Getting defensive over eating meat is fuckign stupid 
Youeat meat, fine. I don't. Piss off 
I used to get that when I was a vegetarian. It's dumb, but you'll always get it. Some of it's defensiveness, and some of it is that being a vegetarian provides others around you with something very obvious to pick on you about.
Somewhat happy ex-veggie memory: It was wicked gratifying when I'd started eating meat again and a friend who'd made fun of me for eschewing meat decided to go without for awhile. I asked him several times to come to dinner with me and my friends. We wanted to eat burgers in front of him. I'm still sad it didn't end up happening. At least I got to use the same "But meat is yummmmyyyy" taunts on him that he used to use on me.
Omfg that's hilarious 
It amuses me when people go "But what do you eat then?!" as if meat was the ONLY thing edible in this world. Jeez, have some culinary imagination 
To a lot of people, a normal diet seems to mean meat + dairy + processed carbohydrate products + a few limp vegetables on the side of the plate at dinner, and a vegetarian diet seems to mean artificial meat substitute + dairy + processed carbohydrate products + a few limp vegetables on the side of the plate at dinner.
I eat meat with most meals, but I probably also eat more fruit and vegetables than most vegetarians. On a typical day, I estimate that I eat about 200g of meat, usually skinless chicken breasts, 750g of fresh fruit, mostly in the form of citrus and apples, but including peaches, nectarines, pears, plums and whatever else is in season, and 1.5kg of vegetables, generally some combination of onions, carrots, peas, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, swede and potatoes, depending on what's available and what I feel like cooking with. Nuts, oats, mushrooms and olive oil also contribute to my diet, and minor contributions come from various other sources.
