"I didn't know if it was common here, I didn't want to seem high maintenance." She does sound legitimately a little embarrassed that this seems to have backfired.

"It's a couple things. Partly that I feel better when I abstain from meat and partly that the way we obtain meat where I'm from is pretty messed up. I don't want to support that system. Here it's different, but..." She shrugs. "I guess I'd feel a little less me. If I stopped. That probably sounds pretty weird."