So I'd like to bring up another point here, and that is one of sustenance living. Being in Alaska, above the arctic circle at that, there was very little choice except to eat meat. This includes caribou, walrus , seal, and occasionally whale. In fact Akutaq (colloquially known as "Eskimo Ice Cream") has fats in it also.

Although I try not to judge people, I have come to think of (some but certainly not all!) vegetarian idealists people I know as misunderstanding the difference between being ignorant (I don't understand WHY you are a vegetarian), and not thinking the same way as someone else (I don't understand WHY you want to be ignorant!).

I know why people are vegetarian, and I would go so far as to say that I understand it. But I have a very different threshold for what I will and will not eat.

Being able to eat in a vegetarian/vegan/and freegan lifestyle you have to live in a bit of a privileged environment in order to do that. Yes vegtables and fruit and other goods are cheap where you live, but in other places they may only come twice a year, and then you empty your wallet just for that sweet sweet taste of cucumber which has been in the back of an airplane for 4 days (best $6 I ever spend btw).