>There's nothing sad about being a vegan or a vegetarian,
>at least not to my personal observation. I've already
>mentioned the predominance of women in my little world.
Vegans & vegetarians themselves are quite happy; sadness is a feeling generated in the hearts of the non-vegan & non-vegetarian friends of theirs who want to go out to lunch or dinner with them.
>I think this is because we're not taken seriously enough. If
>a bunch of anarchists or socialists have a drug-soaked orgy,
>who cares? It's just what's expected.
Compare the Nader non-sex-scandal with what Alexandra Kollontai had to go through. We are not on the sexual vanguard any longer. Progress?
Yoshie