The act of eating is a service.

[Monica]

This type of comment is the root.

I agree, though my reason might be different from your reason.

My point was that the vegetarians haven't had issues with the meat-eaters' opinions, except when a line was crossed into blatant disrespect (like when inflammatory names were used, such as zealot etc.).

But apparently some of the meat-eaters have been complaining about the thread in general. NOT about a specific comment that crossed a line, but just about the vegetarians' opinions in general.

This says to me, that, while both vegetarians and meat-eaters alike have said things out of frustration, and both have gotten offended by specific statements, understandably so, only the meat-eaters have gotten offended by the very topic itself...by the very existence of the thread itself.