Terri Garr
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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They could eat Chinese food....
Even among the various types of semi-vegetarians (lacto-, pesca-, etc), I'd bet that the percentage is significantly higher than 30%.
The self-proclaimed "moral superiority" of many vegetarians/vegans has always been a huge turn-off for me. (Eat what you want, let me eat what I want, and we'll get along just fine. Preach to me about the evils of my diet and I'll have nothing to do with you.)
Terri Garr
RE: At the time he was 93 and still riding a motorcycle. He made it to
97.
She would argue that had he listened to her he would have made it to 127.
I love living in Chile. The vast majority of Girls and Women eat meat and drink red wine!
I limit my tofu intake after the study on how tofu affects males.
Everything in moderation is my motto.
/johnny
Why would any conservative date a liberal socialist eco-freak. I’m sure their are some vegetarian Freepers, but I would bet almost all do so for health reasons and not for political reasons.
I have a friend who’s daughter was brainwashed and she became vegetarian at age 7, and he let her. Sorry, I wouldn’t let a kid that young ruin her health and stunt her growth by going vegetarian that young. Point is, WTF does a 7 year old know? It was pure grade school indoctrination and brain washing.
I would never date a vegetarian. Most of them are screwed up in the brain and living in fantasy land.
We’ll see how veggie they stay when they are hungry at night during the coming economic collapse. They’ll be the first to jump at the chance of sirloin.
vegans have bad breath too. Plus their other body parts tend to smell pretty rank too. AND YES SHES WASHED BUT THAT THING JUST SMELLED BAD.................
considering the majority are mostly likely liberals... who would want to??
Same type would rather have you buy her whine than liquor.
I have nothing against a woman who is a vegetarian, as long as she knows how to cook my steak just right
You’re right. Most vegans are that way due to politics. I would venture to say the percentage of Americans who are vegan AND politically conservative is less than 5%.
And I do put vegans in a different class than vegetarians.
If i were to consider dating a vegan, I would have to make sure she was simply interested in good health, and not somebody who considered a vegan diet to be a substitute for morality. Eating a certain diet does not make somebody a good or a bad person.
“I limit my tofu intake after the study on how tofu affects males.”
Well,,,,, at 66 years of age, I don’t worry about that too much. The Chinese seem to be doing okay. But, as I said, it’s about half and half now. And OMG! The Dim Sum pork sausage wrapped in tofu skin? Abdo-lutely wonderful!
As long as you work your body hard and burn up what you eat you can eat just about anything.
I was told ‘Vegan’ was the Indian word for “Poor Hunter”.
Oh do I ever agree! And ALL the drama that goes along with it.
It wasn't that she was a vegetarian.
It was that she was trying to convert him
I’m betting that closer to 90% of vegetarians won’t date carnivores. Most are liberal and rabidly intolerant.
Hell take a look at a dating site sometime and look at the liberal profiles. They list all the things they hate and who they don’t want contacting them.
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