Posted on 07/07/2012 6:21:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is it a dealbreaker if your partner skips the bacon in favor of tofu? For some meat eaters, that’s exactly the case. The recent Love Bites survey of 4,000 singles conducted by TODAY.com and Match.com found that nearly 30 percent of meat eaters say they would not date a vegetarian or vegan.
Writer and omnivore J. Federer told TODAY.com that while he agrees couples should have interests outside the relationship, food is one thing that should be shared. “Food is social, and the dinner table is where a couple gets back together after a day of work or play,” he wrote in an email. “This is where the relationship happens. The ability to provide and share food is part of romance, and I just can't date a person who does not share those moments of life with me.”
Blame it on biology, says Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and Match.com’s chief scientific adviser. She explains that sharing food is integral to courtship throughout the animal kingdom.
“It’s so common in the animal world to give food for sex that it’s called the nuptial gift,” Fisher explained. “Mankind’s first luxury was meat, and when carnivores share food – what they are sharing is this luxury. It’s more than just cultural, it’s instinctual.”
Federer tried but couldn’t get past the distaste for dating a vegetarian. He had a two-year relationship with a vegetarian and another with a vegan, but said he always felt judged when they would sit down to eat.
“She kept talking about the carbon footprint of a pound of meat and the impact of fishing on the oceans,” he said.
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I dated a vegan and met many in the process. I sort of admired how much they cared about what they ate. I didn’t care for their ignorance, arrogance, or outright insanity.
I also don’t care for people who think their pets are people.
“All things in moderation. And that includes moderation.”
Moderate moderates? Isn’t that what we used to call RINO’s in these parts????
Thanks - I forgot the http when I did the URL.
Lettuce is not “date food”. Steak or lobster is “date food”.
It is easy to tell if someone is a vegan.
They never shut up about it.
Unless it does them harm, I think it’s always best to let kids work things out in their own time and their own way. That is, assuming a fairly reasonable kid. Hovering and/or domineering parents never seem to do themselves much good, and only make the kids more determined to rebel against their authority. You showed your daughter you respect her, and that is worth an awful lot.
Pigs and chickens are omnivores.
Most vegans I know are proselytizing fanatics who wear very thin with me in short order.
I don’t care what a gal eats just so long as she’s hot.
Suppose she’s “hot” but tries to dictate your diet. Never forget: No matter how hot she is, someone somewhere is through putting up with her crap.
I have zero patience with the ignorant. Being old and grumpy has it's advantages. You can speak your mind and not give a rat's pointy little tail about what others think.
I don't really have to answer to anyone until I'm dead and gone. That, I care about.
/johnny
Amen...I dated a Vegenut once. Ok...she was hot, an aerobics instructor who taught six classes a day. Talk about a hardbody. But she constantly complained about being run down and tired. I told her she needed the protein and vitamin A that could only come from meat. I recall once we went out to supper and she had her usual salad with some cheese. I had a cowboy ribeye and the same conversation came up about how she always was dragging and tired. I gave her my standard response as I was running a chunk of ribeye through some horseradish. She finally gave in and asked for a bite of the meat. I cut out a nice, juicy piece and fed it to her. Talk about DRAMA...she began shrieking and gagging and asking loudly “How can you EAT that!”...needless to say a lot of heads in the restaurant turned and started watching us. We didn’t last as a couple much past that. I had another interesting relationship with another vegenut too. They made crappy girlfriends but as someone noted earlier, great dates. Cheap and easy and usually being lib’rul, there were few things they wouldn’t do in bed...
This means that 70% of meat-eaters WILL date a vegetarian.
I met an old logger here in N. Idaho who told me he was allergic to alcohol.
“Really, I’ve never heard of that.”
“Oh yeah. Everytime I drink alcohol I break out in handcuffs.”
“Unless it does them harm, I think it’s always best to let kids work things out in their own time and their own way.”
That’s what I learned in nutrition class. Kids will go on food jags. I’ve always had lots of junk food in the house as well as healthy food. Since nothing has ever been forbidden, my daughter has never felt deprived. She’s skinny as a rail. Basic psychology- tell someone they can’t have something, they’ll want it. I tell her the beef roasts are expensive ;) She loves rare beef. LOL.
If those folks knew exactly what pigs and chickens can/would eat.... they might get faint.
When I was bootlegging the last commercial style pig here in town where it's not legal, I did draw the line on feeding Miss Piggy any pork products.
I did feed her the ugly bits of chickens I was slaughtering, and she loved it.
Later, we missed her, but damn, those ribs were good.
/johnny
Reverse it: why would a serious vegitarian or vegan date a carnivore?
I'm sorry, I took a clue from 'pops' I made a wrong ssumption! :(
No harm, no foul. I should have picked a better screen name. “Pops” means Parachutist over Phorty.
I have had several veg friends. Only 1 is still alive.
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