Mixing meat and veg
Interesting fact: oysters have no brain or nervous system. If you're vegetarian because you don't like harming animals, they should be okay. No nerves = no pain. No brain = no suffering.

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I once knew someone at university who had a phobia of mixing fruit with dairy. She would be horrified if you ate a fruit-corner yogurt in front of her and, get this, would ASK IF YOU COULD MOVE if you did so whilst sitting in a group with her in the refectory...

...umm, okay. No. It's your irrational phobia. You either deal with it, or get it cured. Don't make it my problem.

Another at university; she was a vegetarian, of the kind who demanded her housemates not have meat anywhere she can see it. She would hide any meat she found in the back of the salad tray in the fridge so she wouldn't have to see it, without telling anyone, ending up with rotting, festering meat because her housemates, laid-back as they were, just assumed someone had pilfered it and wrote it off.

She would leave bossy notes around scolding them for leaving "meat juice" on their washing up in the sink.

I made it very clear that I wasn't that much of a prat when I became vegetarian.
(Musuko, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 16:51, Reply)