Lobster trees and chicken vines...

Every "vegetarian" I have met in the last year and a half eats fish or chicken. Waiters and waitresses in restaurants have offered me fish or chicken entrées when I asked if there were any vegetarian dishes on the menu. Putatively vegetarian soups are made with chicken broth. I even met one woman years ago who insisted that bacon became a vegetable after frying. Someone who eats fish but no other kinds of meat is a pescatarian, not a vegetarian. As far I can tell, the only word for someone who eats chicken and claims to be a vegetarian is liar.

Let's get something crystal clear: vegetarians do not eat dead animals. Period. That's what vegetarian means. Fish are not vegetables. Chickens are not vegetables. Pigs are not vegetables (nor is pork white meat, but that's grist for a different rant). If it has eyes and a brain, vegetarians don't eat it. If it has either an endo- or exo-skeleton, vegetarians don't eat it. If it has blood and a heart, vegetarians don't eat it. If it can run or creep or fly or swim or slither away from you, vegetarians don't eat it.

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