Vegetarianism + Veganism

I was wondering if you are for, or against the above two lifestyle choices.

I'm a vegetarian, I have been for almost a year now. I had tried to do it when I was younger, but I guess I wasn't mature enough and it fell through. But after meeting my girlfriend, who is a vegetarian, it opened my eyes up a bit and so I embarked on the journey.

I think it's great. I feel no less healthy or weak then when I ate meat. I don't miss meat at all. It feels great.

So I eat nothing with any sort of trace of animal meat/fat/bone in it, obviously. I don't buy or wear fur or leather also. Except for a leather belt I owned before becoming vegetarian, so I continue to wear it, otherwise it would be a waste. So once it wears out I will purchase a non-leather substitute.

My choice in becoming vegetarian is my love of animals, and how badly they get treated. I also feel a lot more connected with earth and at peace.

Are any of you vegetarian or vegan? What are your choices for being so, or for not being so?

I think it's retarded. Mankind evolved to eat meat, therefore we are most healthy when eating it.

Also, you're psychologically just doing it to please your girlfriend, whether you realize it or not. When and if you break up, start the stopwatch on how long you last until you start eating meat again.

I love animals ALOT too, and they DO get treated BADLY but im not a vegetarian. I could probably survive on veggies and fruit but i ate meat since i was a kid, i was born in Russia so meat=main food lol

i've always wanted to be a vegetarian but i just love hamburgers and shit too much.

though, when you are getting all the correct nutrition while being a vegetarian you generally have more energy. meat can take upwards of 24 hours for your body to digest, which takes away from your energy. fruits and vegetables can be processed in an hour or two, letting your body focus energy on more important things.

however now that i have foodstamps i can shop at the expensive health food stores :cool:

The complete removal of meat from your diet is a move to help animals but you don't need to be that extreme about it. If everyone reduced the amount of meat by 16% it'd have a huge impact on the meat industry and get the animals better treatment.
Also it not natural for people to not eat meat, we evolved to eat meat as naturally its not possible to get all the things you need in your diet. So being vegetarian or vegan is actually highly unnatural and is why when you do it for an extended period of time meat makes you sick and why so many people can't do it.

I was born and raised in the Philippines & meat is a biggie over there especially pork. & I honestly don't eat pork, it's gross & dirty. I don't eat beef either. You can say I'm semi-vegetarian I guess. I only eat poultry & fish in sense of eating meat. I don't buy anything made from animals. It's just wrong. I've tried going full vegetarian before. But being brought and have meat as a big part of your diet is kinda hard to break.
I'm all for saving animals though. WWF <3

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Originally Posted by GAMEchief

I think it's retarded. Mankind evolved to eat meat, therefore we are most healthy when eating it.

Also, you're psychologically just doing it to please your girlfriend, whether you realize it or not. When and if you break up, start the stopwatch on how long you last until you start eating meat again.

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This. Its the truth.

All vegetarianism is, is a pure excuse to suck up to your significant other, or to LOOK more like you are a nice sensative person.

No. That is a terrible thing to even fathom. Let me say this, meat has proteins and other nutrients that are vital to the human system, and not eating is actually unhealthy, and since you removed it from your system entirely, its abad thing.

As for the animals thing, who cares? They dont get treated as bad as you think. Animals are raised on farms, and live out their lives until they get chosen for the slaughter house, and the animals for the most part are put to sleep then made into the food they sell for $1.25 per/lbs.

I eat meat because I like knowing that I am getting proteins and all of the nutrients vegetarians or vegans will never have in a normal meal.

Just so you know, poultry is raised in worse conditions than pigs.

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Originally Posted by chowchig

Just so you know, poultry is raised in worse conditions than pigs.

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Poultry is raised in closed and ventilated coop. They live relatively well. Pigs are treated much better than they used to, and yes they do get treated better than birds. They are raised to be healthy, not like they used to be how they were held in small cramped fenced-in area.

Fact is, how animals are raised and killed shouldnt be the main factor in how you eat or why you do eat or dont eat something. Seriously, I know things about food that most people dont, and I still eat it. Like cereal, burgers, hot dogs, pizza, candy. Any of that i know bad shit about and i still eat it, because i dont let how my food is prepared alter my decision on what I eat. Why should how a cow is killed alter your food habits?

i am against them both if im in the wilderness about to starve and ll i have is a knife and a fire and a rabbit comes to me and sits next to me im gonna chop its neck off and cook him im not gonna go hmmmmm i wounder if this berry will kill me?