Reply #8: I can assure you that a vegetarian diet is anything BUT boring! [View All]

When my wife asks her kindergarten class what they had for dinner the night before, the answers are usually Wendy's, McDonald's or Burger King. Now THAT is boring! The young guy at the checkout who asked me what kind of produce I had placed in front of him has a boring diet. The answer was "broccoli". I'm still shaking my head about that one. But it isn't really a vegetarian/meat-eater issue - the problem with the term "fast food" is the inclusion of the word "food". The calorie counts won't stop people from snarfing garbage anymore than the Surgeon General's warning on cigarettes have stopped smoking. Too many people don't care about weight, heart health, or anything else. They'll ignore the numbers and gripe that they take too much space away from the pictures of dripping grease. They won't take anymore responsibility for what they eat than they do when they cast a single-issue vote. To quote Opus from Bloom County, "I prefer to blame Congress."

Sorry about the rant ;}