I forgot to note why I put a * on "and cooking" before.

I absolutely eat meat. I eat all kinds of meat. I eat more kinds of meat that most people are comfortable with. I also eat a much lower quantity than most people from developed countries.

One of my favorite foods is Wienerschnitzel. It's made from veal and if anyone tried to give me a guilt trip over that, I'd laugh at them, loudly and in their face.

My sister is Vegan and rather than give me shit, she just eats vegan food. So I developed a 100% vegan Wienerschnitzel recipe that is almost indistinguishable from the real thing. I wash flour into wheat gluten (seitan) and flavor it with vegetable broth. Then I roll them out in a pasta roller until they're the size of tenderized veal. Pick your favorite vegan egg subsitute (it just needs to be sticky), bread it, and fry it up.

I was willing to try a lot of vegan and vegetarian food because it was presented in a positive way. If someone had tried to guilt trip me and insist that I'd go 100% vegan I would just have written them off as a crackpot and never even listened to them.