CNN —At a Thanksgiving gathering three decades ago, I went cold turkey on eating meat.
“To quote George Bernard Shaw,” I announced, “‘Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends.’”No one else made a toast.
And over the past three decades, vegetarian options on restaurant menus have grown alongside my palate.
The world is getting more culinarily progressiveBefore I got married, my in-laws thought I was a little odd for not eating meat.
“I eat very little meat,” I’ve heard thousands of times after I say I’m vegetarian.
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