well you're dumb. we're not designed to eat vegetables or fruit at all. we were originally carnivores. we just adapted. so it's your fault for depriving yourself of the nutrients we are supposed to have.

either: they prefer to eat steak, and don't care about you nor your ideals, or they think you're sickly and need meat.

Vegetarianism is stupid. Humans are omnivores by nature and always have been. It's not healthy to go without meat altogether (there are certain types of protiens that you just can't get from non-animal sources, because they only exist in meat). Now that doesn't mean you should go scarf down heavy meat in your diet, because in nature humans wouldn't have access to 3 cheeseburgers a day, but it IS natural and healthier for you to incorporate meat into your diet at LEAST once every day or so (even if it's just a small serving of fish or a single slice of lunchmeat). That being said, the only reason anybody could have for being an adamant vegetarian would be either: a.) some misconstrued sense of what's "healthy" (going without meat or fish altogether actually makes your muscles a bit weaker and deprives your body of a well balanced set of vitamins--this is why so many vegetarians/vegans have to take vitamin supplements to replace what they're missing). OR, b.) some arrogant sense of self-righteousness (avoiding deliberate animal cruelty is one thing, but being a carnivore is NOT equal to say, dog-fighting or hunting just for sport). So...the only reasons you could have for being a vegetarian are either because you don't know better or because you're just a tree(cow?)-hugging douchebag. Therefore, YDI. Now eat your parents' steak, and be grateful that they paid for you to go off to college and spent time preparing a nice meal for you when you came home. JFC.

ydi for not partaking in the flesh of other animals.

well, at least they care at all?

ydi for bein an purity vegetarian..fag

ydi for being an uppity vegetarian..fag

What's with all the arrogant people on here? I've been a vegetarian for over 2 years, and I'm actually healthier than I was when I ate meat. Meat (especially red meat) made me feel sick anyway, and I don't need to take any vitamin supplements for what I'm 'missing'. Thankfully, my family accept my vegetarianism.

That's what you get for being a pussy vegetarian

Hmm...just a thought, but I don't think this was posted as a for/against debate. My guess is that the OP was just upset about the fact that this dinner, prepared FOR her, was full of food she has refused to eat for a long time. It sounds like the parents are one way and so they think their offspring should be the same. It's no different than if the OP was lesbian and when she got home they had the hot new neighbor guy over and tried to hook them up. I'm guessing that would give some laughs, but many more arguments that it was wrong. The fact is, the OP chose a certain lifestyle and the parents not only ignored it but tried to force their own lifestyle on her. Cut her some slack, once again...this dinner was supposed to be a "welcome home" meal.