Kurtosis at Skewness has a post about being admonished in a Whole Foods by a militant vegetarian. I repeat my comment here:
If an individual feels that strongly about meat being murder, why do they shop in a place that sells it?
Same thing has happened to me a few times, in varying degrees at Whole Foods, usually at checkout, when my food stuff is spread out on the belt for inspection.
Yesterday, by coincedence, a kind looking older woman in sandals asked “You have so many nice vegetables there, why do you need that meat?”, pointing at my lamb chops. She had some vegetables and four or five bottles of vitamins and herbal pills in her basket. I resisted the urge to ask her the same question regarding the vitamins. I wished I had.
But what about my first question? We know that politics effect many people’s shopping habits, be it for labor practices, environmental issues etc. Do serious vegetarians have a choice though? Apart from shopping at farmer’s markets, do vegans and vegetarians have a place they can go to buy quality produce, that sell no meat products?