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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Left

What's your beef?

Fruit and vegetable designer Tom Stogdon with a friend. Photograph: Graham Turner
Drop that bacon sarnie: it's vegetarian week, and we're looking for converts.

Or, to be more precise, the Vegetarian Society, kind and gentle people that they are, are mounting a campaign to win over the meat-eaters by expounding the delights of vegetarianism and veganism. They've produced a toe-curling video of vegetable porn to back up their campaign slogan: "Can you keep it up for a week?"

In this spirit, I could point you to the innumerable websites where you can find out how to make your own soya milk or where to buy non-leather shoes.

Sod that. Here on this post, we're going to have ourselves a carnivore roast. We're going to out the veggie-hostile who spew garbage like: "Why do you eat something that looks like bacon if you're vegetarian?" (Because IT'S NOT A DEAD ANIMAL, you idiot. That's why.)

In that spirit, we're looking for answers to the following question: what's the single dumbest thing anyone has ever said to you about vegetarianism?

I'll get the ball rolling: "Can you eat toast?"

You can also post a recipe or a restaurant recommendation, if you're feeling helpful. But mostly we're looking for bile.

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