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I'm 23, and I've been fully vegetarian for 8 years, and in the few years before that I only ever ate meat to be polite at friends' houses and such, I never ate it at home. My parents both eat meat, but from an early age I never liked it so eventually they just stopped giving it to me.
I'm also ethically against eating meat, as well as just not liking it, but I think in my case the two are linked; my primary school faced out onto the back entrance to a slaughterhouse, so at break and lunchtime, we could watch all the cute animals going in the back on trailers. In addition, my Mum worked there, and one of her friends there gave me a lovely tour one day, so I knew that all the cute animals going in were going to be hanging carcasses by the end of the day.
I daresay that's probably where my vegetarianism comes from, but anyway, for ethical and "just not liking it" reasons, I never even contemplate eating meat, let alone miss it. So it always made me wonder why people who didn't feel the same as me bothered. Not in a judgemental way, just in a curious way. And now I understand a bit more.
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Colonics are "gross." Highlighted hair is "unnecessary." These adjectives are not good reasons to suck down legislators' time with weird statutes banning colonics and highlights. I don't understand how anyone can get that het up about fish pedicures.
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But put in context of emotional attachment, I can see why people are so shocked by those who don't eat meat. Food and emotions are quite mixed up - it just so happens that my emotional attachments had more to do with a mix of pasta, cream cheese, and butter.
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I have a "Revlon" brand ped-egg knock off that I bought at Bed Bath and Beyond. It actually works better than my brand name ped-egg. (Yes, I have more than one.)
My friends and family think they are all disgusting, but I'll tell you what - some Flexitol cream (or the Target brand equivelant) overnight for a couple days under socks and a good warm soak and I was able to take off all the horrible old cracked skin in one day with a ped-egg that I had been always in the past been unable to get rid of over several weeks. Gross it may be, but I now have lovely heels I am not embarassed of! (Which I have never had, it seems to be the way I walk.)
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Even though it's my own dead skin it still grosses me out way more than him.
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I'm gonna go with "never", as long as people are willing to pay.
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@Sadako: There are ads from the early 1900s that encouraged women to buy tapeworms as a way to keep their girlish figures. At the very least, they were being SOLD, but who knows if they were very popular.
@dissolver: What is a pumice stone for if not for that very thing? Parasites are parasites; gross is gross. Also, how are your feet "happier" when you have dead skin taken away? As far as I know, it is about the aesthetics of feet - how pretty they look, how smooth they feel. I can't imagine letting something feed off me to get results I could get from a $5 drugstore callus shaver and a bottle of lotion.
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I travel a lot, and have lived in several different countries long term. Often, I have lived with other people, and in places where vegetarianism is really rare. In my mind, if I am going to take full advantage of living in another culture, I need to be a person who says "yes" to the experiences offered to me, and food is part of that experience. I try to be a go-with-the flow type in every other way, I don't think demanding that others meet my dietary needs (that aren't really NEEDS but preferences) goes with this. It may also be that I fear being seen as rude, and I think to a lot of people rejecting food is not taken as well as say, in the States where everyone has a diet of some type. So, for better or worse, I can't be vegetarian because I need to be able to choke down some guinea pig or intestines when these times roll around.
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