Vegetarians?

[britishboy]

Are you vegetarian? What do you think of vegetarians?

[Harry Smith]

I'm not a vegetarian but I can see why it attracts a number of people. There are a number of health benefits with the wide range of food available such as Tofu or Quorn which taste just as nice.

I don't think anything about vegetarians to be honest- it's a small part of someone's overall character and views. I don't really know how anyone could argue against vegetarians because people not only have the choice to eat what they wish but with a number of interesting cases about animal abuse in the last couple of years it's understandable why people would want to boycott 'meat' products

[Sugaree]

I think it's just as much a lifestyle choice as eating meat. Do what you want, really. I serve many vegetarians where I work and get along with them just fine; I've actually learned a lot about the foods I eat and have changed a lot of my own eating habits, so I can't say they're all that naive or stupid for not eating like the rest of us do. Would I completely swear off meats and other processed foods? No, but I certainly have learned that there are better things out there and have actually benefited from them.

[Tarannosaurus]

I'm a vegetarian on moral grounds but it's a personal choice. It's impossible to force someone to be vegetarian - it's something that you have to do for your own reasons or you won't stick with it. For me it's been nothing but positive because it has a lot of health benefits (especially relating to heart disease, which there is a lot of in my family). It's made me more aware of what I eat and as one would imagine it resulted in me eating more vegetables :P

[Gigablue]

I really have no opinion on vegetarians. It's simply a personal preference. There isn't anything generalizable that can be said about all or most vegetarians.

I think that we can analyze the specific claims of vegetarianism. For example, we can see if it is any healthier, and we can look at the ethical implications, but it is ultimately just a choice.

I've contemplated becoming a vegetarian. I don't really like meat, and I could fairly easily do without it. The only thing stopping me is that I would have to cook for myself and I'm too lazy.

[Sir Suomi]

I don't mind them, personally, as long as they don't completely blow up in my face as soon as I take a bite of my hamburger. If they wish to eat in that manner, so be it, as long as they allow me to do the same. Would I hang out with someone if I knew they were a vegetarian? Sure. Would I invite them to my barbecue? Probably not :P

[LouBerry]

I'm not a vegetarian, and I don't know, it's not like I judge people on what they eat or why, they're just people.

[ksdnfkfr]

Idk why but I feel kind of guilty around them because I eat a lot of meat.

[conniption]

There's not much to think of them. They don't eat meat, and I do. Not much to talk about.

[Nomad_X]

I have a couple friends who are Vegetarians. and also a couple who are vegan. I am a omnivore myself. I find that me and my vegetarian friends get along quite well when we are at occassion to eat together. I find that one of my Vegan friend is becommming more militant about it. He's very confrontational about it at lunch time at school.

I eat more game meat that most of my friends. My father and uncles hunt quite a lot. My father usually bag's a deer every year, so we have the venicin steaks and hamburger.

[sqishy]

I am not vegetarian and don't have anything against them.

[Lovelife090994]

I'm not a vegatarian, I like them. I just don't like it when some who say they are vegetarian are actually the food police trying to dictate what I eat.

[Joseph69]

I'm not a vegetarian and it doesn't appeal to me.

I don't really care if other people are vegetarian or not, it's their choice and they can do what they want

[Southside]

Im a vegetarian(Though I will eat a strip of bacon once and awhile)

Its a good lifestyle, many health benefits. I just don't like those vegan and vegetarian people who like to castigate people for eating meat or whatever. Let people eat what they eat..

[Nellerin]

I'm a vegan for moral and health reasons. I just can't see a reason to eat meat, so if you feel better, pay less, and hurt less by eating different, I don't see a reason not to.

But, I'm not the type of vegan that uses my eating habits as some way to act as though I am "above" every other non-vegan.

[ShatteredWings]

pecetarian, I'll occasionally eat fish. Debating going full veg for health/weight reasons.

I won't even lie here. I like meat. At home since both of my parents are the "BUT PRITIEN" type and neither have any idea what a healthy diet is I'm forced to eat it, but eh once i don't have to go back to their house anymore it's gone for good.
But as far as diet goes it's fairly easy to make substitutions. I avoid soy/tofu though.

There's some politics about thing, and yeah I find how animals are farmed for meat/byproducts/dairy disgusting. But I'm not going to shove shit down people's throat unless they ask me for the information.
If you're interested and I have time, however, I will talk your ear off on the topic as I know too much and sometimes wonder why I'm not vegan for ethical reasons...

[Walter Powers]

As a person with food allergies, I quite frankly cannot fathom why somebody would WANT to voluntarilly leave out an entire food group. If you want to do it, it's fine by me though.

I eat lots of meat, and run off the fat. As a distance track athelete and cross country runner, it works for me.

[Charlie48]

I feel sorry for them.

[glad0s]

Vegetarianism is a great lifestyle. I went about a month on the diet before I switched back. Vegetarianism actually helped me lose weight and made me feel really great.

[Stronk Serb]

I started rowing. I need the meat, because on average I weekly run for like 10-13 kilometers, row for another 10, plus 3 hour gym work, and I just started.

[Jedew]

I am non-veggie but i have no problem with people who are vegetarian. And as i go to gym i cannot stay without meat.

[Syvelocin]

I'm no longer a vegetarian but most of my diet is vegan anyway. It's easier to not have to have two separate diets to buy for. I literally do not like meat and dairy actually, never did even as a kid. It just got to the point that I was forcing myself not to eat what I wanted to and I really don't need more food restrictions. I missed fish a lot. I do buy produce locally though, because humane treatment is one of my concerns. Every time you buy something, you cast a vote for that product. Everyone votes for mass farms and inhumane treatment, antibiotics causing bacteria mutation, etc and that's all that farming will be. Vote for the local farms and they'll stick around if not grow in number.

[cherylcherylX2]

Personal choice, nothing more, nothing less.

[tovaris]

NO i am not!
meat is the way to go.
I am of the opinion that a meetles diete cannot provide all the nutrience a human needs,n aftel all it is meat that evolved uor ancesters into this wery species we call Hommo Sappiens sappiens

[Coprocephalus]

NO i am not!
meat is the way to go.
I am of the opinion that a meetles diete cannot provide all the nutrience a human needs,n aftel all it is meat that evolved uor ancesters into this wery species we call Hommo Sappiens sappiens

The main problem of meatless diet is anemia (No B12). However there is no risk of anemia unless you do not eat dairy and eggs. There are only risks that something bad can happen to you if you do not eat meat... so if you pay attention to your diet there should not be any problems. I stopped eating meat when I was 9. Now I eat meat only occasionally and I do not feel weak, undeveloped and not even retarded. There are even some vegetarian bodybuilders and strongmen so all the nutrition should be ok.

Also... I did not study evolution or whatever but if we evolved to homo sappiens sappiens thanks to meat... Why did they not tell us at school? Is it because I was not present at biology lessons?... Or because government is keeping it a secret?

[Luminous]

I'm not a vegetarian.
I couldn't care less. As long as you don't lecture me for eating what I want to eat, I won't lecture you for what you don't. If a vegetarian is at my house I won't stuff my food in their face or anything, but I'm still going to eat it. Respect is a two-way street, and if it's kept that way, I'm good.

[Bleid]

I'm not a vegetarian.
I couldn't care less. As long as you don't lecture me for eating what I want to eat, I won't lecture you for what you don't. If a vegetarian is at my house I won't stuff my food in their face or anything, but I'm still going to eat it. Respect is a two-way street, and if it's kept that way, I'm good.

Well, it's not that they are lecturing you because they disrespect you.

Someone can have the belief that their opinion is correct and so they will argue it to you, but this certainly doesn't mean they must be disrespecting you.

For example, if I was one to believe that smashing my kneecaps with a rubber mallet would be an acceptable choice, and someone came up to me and lectured me about this choice of mine, it wouldn't necessarily mean they are disrespecting me, it just means that they have a belief that differs from my own and they believe theirs is correct, and so they would like to share their thoughts with me to perhaps persuade me of what they believe is correct.

I don't quite understand the comments I've seen throughout this thread, like this one, about this idea that it's disrespectful if they present a disagreement to you about your eating habits.

Remove your ego from the situation. Do not be so harsh about people who believe that they have a justified opinion on something. If we're to be open-minded and rational, we should welcome scrutiny and possible objections to what we do - not simply dismiss any disagreement we encounter as disrespectful on the basis that it doesn't adhere to our own, individual opinions.

[tovaris]

The main problem of meatless diet is anemia (No B12). However there is no risk of anemia unless you do not eat dairy and eggs. There are only risks that something bad can happen to you if you do not eat meat... so if you pay attention to your diet there should not be any problems. I stopped eating meat when I was 9. Now I eat meat only occasionally and I do not feel weak, undeveloped and not even retarded. There are even some vegetarian bodybuilders and strongmen so all the nutrition should be ok.

Also... I did not study evolution or whatever but if we evolved to homo sappiens sappiens thanks to meat... Why did they not tell us at school? Is it because I was not present at biology lessons?... Or because government is keeping it a secret?

1. We humans aren't designed to drunk milk in our adult life.

2. No plant can compensate for all the nutrition given even by lo quality meat.

3. And where is their intelligence? And hormonal balance?

4. They probably did, but you did not remember. You see, arheologists found evidence that when we started chopping up animals and eating them our brain mass rocketed (this is first seen significantly in homo erectus)

[XxMixyWazHerrexX]

I Am Not A Vegetarian, But I Don't Have Anything Against them.

[dazzawazza]

I am not a veterinarian, I have nothing against them because it is their way they are and there choice and I respect there choice. As I respect every one.(that respects me you have to give to receive and the other way round)

[Coprocephalus]

1. We humans aren't designed to drunk milk in our adult life.

2. No plant can compensate for all the nutrition given even by lo quality meat.

3. And where is their intelligence? And hormonal balance?

4. They probably did, but you did not remember. You see, arheologists found evidence that when we started chopping up animals and eating them our brain mass rocketed (this is first seen significantly in homo erectus)

1. Yet we still do that with no negative consequences.
2. We're not talking vegan.
3. If you're talking about the bodybuilders... Intelligence and hormonal balance should be the same in vegetarian and normal bodybuilders.
4. I looked it up and you're right. Cooking and eating meat made us human but that does not mean we need to eat meat. When we are born... we drink milk so we can grow up to a certain state, but as you said humans are not designed (Do not need) to drink milk as adults. Our ancestors started eating meat and thanks to that evolved to a certain state (Became humans) so they do not need to eat meat anymore (That does not mean we're not designed to eat meat). In the conclusion... saying that we need to eat meat to be normal, healthy human is like saying we have to drink milk to stay adults.

[tovaris]

1. Yet we still do that with no negative consequences.

A large portion of the world does have negative consequances when drinking milk as adults, that is because groving up we lose the ability to digeste it, except a breed of us that evolved to keep the abiliti (because they were around grazing animals)


Intelligence and hormonal balance should be the same in vegetarian and normal bodybuilders.

Soi is often used as a replacement for meat. It contains estrogen like conpaunds that when ingested in large quanteties (like for example when replacing meat) destabilize the bodis hormonal homoestsis.


4. I looked it up and you're right. Cooking and eating meat made us human but that does not mean we need to eat meat. When we are born... we drink milk so we can grow up to a certain state, but as you said humans are not designed (Do not need) to drink milk as adults. Our ancestors started eating meat and thanks to that evolved to a certain state (Became humans) so they do not need to eat meat anymore (That does not mean we're not designed to eat meat). In the conclusion... saying that we need to eat meat to be normal, healthy human is like saying we have to drink milk to stay adults.

To function we need large amounts of ingested proteins, that can also be foung in locests and bees... To power ourselves we need meat, of bugs for that mather. And unles you are sugesting we stop evolution we cannot aford to give up such a protein source for no reason wht so ever...

[AgentHomo]

I'm not a vegetarian, but I am a vegan in support of animal rights. Personally, I don't see a reason why not to go all the way. But whatever. I do get disgusted when I see people eating huge pieces of meat and gulf it down like its nothing, just knowing it was a living animal is what makes it so sad.

[Coprocephalus]

A large portion of the world does have negative consequances when drinking milk as adults, that is because groving up we lose the ability to digeste it, except a breed of us that evolved to keep the abiliti (because they were around grazing animals)

Yes. Some people cannot digest lactose and some people are even allergic to milk protein, but I can drink milk with no negative consequences (Unless I drink shit ton of it). I do not tell anybody to become vegetarian or whatever. I mind my own good so if I had any problems with almost no meat diet... I would instantly change it.


Soi is often used as a replacement for meat. It contains estrogen like conpaunds that when ingested in large quanteties (like for example when replacing meat) destabilize the bodis hormonal homoestsis

I do not eat soy to compensate my meat income, because I do not need meat at all. Also.... I heard that soy does dramatically lower the quality of soil. Do not know if its true tho.


To function we need large amounts of ingested proteins, that can also be foung in locests and bees... To power ourselves we need meat, of bugs for that mather. And unles you are sugesting we stop evolution we cannot aford to give up such a protein source for no reason wht so ever...

Its true that meat contains loads of protein. Eating worms and other crawling stuff like that can boost your protein income by alot... but who does want to eat worms? We still have milk, soy and other things that can give you enough protein for your healthy growth.

To that evolution thing. Evolution is based on natural selection (The weakest one dies) which is absent in todays society.(Unless you live in jungle or whatever) Also... evolution needs time... loads of time... it would take thousands (Maybe even more) of offsprings to make the slightest changes to our anatomy. So one vegetarian guy does not have any effect on evolution.

[Typhlosion]

Hi, you called? :P

I'm a vegetarian because... I just don't like meat, simple! :D
On other vegetarians, I have no problem being or not being one. If you think animal slaughter is bad, sure, no problem. Just don't go with PETA.

Veganism is hard to be healthy though, so many necessary supplements if the diet isn't perfect... that, I advise against.