Why arent Animal Rights ever an issue in presidential politics?

[athena]

108. Right. All you have to say is, "Is this dish vegetarian?"

That's all it took the last time I was at a gathering. Suddenly I was bombarded from all sides with questions about whether one can get enough protein, iron, you name it, on a vegan diet, and I had to endure comments about the supposed danger of raising kids on a vegan diet (no one in the group had small kids) and the supposed dogmatism of vegans. It didn't turn ugly, but later, I was pretty annoyed that I had been forced to talk about something I had zero interest in discussing. It's really stressful to have to talk to meat-eaters about vegetarianism, knowing how touchy they tend to be.