Vegetarian Diet Argument

McNamee: Moderator
Halter: Against him eating the dish
Lyles: For him eating the dish
Loftus: Scribe

Prompt: Was it a good decision that he stopped eating his Grandmother's dish?

What significance did his Gram Have on him?

Halter: Food was from WWII and food was important to her because she was always struggling to find it and she wanted him to grow.  If Vegetarianism was that important to him and really cared about being a vegetarian then he wouldn't have eaten it.

Lyles:  The significance in chicken and carrots was the family ideal and spending time together.  It wasn't what was in the meal, rather the quality of time together.  He should have continued to eat it, "terror, dignity, [...] history, [...] and most importantly love".  He contradicted himself when he went to the vegetarianism path in college because he did it to be different and as soon as it became mainstream he went back to an "identity of his own" by eating meat.  

Why was the Grandma always concerned about his weight?

H: She was constantly focused on finding food due to constant threat of concentration camps.

Do we think he should have forced his kids to be vegetarians too?

L: You can't force your ideals upon your kids especially if you have the will power to not eat it.  Some of his radical statements about how he hates meat but he isn't a full vegetarian so why can he say that.  Would he ever fully convert himself to veggies? He was all over the place with the global warming and domestic vs farm animals.  If we are all against GMO would have also been a good argument too.

H:  "Taste is the crudest of the senses" and consider justification to factory farms would you still make the conscious decision to eat the meat? It's miserable for the animals, biodiversity, global warming.  Not all labels are true- be conscious and careful.  He doesn't have the right to call himself a vegetarian.