More vegetarian myths and madness

When I asked you to share the silliest hogwash people have ever said to you when they find out you're vegetarian, I never expected the onslaught of madness that dozens of readers have responded with! It's a crazy world out there when it comes to perceptions of vegetarians! Here's a few recent highlights, or, if you prefer, you can also read them all.

Guest reader BCH wrote in with some unwelcome career advice they've received:

I was told by a couple of my coworkers that I wouldn't be able to get ahead at work because people "need to eat meat to sustain their levels of aggression." I've been retired for a few years and still believe that going vegetarian was the best thing I ever did for the state of my health, both physical and mental.

Going vegetarian will ruin your career? Madness! And funny, it was the best thing in the world for mine, personally! Here's a bizarre one - attempt at suicide via vegetarianism? Wow. From reader Donji, who went vegetarian in the 1970s:

Shortly before I married him, my husband-to-be stopped eating meat. I was badly frightened, believing we needed meat to survive and that he would die. I didn't want to live without him, so I became a vegetarian too. Four years after we married, I was pregnant with our first and only child. I never felt better or happier. And throughout my child's early school years, she was at the very top of her class - super smart and creative as well as gorgeous!

Glad you survived to tell the tale of meatless living in the 70s! Suicide by vegetarianism? Hilarious! Here's another funny one. Simone wrote in to share her favorite snappy comeback:

A 'friend' invited my husband and I for dinner and cooked a meat stew. When my husband reminded her I don't eat meat, she said I can just pick out the meat and eat the veggies (this happens so often it is unbelievable). My husband (always fighting for my vegetarian rights) responded, "That's like telling someone you don't eat cats and them telling you, you can just eat around it."

I'm more of a dog person, but I think I'll still use it! Got your own story of bizarre things people tell you about being vegetarian? Tell us about it and publicly shame these people in front of all of us on the net!

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