Vegetarianism

I'm a vegetarian.  I have been for four years, and have wanted to be for longer.  Freshman year of high school, we moved out to farmlands, and I couldn't eat a hamburger with cows mooing in my back yard.  So I'm a vegetarian.  My boyfriend is not.

It's never been a problem for us though.  He doesn't force his beliefs (or bacon) down my throat and I don't force mine (or tofu) down his.  At first he didn't even believe I was a vegetarian, because I don't criticize him/anyone else for eating meat.  Sure, I'll ask what kind of "dead animal" something is, rather than what kind of meat, but that's mostly just how I talk and not actually a great moral judgement on his nutritional choices.  I do personally think that killing animals, even for food, is wrong but I also understand that not everyone feels that way and that for a lot of people eating vegetarian (especially healthily) isn't an option.  I think it's one of the battles we have to fight through education, while still kind of giving people leeway to do their own things. I don't think it's something that can be resolved through criticizing either side, which I think is what happens a lot when something like this comes into discussion.  We have to learn to talk morals without pulling the morally superior card or nothing will get accomplished.