Bloodthirsty Lesbians

As a lesbian and an omnivore, I've always been somewhat baffled/distressed by the disproportionate number of lesbians who are either vegetarian or vegan. Not that I have anything against those diets, because I don't. It would just be nice every once in a while to find a girl that I could go to say, McDonalds with and not risk a lecture about the cruelty of slaughterhouses or the superiority of soy-based meat substitutes. Any thoughts on this phenomenon?

Living in Portland, I assume there is no correlation. Straight, Lesbian, Gay, I get dirty looks whenever I say "MMMM...I LOVE ME SOME FRIED COW". :D

That's an interesting point. I'm a lesbian and an omnivore as well, and I've also noticed this strange trend. My mother, sister, and brother are all three vegetarians (although only one of them is a lesbian), so I don't have a problem with it, but I too can feel the burning, judgmental stares of my dates across the dinner table while I munch my fried chicken and they eat their soy salad with spinach sauce (or something equally healthy sounding). I think it's not an issue with lesbians in particular; I think it's that coming out of the closet is something that's hard to do for people of certain political ideologies and backgrounds. By the sheer law of averages, there HAVE to be as many lesbians per capita born in the mountains of West Virginia as there are born in the Castro in San Francisco. Lesbians are about 10% of the female population, and that's just genetics (sorry, Bible thumpers), but people who have a more wealthy, urban, or liberal background are more likely to come into contact with homosexuality at an early age and they're also more likely to be readily accepted by friends and family if and when they come out, so they can come to terms with themselves, avoid those pesky hetero camps, and put themselves out there to start dating other women, and this demographic happens to also be the one most likely to be vegetarian or vegan. I grew up in the south, and I've bumped into several older lesbians over the years who were married with children before they 'discovered' they were attracted to other women, and I don't recall a single vegetarian amongst them. I suppose this question is much like that of the tootsie pop: The world may never know (484 licks to the center, by the way; I DID actually count).