Word: meats
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...they are all the same. Oh, no. Today’s vegetarians come in all shapes and sizes. But they share one thing in common: they shun meat. Wait, rewind. That’s wrong too. Some of them do eat meat. Confusing, I know...
These people are all okay by me. It is the pseudo-vegetarians that really push my buttons. For many of these so-called vegetarians, commitment to the creed depends on mood. One friend of mine makes exceptions for steak, and another for chicken. One friend only eats meat when she’s drunk. These sorts of people are euphemistically called flexitarians, but what flexibility that is exactly is unclear—the flexibility to pass judgment on other people who eat meat, perhaps...
...regularly, they do pass judgment. More than once I have been eating meat in the presence of one of these friends when she makes known to me how badly she feels for the animal that was killed for my meal. Don’t I ever think about that? And did I know that I’m going to die younger because of that flesh on my plate? Of course, this leaves me wondering why, just the week before, I spotted her slipping her pretty feet into a pair of Ferragamo loafers and devouring a pastrami sandwich...
...fair to the (sometimes) meat-averse, flexitarians are not the only set of Harvard students who regularly dabble in hypocrisy; the classic Harvard examples of idealists gone astray are plentiful...
...Meat lovers should not miss the Bosna Grill, a homely five-table joint operated by a Bosnian family that offers Balkan meat grills such as sausage-shaped cevap and burger-like pleskavice for $4, and the best homemade cakes in the neighborhood. 4 Havlickovo namesti...