Top 10 Vegetarian Responses to the Question, "So, What Do You Eat, Then?"

The question is asked out of ignorance, not stupidity. Ignorance means “to ignore.” Because the thought of having to give up the foods our diet is centered around—beef, chicken, pork, fish, milk, cheese, butter, and eggs—to be replaced by iceberg lettuce, sticky white rice, and limp mixed vegetables makes us want to become a vegetarian as much as we want to become a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

            The irony of course is that for those that are vegetarians there is far more to eat, experience, and enjoy than those that center their meals around animals and their byproducts. They also have to think about what to eat as much as they have to think about how to walk or breathe. It is a far simpler diet to execute.
            It’s human nature to balk at trying new things, to change, be different, and acquire new habits. Ironically, this is what being human is all about: To exercise our free will, to grow, learn, and experience all that life has to offer. To deny this gift makes us little different from the animals that we eat.