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>
>  I wonder how many become vegetarians in their hyper-sensitive teen years?
>
Most, I would bet (myself definitely included).  Although I have not
been
vegetarian for several years now, I still find my "sensitivity" to be
a
problem at times.  Having been raised as a good American girl
believing in
the sanctity of the individual and of human life, I have always had a
problem
with regarding every other living organism as dispensible and
undeserving of
all the rights we supposedly give each other as humans.  This kinda
relates
to the other thread topic of victimization in a way ... I know I
project my
fears and self-centeredness onto every other living creature and have
trouble
reconciling killing and eating creatures that are easy to project on
(read
deer, bunnies, all those cute little creatures we were raised to see
with
Disney eyes).  I still have nightmares at times where I am prey.  The
only
way I was able to deal with switching to the 'caveman' diet, as they
called
it, was to adopt a sort of Indian attitude - with a lot of apologetic
prayers
to the food.  Call me crazy.

Holly