What are you?

[sirlespaul]

I was just wondering if anybody here are vegetarians or vegans. Or are you just a food eater. I'm a vegetarian for animal purposes. There are 2 purposes to be vegetarian or vegan. 1. Health reasons. 2. You don't think it's right to kill animals for food. I'm for number 2. What about you?

[sirlespaul]

My friend always makes fun of vegetarians. "For every animal you don't eat, I'll eat three"
:lmao:

[yesyadda]

Meat and taters here. But we rarely if ever have red meat at home. Chicky turkey fishy.

[Mostly Harmless]

There are very few things that I won't eat.

[sirlespaul]

There are very few things that I won't eat.

I'm assuming that means you aren't a vegetarian. Being a vegetarian, I know there are vegetarians that are very persuassive about it. They think their vegetarians, SO YOU SHOULD BE TOO. I'm not that kind of Vegetarian. I'm fine with others eating meat and stuff but heres something I am aginst. Factory Farming! :eek:
Factory farms are (too me) horrible. They pack all the animals together in little spaces, they de-beak chickens so they don't give the other chickens soars and bruises, and they treat them like they are toys. I once saw a video about a factory farm. It was disgusting. I'm not exagerating this, they took the female chicks for they needed them, then they actually poured hundreds of little baby male chicks into a big dumpster so they would just be there forever. Now what do you say about that! (I want to note that I am not trying to persuade anybody to do anything they don't want to but I'm just telling the truth) They milk cows with machines that pretty much milk them and then they get sent to be killed for meat products. The reason for many vegans is that. For example, if they buy some organic milk, they know the next step for that cow.:horse: To me that seems a little bit extreme to not have anything because you know what happens after they milk the cow. I try to have organic things when ever I can, but sometimes there really isn't a choice so I just have the non-organic stuff.

[Yes2Yes]

I eat meat, but prefer chicken.

[MrZuLu]

Omnivore here...

I only eat range fed beef and chicken and farmed seafood unless I catch it.
(nothing from japan, thailand or china. Lots for mercury for some reason)

[yesyadda]

Mike! How's the hand?

[Purple Wolfhound]

Meat and veggies and everything else like that. I try to buy organic as much as I can - even my snack food and beer is organic. :D

[Sheerah]

Although I do eat meat, my taste for it has become less and less over the years. I can barely stand to eat red meat anymore unless it's disguised as a hamburger or meatballs or something. I'm turning off to pork too, mostly because I'm finding the thought of such intelligent creatures going through the farming and slaughter process very unappealing.

I do eat quite a bit of chicken, just because it's so easily available. However, I prefer fish to chicken.

I know that I will always eat fish. But I would like to completely do away with the consumption of all land creatures, eventually.

I was just reading about the laws of being able to say things like "cage free" and "grass fed" and "free range." Basically, it's all a big lie.

Although chickens may be cage free, all that means is that they are not physically in a cage. However, they are still all crammed together, on top of one another, in horribly dark, smelly places. "Grass fed": as long as the animal is fed grass, they can still be penned up. If you want to learn more, you can go to any number of websites. This one links to the Humane Farming Association. http://www.hfa.org/about/index.html It's a very upsetting site, so if you don't want to know - don't go there.

I will never be a vegan. I love my milk, eggs and cheese way to much. But I would love to have my own hen house one day and get my own eggs.

[DJSalt]

Perhaps this answers your question....

http://www.pizzamaniac.com/images/071305a.jpg

[sirlespaul]

Perhaps this answers your question....

http://www.pizzamaniac.com/images/071305a.jpg
That is ONE PIZZA!

[Sheerah]

Perhaps this answers your question....

http://www.pizzamaniac.com/images/071305a.jpg

John, you could always attend this:

http://www.pizzaexpo.com

[Jonah]

Vegetarian here. I guess it's a philosophical issue for me. Plus, I made a public commitment a few years ago to repsect life in all its forms, among other commitments. And I take them very seriously because it allows me to operate within...oh this is boring stuff!

I am vegetarian but do remember how good a steak used to taste!

[neilius]

I eat.

[yes_angel]

I eat mostly anything ;)

[Bradders]

Steady now.

I'm a Wiganer so put a crust on it and I'll eat it. Oh i voted "Its fun to poke fun a vegetables"

[JaneEyre]

I'm a foodatarian.

[yes_angel]

Steady now.

I'm a Wiganer so put a crust on it and I'll eat it. Oh i voted "Its fun to poke fun a vegetables"do I have to feed you now?:lmao:

[True Believer]

Omnivore, but eating less red meat these days.

[soulsearcher]

i eat everything.
a lot of people think i am a vegeterian because i am a hippie and i run a petting farm..
but i a think that people were meant to eat animals..
i don't disagree with that.
what i totally disagree with is the way that this country processes our meat..with no respect..and cheap is more important than the treatment and welfare of the animals that give their lives for us.

[fovman]

I rarely eat hamburgers & fries any more.
...........they are TASTY!....but fattening (grease/white buns)

I eat turkey/chicken and fish.....sometimes steak

(hamburger: mad cow/E coli)

[sirlespaul]

i eat everything.
a lot of people think i am a vegeterian because i am a hippie and i run a petting farm..
but i a think that people were meant to eat animals..
i don't disagree with that.
what i totally disagree with is the way that this country processes our meat..with no respect..and cheap is more important than the treatment and welfare of the animals that give their lives for us.

The real question is:
Would the "COWS" treat us like that if we were their food? Makes you think.

[SuperSonicScientist]

Life without eating meat would be a less rich experience!

[cinderella]

I love meat but I don't eat that much. Steak and pork chops are my favorites. I'll have them each once a month. The rest of my meals are either fish or chicken. Haven't eaten a hamburger in several weeks. Just not in the mood I guess. But I do eat everything, including my vegetables, unless it's squash and then I might have to pass.

[Timmo]

There are very few things that I won't eat.I got sumthin' fa ya ta eat...right HEAH!

[Timmo]

I'm gravitating towards more meatless meals.

Which reminds me, I have to stop for Trader Joe's Indian Simmer Sauce for my chicken curry...which is mostly veggies. I just can't go the tofu route.

[Bob Barker.]

Hey Sirlespaul wanna go to outback steakhouse

....oh nevermind :owned:

[sirlespaul]

Hey Sirlespaul wanna go to outback steakhouse

....oh nevermind :owned:

You eat your 3 steaks... I swear to gawd they have to have a slaughter house in the basement of that building. Meat Meat meat!

[sirlespaul]

I'm gravitating towards more meatless meals.

Which reminds me, I have to stop for Trader Joe's Indian Simmer Sauce for my chicken curry...which is mostly veggies. I just can't go the tofu route.

The tofu route is great! Morning star Farms and Boca. It pretty much has the exact same taste and it's a bunch helthier!

[Bob Barker.]

i'm thinking that i might become a vegetarian not because of health purposes but becaue there are alot of people in the world and if i don't eat animals than thats alot of meat for others:darin:

[sirlespaul]

i'm thinking that i might become a vegetarian not because of health purposes but becaue there are alot of people in the world and if i don't eat animals than thats alot of meat for others:darin:

Nice threory ;)

[Andrea YouAndI]

I'm not vegetarian, but I do like to go organic whenever possible. A few years ago we got a young Highland bull, intending to keep him as a pet. He later got too dangerous, so we ended up eating him; for about 2 years we didn't have to buy beef from a grocery store. Even now, we sometimes go to a local butcher instead of buying commercially.

Our chickens, which we started keeping about 3 years ago, have fared better. We keep them as pets, and haven't had to buy eggs in over a year. Organic eggs taste much better than factory-farmed eggs, they're fresher, and there's a certain pride in knowing your pets did it for you... :D

[Imperatrix]

Organic eggs taste much better than factory-farmed eggs, they're fresher, and there's a certain pride in knowing your pets did it for you... :D


(looking in the litter box) Brooklyn...Naima...did you guys do this for me?

:winknudge

[Frosted Sun]

If you have ever been in a chicken processing plant, I swear you would never, ever want to eat poultry again. But I still like it all, beef, chicken, fish, etc.

[Ian B]

Stick it on a pizza, and I'll usually eat it.

I was a vegetarian once, purely on moral grounds, i.e. I didn't like the idea of animals suffering; I still don't. But I love fry-ups, burgers etc and I guess age just brings a general loosening of moral standards anyway. Well, that's my excuse.

As long as it doesn't try to make friends with me, I'll eat it!

[Wakey's #1 Fan]

I'm a vegetarian, because I don't want that any animal has to die because I'm hungry.

[sirlespaul]

I'm a vegetarian, because I don't want that any animal has to die because I'm hungry.
That's exactly how I feel!

I know we need those things for our bodies, but the thing that REALLY makes me mad is, there's soy or tofu products made healthier and to be the same thing! And we STILL kill the animals, in fear that the soy stuff tastes bad. I find that (not really, but a bit) sickning. I don't like passing judgement but I really feel everybody in the world should be vegetarians. I don't get this one other thing. The thread said somebody shot 4 dolphins. Are the people at our good old slaughter houses any better than them. Some might say we do it in a more humain way or It's the food chain. Who cares if it's part of the food chain!?! If there actually IS a way to not kill an animal and still eat and get the protein we need... WHY AREN'T WE DOING IT?!?!?!?!?!?!

[SuperSonicScientist]

To be fair, if we all stopped eating animals tomorrow there would be masses of animals which simply wouldn't get fed and looked after. If we went vegetarian there would have to be a massive cull first...

[cvp18]

That's exactly how I feel!

I know we need those things for our bodies, but the thing that REALLY makes me mad is, there's soy or tofu products made healthier and to be the same thing! And we STILL kill the animals, in fear that the soy stuff tastes bad. I find that (not really, but a bit) sickning. I don't like passing judgement but I really feel everybody in the world should be vegetarians. I don't get this one other thing. The thread said somebody shot 4 dolphins. Are the people at our good old slaughter houses any better than them. Some might say we do it in a more humain way or It's the food chain. Who cares if it's part of the food chain!?! If there actually IS a way to not kill an animal and still eat and get the protein we need... WHY AREN'T WE DOING IT?!?!?!?!?!?!

i respect your opinion, but one problem i have, i am Allergic to soy!
doesnt matter what form it takes: soy sauce, tofu, anything. thank heavens i found Rice milk. another food allergy, but at least i can have a bowl of cereal without the allergic reactions brought on by soy and milk.

[sirlespaul]

To be fair, if we all stopped eating animals tomorrow there would be masses of animals which simply wouldn't get fed and looked after. If we went vegetarian there would have to be a massive cull first...
Well we just wouldn't let all the cows, chickens, pigs, etc just roam anywhere. I think we should like let them create their own habitat. we would let numbers of them out at a time.

[SuperSonicScientist]

Well we just wouldn't let all the cows, chickens, pigs, etc just roam anywhere. I think we should like let them create their own habitat. we would let numbers of them out at a time.

Erm, they can't fend for themselves, but if we are not going to eat them, who will pay to feed them???

[Hex]

Animals are very good at fending for themselves, YDT*.

If we stopped eating them, then agri-businessmen (formally known as 'farmers') would stop breeding them. Numbers are really not a problem.

People who haven't got past the primitive stage of eating corpses are the problem.










* (send PM for details......ok, I could never keep a secret - it stands for "yer daft twat"!)

[Earl Grey]

I'm primarily a vegetarian, but do eat fish... So PETA doesn't like me. ;)

I'm not an 'activist' about it, it's a personal thing...
I used to moonlight as an Operating Room nurse, whenever they'd cauterize a wound, it smelled just like a yummy Barbeque! Yuck...

It probably has something to do with that...
Anyway, I've been a 'fishetarian' for around 8 years now.

[BillGuitar]

I'll eat meat, unless I'm with Yesfans.















Because then, it's deep-fried Yesfan for dinner!
Crunchy!
:bncsmls:

No animals were harmed in this inanity of a post

[BrianD]

I really don't care what people eat.....BUT....its fun to make fun of vegetarians who turn their personal lifestyle choice into a political agenda that they try to impose on others.

[Hex]

Go on, then........ have a go.

[BillGuitar]

I really don't care what people eat.....BUT....its fun to make fun of vegetarians who turn their personal lifestyle choice into a political agenda that they try to impose on others.

The Spanish Imposition?

"You're not going to actually EAT that paella, are YOU?!?"

:lmao:

[Hex]

I really don't care what people eat.....BUT....its fun to make fun of vegetarians who turn their personal lifestyle choice into a political agenda that they try to impose on others.


Go on, then........ have a go.


Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Earl Grey]

I really don't care what people eat.....BUT....its fun to make fun of vegetarians who turn their personal lifestyle choice into a political agenda that they try to impose on others.

Yeah, I was meaning to tell you Brian: Your diet just doesn't meet the standards of... Ah, fergit it! ;)

(Don't tell anyone, Dr Draper has wallaby breath! Shhh!).

:ele:

[BillGuitar]

Usually I'll eat it

But not always

Like in Boston

See?

[sirlespaul]

Erm, they can't fend for themselves, but if we are not going to eat them, who will pay to feed them???
It's life! LIFE! The whole ecosystem would be WAY different if we never ate animals! We never gave them a chance to go on their own. They lived in harmony before WE arrived and screwed up their whole habitat. Now we just need to let them be like they were. (how ever that is)

[sirlespaul]

Another point!

If they lived up to the point before we started using them as food and taking them all, I'm sure we could find a way.

[sirlespaul]

Animals are very good at fending for themselves, YDT*.

If we stopped eating them, then agri-businessmen (formally known as 'farmers') would stop breeding them. Numbers are really not a problem.

People who haven't got past the primitive stage of eating corpses are the problem.










* (send PM for details......ok, I could never keep a secret - it stands for "yer daft twat"!)
Eggsactlie!
The only little problem is what would all the farmers do? They all lose their jobs... and the other question. Would we still keep using Chickens for eggs. Of course not! For we're using them as a money producer. They are to be treated like a living thing. Not something ( a sweet simpsons quote coming up here), to put the green in the blue. Money in my pants.

[Andrea YouAndI]

Usually I'll eat it

But not always

Like in Boston

See?

All the better to rock and roll with? :thumbs:

We're still getting lobster one of those days...
I don't care what anybody says, either!

[Hex]

Eggsactlie!
The only little problem is what would all the farmers do? They all lose their jobs...


Ooooh that's a hard one, let me think.....

I know....they could grow CROPS!!!!!

duh!

[Yes.2]

Water and sunlight.

[Yes.2]

All the better to rock and roll with? :thumbs:

We're still getting lobster one of those days...
I don't care what anybody says, either!

Don't worry Andrea,

If all else fails you can always count on me to be your lobster loving date.:beerchugr:

[Yes.2]

Vegetarians....


They just tast better.:lmao:

[Altres]

I eat a mainly veg diet, highly motivated by health. I eat fish though, lots of fish.

The people with the highest body fat ratio in the world are the Eskimos. It is a different type of fat though than we experience in the West. They eat laods of fish and and loads of animals such as seals and walruses that also only eat fish. They are very, very healthy.

The best and healthiest meat in the world to eat therefore is Eskimo. I'll bet there are omnivorous folk here that would try Eskimo.

It'll come you know, cannibalism will be socially accepted in a generation or two.

Brian

[Hex]

They are very, very healthy.


Really? What are the sources for that, Brian?

I ask because there seem to be a lot of sources pegging their life-expectancy at 35 - 45 years.

[Altres]

Really? What are the sources for that, Brian?

I ask because there seem to be a lot of sources pegging their life-expectancy at 35 - 45 years.
True, but they leave healthy tender corpses, high in long chain fatty acids. Try some, they are delicious.

http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-3h.shtml

Brian

[Andrea YouAndI]

Don't worry Andrea,

If all else fails you can always count on me to be your lobster loving date.:beerchugr:

:bncsmls:



:valintine

[sirlespaul]

Ooooh that's a hard one, let me think.....

I know....they could grow CROPS!!!!!

duh!
Pretty much HALF of their income will be gone if they lose animals. Just selling crops will not make the amount of money they need.

[Hex]

Tell em to try bio-fuels. Producing meat is the most uneconomical business in the history of agriculture.

[relayeire]

I've been a vegetarian for years... no meat, no fish (which is meat), no lard, gelatin, etc. and I can take the abuse people sometimes want to give us... I chalk it up to ignorance and xenophobia...

the answer choices here don't quite cover it for me... when asked why I'm a vegetarian, I say "all of the above..." it started out as mainly a taste issue - I started to dislike meat and began to think it was nasty... health and humaneness emerged as motivation later... I've never looked back from my decision to go vegetarian...

[Hex]

True, but they leave healthy tender corpses, high in long chain fatty acids. Try some, they are delicious.


:lmao: A man after my own heart. But I haven't finished with it yet.

[Frosted Sun]

Personally, I love my T-Bone steak above all. But when times get tough I mow the lawn by eating my yard. Mmmm tasty. I usually have some greasy fried green grasshoppers with it, along with beef flavored maple leaves, and artificially flavored lemon mud pie for desert.

[BillGuitar]

I've been a vegetarian for years... no meat, no fish (which is meat), no lard, gelatin, etc. and I can take the abuse people sometimes want to give us... I chalk it up to ignorance and xenophobia...

the answer choices here don't quite cover it for me... when asked why I'm a vegetarian, I say "all of the above..." it started out as mainly a taste issue - I started to dislike meat and began to think it was nasty... health and humaneness emerged as motivation later... I've never looked back from my decision to go vegetarian...

But Eire, all beer is made from living animals!
Hopses!
Wheatses!
Barleyses!
...ah....screw it... :winknudge

It was worth a try. :bncsmls:

I'm a beergetarian! Eh, Dom? :wavey:

[relayeire]

Hopses!
Wheatses!
Barleyses!
:wavey:

now you're talking like Gollum! actually, Guinness products are created using a byproduct from fish, which is filtered out... strange custom, with a strange name: "isinglass"

[Imperatrix]

I'm eating some animal foods again because pretty much all the meat substitutes of which I know are too high in carbs for diabetics. Trial and error over the last three months have proven to me that even the meat substitutes that are lower in carbs---according to nutritional info on the label---still send my blood sugar way high. I really love seitan, and it's such a disappointment for me not to be able to eat it. At least tofu and I are still friends!


actually, Guinness products are created using a byproduct from fish, which is filtered out... strange custom, with a strange name: "isinglass"

Isinglass?! Grody!

[cjreyes]

It is fun to make fun of vegetarians, but it's fun to make fun of everybody.

I don't like fish. I was pretty much a vegetable for the latter part of the eighties. Mainly because my roommate was a devout vegetarian, spiritual practioner, etc. I never really gave up foul, but went a while without beef and pork. It was actually my healthiest time (I was eighty pounds lighter!) I plan on cutting out red meat again and reintroducing some of those cool vegetarian dishes into my diet, like Tempeh, Tabouleh, seeds, sprouts...............I need my Dairy! :baby:

[cjreyes]

You don't wanna know.

[ctask]

Omnivore here - I eat whatever I can spear with a fork before it gets away!

[S.praematurus]

I've been a vegetarian for years... no meat, no fish (which is meat), no lard, gelatin, etc. and I can take the abuse people sometimes want to give us... I've never looked back from my decision to go vegetarian...

Meat free since '93. Including no marshmallows, no frosted Pop Tarts, no Hostess (hidden animal ingredients). I have incorporated this into in my Spiritual commitment to live more gently on the planet, in keeping with my philosophy of kindness to animals.

While some of what I cut out from the above quote does not apply to me, I can live and let live. My husband has met me half way. He'll at least try soy/tofu (and sometimes likes it), opt to leave out all meat substitutes, or add his own after splitting the dish with me. In turn I will cook meat for him, but he usually does that on his own so I don't have to (he's such a sweetie!).

Lately I've been trying to cook with more tofu. It is very delicate, and it makes a tasty meat substitute as it takes on the flavor of whatever you cook it with (how much garlic do we have?).

Meat substitute products have come a long way in the 14 years that I've been a vegetarian, and the variety has greatly increased. That said, some products are a lot better than others. Morningstar Farms are the best hot dogs (oh don't pooh-pooh, what could possibly be worse than a *real* hot dog?!?!?!), while *all* soy bologna SUX!!!

As far as health goes, maccaroni and cheese is vegetarian!

[shortexchanges]

I Believe That Humans Should Be Omnivores.

The Consumption Of Animal Flesh Properly Prepared Is A Sublime Pleasure.

A Strip Steak With All The Fixin's Is One Of My Favorite Meals!

[yessound_chaser81]

When eating meat, I give thanks to the animal for giving it's life that I might live, knowing someday when I'm cremated and my ashes go back to the earth it will help the grass grow so that a cow can eat a part of me....

[Faceintheplace]

Omnivore here as well but I've pretty much cut out pork. Other than that, any other meat is fair game with me.

I bet eating walwrus and whale would be pretty good. I have nothing to base it on but I'm assuming it would kind of be like a cross between seafood and pork.

[relayeire]

Meat substitute products have come a long way in the 14 years that I've been a vegetarian, and the variety has greatly increased. That said, some products are a lot better than others. Morningstar Farms are the best hot dogs (oh don't pooh-pooh, what could possibly be worse than a *real* hot dog?!?!?!), while *all* soy bologna SUX!!!

As far as health goes, maccaroni and cheese is vegetarian!

I agree with all those sentiments, except, I do like the Smart Deli bologna...

[Sheerah]

You don't wanna know.

:dog:

[Imperatrix]

You don't wanna know.

Fuh chrissakes, dude...I want to KNOW! I want to know everything to which you've responded "you don't wanna know"!!!! I'm going nucking futz here!!!!!!!!!

[YesHut]

I eat almost everything, including meat. Yes, less red meat these days. But I don't stick to any one set thing.

[sirlespaul]

just so everybody knows.. i'm not a vegetarian anymore.
:(

i no... it's sad.
i try to eat only chicken and turkey. There's lunch meat with turkey, ground turkey for burgers and tacos... and chicken for a bunch of stuff. i manage

[Imperatrix]

What am I?

(screaming in Gallic tones and cadences) Ah'm FRRRRRENCH! Whah do you theenk Ah 'ave zis outRAAAAAAgeous ahk-cent, you seelly keeng-uh?

[S.praematurus]

What am I?

(screaming in Gallic tones and cadences) Ah'm FRRRRRENCH! Whah do you theenk Ah 'ave zis outRAAAAAAgeous ahk-cent, you seelly keeng-uh?

Well at least we know the Frenchman wasn't a vegetarian, or else why did he have that cow to pitch over the castle? ;)

[Imperatrix]

Well at least we know the Frenchman wasn't a vegetarian, or else why did he have that cow to pitch over the castle? ;)

:beerchugr: Strewth!

[Wakey's #1 Fan]

just so everybody knows.. i'm not a vegetarian anymore.
:(

i no... it's sad.
i try to eat only chicken and turkey. There's lunch meat with turkey, ground turkey for burgers and tacos... and chicken for a bunch of stuff. i manage
Why? Think about all the poor animals who only have to die because you are hungry...

[tardistraveler]

I stopped eating red meat in 1979. I had just eaten a rib-eye steak, and my body screamed, "NO!"

I've never wanted any since.

Other animal products have come and gone over the years. Chicken left for a while, then came back, then left again . . . fish left shortly after that, then seafood . . . also milk as a beverage.

For some time I was strictly lacto-ovo vegetarian, not solely because of moral or health issues per se, but because something inside me said it was the right thing to do.

Lately, I've begun to eat fish, chicken, seafood again, in a response to health problems I've had, and it seems to be helping. Sometimes my body just screams for it, and that has to be OK.

I still enjoy good veggie meals - LOVE veggie bacon and sausage, and Tofurky . . .

Basically, I just listen to my body, and try to eat what it wants. It has naturally gravitated over the years to lower animals, and vegetables. I have no illusions that the meats I'm eating today will always stay in my diet . . . they seem to come and go over the years . . . but I don't believe I'll ever eat red meats again - it's been almost 30 years, and I don't miss them a bit!