  (no subject)  > When someone asks me, "Can you eat.....?", I
answer that I can eat anything > I want, it is my choice, not a
religion.  Then I go on to answer the > question if I feel it
was a sincere one.  That was always the thing that drove me nuts
when I first went veggie ... my friends assuming I was depriving
myself of something because I chose not to eat dead animals.
But that's neither here nor there, I feel far better (physically
and emotionally) being veggie (and now working on vegan).  Just
my opinion ... for what it's worth.  Leah in Cleveland