Stuffed mushrooms question... HEY TK!

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We had four friends over to join us for dinner on friday (which is why I was missing at the quiz). Angela is vegetarian, not willingly, if she is ill if she eats meat, so she doesn't bother.
Only she is now allergic to mushrooms. It is a good job Mark never cooks her mushrooms because he believes a vegetarian should not eat fungi....since it is a living thing (and he knows Angela eats out a lot and a hostess thinks it is a great meal to include her in on a course)

I don't understand the "living thing" part. ALL plant life is alive at some point. Vegetarians confuse me. If they are eating only veggies because they don't like eating things that were once alive, they are hypocrites. Whether it's sentient or not, alive is alive.