Thanks so much for your comment, for attending the conference, and for reconnecting via Twitter!

I always find it curious that someone would feel teh need to voice an opinion about what someone else is putting into their body (in terms of non veg’s commenting on a veg’s diet.) That’s the time you want to remember that “is about them, not about you!”

Thanks, too, for the link to interculturaltalk.org from your blog. By they way, and there’s nothing wrong with being a self-proclaimed nerd, but I don’t recall nerds looking quite so stylish with a Martini!

(ooh-note to self, Martini’s are vegetarian…add to menu for next year!)

My family refuses to eat artificial meat (i.e. veggie sausage) but my mother is always gracious enough to make plenty of meat-less side dishes so I can walk away just as stuffed as everyone else after Thanksgiving dinner.

My brother (and others) make fun of me because I won’t eat turkey on such a traditional American turkey-eating day. I never try to convince others to do as I do, but I find myself struggling to deal with those people that feel it’s necessary to convince me that I’m wrong.

And as it relates to diversity, we can’t walk around telling others that our ways are superior. This ethnocentric view only raises more boundaries to cross-cultural understanding (even if it is only between meat-eaters and veggie lovers)!

Ps. I met you at the CEO Conference 2009, loved your breakout session and was thrilled to find you on Twitter, which lead me here. I look forward to reading more of your blog.