Although the vast majority of contemporary Vulcans are vegetarians by choice, Vulcans were omnivorous for most of the time prior to the time of Surak. The only Vulcans that eat meat nowadays are certain outcasts, a very small cultural sub-group in the southern hemisphere of Vulcan and some inhabitants of distant Vulcan colonies. The Romulans, descended from Vulcan exiles, also are omnivorous. Most Vulcans will eat meat in situations where not to do so would be a cultural insult in "alien" surroundings and, of course, in survival situations where whatever food is available must be eaten. They find these situations logical, though distasteful. Some contemporary Vulcans will eat replicated meat, as they consider it only patterned after real meat, and not the actual flesh of a creature, whereas many Vulcans will eat no meat real or replicated. An extremely small minority group of Vulcans is so militantly vegetarian, that they would rather die than eat the flesh of another living thing. A few members of this very small faction have even been known to commit terroristic acts against producers and suppliers of meat for consumption.