Ok, I don't know if this belongs here or what, but since I am really pissed and I want to let it go, here is what happened to me on a FRA-SFO last week, seating upstairs in C class

Dinner was the standard united short ribs. I have. The woman next to me starts looking funny so I ask her what is wrong.

And then she starts asking me if I realize how much suffering I am causing eating meat and how much water was needed to produce that piece of meat and that meat is unhealthy all the condescending stuff.

And it's not the first time it happens and I am really FED UP with moralizing bigots telling what I should eat or not eat

So is there to anybody's knowledge any organization that takes care of producing unbiased stories that prove that meat is NOT unhealthy and that vegans are actually killing themselves by eating nothing but salads.

Alright now I spat it out

As a proud member of PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals), I fully support your decision. My people have worked too long and hard for me to get to the top of the food chain for me to eat vegetables exclusively.

Mike

People for the Eating of Tasty Animals: I think I've never laughed so much since Sheldon Cooper was The Flash....

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.

I found this one and I liked it

http://www.facebook.com/pages/idonta...24782884255280

Haha that's much better than a quick volley of abuse.....you gotta wear 'em down baby!

That would be fine with me if tolerance did flow both ways. If you're invited for dinner by some vegans and that you point out that since you`d no doubt be made aware of their special dietary requirements, you want to let them know about yours, and ask for a nice steak, I am sure that would fly well

Us Brits got to see a fantastic Mitchell and Webb sketch about that. Vegans go to dinner at a couple's house and are served lamb. They say "but we're vegans!" to which the reply is "well we ate vegan when we came to your house, we thought you would eat the same food as us when you came here." You had to be there, but it was funny.

The best part was when she told me to shut up. I asked if she would've shut up if I'd have said the same thing during her don't-eat-meat rant, and she just went quiet, like, totally speechless.

I would have taken a big bite, lean over to her and go....mmm...mmm..mmmm!

I think they tend to like planes because they feel they have a captive audience and also you can't kick their vegan .... But yea you can always tell them to zip it.

Which takes me to another question: is their any federal regulation that would force somebody to stop talking to you're in a plane and can't escape?

Hahaha, awesome! Now many miles is the membership fee, and where do I sign up?

We live once, so I prefer to die happy! I might have added something about how this animal lived to feed me, in a different language of course..

I'm a card-toting member of PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals) as well :P There's even fb group for it Some smart person decided to seat me across from some quite preachy vegans at last year's company dinner, so I ordered the roasted bone marrow for my app and the steak tartare for my entree. I really do love my veggies but they both really got on my nerves throughout the year so I made quite the spectacle slurping the marrow out of the bones.

I would consistently get peanut gallery comments from those 2 at work whether I had a salad or chicken for lunch. Very annoying.

That is a very funny sketch. Mitchell and Webb are brilliant. For anyone who wants to see the sketch it's available on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63NNuG-6-hQ

Got to say I do feel bad eating meat (kind of) particularly since I don't think I'd be able to kill and butcher and animal myself. Don't think I could give up meat altogether but the wife and I are trying to limit our meat intake.

That said, I've had a number of vegetarian friends and they never gave me a hard time with what I've eaten. It's more a choice on their end vs invoking their beliefs on others.