Hello. I am a vegetarian. And I think I frighten people. I truly believe that if 100 aliens floated down to earth in a fluorescent spaceship, the majority of Americans would be more comfortable having dinner with the spotted, green aliens than they would with 100 vegetarians.

I also think that vegetarians get asked more questions than aliens ever would.

Questions for Aliens:

1. Where are you from?

2. What’s it like there?

3. Where else have you traveled/invaded?

4. Are you invading us or just visiting?

Questions for Vegetarians:

1. What made you become a vegetarian?

2. What do you eat?

3. You still eat chicken, and fish, right?

4. Why can’t you just be normal like the rest of us?

5. Don’t you get cravings for meat?

6. Do you honestly think humans are designed to just eat vegetables?

7. How can you eat cheese and milk but not eat hamburger?

8. How long have you been an alien…I mean a vegetarian?

9. Is this some type of crazy religious thing you’re doing?

You know, when I became a vegetarian three years ago, I assumed the most difficult thing would be to just give up meat. It’s not. The most challenging thing is answering the same questions every time I go out to eat and being interrogated as if I were from another planet.

But honestly, it’s still worth it and I don’t think I could ever go back to eating the flesh of another animal. I’ve survived this long, what’s another 50 or 60 years??