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7->'''Blond:''' ... He's, uh... he's still trying to leave the smallest footprint on the planet that he can.\
8'''Silver:''' All food production is exploitative.
9-->-- ''Film/{{Okja}}''
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11Whiny, pale, and possibly even intent on eliminating the entire human race to make way for fluffy bunnies, the Straw Vegetarian is a thinly-veiled [[TheWarOnStraw Strawman]] who is desperate for a bacon sandwich or would really like meat "if they just tried it". In some works, vegetarians or vegans are also shown arrogantly forcing their meat-eating family and friends to stop eating meat, often referring to them as murderers. More often than not, no one likes folks like this, often saying under their breaths, "Can't I have just one meal in peace?"
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13The vast majority of vegetarians and vegans, however, are not like this. Most ''have'' eaten meat before and stop doing so for multiple reasons (ethical, health, environmental, etc.). The more well-rounded ones are also respectful of what others eat, though [[MeatVersusVeggies it helps if that respect is returned]]. Also, the distinction between vegan and vegetarian is fairly simple: vegans avoid animal products altogether, whereas vegetarians will eat animal products as long as killing the animal is not a requirement to obtaining them.
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15!!Common stereotypes:
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17-->This section is a pick 'n' mix of stereotypical traits -- any number of them can apply.
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19* [[TheDitz Really stupid]], often a DumbBlonde, sometimes to the point that they'll happily eat chicken [[InsaneTrollLogic "because they're not animals, they're birds!"]]
20** Will baulk at the idea of eating mammal or avian meat, but can happily eat fish for much the same reason, or the hotly debated excuse "it's okay, fish don't feel pain!" People who eat seafood, but do not eat any other form of meat are known as "pescetarians".
21** Calls themselves "vegan" without understanding the difference between vegetarianism and veganism. The former eats no meat, the latter eats no animal by-products (meat, milk, eggs, honey, gelatin, etc). Vegans in film cannot eat most conventional baked goods, which contain eggs or butter, and have what other Americans would consider a very restrictive diet (here's a [[http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2011/05/09/12-seemingly-vegan-vegetarian-foods-that-really-arent/ good outline of some of the issues]] even for people trying to avoid animal products). Vegans also tend to extend their abstinence from animal products beyond food. They usually avoid wearing clothing made from animal skin or fur (as well as silk) and avoid using cosmetic or grooming products that either contain animal by-products or are tested on animals. Some vegetarians also do this, but others don't. It all depends on whether they follow a vegetarian diet for health or for ethical reasons.
22* Hates people who wear furs or support any businesses that use AnimalTesting, claiming ''all'' such people are evil sadists who hate animals.
23* Almost always Caucasian, and often female and blonde.
24* Often a SoapboxSadie and/or GranolaGirl.
25* Very pale and physically weak (especially if [[RealMenEatMeat male]]).[[note]]It should be mentioned that a crash vegetarian or vegan diet ''can'' have quite serious effects on the body, mostly because some of the most important vitamins in the diet (e.g. Vitamin B12) are extremely low or even absent in plants.[[/note]]
26* [[StrawHypocrite Repressed and secretly desperate for meat.]]
27* Continually pushes their views on others, and always tells ''everyone'' about it. Even people they've never met. Even the wildlife. Even inanimate objects.
28* Cannot resist the urge to proselytise non-vegetarians or vegans, and seemingly always looks for the ''perfect'' moment to criticise or shame meat eaters.
29* [[NaiveAnimalLover May have a rose-tinted view of the animal kingdom]], sometimes to the point of delusion. May lead to the Straw Vegetarian either [[NatureIsNotNice getting attacked by the animals they claim are harmless, or reacting with utter shock and disbelief upon learning that animals kill each other for meat, too]].
30* [[MisanthropeSupreme May wish that humans were wiped out so they'd stop killing animals.]]
31* Acts like a dietary [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]], quasi-religiously treating vegetarianism as a moral absolute while looking down on meat eaters with smug contempt.
32* A member of an AnimalWrongsGroup.
33* Almost has to be a [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]] by definition; generally portrayed as an annoyingly self-righteous liberal or left-leaning politically. Right-wing examples are exclusively ThoseWackyNazis. If female, they have a good chance of also being a StrawFeminist. Black examples are almost invariably MalcolmXerox.
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35Compare and contrast EvilVegetarian, where an evil villain abstains from meat (out of conviction, squeamishness, personal taste, or whatever) but is nonetheless prepared to do things most people would consider far worse than meat-eating to attain his ends. The Evil Vegetarian is always a straight-up villain, and also differs from the Straw Vegetarian in that his villainy is not ''necessarily'' directly connected to his vegetarianism; for him, the latter might simply be a lifestyle choice of little immediate importance to his other activities. The tropes are not mutually exclusive, however, and a character can easily be both. See also MeatVersusVeggies, and further RealMenEatMeat.
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37People who exhibit some or many of the typical traits of the Straw Vegetarian as described here certainly exist in real life; probably the most (in)famous was UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, [[HitlerAteSugar who promoted vegetarianism and animal rights]] and sometimes filibustered against meat-eating at the dinner table, regaling his guests with horror stories about [[NauseaFuel the abuses of the meat industry.]] However, [[TheWarOnStraw like all "Strawman" tropes,]] this one refers specifically to fictional characters deliberately crafted by an author to exhibit particular traits, and/or make a point: a living person by definition cannot be a strawman. Therefore, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
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46* In an advert for Quorn (a type of meat-replacement protein) the vegetarian is portrayed as the classic whiner "it's-a-phase" stereotype. Which is ''really'' weird when you consider that the stuff is aimed primarily at vegetarians.
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50* In a recent issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'', Jessica Drew discovered that an EvilChef in a Canadian ski lodge was [[ImAHumanitarian serving human flesh to his diners]], and played Straw Vegetarian to stop people from eating; knocking bits of food out of their mouths and shouting things like "MEAT IS MURDER!" Her actions in this case were justified (well, more so than for the obvious reason that the villain ''was'' a murderer) in that, in the Marvel Universe, anyone who eats human flesh in the Canadian Woods turns into a {{Wendigo}}, and the chef was intentionally attempting to turn all of his unknowing patrons into Wendigos.
51* Lance Blastoff encounters one in Creator/FrankMiller's ''Tales to Offend''. She is immediately converted when she smells the delicious aroma of roast dinosaur Lance is cooking.
52* ''ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks'': Parodied by the "Vegetable Liberation Front", who raid grocery stores to free 'enslaved vegetables'. They only eat edible rocks, because eating fruit or vegetables is wrong. One guy notes that they might get a bad rep with the "Mineral Liberation Front", but his partner says that doesn't matter because most of them have already died of starvation.
53* Swedish cartoonist Johan Wanloo likes this trope, to the point that he has a pair of recurring characters where this is the entire joke, a married couple of hipsters who have based their entire lives around the vegan lifestyle. In one strip, the woman goes on a long tangent about the evils of meat eating, while the man just sits there looking zoned out.
54--> '''Man''': Sorry honey, I didn't hear a word you said, I'm so weak from lack of proteins that it takes all my energy just to focus on breathing.\
55'''Woman''': Oh, sorry.\
56'''Man''': Shh, don't distract me or I'll die.
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60* Victor the Vegan from ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', possibly the only person on earth more arrogant than Jeff the Cyclist.
61* Hector's ex-girlfriend Autumn from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''. The first time she saw Jeremy eating a burger, she got a hysterical fit [[FelonyMisdemeanor as if she truly had never seen anything so terrible before]].
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65* ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'': During his introduction, [[JerkAss Konotegashiwa]] berates Shokudaikiri for serving "senseless death" and flips the food he cooks to the floor for containing fish and cream. Of course, seeing as he is a sword, this also makes him {{hypocrit|e}}ical on top of already massively jerkish – though to be fair, he acknowledges this.
66-->'''Konotegashiwa:''' Isn't it enough that you and I are both weapons? Now you have to commit this shit too?
67* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'':
68** There are those in the Equestrian Border Guard who are… selective about how they interpret and enforce the laws, and some of them can come off as this. Among other things, they try to arrest any prospective newcomers who work with meat, claiming their profession isn't recognized in Equestria. (They conveniently ignore that there ''are'' ponies who work with meat, to supply food to the domestic cat and dog population.)
69** Members of the PVE (Pony Vegan Environmentalists) can also come off as this with their pony-first propaganda and especially their prejudice against meat-eating races.
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73* ''Film/{{The Comedians|1967}}'': Mr. Smith is a nincompoop who comes to Haiti--a country that is desperately poor, politically unstable, and run by a murderous despot--with the idea of establishing a "vegetarian center". His center will supposedly offer vegetarian food, classes on the wonders of vegetarianism, and eventually a theater that presents "vegetarian drama". Brown rolls his eyes at Mr. Smith's ignorance (Smith has come to Haiti without the slightest idea of the conditions there) and notes that 95% of the people of Haiti are vegetarians already because they are too poor to buy meat. There is another layer of satire in that Mr. Smith isn't just some cuckoo vegetarian evangelist, he's also typical of the Americans who are ignorant of the outside world, as shown by how he blunders into the brutality of Duvalier's Haiti.
74* Brad's grandmother in the second ''Film/{{Critters}}'' film has shades of this, given that she constantly preaches about how vegetables are far healthier to eat than meat and going so far as to infer that humans were never meant to consume meat.
75* In Hallmark's ''For Better or For Worse'', the female lead's son Collin is engaged to her rival's daughter, Sophia. They have decided they are "vegan", despite having no clue what it means. Collin later thanks his mom for her muffins, being apparently oblivious to the fact that neither he nor Sophia could eat not only the veal parmesan, but probably most of the salad, nor the muffins, nor most everything on the table. In other words, they're idiots, along with the mother, who could easily have served eggplant and held the parmesan. They also visit a farm where livestock is used and nobody objects to cattle being milked, and decide the best example of a vegan cake is carrot cake.
76* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' plays with this, portraying vegans as LargeHam superhumans who have superpowers and taking Creator/BrandonRouth on a role, who at that time was the last performer of the role of [[Film/SupermanReturns Superman]] and was explicitly used as ActorAllusion. Of course, this was done to ridicule the "narcissism" of the vegans but as a result, it looks like StealthParody. [[spoiler: Todd turns out is not [[StrawHypocrite even faithful to his own diet]]]].
77* Specific diets and anyone who follow them are poked fun at in ''Film/Two4One'' as though they're this. It's especially played for laughs when the protagonist starts coming out to his co-workers as transgender, and one assumes the important thing he has to tell them is that he's a ''vegan''.
78* ''Film/LaVentana2008'': The servants ''assume'' Don Antonio's son Pablo is one, based on his urbane life in the present, his estrangement from his country-living father, and because allegedly "Europeans don't eat meat". We don't find out if he really is a vegetarian.
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82* An ExaggeratedTrope: In ''Literature/TheAmazingDaysOfAbbyHayes'', Abby's mother's friend from college, Laurie, isn't a vegetarian, but follows an insanely restrictive diet where she doesn't eat wheat, sugar, dairy, non-organic meat/fruit/vegetables, any food made with preservatives/chemicals/pesticides, or anything else she considers to be "too artificial", which basically means that she lives off of nuts, seeds, soy products, and vegan alternatives like oat milk and almond butter. The Hayes family tries to accommodate her diet when she comes to stay at their house for a few weeks, but she quickly starts trying to force it on them at every opportunity, constantly lecturing them about their diets being full of chemicals, pesticides, plastics, toxins, etc. She also forces her own daughter Wynter to follow the same diet; predictably, Wynter hates it and takes every chance she gets to eat junk foods like chocolate, ice cream, and hot dogs.
83* Dawn from ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub''. Especially bad since she didn't start out like this (possibly a case of {{Flanderization}}). She went from being a normal girl who just happened to be a vegetarian to one who would self-righteously lecture the other girls every time they ate meat, going on and on about how she was going to outlive all of them because of her healthier lifestyle.
84* Madeline Bassett, a recurring character in Literature/JeevesAndWooster books is an unbearably mushy and sentimental girl. In ''Literature/StiffUpperLipJeeves'' she becomes a vegetarian and she's incredibly self-righteous about it. She forces her fiancé to follow her diet. As a result, he leaves her for a cook, who won his heart with her steak-and-kidney pie.
85* Eustace and his parents in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' are vegetarian; they also follow other restrictions like avoiding alcohol and tobacco. All these lifestyle choices tie into their characterization as bland, effete snobs and trend-followers who subscribe to secular intellectualism instead of the GoodOldWays. He says they're also Quakers though, and there is a dose of Straw Pacifist too.
86* Magrat Garlick, in her first appearance in ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', is the kind of vegetarian who is prone to informing non-veggies how much undigested meat they probably have in their colons. ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' balances it out by contrasting her with an absurdly old-fashioned cook who doesn't believe vitamins ''exist''.
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90* Dick Solomon became one of these as a CompressedVice on ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', reverting to his normal meat-eating ways at the end of the episode. Justified by the RuleOfFunny and the fact that [[SmallNameBigEgo Dick's personality is just that extreme]].
91* Penny on the pilot episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.
92-->'''Penny:''' Oh, I'm a vegetarian. Except for fish. And the occasional steak. I ''love'' steak.
93* ''Series/BobHeartsAbishola'': While Bob is being rushed into the hospital during his heart attack in the pilot episode, his sister Christina comments that maybe now he'll stop eating defenseless animals. Though she is shown eating chili in "The Cheerleader Leader" and since Bob cooked it for the whole family, it most likely isn't vegetarian chili.
94* Britta from ''Series/{{Community}}'' is one, as well as [[HypocriticalHumor highly hypocritical]] about it, smugly announcing to the Study Group that she's a vegetarian while wearing a ''leather jacket.''
95* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', the paleontology student who died on the set of the animatronic ''Walking With Dinosaurs'' live show. He not only pressured his girlfriend into swearing off meat, but he idolized herbivorous dinosaurs and despised the carnivores to a degree that seems idiotic in a science student.
96* Subverted in ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' by having HateSink Freddie Lounds be the show's vegetarian. Ironically, this leads to her being one of the only main characters [[spoiler:who has not eaten human flesh]].
97* ''Series/{{House}}'': Subverted. One of the clinic patients is the baby of a vegan couple. The couple are initially presented as idiots who unintentionally starved their baby by making it eat a vegan diet. They even get arrested for child endangerment. However, the couple had actually consulted a college-educated nutritionist who created a vegan diet plan suited for an infant. The baby was suffering from a genetic condition that prevented it from properly absorbing nutrients, and thus the health problems had nothing to do with the diet.
98* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''
99** "Shelter Island": Stella's sister Nora is introduced as a preachy, holier-than-thou vegetarian, to Ted's contempt. Zig-zagged when her fiancé dumps her and she goes on a steak binge.
100--->'''Nora:''' ''[Smugly]'' I ''wish'' I could tune out that moral voice inside me that says eating animals is murder... but I guess I'm just not as ''strong'' as you are.\
101'''Ted:''' That's because you need protein. ''[To the restaurant waiter]'' I'll have the lamb.
102** Strawberry, a GranolaGirl who was one of Ted's exes that Lily brought up as an example of him bringing his random girlfriends to their special events, threw soy sauce on the hibachi chef at the dinner they had celebrating Marshall's graduation while yelling "Meat is murder!"
103--->'''Ted:''' Okay, I admit it, Strawberry was a mistake. But how could I have known that going in?
104--->'''Group:''' ''Her name was Strawberry!''
105* Regine from ''Series/LivingSingle'' becomes one after watching a daytime talk show where it's said being a vegetarian is not only good for you but will keep you active and young looking when you get old (as well as have a hot, young boyfriend).
106* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', we find out his class is full of these at the Krelboyne picnic. Hal becomes a hero to all the beleaguered dads in attendance (who very obviously were not vegetarians) by sneaking in real meat, but chaos ensues when the Krelboynes realize their "tofu" is bleeding.
107* Proving that the "obnoxiously self-satisfied vegetarian" stereotype has been around for quite a while, a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch begins with a waiter welcoming the characters to his restaurant in this fashion:
108-->'''Waiter:''' This is a vegetarian restaurant only, we serve no animal flesh of any kind. We're not only proud of that, we're smug about it.
109** Although in typical Python fashion, it's played with; he ends a crazed rant about how he'd never subject an innocent, defenceless animal to any number of unpleasant tortures with "not for ''food'', anyway." It also turns out that while the restaurant won't serve animal flesh, it's quite willing to serve [[ImAHumanitarian human flesh]].
110* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Chris Traeger isn't a vegetarian, but his health nut tendencies are treated in the same manner. One episode sees him attempt to get hamburgers removed from City Hall's cafeteria because they're unhealthy, and he makes a proposal to [[RealMenEatMeat Ron Swanson]]: They have a cook-off where Chris makes a turkey burger and Ron makes a hamburger. Chris slaves over his burger, making it with expensive ingredients, while Ron just slaps ground beef on a grill. Ron wins in a landslide, and when Chris has a bite, he admits that beef is just inherently better than turkey.
111* Creator/GordonRamsay at one time seemed to believe this of most vegetarians and has pulled stunts before, such as allowing a cook to tell a passing vegetarian that something with bacon in it was vegetarian. He also organized a TV stunt on his program ''The F Word'' where he filled a restaurant with (supposed) vegetarians who had all agreed to try meat (presumably to put pressure on any regular veggies watching). He's softened up considerably since then, after some research on intensive pig farming.
112-->'''Ramsay:''' It's enough to make anyone turn fucking vegetarian, for God's sake. And I've always sort of knocked vegetarians and vegans for missing out on the most amazing flavour you can get from meat. But you can see why so many people change instantly.
113* Some early ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episodes have Elaine as one, with the strong implication that she only wants a cheap excuse to argue with people.
114* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The Vulcans criticize humans who eat meat whenever they have the opportunity. For instance, one episode featured a group of Vulcans stranded in a remote area and two of them preferred to starve rather than eat an animal to survive. This was in sharp contrast to other portrayals of Vulcans, such as Spock, who maintained a vegetarian diet as much as they could but were willing to eat meat if there was nothing else available, seeing voluntary starvation as illogical.
115* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'': Raven's best friend Chelsea is a vegetarian and the show's {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. Her mother may also be a vegetarian as well as a hippie.
116* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' has Mia, one of Charlie's fiancees, trying to make Charlie stop eating meat. Not only was she a straw vegetarian, she was making Charlie give up everything he liked, including drinking, cigars, and even ''sex''.
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120* In his special ''Thinky Pain'', Creator/MarcMaron talks about why he wouldn't want to have lunch with a vegan because 15 minutes into the conversation, he'll inevitably end up saying this:
121-->"Alright! I'm not gonna eat it, are you happy?! We didn't ''save'' a pig; we wasted one!"
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126* The ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' adventure “The Reign of Cats and Dogs” features the neophyte villain Moonbeam, an angry vegan who gets hold of a reality-bending gem and uses it to give superpowers to every animal in the city, creating chaos. In her civilian identity, she once got banned from the campus coffee shop after insisting that every customer who used real milk in their latte was disrespecting her.
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131* In ''VideoGame/SurvivingMars'', colonists with the "Vegan" trait get a morale penalty for living in a dome with a ranch. The trait description is "Don't worry, they'll tell you".
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135* Averted by Karen in ''[[WebAnimation/SBBBrothers Sims Big Brother 8]]''. While her interview makes her sound like one, where she states her goal is to introduce one houseguest to veganism or at least vegetarianism but she doesn't outright say it.
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139* A memorable [[{{Subverted}} subversion]] from ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' shows a NewAgeRetroHippie with a plate of salad in front of her demanding of her male companion, "Enjoying your ''meat?'' MURDERER!”
140-->'''CAPTION:''' Can't we have just ''one'' dinner date where she doesn't mention the time I shot her mom?
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144* ''Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse'' portrays all vegetarians everywhere like this, and urges carnivores to eat more meat than usual to compensate for the animals that aren't dying.
145* The ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' episode "A Very Madden 08 Christmas" has Scott being invited to the third annual Vegans Anonymous Gathering, a convention/cult meeting of vegans during the holiday season. Said vegans aren't too happy when they discover that Scott has brought milk strapped onto his person to the gathering. They also later talk about the joys of consuming [[ShapedLikeItself vegan bread and coffee]].
146-->'''Terry:''' [commenting on [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Scott having a jug of milk taped on his clothes]]] To me, you're basically wearing a racial slur on a shirt.
147* ''WebVideo/TalesFromTheInternet'' covered the disastrous Creator/WoodyHarrelson Reddit AMA, in which he did nothing but shill his new movie ''Rampart'' and/or its director Oren Moverman instead of honestly answering the questions... with one exception: a question about his veganism, which ''did'' get an honest answer without any shilling whatsoever. Whang chalks this up to vegans simply being physically incapable of resisting the urge to proselytize to the unwashed masses if given the opportunity.
148-->'''Whang:''' Because ''of course'', no matter how much they don't wanna be there, no matter how much they don't care, no matter how much they wanna promote ''Rampart'', if you ask a vegan about vegan shit, ''they're gonna tell you about vegan shit''.
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152* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
153** [[HippieTeacher Steve Small]] once actually said that [[LampshadeHanging he was only vegan for the feeling of superiority it created]]. "The Potato" reveals that [[spoiler: he hides meat in his desk because he can't stop eating it.]]
154** [[GenderBlenderName Leslie]] the flower is an inversion; being a plant himself, he refuses to eat anything ''but'' meat and tries to convince Penny (a peanut) to do the same.
155* Hayley in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. An adamant vegetarian, yet in one episode, she spends her time stuck in Africa with Stan and Steve in the American Embassy, clearly eating meat dishes. In another, she admonishes her boyfriend Jeff for eating a corn dog, telling him they're vegetarian. Jeff replies "Still?" In yet another episode, she decides to have a "cheat day" after eating one of Klaus's omelettes which she didn't know contained veal and spends the whole day indulging in increasingly decadent meat dishes. It takes eating the brain of an ''endangered gorilla'' to finally make her feel guilty enough to stop (though unbeknownst to her, this was actually a scam). Both she and Jeff seem to be under the impression that animals coexist peacefully in the wild, which couldn't be further from the truth. She would eventually ditch her vegetarianism for good after getting a job at Sub Hub.
156* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Cecil, Cheryl's brother, is revealed to be a vegan due to the insistence of his GranolaGirl fiancee Audrey, to the point that the seafood buffet on their boat is actually made from tofu, albeit very well-crafted and almost identical to the real thing.
157* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The entire Air Nomads civilization. They strictly avoid eating any kind of meat because their culture believes that all life has value. However, they do eat eggs and dairy products and the airbenders from the Western Temple believe that eating meat is acceptable if the food is being shared by a person from another nation or if eating meat is the last resort to end extreme hunger/starvation. The rebuilt Air Nation follows their predecessors' vegetarianism.
158* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Chef [=McMuesli=] is a hippie goat who serves as Camp Kidney's chef and often goes on vegan kicks, forcing the campers to eat his vegan dishes which are disgusting and ironically just as unhealthy as the junk food and non-vegan food he obsessively confiscates and hoards from the campers. He is completely oblivious to how much everyone in camp hates his cooking. Many episodes suggest that he ''can'' cook edible food as the cast is shown eating in the mess hall without complaint, but when he tries to force his homemade vegan recipes on the cast, his cooking skills evaporate.
159* Sam Manson from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. In the very first episode of the series she tries to get meat banned from the school café in favour of her parody vegetarian diet of turf (yes turf, as in grass) -- the result is [[MeatVersusVeggies mass protests from both sides]]. It's played for laughs, however, and is an AffectionateParody (her opposite, Tucker, is utterly meat-obsessed).
160* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls''; Poison Ivy (aka Pam Isley) only eats meat because she hates seeing any kind of plant die for the sake of human consumption and doesn't like that [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Jessica Cruz]] (who sometimes plays the trope straight, herself, but most of the time she respects other peoples' dietary choices) is a vegetarian since that diet is mostly plant-based. She apparently doesn't understand that the animals raised for meat have to eat an even larger quantity of plants in order for the farmers and the slaughterhouses to produce meat in the first place.
161* Free Waterfall Jr. from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the leader of the ironically named [[AnimalWrongsGroup Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment]] [[FunWithAcronyms (M.E.A.T)]] who protested the consumption of "Popplers" (baby omicronians) only to be EatenAlive by Lrr, making him the first of the Waterfall family to suffer DeathByIrony. He also taught [[https://theinfosphere.org/M.E.A.T.%27s_lion a lion to eat tofu]], [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome making him very sick in the process]].
162* Victor Volt of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'' is a vegetarian. Though, thankfully, this trope is Averted. He never shoves it down anyone's throat. In fact, it only really ever comes up once when [[spoiler: a race of utterly ''delicious'' aliens show up and he's the only one that can keep from eating them with a slurp, which causes horrible mutations in the eater.]]
163* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]] tries to convince everyone not to eat meat at Homer's barbecue and eventually throws away the roasted pig. At the end of that episode, Lisa learns from [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul]] and Linda [=McCartney=] not to be judgmental about non-vegetarians, after which she mostly settles down -- but [[AesopAmnesia it doesn't stop her occasionally lapsing into aggression in later episodes]], [[RuleOfFunny mostly as jokes]].
164** Also Lisa once fell in with a crowd of extreme environmental activists. She develops a crush on the leader and visits him in jail.
165--->'''Lisa:''' I think your protest was incredibly brave.\
166'''Jesse:''' Thank you. This planet needs every friend it can get.\
167'''Lisa:''' Oh, the earth is the best! That's why I'm a vegetarian.\
168'''Jesse:''' Heh. Well, that's a start.\
169'''Lisa:''' Uh, well, I was thinking of going vegan.\
170'''Jesse:''' I'm a level 5 vegan -- [[ExaggeratedTrope I won't eat anything that casts a shadow.]]
171* Played with by Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''. While he reacts with disgust when he's presented with a meat dish (the reason why he's vegetarian is [[{{Animorphism}} since he can transform into any kind of animal]], he sees meat-eating as a form of cannibalism), and spends one episode trying to get his teammates to eat vegetables (which naturally results in them becoming veggie-hungry zombies because [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext it's just that kind of show]]), he does acknowledge that even though he thinks meat is gross, it's fine if others decide to eat meat, but you should have a balanced diet no matter what your diet is like. In fact, him getting his friends to eat vegetables wasn't to force them to give up meat, but for them to have a healthier diet.
172* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': [[Characters/TotalDramaJulia Julia]] is one as part of her hippie lifestyle and for Mother Earth but in reality, she's doing it to pander to her social media followers and not come off as a {{Hypocrite}}. She later admits in the confessional that "avocado toast is gross", ate the disgusting dishes in "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheWheelOfVomit The Wheel of Vomit]]" containing various types of meat and in spite of not having eaten red meat or carbs in a while, she would kill half the world's population for a slice of pepperoni pizza. WordOfGod states she's the type to claim she's vegetarian or vegan on social media but when no one is looking, she gourges on double-bacon cheeseburgers.
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