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Bourdain

While I agree that Anthony Bourdain's fear of vegetarians is rather silly and irrational, it is unfortunately a common trait among many chefs. Maybe they feel like painters who are being restricted to half a palette, who knows. I'm a lapsed vegetarian myself (I made it 5 years before I began eating meat again in small quantities), so I'm very sympathetic to the cause, but even I've met enough "vegangelicals" to sour me on the concept if I didn't know better. In any case, guys like Bourdain just don't get it.

However, one thing I will say for him- he may have a visceral reaction against vegetarianism, but it's not a reaction he has left unexamined. One of his tv  episodes featuring a trip to Argentina dwelled prominently on the slaughter of beef cattle, and Bourdain's own feelings of distaste over the matter- and was also honest enough to admit that America was of course no different in its taste for beef, but that we are more separated and sanitized from the abatoir. So while I don't expect anyone to give Bourdain a medal, at least give him a little credit.On Veganism as relationship deal breaker posted 1 year, 9 months ago 17 Responses