quite frankly, has nothing to do with you at all. So, the next time you see me eating tofu (which is high in both protein and iron, I might add), there’s no need to worry about my health or sanity. I’m perfectly fine with the choice of made, so there’s no need to butt into my life and try to make me change my mind.
One more quick thing, I have just had a look at the site design for this human resource software website and I feel like computers are taking away real peoples jobs…I mean what have we become, hopefully they never create a program that does convincing copywriting!