In regards to eating meat

[yossarian]

I agree with the trauma theory. My understanding of most humans is not that they don't have feelings but rather that they've engaged in suppression and repression out of social fears.

And yeah, any alternative lifestyle can also be threatening, but vegetarianism comes with moral condemnation, which Christians/rednecks take very seriously. But just being an alternative lifestyle is threatening enough.

Why would someone be attached to meat eating? Paradoxically, it's because it is so grotesque. To give up eating meat would be to admit they've been doing horrible things. This is cognitive dissonance at work.