you were the same as me, but you wised up,

Vegetarians and corpse eaters approach the same phenomenon- the consumption of dead animals- and come to opposite opinions: is it “meat” or a corpse? life or death? human slaughter or murder? delicious or repulsive? nutritious or fat-laden? departure from tradition or return to tradition? Corpse eaters see vegetarianism as a fad; vegetarians see eating animals as a larger fad. Corpse eaters see vegetarians as Puritans, legislating others’ enjoyments; vegetarians see animal eaters as resisting awareness, indulging in fantasy about where flesh comes from. Corpse eaters generally accept the cultural construction of the farm as benign, friendly, and family-based. Vegetarians see an alternate view: industry-owned, cruel, and factorylike. Corpse eaters ask, “Why did you stop eating animals?” Vegetarians respond with Plutarch, saying “You ought rather, in my opinion, to have enquired who first began this practice, than who of late times left it off.” While vegetarians regard the word vegetable with respect (it’s life-giving, the purported root of the name vegetarian), flesh-advocating cultures see it as an appropriate term for brain-dead individuals.