Show jt T LS have MC-i- MC some Wi TJ i. i 1 soy M with a side 01 of soy please L Leslie slie Conder Opinion Editor L 10 j rL IJ 1 M 11 j I Recently ov over over re eight ghr v oJ months months' ago I became vegetarian My boyfriend introduced me to some some vegetarian literature riot pot pot propaganda which I Ir r read ad and decided my life would be better if I l was wasa a Although Although I feel better as aswell well ClI as mentally my life is Q riot Hot t better In fact in some aspects it is worse I come from a very J c. c w earn carnivorous orous family My brother invented the meal entitled the heart attack This meal consists of a whopper made your YO way and a slice of pepperoni pizza You take your whopper put the slice of f pizza in the middle andr andrA then enjoy the sensation of your arteries getting clogged My family hunts and enjoys eating elk steaks I didn't realize that my becoming a vegetarian would be so hard on my family as well as everyone 4 v til 14 else in my life who partakes of meat My life now consists of my brother asking me when Im I'm coming back to the dark side to eat cat meat I made for Christmas and boy r did I get a lot of slack over that At work I am the only vegetarian in my male hunting-dominated hunting workplace Again I am continuously mocked and andI I find myself in yelling matches defending my new lifestyle t w hF I dont don't t understand why people take such offense by the simple fact that I dont don't eat meat I dont don't tell you that because you eat meat th that t you are wrong or that you are an evil person because you are eating it I dont don't go animal abuse protesting and throwing paint on women wearing fur coats although I will admit that Im I'm not opposed to that one because that's just wrong Just because I would rather eat soy and wheat gluten doesn't mean meant fl t 1 t r tir that Im I'm am am better than your tortured dead carcass eating carcass eating self I personally cannot eat animals knowing that they were were tortured Knowing that ch chickens cK ns and nd other birds are area packed ked ed into cages that are l too loo o small for one bird let alone many makes me lose my appetite If it doesn't affect you then keep doing what youre you're doing No one is stopping you not even your conscience ence even even though its it's trying and that's k I I. I 1 L why youre you're taking your confusion out on me If you like meat good for you If I like many other people like sparing animal lives by eating meatless meat along with i fruits and vegetables so sobe sobe be it Cant Can't we all just get along in this buffet of life Dont Don't make me feel bad and I will tell your conscience to stop making you feel bad a. a 1 1 1 p d l. l L. L I |