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Go eat some tufo and yell at someone else.

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8. You condone animal cruelty.

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I wasn’t happy and I started to question the diet and why I was even doing this.

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Watch the list of entrees diminish from 10 to 2, or 1, or none. Stare at the appetizers and wonder if you can survive indefinitely on meals made of garlic bread, salad, and mozzarella sticks. At least you can still eat the desserts?

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1. Steak.

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“I’m still a vegetarian, you know. The breading is just, like, flour. This doesn’t negate my vegetarianism.”

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On my 15th Thanksgiving, I stopped eating meat. A quiet decision that entailed not eating turkey that day, realizing that I didn’t miss it, and not eating another piece of meat after that. Haven’t since.