A Fallen Vegan?

From what I have read, people make choices. And when they make a choice to be Vegan, it is for a lot of reasons; a life-style, a major change to better themselves, their ways, and the earth.

Hmmm. I recently read an article in this months Harper’s Bazaar about the cute and sometimes controversial Drew Barrymore (in the cutest new movie just out this week, Music and Lyrics). She claims to be a “fallen Vegan” as she started eating meat again. And the meat – bacon?

What puzzles me is how I have seen her in countless interviews touting her lifestyle change and such, and she “falls of the Vegan wagon” and chooses one of the worst things to put into her body, bacon. How the heck can she justify turning back to bacon?

Bacon facts from Yahoo reference:
Bacon is the flesh of hogs–especially from the sides, belly, or back–that has been preserved by being salted or pickled and then dried with or without wood smoke. Traditionally, the process consisted of soaking the pork in brine or rubbing it in a salt mixture by hand, then smoking the sides in smoke from an open chimney. It sometimes took three or four months. Bacon is still home cured in some rural communities, but the bulk of its manufacture is carried on in large industrial meatpacking plants equipped to slaughter, dress, cure, smoke, and sell on a large scale. Bacon refers to different cuts in different countries. In the United States it usually means the side between the fifth rib and the hipbone. In Europe, the word bacon generally refers to one half of a fattened pig. Bacon has one of the highest fat contents of any cut of meat.

Yuck – just plain yuck! How can bacon make you pretty? I am disappointed in you, Drew.