Well, let me give you an example. In “normal life” I choose not to eat McDonalds’ hamburgers. However if, say, I’m on a trip and McDonalds is the only convenient option, I will eat there without a second thought. A vegetarian, on the other hand, will not eat a hamburger even if it’s the only convenient option.
Well, how often do you eat at McDonalds in average? Once a month? Once a year? Once a decade? How much are you willing to go out of your way to eat elsewhere before it’s not “convenient”?
A few times per year. I actually don’t have anything against McDonalds on moral grounds. I like and prefer yummy food—McDonalds’ is serviceable but if I can find something more tasty or more interesting, I’ll go there. If not, not. McDonalds will sell me some cheap calories with predictable taste which is perfectly fine if I’m in a hurry and they are right there.
What I will eat under appropriate circumstances is a very wide set. What I choose to eat in normal life is a considerably more narrow set.
I gave a full explanation of my reasons for part-time vegetarianism above, but Lumifer’s statement generally accounts fully for what I choose to eat.
+1 to his comment.
I’d assume the poll deals with what you choose to eat in normal life.
Well, let me give you an example. In “normal life” I choose not to eat McDonalds’ hamburgers. However if, say, I’m on a trip and McDonalds is the only convenient option, I will eat there without a second thought. A vegetarian, on the other hand, will not eat a hamburger even if it’s the only convenient option.
Well, how often do you eat at McDonalds in average? Once a month? Once a year? Once a decade? How much are you willing to go out of your way to eat elsewhere before it’s not “convenient”?
A few times per year. I actually don’t have anything against McDonalds on moral grounds. I like and prefer yummy food—McDonalds’ is serviceable but if I can find something more tasty or more interesting, I’ll go there. If not, not. McDonalds will sell me some cheap calories with predictable taste which is perfectly fine if I’m in a hurry and they are right there.
Fair enough. I guess I had “normal life” as “not starving after a plane crash”.
McDonalds does serve vegetarian options.
Even after a plane crash I’d never set a foot inside McDonald’s, for both sanitary and political reasons.
You choose your fast food for political reasons? X-D
http://www.alternet.org/search/site/mcdonald
Well, of course.
An “of course” answer is illuminating.