[CallMeIshmael]

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Of course it's a culture. One of its primary requirements is that you adopt a smary, morally superior attitude over the barbaric masses who eat meat. What fun is it abstaining from something if you can't lord it over everyone else? No TV, sex, pork, meat, etc., entire civilizations have been built on less. If that isn't culture, what is?

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FWIW, the abstaining from pork thing is different from the rest, IMO. Abstaining from pork is generally the result of religious belief. And, the reason religons tell their believers not to eat pork is (most likely) because not eating pork was evolutionarily favoured when modern religions were developing.