I'll quote Anthony Bourdain on the subject:
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Originally Posted by Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential
Vegetarians and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. 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. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by any animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate,' if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.
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For the record, I do give a damn about animal cruelty, but PETA just really pisses me off, so I tend to ignore anything I hear coming from their direction.
Also, a tall cold glass of milk and some veal sounds great. Maybe they came from mother and son.
