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A Hundred Years of Mocking Vegetarians
For a rare lifestyle choice, vegetarianism tends to drive people pretty bonkers.
Last week, at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, I saw someone wearing a T-shirt that said VEGETARIAN: ANCIENT TRIBAL NAME FOR THE VILLAGE IDIOT WHO CAN’T HUNT, FISH, OR FIGHT FIRES. And yet, an unsigned Atlantic article from June 1905 begins with a fantastically savage insult: “It would be absurd to deny that among the confirmed Vegetarians there are good men, though meagre. That not all of them are free from the tyranny of chronic indigestion may account for, and perhaps should excuse, some of their dietetic vagaries.” Later, the writer admits that “vegetarians may be, often are, good men; but no one will contend that they are jolly.
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