I’m really curious how being vegetarian has anything to do with embracing his culture.

To further underline the controlling behaviour, it should be pointed out that many Chinese who are Buddhist are also vegetarian. So much so that in neighbouring Taiwan, being vegetarian is quite normal and common.

This “embrace my culture” is a bit of a load of crap!

Haven’t eaten meat in 17 years, absolutely cannot fathom the audacity of someone to suggest I start up again. I’d probably laugh heartily in the face of anyone who suggested such a thing.

Take the vegetarianism out of this completely: he is attempting to control you. That’s what this is. He’s telling you what you can and can’t do with your body. It starts with something seemingly innocuous like diet. Once you negotiate this, what’s next? If you give in to his demands for how you nourish yourself, what else are you willing to compromise?

Food is the basis of your life and energy, and you’ve made a decision not to source that from animals which is a choice only YOU can make! It doesn’t even matter why you made that choice. It is YOUR choice. If he told you to starve, would you? If he told you to only eat salad (and not the good kind we veggies love, I’m talking limp iceberg with red cabbage and not even a single carrot stick), would you?

What other changes to your body are you willing to make? Get a tattoo because he says so? Plastic surgery? I’m not saying he would take it that far. But he won’t stop at food, that’s for sure.

Also, I truly don’t know wtf he is on about with “culture,” so I have to assume that he means the culture of having a subservient woman with no mind of her own and does what she is told including eating what she is told (excuse me very deeply if I have misgendered anyone but that’s what I’m gathering from context). There are plenty of vegetarians in HK.