>   The vegetarian movement is alive and well because of hundreds of
>thousands of mostly very young and very committed kids who truly believe in
>it.  (IMHO.)  At my local co-op the employees have posted "GO VEGAN"
>grafitti all over the bathrrom walls, and some of them wear t-shirts with
>very insulting epitheets against meat eaters. The hue and cry on the co-op
>bulletin board lately is "Give us more vegan cookies and baked goods."  (And
>sadly, most of these kids don't look well at all.)

Second that. The only vegetarians/vegans I know of are under 30 y.o.,
invariably smoke, drink lattes or Mountain Dew (nasty yellow
caffeinated carbonated drink) and are often into homeopathy,
astrology and other hooey. They tend toward the sallow-complected
and high illness rate, fighting obesity.

The point being that they are the most market-targeted generation
ever, victims of rife faddism, anti-scientific superstitions,
and fundamentally unsound nutritional standards. I can understand
their need to rebel; it wasn't that long ago for me.

On the bright side I know that once their youthful vitality
is spent (youth is wasted on the young, after all), they'll come
around to something to something sensible like Paleo. I know
one reformed ex-vegan who now eats a ER4YT/Paleo hybrid diet.