I am looking for opinions here. (Facts welcome too of course) I have noticed that virtually every vegetarian I know, whose personal past I know a bit about, each of them has been somehow victimized. One woman was beaten by her husband for a number of years before she left him, another was extremely bullied by a sibling for his entire childhood, another was molested by her father, another was raped as a teenager, and I too could be put into this category of vegetarians (I was a vegetarian for 6 years, until recently.) I am wondering, if you could take a poll among vegetarians would you find that a great many have been victimized, and if you wanted to get all Freudian about it, would you find that this has anything to do with their decision to be vegetarian? I mentioned this idea to afforementioned vegetarian number one, and she insisted that I was full of crap, then elaborated that her decision to be vegetarian was based on the cost of meat. Now I know this person, she thinks she doesn't *deserve* expensive things. It's complicated. (I also think that gluten and casein are making her a little schizo, and yes I really mean that.) Anybody think this is possible, or better yet, know of any official studies on this matter? Stacie