Like an effeminate frat boy who insists he’s straight, it seems that a lot of Vegetarians are unable to conceal their preferences after they’ve had several drinks.
A leading money saving website in the UK has found that over a third of vegetarians in the UK eat meat when they have been consuming alcohol. ‘Kebab meat’ and ‘beef burgers’ were voted the most common meat for vegetarians to give into when drunk. (full story)
That’s one in three. I can’t help but wonder how many more there would have been if all the respondants had been hooked up to polygraph machines.
I’ve often suspected there are a lot of closeted carnivores who insist they’re vegetarians when out in public, and this kind of proves it. Vegetarianism is so fashionable in certain circles, that I’ve seen people at parties insist they are vegetarians while taking a second helping of chicken. I guess you can claim to eat “nothing with a face” if that face has been removed by the butcher.
The bottom line is, humans like meat. It’s in our DNA. Had we not been meat eaters our ancestors would have never survived the Ice Age, when all the vegetables went away And our forefathers would have not been able to weather the harsh winters that occurred before the invention of canned food.
So stop being ashamed. It’s perfectly natural.