Any vegetarians here?

[jaw]

So, I've just started being a vegetarian about 2 weeks ago, and it's pretty delicious! So I was just wondering if anyone here is a vegetarian/half vegetarian. (I do not eat any meat, however I am not a vegan.)

[Sammi]

I'm sort of a vegetarian... only I still eat fish :/

[jaw]

Mar 31, 2010 16:00:52 GMT -5 Sammi said:

I'm sort of a vegetarian... only I still eat fish :/

That's pescatarian

[cadetpewpew]

I hate meat anyway,but sometimes I enjoy some barbecue
I'm more of a...fruitarian,veggies are kinda crap (at least most of them are)

[alwaysthinking]

"I didn't climb all the way to the top of the food chain to eat carrots."
-Ron White

Words of wisdom.

[kevinguy247]

Rockin veggie for over a year! I've never felt healthier in my life!

Mar 31, 2010 16:40:00 GMT -5 alwaysthinking said:

"I didn't climb all the way to the top of the food chain to eat carrots."
-Ron White

Words of wisdom.

We rose to the top of the food chain so that we'd be able to live the healthiest possible lifestyle instead of the most practical for living outside in the cold winter.

[emmcatt]

<<-- is vegetarian x)

[Wolfdude]

I try to be vegetarian, but mom wont make vegetarian food (atleast not every day)

[Elise]

I've been a vegetarian for almost 2 years now n_n
Really want to go vegan, but my parents and doctor won't allow me.
And it would also be really hard to stay vegan here in Norway, especially in such a small town like mine, because they don't sell a lot of vegan food 'round here.
I'll probably go vegan if I ever move to the US though.

[Lex]

I'm vegetarian...

April Fools!

[jaw]

Haha, clever

[Joey]

I'm a meatatarian. I eat meat most every day, but I eat non meat foods just as much. So I guess omnivore???

And living in the largest meat producing state, meat is the main thing we eat. Its so weird that we have a mostly meat deit. But I aint complaining.

[redkneehighsocks]

Mar 31, 2010 16:00:52 GMT -5 Sammi said:

I'm sort of a vegetarian... only I still eat fish :/

me too, i have to eat fish, or i'd probably end up dead.
been vegetarian for almost five years.
do we think more people should be vegetarian?

[mashuga31]

This is my own opinion lol but i think vegetarians might be harming their bodies. I mean I've never seen a well to do full fledged vegetarian before. Mostly the ones that look alright just recently started and the rest of them look extremely skinny. I kinda feel sorry for them. Honestly though i wouldn't mind going vegetarian. Might give me some more energy. I'd have to eat some meat though, i don't eat my vegetables regularly so it'd bad a bad change for my body. Really bad.

On a side note vegans, i'm sorry to say are mentally impaired and are morally wrong. Really, not trying to be mean but whenever i hear of a vegan i want to mercilessly give them wet willies until they get swimmers ear. Nothing that comes from an animal? Seriously??? Wtf is wrong with those people?? There was a vegan couple a while back who nearly killed their baby because they wouldn't feed it breast milk or anything else. Just like lettuce and stuff it couldn't eat! Luckily social services came to the rescue. (To any vegans on the forum I sincerely apologize but for the love of god please promise me you'll never do that to your children!)

Also on an offtopic side note one of my friends wants to be a social worker and i'd happy to say i'm quite proud of her. She'd be doing the world good protecting children from ^ kind of stuff.

[Nakor]

I eat far more veggies and fruits than meat, but I don't intend to give up what little meat I do eat. It's all about balance, knowing what your body needs, and eating the right portions with the right frequency.

To be honest, as far as health goes, what you eat can be much less important than how often you eat (unless what you eat are really terrible for you like cheetos and so forth). As long as you eat small amounts five or six times throughout the day, you're pretty much okay health-wise.

Vegetarians risk running low on protein. Now, you don't need a lot of protein, and there are vegetarian-okay ways of getting it, but not in the same quantities, and not with the same variety, which means you'll be eating a lot of lentils and chick peas. If you do much exercising or working out, that alone probably won't cut it.

Apr 1, 2010 23:40:22 GMT -5 @mashuga31 said:

On a side note vegans, i'm sorry to say are mentally impaired and are morally wrong. Really, not trying to be mean but whenever i hear of a vegan i want to mercilessly give them wet willies until they get swimmers ear. Nothing that comes from an animal? Seriously??? Wtf is wrong with those people?? There was a vegan couple a while back who nearly killed their baby because they wouldn't feed it breast milk or anything else. Just like lettuce and stuff it couldn't eat! Luckily social services came to the rescue. (To any vegans on the forum I sincerely apologize but for the love of god please promise me you'll never do that to your children!)

That vegan must have been off the deep end. The whole ethics of veganism is to avoid cruelty to animals. Feeding your child with your own breast milk can not remotely be construed as enabling cruelty to animals.

[Elise]

Apr 1, 2010 23:40:22 GMT -5 @mashuga31 said:

This is my own opinion lol but i think vegetarians might be harming their bodies. I mean I've never seen a well to do full fledged vegetarian before. Mostly the ones that look alright just recently started and the rest of them look extremely skinny. I kinda feel sorry for them.

Harming our bodies? Being a vegetarian is actually better for our bodies. We're less likely to get cancer and we're actually helping the environment aswell as the meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the cars, planes, trains etc. COMBINED!

And not all vegetarians are superskinny, I've only met ONE vegetarian who's been very skinny (and she wasn't even like.. anorectic-skinny, she was healthy-skinny, sort of), and I have a lot of vegetarian friends, and they all look great. And last year when I was on a language course in the UK, one of my teachers was a vegetarian, and he was quite fat, honestly, he looked like a huge Buddha statue (which is sort of funny, as he was a buddhist and during class he usually sat on a desk in a lotus position).

[vivec]

This is my own opinion lol but i think vegetarians might be harming their bodies. I mean I've never seen a well to do full fledged vegetarian before. Mostly the ones that look alright just recently started and the rest of them look extremely skinny. I kinda feel sorry for them.

I would disagree with this, I do not deny the fact that some are more skinny but it entirely depends on your level of fitness. I do not go to the gym but I run, jog, do stretches, acrobatics, and martial arts on some level.

I am what you would call partly vegetarian suppose, once in a blue moon I will have a little bit if meat so I don't lose a taste for it. This is because in the event there is nothing else to eat I could eat meat more easily than stricter vegetarians. I deplore the death of any kind of life and as such I am a vegetarian, but I understand In some situations I may have no other option. I take no pleasure in the death of any animal e.t.c and I would wish this situation to be avoidable.

I disapprove of people who are quite content to eat food that others have buthchered, but would never get their hands dirty themselves.

[jaw]

(Below can be found here www.alternet.org/water/134650/the_startling_effects_of_going_vegetarian_for_just_one_day/)



If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:

- 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;

- 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;

- 70 million gallons of gas -- enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;

- 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;

- 33 tons of antibiotics.

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:

- Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;

- 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;

- 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;

- Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.

- According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads

[redkneehighsocks]

not only are vegetarians saving the planet, if you get enough protein, calcium, iron and vitamin B12, vegetarians are less likeley to get many types of cancer.

some facts i came upon...

If everyone in North America reduced their animal food consumption by just 10 percent, the grain we would save from animal feed could be used to feed all of the hungry throughout the world.

There is more calcium in sesame seeds and broccoli than there is in milk

The more chemicals an animal eats, the more you will eat.In every bite, a typical beef.pork hotdog contains seven cancer-causing pesticides, and a quarter pound burger contains three cancer-causing substances. The primary source of nuclear radiation contamination in humans is from beef and dairy products.

we are usually healthy and thoughtful people ;D

when ever i get a blood test, i go to a different doctor,
so when he tells me that i dont have any deficiencey in anything,
i can tell him im vegetarian and watch his jaw drop.

[Deleted]

I'm not a vegetarian, but my family doesn't meat every day with the pollution generated by the meat-industry in mind. About 5 times/week we eat meat.