gree with Anne Mickey’s article “But … Bacon!” Anne lists several of the tedious struggles vegetarians must endure, such as probing, awkward questions and immature comments. Anne maintains a professional, factual tone throughout her article, providing evidence based on health and personal experience. She compares the choice of avoiding meat to the choice of not smoking cigarettes, which seems an accurate comparison.

It always perplexes me, as well as the majority of vegetarians, why non-vegetarians find our lifestyle so comical and foreign. We all have the choice of religion, beliefs, and ways of life, so keeping meat out of one’s diet shouldn’t be so out of this world. Although the jokes and irrelevant questions persist, they are not quite at an offensive level, as the pranksters hope, but rather, annoying; quite frankly, it is a pathetic attempt to belittle someone’s freedom of choice.