ANTHONY BOURDAIN, the celebrity chef and bon vivant, is quoted as saying, “Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.” Vegetarians choose not to eat meat, whereas vegans go a step further and won’t partake of any form of animal-derived product, including eggs and dairy.
THE feedback from most vegetarians that I have talked to about hunting has varied from unsympathetic to actively antagonistic. But what motivates people to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle, and is this necessarily an issue for the hunting community?
There is a surprising amount of literature relating to the motivations of vegetarians, and even a survey tool called VEMI (Vegetarian Eating Motives Inventory) designed to measure why people have opted out