Civil War at PETA?

[Adrian II]

[..] many PETA members are repulsed by the thought of eating animal tissue, even if no animals are killed.

There you have it.

I have always had a lingering suspicion that vegetarianism is first and foremost an emotional issue, not political, religious, environmentalist or otherwise. I have only anecdotal evidence for this, so my case is very weak. The PETA discussion somewhat supports it, but what's in an email?

Friend of mine who is a correspondent in another European country has been a vegetarian since the age of 6 or 7. He refused to eat meat but can't remember why that was, at that age. Anyway his parents gave in to it, they stopped offering him meals with meat and my friend eventually discovered/developed an allergy for it. Nowadays vegetarianism and animal right are part and parcel of his hypochondriac outlook with which I tease him no end. He generally detests humans, prefers his cat to other company and cast his vote for the Animal Rights Party in the last elections.

This guy is totally hilarious on the phone, always raving and ranting about his pet irritations and wishing mankind and 'so-called civilization' to hell. Just yesterday we had a nice one. When I confronted him with the umptieth idiocy of his elected representatives, he cut me short saying the world was becoming too much for him and he was going to go outside and 'tend my garden'.

Coming from his mouth, it sounded like a menace.