Tonight I had dinner at my grandparents house and they are not used to having a vegetarian around. It's always funny when people act like its going to dramatically change the dining experience. It doesn't. I asked my grandmother, "what were you planning on having"? She said, "potato's, salad, steak, bread and butter". I said, "okay I'll have that sans the steak". Really the majority of the food we eat in the US isn't meat aside from the giant slab in the center of the plate. Most of our "side dishes" are vegetarian. I have a cousin that has given up a nice career in corporate marketing in Chicago to move out to rural Illinois and work on farm. He's pretty damned happy with the decision. [edit] Molly the cow was properly coined "badass of the day" when she made her heroic escape from "hell".