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One day, I decided to go vegetarian. My reason was just that I wanted to see what all the hype was about. Working at a Noodles & Company, that was very easy for me to pull off. I ate my food with generous servings of tofu. I really wasn't too pleased with the diet. My girlfriend (who wasn't my girlfriend at the time) tormented me by sending me nice pictures of steak. I had planned to go until Thanksgiving with the diet, but it didn't last that long. One day, after church, Peter wanted to go get lunch at Good Times burgers. I decided to break the diet and eat the delicious bacon cheeseburger with a combination sauce of mayonnaise, ketchup and barbeque sauce that I memorise to this day and apply to my own creations at my current workplace.

While I was in my period of insanity, I took the time to reasearch vegetarianism on the Internet. The reasons that people become vegetarian vary from ethical to æsthetic. To me, vegetarian means that you don't eat meat. To my frustration, not everyone thinks that same way. I remember trying to explain to my grandmother that as a vegetarian, “I don't eat chicken because that's meat; I don't eat fish because that's meat too.” Apparently, the types of vegetarianism range from not eating pork, beef, red meat, meat, meat and dairy, etc. Some people don't eat meat because they don't like the idea of eating something that was once a bloddy mass of tissue. It's been said that everyone likes sausage, but no one likes to see sausage made. That's understandable in my mind. Some don't eat meat because they don't like the taste of meat. That's understandable… yet sad. Some don't eat meat because of œconomical reasons; eating plants is a more efficient use of land and water resources. In the view of world hunger, this is honourable, but if we don't eat the cows, they'll still eat the same grass and drink the same water. I can appreciate all of these reasons to become a vegetarian. The one reason that I find stupid is because of moral, ethical or religious reasons.

Some believe that man is better than animals and, therefore, can eat meat. Others believe that man is better than animals and, therefore, cannot eat meat. Humans and animals have a trait in common: they both must kill life in order to survive. Therefore, from the naturalist viewpoint, eating meat is justified. In commonly-accepted Christian belief, it's perfectly okay to consume meat. However, while I was in my vegetarian state, I came across a group of Christian vegetarians on the Internet. They said things to the degree that vegetarianism is God's ideal diet. I couldn't find the exact site today, but I found similar sites. “Blessed are the merciful. Go vegetarian.” It's really interesting to note that from what I see, they can't really explain how it is that Christ ate meat. “First, regardless of whether the fish in these events are actual fish…” If we're going to go along those lines, why not say, “Regardless of whether the people, places, events, descriptions, poems, proverbs, songs, genealogies, prophisies and teachings are real people, places, events…”?

My advise: eat meat. It tasts good and, it's okay to eat.