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'''NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' on this page. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment PLEASE.]] The last thing we want here is [[FlameWar a brawl between "meat-and-potato people vs. tree-huggers."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has a minor moment of this, when the [[FanNickname Gaang]] arrives to the Fire Nation: Sokka is overjoyed to eat meat at last, while Aang gets a little sick thinking about eating meat, and decides to stick with the veggies.

** On another occasion, she delivers this line to David:

* ''Film/TheHobbit'' has a [[Funny/TheHobbit rather humorous]] scene where the party, who are mostly Dwarves, are invited to attend a dinner party in Rivendell. Much to the Dwarves' chagrin, their Elven hosts have prepared a variety of green foods and salads for them, and the Dwarves aren't entirely sure what to make of it. One of them takes a fist of the green stuff and confusingly asks where the meat is, and another one asks if they have any chips [[note]]as in British chips, french fries to any Americans reading this[[/note]] In a later scene, they're roasting food over a fire, including a sausage and some of the leftover salad. Yes, roasting ''salad'' over a fire.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Bubbles was sort of an odd case, at least continuity-wise. She claimed to be a vegetarian in some early episodes (being a FriendToAllLivingTings, it made sense) and actually, no-one in-universe objected to it. In some other episodes, however, she seemed to abandon this philosophy entirely, having no problem with the Professor's sloppy joes. (Most likely, this was a case where it was DependingOnTheWriter.)

* ''Film/TheHobbit'' has a [[Funny/TheHobbit rather humorous]] scene where the party, who are mostly Dwarves, are invited to attend a dinner party in Rivendell. Much to the Dwarves' chagrin, their Elven hosts have prepared a variety of green foods and salads for them, and the Dwarves aren't entirely sure what to make of it. One of them asks if they have any chips. In a later scene, they're roasting food over a fire, including a sausage and some of the leftover salad. Yes, roasting ''salad'' over a fire.

** Beast Boy can tolerate meat when he wants to. In "Employee of the Month", he sort-of willing works at Mega Meaty Meat because the Employee of the Month prize is his dream vehicle.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans:'

** Though, if you read the gallery, it's pretty clear he finds all the meat recipes revolting. That's not because he hates meat; he loves it. It's just that all the meat recipes *are* revolting (the vegetable ones aren't any better).

* ''Series/{{Roseanne}''} is every bit of a {{Jerkass}} toward Darlene and her boyfriend David because they're both vegetarians.

* Frequently referenced on ''NoReservations'' - Tony falls squarely into the meat camp, many of his personal favourite FoodPorn moments involve huge piles of sizzling animal parts and he rails against vegetarians or vegans with political motivations he finds ridiculous and who don't actually know how to cook vegetables properly. He will grant points to the (generally Buddhist) vegetarian cooks of places like India and China, however.
* Series/StarskyAndHutch have been known to clash when it comes to food. Starsky mostly eats salami, pizza and any spicy burrito with onions. Hutch, however, prefers a more 'healthy' approach.

* Phoebe Buffay of ''{{Friends}}'' is an odd case, as she flits between being a strict vegetarian by virtue of being an animal-rights supporter, and eating meat as part of HypocriticalHumor. The trope is played straight in one episode, however, when she gives in to the pressure to impress her boyfriend's parents and eats some veal, and is later sick because of it.

* ''DharmaAndGreg'': Abby, Dharma's mother, is a strict vegan, which causes problems in some instances.
* {{Roseanne}} is every bit of a {{Jerkass}} toward Darlene and her boyfriend David because they're both vegetarians.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries:'' Mr. Spock is a vegetarian, and is extremely displeased with himself when he eats meat in an out-of-character moment in the episode "All Our Yesterdays":

* In ''{{Leonardo}}'', JerkJock Michelangelo makes fun of Leo for being vegetarian, and suggests the birds he frees should be "released" into a cooking pot.

* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Cordelia comes from Beta Colony, where all the "meat" is actually vat protein. When she marries Aral and moves to Barayar it takes her a long time to get used to meat from actual animals.
** IIRC from a remark by one of the Koudelka sisters in ''A Civil Campaign'', Cordelia still insists on vat meat at Vorkosigan House, thirty-some years later.

* In the ''BabySittersClub'' series, Dawn and her family were vegetarians (though this [[DependingOnTheWriter varies from book to book]]; sometimes they simply avoided red meat, and sometimes they, especially Dawn, were devout vegetarians). This was especially played up after Dawn's mother married Mary Anne's father, with three vegetarians and two meat-eaters in the same house having to make peace with one another's diets.

* In ''GirlsWithSlingshots,'' Jameson's girlfriend/later wife Maureen is a shy vegetarian blogger who is harassed by one of Jameson's longtime friends, Candy. At first Candy's jokes and pranks about Maureen's eating choices/reactions to the thought of meat are treated as funny, but eventually everyone in the group decides that Candy has gone too far for too long and call her out on it. As for the rest of the cast, it rarely if ever comes up as an issue.
* ''KevinAndKell'' takes this trope to its logical extreme, with it being the (as Danielle put it) arbitrary distinction used to divide society, a la race or sexuality. Then again, this is a society of {{Talking Animal}}s, and given that the meat eaters prey on the veggie eaters often...
** A prime example is Bruno Luplin, a wolf that converts to herbivorism. It's treated in society as if he was transgender, and unfortunately it's the not-so-accepting part of society.

* In ''PeaceOnEarth'', Meat-eaters and Vegetarians are among the warring factions mentioned as the grampa squirrel explains how Mankind wiped itself out.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans:'' Beast Boy is a vegetarian (or a vegan; he doesn't seem to eat eggs or dairy, but is still referred to as a "vegetarian" in canon) due to the fact that he's "[[{{Animorphism}} been some of those animals]]." He frequently encounters conflict with Cyborg because of his dietary preferences (making scrambled tofu instead of scrambled eggs, at which Cyborg was ''not'' amused). In one episode he tries to persuade Raven to eat one of his tofu-dogs; her response:

-> ''"Veggies are what food eats."''
-->-- '''Doc''', ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard''

->''"Good news, everyone! You don't have to eat meat! I've got enough gazpacho for everyone."''
-->-- '''Lisa''', ''TheSimpsons'', "Lisa the Vegetarian"

-> ''"Veggies are what food eats."''
-->-- '''Doc''', ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard''

* ''DannyPhantom'': between Tucker and Sam, Meat and Veggies respectively.
** To expand upon this example: It begins after Sam gets the school to take meat off the school menu, and it escalates to the point where the two of them each organize two dueling protests in front of the school.
* ''TheSimpsons'': between Lisa and Homer in "Lisa the Vegetarian", where Homer is throwing a BBQ just around the same time as Lisa has just converted to vegetarianism. After attempting to sabotage the BBQ Lisa goes missing as she is searching for others who share her philosophy; when she finds them, they point out that though they share her values, she's actually being an intolerant jerk. [[note]]For anybody who's wondering about the page quote, ''gazpacho'' is a Spanish tomato-based raw vegetable soup that's served cold.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:330:The ultimate battle.]]

* ''TheSimpsons'': between Lisa and Homer in "Lisa the Vegetarian", where Homer is throwing a BBQ just around the same time as Lisa has just converted to vegetarianism. After attempting to sabotage the BBQ Lisa goes missing as she is searching for others who share her philosophy; when she finds them, they point out that though they share her values, she's actually being an intolerant jerk. [[note]For anybody who's wondering about the page quote, ''gazpacho'' is a Spanish tomato-based raw vegetable soup that's served cold.[[/note]]

* ''TheSimpsons'': between Lisa and Homer in "Lisa the Vegetarian", where Homer is throwing a BBQ just around the same time as Lisa has just converted to vegetarianism. After attempting to sabotage the BBQ Lisa goes missing as she is searching for others who share her philosophy; when she finds them, they point out that though they share her values, she's actually being an intolerant jerk. [[hottip:* :For anybody who's wondering about the page quote, ''gazpacho'' is a Spanish tomato-based raw vegetable soup that's served cold.]]

** In ''Enterprise'', there is a sect of Vulcans that rely on both emotion and logic in balance, and they have no qualms about eating meat.
* Gordon Ramsay once tricked a vegetarian into eating meat in one of his cooking shows. Needless to say the vegetarian wasn't pleased.

When their philosophies on food come together, [[HilarityEnsues expect them to clash]]. Bob thinks Alice is eating FakeFood, and that she just needs to try meat ''once'' to appreciate how good it tastes; Alice is [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] by Bob's dietary choice and thinks he'll suffer DeathByGluttony for his obsession with meat.

* In the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' series, vegetarian Morley and steak-lover Garrett constantly mock each other's eating habits. Subverted in that ''Morley'' is the one who's a stone killer by profession.