Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism was the practice of not consuming meat in one's diet.
The Doctor[[edit] | edit source]
When Jo Jones, reunited with the Third Doctor, she was surprised to discover he was not a vegetarian, having remembered him as one. Their discussion about the hypocrisy of a man who saved lives eating another creature's flesh convinced him to try the vegetable option for dinner. (AUDIO: The Sacrifice of Jo Grant)
The Sixth Doctor became a vegetarian (TV: The Two Doctors) but according to one account, soon gave it up. (COMIC: Salad Daze)
The Doctor was strictly vegetarian during his seventh incarnation, (PROSE: Human Nature), additionally avoiding consuming sentient plant-based lifeforms (AUDIO: The Trial of a Time Machine) The Eighth Doctor kept up the practice, (AUDIO: Relative Dimensions) but inconsistently. (AUDIO: Worldwide Web)
The Ninth Doctor ate meat, (TV: Boom Town) although the Twelfth repeatedly scolded people for their habit of eating meat. (TV: Deep Breath, Last Christmas, The Pilot, World Enough and Time)
The Dream Lord assumed the Eleventh Doctor was a vegetarian, taunting him by calling him "veggie". (TV: Amy's Choice)
The Doctor's companions[[edit] | edit source]
Zoe Heriot was a vegetarian. (AUDIO: The Integral)
Jo Grant approved of vegetarianism, and often thought of becoming one. (PROSE: Catastrophea)
The Fifth Doctor's companion Peri Brown was a vegetarian and therefore balked at the thought of eating roast boar at a banquet thrown in their honour by Pharaoh Erimem in Egypt in 1400 BC. The Doctor advised her to pretend to have eaten it by moving it around her plate. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion)
Melanie Bush was a vegetarian from the age of thirteen. (PROSE: Millennial Rites) She believed that it was wrong to eat meat. (PROSE: Business Unusual)
Ace once pretended to be a vegetarian to infiltrate a group of eco-terrorists. (AUDIO: Animal)
Sam Jones was a vegetarian. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
Others[[edit] | edit source]
Margery Phipps was a vegetarian. (AUDIO: Council of War)
Colin Colchester-Price sometimes liked to eat vegetarian. (AUDIO: A Kill to a View)
After Mrs Wormwood confirmed the Bane's predatory instinct, Clyde Langer, disgusted, remarked that he was now officially a vegetarian. After two Bane Kindred members attempted to attack him and Luke, he remarked that he became vegetarian, now he's "Bane munchies" (TV: Enemy of the Bane)
Krampus considered herself a vegetarian, as she consumed energy instead of flesh. (COMIC: Holiday Special)
