Any Vegetarians on This Board?

[Blackthornone]

Blackthorn is right though...Hummus is delicious.

I like my hummus with extra garlic and tahini. My recipe: 1 can of garbanzos, 3 tablespoons of tahini, 1/3 cup lemon juice, 3 large cloves of garlic, and a couple dashes of sea salt, blended well, to a creamy consistency. First, I put the garbanzos and the tahini in the blender, and blend until creamy. Then I chop the garlic very fine , and add the garlic and salt, and finally the lemon juice, and blend again. I add water to the desired thickness.

 

[Valfar]

Spicy Chili hummus is my favorite.

 

[LOTRFan]

I like to eat my hummus with fried spotted owl strips.

 

[Anzik]

If someone told me that I could live an extra five years if I were celibate measure me for the box.
Life should be enjoyed, and certain things that are 'bad' for you are sources of great enjoyment (beer, steak, a good cigar). To me avoidance of such things is like living in a bubble but then again I enjoy engaging in certain risk taking endeavors and when the time comes for me to shuffle off this world I will have no regrets.
If eating veggies floats your boat, have a nice time.
One thing about the people that live over 100. I'm not so sure you can isolate the longevity to the diet. Its only one component and isolated farming cultures aren't really high stress environments.

 

[Kuzeh]

Well, I'm a vegetarian for different reasons...
I don't expect to live longer by doing so...
It's a personal choice, and one I'm happy I decided to take...

 

[devilof76]

So, WHY do people like animal products? Conditioning.

No. And feel free to take your insinuation that meat eaters are mindless ciphers, and shove it someplace dark, rank, and very close to you.

People eat meat because it tastes good. Your argument is 100% beside the point.

 

[Blackthornone]

No. And feel free to take your insinuation that meat eaters are mindless ciphers, and shove it someplace dark, rank, and very close to you.

People eat meat because it tastes good. Your argument is 100% beside the point.

If given a rabbit and a carrot, most babies will pet the rabbit, and eat the carrot, and not the other way around. Therefore, meat eating is conditioned.

 

[devilof76]

A baby is not a fully developed human being. Am I to assume that refraining from ????ting one's pants is also conditioned?

 

[Blackthornone]

No. And feel free to take your insinuation that meat eaters are mindless ciphers, and shove it someplace dark, rank, and very close to you.

People eat meat because it tastes good. Your argument is 100% beside the point.

Most people are mindless ciphers in EVERY area of life, not just what they eat. What they wear, what they do for entertainment, ECT. It's called CULTURE. Its also called brainwashing, conditioning, or mind control. Just look at vegemite. It has been unsuccessfully marketed outside of Australia and New Zealand, because no one else in the world has been raised eating it since children. Yet the Australians eat it, because they believe it tastes good, because they've eaten it since early childhood. There is nothing special about meat as far as people believing it tastes good because theyve always eaten it.

 

[Blackthornone]

A baby is not a fully developed human being. Am I to assume that refraining from ????ting one's pants is also conditioned?

WEARING pants is an unnatural behavior, and so learning how to manage any unnatural thing takes a human being time. By the way, in certain parts of the world, mothers are so well bonded o their infants, that they can sense when the child has to go to the bathroom as well as she can sense that she herself has to go to the "bathroom". When she senses it, she takes her child to an appropriate place for the child to do it's business. Now THAT is proper parenting. Because there are mothers THIS competent, any mother who needs diapers for her child is incompetent.

 

[Morbach]

If given a rabbit and a carrot, most babies will pet the rabbit, and eat the carrot, and not the other way around. Therefore, meat eating is conditioned.

I can't name one person who would eat a live rabbit over a carrot. Let alone babies. You're reaching now. However give that child a burger and then a carrot and top dollar says he loses the carrot.

 

[LOTRFan]

Because there are mothers THIS competent, any mother who needs diapers for her child is incompetent.

Oh good God, you've really farted out here. I KNOW you are not a parent.

 

[hoodonit00]

WEARING pants is an unnatural behavior, and so learning how to manage any unnatural thing takes a human being time. By the way, in certain parts of the world, mothers are so well bonded o their infants, that they can sense when the child has to go to the bathroom as well as she can sense that she herself has to go to the "bathroom". When she senses it, she takes her child to an appropriate place for the child to do it's business. Now THAT is proper parenting. Because there are mothers THIS competent, any mother who needs diapers for her child is incompetent.

I think you started out in this thread meaning well and seemed very well versed. The more you post though, the more crazy your post are getting. I guess 10s of Millions of parents are incompetent according to you. I had more to say but deleted it as it's not worth the hassle. Enjoy your vegetarian lifestyle and I will enjoy being an omnivore.

 

[BuffyGirl]

All of you brave souls who don't eat meat. I could never do it. Now, pass me my burger please...

 

[Anzik]

So I only like a steak because I was conditioned to like a steak?
My wife and I are incompetent parents because we let my kid crap in a diaper?

Of all the elitist, condescending garbage.

 

[Shai]

Diaper caca

 

[Blackthornone]

Oh good God, you've really farted out here. I KNOW you are not a parent.

My conclusion is based upon logic. IF there are cultures in which ALL of the women can do this, then they have that competence. By comparison, therefore, every woman who can't, is incompetent. Does that make sense? Don't misunderstand me. I am aware of the fact that women who can't do this are trying, but when I read of successful approaches of OTHER women who can achieve this, it leaves me disappointed with how things are done in Western Cultures, and leaves me wanting more. That's all.

 

[Blackthornone]

I think you started out in this thread meaning well and seemed very well versed. The more you post though, the more crazy your post are getting. I guess 10s of Millions of parents are incompetent according to you. I had more to say but deleted it as it's not worth the hassle. Enjoy your vegetarian lifestyle and I will enjoy being an omnivore.

My conclusion is based upon logic. IF there are cultures in which ALL of the women can do this, then they have that competence. By comparison, therefore, every woman who can't, is incompetent. Does that make sense? Don't misunderstand me. I am aware of the fact that women who can't do this are trying, but when I read of successful approaches of OTHER women who can achieve this, it leaves me disappointed with how things are done in Western Cultures, and leaves me wanting more. That's all.

Tens of millions of parents are incompetent, COMPARED to some others. RELATIVELY speaking, they are incompetent. That is what I meant.

 

[Anzik]

I'm sure those other cultures don't have distractions like computers and collecting dolls and statues.

 

[Blackthornone]

So I only like a steak because I was conditioned to like a steak?
My wife and I are incompetent parents because we let my kid crap in a diaper?

Of all the elitist, condescending garbage.

Basically the reason why you like a steak is because you were conditioned to. A lot of people after they turn vegetarian, after they have broken through their conditioning, feel sick at the smell of cooking meat. That should tell you something. If they hadn't been conditioned to like meat at first, they wouldn't have ever liked it.