I'm a firm believer in eat what you like and leave everybody else alone for their choices. I'm a passionate meat eater, but on moral grounds I won't eat foie gras or veal. If you want to, fine, go ahead and enjoy it. I promise I won't say a darn thing or look at you funny.

But when pontificating veggies and vegans bang on about suffering of animals and carbon footprints to my face WHILE I'M EATING I usually tell them to shut the **** up.

The last one who did this to me got a mouthful of abuse about, A, being on a plane, B, wearing leather boots, and C, having a diamond of about 1 carat in her engagement ring. I spent the rest of the flight explaining to her how she was an ignorant hypocrite and I was comfortably knowledgeable about what I was doing.