vegetarians do it better

well, that may not be true, but they usually...um...well, yeah.
i love being a strict vegetarian/lazy vegan. i love making my house smell like garlic and cumin, and baking with cocoa powder and egg replacer. so, what does this have to do with my feminist politics? there is a concept called vegetarian feminism. am i a vegetarian feminist? kinda. i was never a big meat eater. i wasn't into pork, beef hurt my tummy, and i ate my pet lamb when i was a child. what i love about vegetarianism is that it is about making the world a better place. how cool is that!! i know that my dietary choices, for the most part, tread lightly on the earth. i try to eat locally grown food and, in the summer, we eat a lot of produce from our garden or the gardens of friends.
i hate, hate, hate, hate, hate when people chide my diet. i don't care if you eat meat and dairy, i could care less if you could care less about my choices. i do take offense when people say that they eat good food and i don't. i am offended when people refuse to eat the good foods i make and then trash talk it. one such person who chides the vegetarian is Isabella Allende. in her book on aphrodisiacs, she more than implies that vegetarians have soft, sensitive, hearts. at one point in her book she ignorantly and arrogantly argues that vegetarians have are missing out and have a weakly body and pale skin. how f'ing blind is that! if you think vegetarians are missing out, you are misinformed. do i miss dairy? sometimes, but i am able to live without it and have the ability to create dairy free works of yummy goodness. if i didn't love being a vegetarian, then i wouldn't be one.