Vegetarianism is an Eating Disorder??
“People who don’t eat meat are not just pale, boring, vain and flaky. They are also suffering from an eating disorder”— Giles Coren
While I don’t think that Coren is correct assuming that ALL vegetarians are disordered, I think he has a point. I can think of almost 80% of the vegetarians I know who do use it to cut out an entire group of food from their diet and starve themselves. (Think: Anyone in a sorority who is “vegetarian”). I can remember friends “going veg” for a few months to drop a shit ton of weight, and vegetarians I know who obsess over meat, bacon, etc. and constantly are pointing to the deliciously gross things on menus, encouraging others to eat what they won’t allow themselves to. So, with that being said, I agree with Cohen’s mentality which is yes, while we might eat too much meat, simply eliminating all of it from your diet is another form of starving your body of the nutrients it needs.
Thoughts?
