For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 17, 2011

I love veggies!

Some I know are okay – some not so much!

Birds of a feather, Phil . . .

Be glad they’re not HUMANitarians.

@rollsroyce: actually it takes a lot of smarts (or adaptation) for animals to consume plants. Plants have evolved thorns, spikes, silica crystals, and poisons (to name just a few) to prevent being eaten. Consider the tapir, a South American pig that just might be the meanest critter on earth, and for good reason: all of the plants it eats are poisonous. Each day it consumes a not-quite-fatal amount of each poisonous plant, and then goes down to the river to chow down on kaolin clay, to soothe its constantly rumbling stomach. In this case, eating the other animals might be easier!.Music-history note: it was said in the ‘70s that the breakup of the band Yes after their “Topographic Oceans” album was in part driven by the conflict between carnivorous keyboard whiz Rick Wakeman and the rest of the band, who were veggies. So Phil’s got a legitimate concern…

Elly looks so young here… :-)

lol……royalroyce, good one……he may even learn something about eating real food…..

A local church is having a “Men’s Burn Your Own” gathering. Men bring their own meat to grill with sides and drinks provided. The invite concludes with “Vegetarians are welcome….but will be ridiculed.”

Vegetarian: Native American word meaning “poor hunter”.

Says Exturk: That makes me laugh even though I’ve spent much of my life as a vegetarian.

True, but what isn’t?

I say, eat whatever the heck you want and mind your own business when it comes to what others eat. Just a good rule in general, in fact.

I am a ‘Saladtologist’ my self

Remember, all you vegetarians out there, every one of the plants you’re cutting up, cooking and eating was still alive when you started.

I won’t tell anyone else how to live or what to eat as long as they give me the same courtesy.

Maybe they’re Pastafarians.

I’ve been a vegetarian for many years but I don’t try to project my feelings about it on anyone else, unless that person asks me why I am. Unfortunately, I’m not skinny either. Must be the genes—LOL!

@Eric Alder. EXACTLY!! It’s fine to be a vegetarian, but it’s when you get holier than thou about it that’s when it becomes an issue for me. The vegans are the worst!!