> The vegetarians who proclaim loudly and publicly that they are vegetarians
> are doing so for what reason exactly?
> They imagine many people are excitedly waiting to find out details about
> anothers eating habits?
Making conversation? "I'm all for vegetarianism in private, but I just don't like it when they start shoving it down people's throats..."
There are a few vegetarian advocacy groups, a few of which are quite forceful in their arguments, but none that I know of that has the reach or aggression of the big pro-meat campaigns that are common in countries with rich agribusiness sectors. See, for example, the frequent declaration that vegetarians--or people who eat meat, but not often enough--are betraying their nation and wilfully alienating themselves from their species-essence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3w2xHOkhmY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJ9lleVvDo
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