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* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls''; Poison Ivy (aka Pam Isley) only eats meat because she hates seeing any kind of plant die for the sake of human consumption and doesn't like that [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Jessica Cruz]] (who sometimes plays the trope straight, herself, but most of the time she respects other peoples' dietary choices) is a vegetarian since that diet is mostly plant-based. She apparently doesn't understand that the animals raised for meat have to eat an even larger quantity of plants in order for the farmers and the slaughterhouses to produce meat in the first place.

** Also Lisa once fell in with a crowd of extreme environmental activists. She develops a crush on the leader and visits him in jail.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The entire Air Nomads civilization. They strictly avoid eating any kind of meat because their culture believes that all life has value though they do eat eggs and dairy products. Also, the airbenders from the Western Temple believe that eating meat is acceptable if the food is being shared by a person from another nation or if eating meat is the last resort to end extreme hunger/starvation, but they still try to follow the general rules. The rebuilt Air Nation follows their predecessors' vegetarianism.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', goth girl Sam tries to get meat banned from the school café in favour of her parody vegetarian diet of turf (yes turf, as in grass) -- the result is [[MeatVersusVeggies mass protests from both sides]]. It's played for laughs, however, and is an AffectionateParody (her opposite, Tucker, is utterly meat-obsessed).

* Free Waterfall Jr. from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', The leader of the ironically named [[AnimalWrongsGroup Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment]] [[FunWithAcronyms (M.E.A.T)]] who protested the consumption of "Popplers" (baby omicronians) only to be EatenAlive by Lrr, making him the first of the Waterfall family to suffer DeathByIrony. He also taught [[https://theinfosphere.org/M.E.A.T.%27s_lion a lion to eat tofu]], [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome making him very sick in the process]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Lisa tries to convince everyone not to eat meat at Homer's barbecue and eventually throws away the roasted pig. At the end of that episode, Lisa learns from [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul]] and Linda [=McCartney=] not to be judgmental about non-vegetarians, after which she mostly settles down -- but [[AesopAmnesia it doesn't stop her occasionally lapsing into aggression in later episodes]], [[RuleOfFunny mostly as jokes]].

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Chris Traeger isn't quite a vegetarian, but his health nut tendencies are treated in the same manner. One episode sees him attempt to get hamburgers removed from City Hall's cafeteria because they're unhealthy, and he makes a proposal to [[RealMenEatMeat Ron Swanson]]: They have a cook-off where Chris makes a turkey burger and Ron makes a hamburger. Chris slaves over his burger, making it with expensive ingredients, while Ron just slaps ground beef on a grill. Ron wins in a landslide, and when Chris has a bite, he announces that beef is just inherently better.

People who exhibit some or many of the typical traits of the Straw Vegetarian as described here certainly exist in real life; probably the most (in)famous was Adolf Hitler, [[HitlerAteSugar who promoted vegetarianism and animal rights]] and sometimes filibustered against meat-eating at the dinner table, regaling his guests with horror stories about [[NauseaFuel the abuses of the meat industry.]] However, [[TheWarOnStraw like all "Strawman" tropes,]] this one refers specifically to fictional characters deliberately crafted by an author to exhibit particular traits, and/or make a point: a living person by definition cannot be a strawman. Therefore, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease