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A Lesson for Omnivores: Vegetarian Myths, Debunked

Posted by Robyn Lee, May 8, 2008

"I may be a vegetarian, but I still love the smell of bacon," says Taylor Clarke in his hilarious piece on Slate in which he debunks myths about vegetarians. While it's worth reading the entire article, here are some of the main points in handy list form:

They know meat tastes good.
They don't automatically love tofu; it depends how well it's prepared.
Most of them aren't salad freaks.
They don't expect friends to bend over backwards to prepare vegetarian food for them at dinner parties/barbecues.
They are not silently judging their meat-eating friends.
Yes, they do enjoy food.

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