Save this article to read it later.

Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.

You do realize that wine is sometimes not vegetarian?

Article image

Where do you come from?

Whats your family like?

Its a hell of a thing, cognitive dissonance.

Do they think of their diet as a political or ethical choice?

Does suffering only become real once weve seen it?

But theres also a more complicated answer.

There have to be other factors at play.

That alone scarred me, because I felt sorry for Wilbur.

I, too, dont want to die.

Matthews words place him in one of two camps that began to emerge in aggregating the responses.

Even when lucid about their own misgivings, converts take all manner of objections.

But seeingWhat the Healthframed something he had taken for granted as part of a much bigger picture.

I dont remember a damn thing about either film.

The important thing is they changed my perspective and caused me to look at food differently.

I didnt switch to vegetarianism/veganism immediately after seeing the films.

In these instances, theres sometimes a bit of pining for the lost food group.

(Emily confesses that occasionally, I still miss bacon.)

Not so for the second camp, the sick-to-the-stomach crowd.

To that same effect, Grace got only cravings where Taylor got stomachaches.

I went directly to McDonalds after school and ordered a six-piece.

I thought it felt a bit like a stunt.

That leaves plenty amenable to persuasion, for whom movies render the abstract frightfully concrete.