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I suspect the problem is people are unhappy with your assumption of the entitlement to tell them what they ought to be eating.

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I am not telling anyone what to eat or not... I was just commenting that guys get very wound up by touching on the subject. This thread does not point the other way now does it?

That's pretty disingenuous. "Touching the subject" of restricting what other people eat naturally will make them angry. Particularly the way you do it.

English is not my first language; what did I exactly say 'that way'? As I am not sure: by people (guys) getting angry I mean things like blokes shouting at a Thai waiter because they wanted "f*cking serious meat" and there was hardly any in the soup.

Yah, it's interesting how people who believe they are entitled to things get offended when someone describes them has having entitlement.

The argument is something like "don't call me entitled I'm entitled to eat as much meat as I want"

... which makes no sense to me.

Well, you're entitled to eat whatever you can afford to eat. If that's meat, it's meat.

Yah, that's called entitlement. I don't understand why people get so upset by that word.

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