5 Feet of Fury

Giles Coren: ‘Vegetarianism is an eating disorder’

People who don’t eat meat are not just pale, boring, vain and flaky. They are also suffering from an eating disorder.

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And/or, I’d argue, a pretentious affectation of teenage pseudo-intellectuals, but the type who find Nietzsche too difficult — and less showy. After all, reading The Gay Science at the Thanksgiving dinner table your first time back from school as a college freshman just isn’t as in-your-face annoying to your parents as turning up your nose at the turkey…