my roommate sent me this npr article suggesting that bacon is the gateway to meatdom for vegetarians. i wrote her a long comment, and because i'm lazy about this here blog, i'm pretty much just repeating here.
but first, as a disclaimer, I do love the smell of bacon. However, the one time I tasted it in the last 12 years (Thanks, CutsofBeef), it tasted totally disgusting.
mmmm....veggies
But in terms of the article itself, I think it makes some assumptions. Primarily, that one bite of meat immediately nullifies years of vegetarianism. For most veggies, its an ethical commitment to lessening the awful impacts that meat production has on the environment, human rights, and health. And like all other ethical commitments, people slip up. That's why we have things like catholic confession and carbon offsets. So when Donna Maurer says "Opportunities to try new foods, like chocolate-covered bacon, with friends might push some vegetarians over the edge," I think that's totally ridiculous. There's no reason a vegetarian can't try a small bite of chocolate covered bacon (or eat 5 whole pieces) and go back to being "vegetarian" an hour later. Then again, maybe i'm just a crazy relativist, deconstructionist, po-mo anthro.
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