Are you a vegetarian just to be cool?

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Why are most vegetarians and vegans in the west middle class? Is healthy eating a righteous hobby like supporting a charity or doing voluntary work? Does it lift that middle class guilt of having things others don’t? Killing animals for food is cruel but its how the human race became to be so we shouldn’t knock it. Not eating meat is the trendy thing to do at university and college now and although could be a way for young girls to stay slim instead of smoking to lose weight it’s still an irritating stance. Middle-class families like to do things that distance themselves from the working classes to make themselves feel quietly superior and less guilty about their comfortable lives. In the supermarkets they enjoy buying over-priced expensive organic food to live healthier lives but do they ‘actually’ do it because the lower classes can’t afford it? If you watch the middle classes shop they will always put their favorite junk food at the bottom of the shopping cart so other middle class people can’t see what they have bought. Only poor people feed their kids junk food right? Marketing is about making you feel bad about your lives and brands the answer to make you happy. Did you know supermarkets stack own and cheaper brand goods on the lower shelves and expensive brands on the top shelves so the rich get the satisfaction of looking down on the poor stooping and scraping buying those cheap own brands. The psychology is it makes the rich feel superior and so more likely to buy expensive brands. Most young teenagers and people that suffer slimming diseases are also in the same upper social cases. It’s an odd one. You would think the richer you are the healthier you are but his middle-class pressure to be physically and mentally perfect at school and life is causing thousands and thousands of young girls and gay men to suffer slimming conditions. The latest middle-class fad in London is for families to have log burning fires in their houses to give householders that authentic country house feel in the city. But it turns out the fires have become so trendy they are, incredibly, producing 40% of London’s harmful particulate matter. It certainly makes for cheaper central heating costs but really just the middle class being decadent as poorer Londoners struggle to pay heating costs. I’m glad I don’t have the money to behave so silly around ideological decadence.