Any Vegetarians on This Board?
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Wow, started this thread back in March and I am pretty proud to say that I have remained consistent with my new diet. I feel pretty great too. My stomach hurts a lot less and I have lost weight.
It's been tough at restaurants, although in California it was wicked easy due to the fact that most places had a bunch of vegetarian items on the menu.
It's been tough at restaurants, although in California it was wicked easy due to the fact that most places had a bunch of vegetarian items on the menu.
BadMoon
Demi G0D Overseer
I would want to die if I couldn't eat steak for the rest of my life. I am dead serious too! It is my favorite food. A nice steak and potato is my favorite dish. Next is ham and green beans. 
for veegans that crave an alternative to steak, i present you the cowliflower............
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I get an udder! I called it!
I'm never did get my udder.
I like the idea of not eating animals. But I won't ever stop doing it. Had a Egg McMuffin for breakfast, a turkey sandwich for lunch, and a cheeseburger tonight.
Darth Cruel
Super Freak
I would want to die if I couldn't eat steak for the rest of my life. I am dead serious too! It is my favorite food. A nice steak and potato is my favorite dish. Next is ham and green beans.
Amen, brother! Although my own second favorite is fried chicken and buttered rice!
Darth Cruel
Super Freak
Yeah, I too like the taste of meat but it got to the point that every time I ate it I felt guilty. I know for a fact that I wouldn't kill the animal if it was a prerequisite to consumption. Buying meat in the market is too easy and fast food is fake. The consumer is so distant from the idea of what it actually takes to get that meat to them. Then I started researching the conditions in which these animals were kept in and how they were treated and the feeling of guilt just got worse.
So yeah, the taste is wonderful but I can't justify how the whole game is played. Plus, health wise humans are meant to eat mostly plants.
So yeah, the taste is wonderful but I can't justify how the whole game is played. Plus, health wise humans are meant to eat mostly plants.
mr.thrifty
Super Freak
but do you grow your own veggies?
felling guilt over klling an animal for the reason of using it for food is a luxury you have now that there are supermarkets around to sell you what you want.
If our modern society fell apart, trust me ...ALL the vegetarians would not last long before they started looking at anything that moved as if it was a been sprout...
Excellent question that I to would like to hear a response to. Do you toil away in a garden Rory or just run down to your local market and buy your veggies. If so, your point is moot. I also think the way our teeth are shaped would point that we are more omnivore then herbivore. Never seen such hand wringing over whether or not to eat meat. You don't want to eat meat, fine, but don't preach to me, like so many vegans do, that I shouldn't. And for the record, I have and would again hunt my own meat without a second thought. Just so much easier to run to the local Giant store and pick up some nice tasty steaks.but do you grow your own veggies?
felling guilt over klling an animal for the reason of using it for food is a luxury you have now that there are supermarkets around to sell you what you want.
If our modern society fell apart, trust me ...ALL the vegetarians would not last long before they started looking at anything that moved as if it was a been sprout...
Darth Cruel
Super Freak
I grew up in a farming community...just hand the axe to me.
devilof76
Super Freak
I don't think ease of access creates any kind of moral issue when it comes to eating animals. If it's immoral to eat them in the first place, then it doesn't matter if you work to eat them or not. It would still be immoral. If it's not immoral to eat them, then it's no different if you get it from the supermarket or the woods.
It's not immoral. Period. I guess I can understand people being uncomfortable with it. Bambi was a good movie. But guilt? You find me an animal that would feel guilty after eating me and I promise not to eat that species anymore.
It's not immoral. Period. I guess I can understand people being uncomfortable with it. Bambi was a good movie. But guilt? You find me an animal that would feel guilty after eating me and I promise not to eat that species anymore.
I understand totally what you're saying. Our state has a vote coming up about making food safer and also about animal conditions and cruelty. I was surprised that the farmers are backing it, but glad they are. You don't need to torture something before you kill it. That's why I don't like bullfighting.
I understand a vegan's point of view and respect it. Just don't tell me meat is unhealthy for me while you're smoking a cigarette.
Serious question for the vegans on board. Do any of you have any leather products? Jacket, boots, belt.
GrueSam
The Queen of Darkness
Rory- Please realize that more animals are killed when a large vegetable or, especially, a grain field is harvested.
Those huge diesel-eating machines rip through land that birds, rats, mice, gophers, snakes, frogs, squirrels, racoons, etc. have been living in for a year. Killing them and/or their nests. That is, if they're not already dead from the huge amounts of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides.
Thousands of animals are killed or maimed for every grain field that is planted and harvested.
Then after harvesting, more huge diesel-eating machines have to move the grain to a huge diesel-eating factory, where the crop can be cooked, flaked, made into O's, however it's processed, and then packaged. And packaged into what's generally a petroleum based bag. Then, of course, shipped, generally far away to your market.
How much bread do you eat? How much wheat? Oatmeal? Rice?
If you don't like the idea of animal suffering, it is much more humane to support sustainable farmers who allow indiginous species to co-exist alongside their herds/flocks.
Sustainably raised animals are allowed to live on grass, in the sun, in huge fields the way nature intended.
They eat minimal amounts of grain.
The farmers also practice humane travel and slaughtering techniques.
Think about this:
For every *single* sustainably-raised steer I eat, a vegan has killed tens of thousands of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects.
And yes- I eat minimal amounts of grain.
If anyone out there truly cares about animals and the environment, this is the least hypocritical way to go:
https://www.eatwild.com/
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