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Golden Road posted...

Revelation34 posted...

Golden Road posted...

The majority of vegetarians are grossed out by that, I'm aware, but some are OK with it. I know one who was sometimes OK doing that, even if it wasn't exactly her preference. Again it's their call. Vegetarians are about not eating meat. That's the only requirement. They're allowed to eat something meat touched if they desire. You shouldn't judge someone for either personal choice they make on that matter.

Ok I don't know why you responded to my post and not Doctor Foxx's. She made the point I was going for. Except that last sentence.

Maybe some people might get sick. Unless there's an allergy or something else going on, though, I suspect most vegetarians would not get sick from a trace amount of meat. I mean, aside from sick as in "grossed out so I want to vomit." I'd wager that those stories don't happen very often.

Regardless, vegetarian isn't a religious order. It's just someone who doesn't eat meat. That's the only requirement, and while most vegetarians I know would probably not want to pick the meat toppings off of a pizza, there is no other requirement for being a vegetarian other than not eating meat. Eating something that is not meat, but has traces of meat, is not the same as eating meat. There's nothing wrong if a vegetarian chooses not to eat something with traces of meat, but they're still a vegetarian even if they choose to eat it.

Someone can still be a vegetarian if the accidentally ingest things with meat traces. However, any pizza that has meat cooked on it is not vegetarian food, even if you pick off the meat later. I don't think anyone needs to hand in their veg card for picking things off of pizza. What I am saying is it makes the pizza non vegetarian and can cause issues for some.

Yes I've seen it happen with friends before. This example is from many years ago. Someone served him vegetable soup. He got pretty sick. Turned out after it was full of beef stock. It's not meat, it has traces of meat, and still set off a very bad time for that friend.

Incidentally any time we had pizza together Nick got his own vegetarian pizzas separate from anything with meat. It only seemed polite. He told me after he usually had to pick it off and that was a gamble which had made him sick before. He just didn't want to impose by asking for it separate. He's not the only veg friend I've had with that experience.

I have also had friends with medical issues that did not allow them to eat meat. So they could not choose to just eat meat, they'd get very sick.

Keep it separate for people that don't eat these things, it's not hard
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