Sometimes I use these Comment of the Day posts to answer questions. Sometimes I use them to mock the dumb. Often, I use them to give an elevated platform to those who just plain hate my guts for one reason or another–and can form that hatred into coherent, occasionally clever thoughts. But every once in a while, I get to use this space for reasoned and intelligent debate. The opportunity for this last use sadly comes up less frequently than I’d wish, but luckily, today just happens to be one of those days.Earlier this week, I posted a piece about chef Tim Love and his love of meat. More specifically, it was about his five best reasons NOT to be a vegetarian, as told to the good folks over at CNN’s Eatocracy blog, for their feature 5@5. Chef Love was reasonably straightforward and restrained in his reasoning–which is just no fun at all. So I then went and added 10 more reasons of my own relating to why meat is better than vegetables. For example…5) Here’s a fun experiment: go out and buy some bacon. I mean, a lot of bacon. Now cook the bacon and eat the bacon until you reach a point where you finally feel as though you’ve had enough bacon. Wait a day. Now try the same game with broccoli.and…8) The phrase “Everything’s Better With Bacon,” while a logical fallacy, is still more true than the phrase “Everything’s Better With Turnips.” It also looks better on a t-shirt.And while such deliberate baiting obviously gave rise to the expected backlash from angry vegans and vegetarians, it also (as I hoped it would) drew out a couple of