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As a professional chef who has worked in both steak houses & natural organic style restaurants with a veggie and vegan menu as long as my arm all I can say is that both dietary paths gave merits and problems. The problems being that both meat eaters and vegans miss out on fantastic cuisine. I have heard many sides to the feud between foodies and the way I see it, if meat doesn't suddenly dry up, the meat eaters should care less about what is on someone else plate... And of course it works the other way around.

My grandmother is a vegitarian, and for 20 years if my life she made my brother, my grandfather, and myself the tastiest, meatiest, most amazing chili I've ever had. 2 years ago she sat down and joined us in a bowl. When I objected to her eating meat she laughed and told us that for the last 20 years there had never been any meat in it.... Take that how you will.