In 1973, I saw somebody on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson expound on the health benefits of being a vegetarian. At that moment I became one myself. I haven’t eaten red meat since that time, but as my kids grew out of toddlerhood, we as a family started eating fish and chicken. Hence, I am a “beady eye vegetarian.” Still no red meat since 1973. So I can relate to this article…
Finlo Rohrer writes in BBC News Magazine,
Vegetarianism used to be simple – its protagonists foreswore the flesh of any dead animal. Today there are “veggies” who eat fish, and people who eat no meat but don’t call themselves vegetarians. What happened?
The conversation usually goes something a bit like this:
“Yeah, I’m a vegetarian.”
“But that looks like fish you’re eating.”
“Oh yeah, I eat fish.”
Confusion, perplexity and occasionally heated debate can follow as the “vegetarian” and their interrogator cover the issue of what is an animal and whether fish feel pain.
To read the whole story, click HERE.
Photo credit: BBC News Magazine
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