{"id":10,"date":"2006-12-05T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-01-08T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T08:47:13","slug":"eating-out-with-a-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/eating-out-with-a-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating out with a vegetarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetarians get a lot of stick. People like to try to make vegetarians justify their decision in a full and rational manner. It&#8217;s not really fair that this conversation comes up every time that they go out to diner.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/veggyDilbertJoke.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"funny veggy comic stip\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One reason for being vegetarian is because it&#8217;s a lot less wasteful in terms of natural resources to feed, say, corn directly to people, rather than corn to cows to people. That logic seems solid to me. I wonder why people like to receive a fully logical answer to &#8220;why are you vegetarian&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>If I was a veggie, I&#8217;d have a canned response, something funny like: &#8220;It&#8217;s not that I like animals, it&#8217;s more that I really hate vegetables&#8221;. I think using humour is a good way to bounce the conversation onwards and not feel victimised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetarians get a lot of stick. People like to try to make vegetarians justify their decision in a full and rational manner. It&#8217;s not really fair that this conversation comes up every time that they go out to diner. One reason for being vegetarian is because it&#8217;s a lot less wasteful in terms of natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}