Generally think it's rather a bugger to be eating the youngs of other species, especially when they've been maimed to death (as is often apparent from the chicken bones, you could prolly learn to distinguish internal bleeding and blunt trauma of broken bones on an expert level by eating chicken in this country), but tend to eat my meat, still. Hey, at least it wasn't me who killed 'em. I do eat a lot of greens with my meat, but I can't say I'd ever be into vegetarian diets, least of all a *shudder*...full vegan. Plant protein is a viable option for those with money, but I don't have that sort of money to toss around. I usually stop buying vegetables and fruit when their prices escalate over 2 euros a kilo.

I wish I could become a veggie but don't think it will ever happen. I've really tried to find good meat recently though - stuff that hasn't come from cooped up chickens with no room to move or from animals kept tied so they can't move. It's hard but luckily I have some very good farmers markets near me that sell 'happy meat' as BF and I call it.

Yeh, vegans beyond me too
I've no problem eating dairy so long as the animals are well-treated (which they usually aren't) and I also eat eggs despite my moral qualms

Re an earlier point about vegetarians feeling morally superior to others you're wrong
I don't know eating meat is wrong but having considered the issue I believe it to be so
If you've thought about it and reached a different conclusion I've no problem with that

I like people with principles. Veggies for some stylish or hip reason are stupid, same as those fanatical veggies that come up now and then and make everyone eating meat out to be a total fool who does not know where meat comes from and how those poor animals all suffer and how much water is "lost" at all. Though they tend to leave once someone invalidates all their pretty much made-up points that they came up with to "reason" with the uninitiated meat-eating barbarians.

I myself enjoy eating meat. Though for my own conscience, I only get meat that I can trace back to the field of grass the cow munched happily on. That means it costs more, but it tastes oh so much more delicious. And you will spend the same amount of money on meat that satisfies your need for canine meals for a much longer time, which in turn is healthier for your own body. I pity the fools who'll eat six, seven, eight pounds or more of meat each month because they can get it cheap.

I could never be a vegetarian, not when bacon exists.

Fear not, I shall develop a neutron bacon bomb that only destroys bacon in the area of effect!

I'm a vegetarian.







I only eat animals that eat plants.



My wife's sister is a vegetarian. She can be very preachy sometimes. Its kind of annoying.

This.

I don't like steak. At all. I could live without chicken easily as well. But I love fish.

I have nothing against vegetarian food, will eat it occasionally. But I don't intend to become a vegetarian anytime soon. If ever.

I like meat. Unless you are vegetarian because you just don't like the taste of meat i don't see the point. I would eat a giant turtle from the Galapagos islands if they weren't endangered. It took decades just to get them back to England for study because they were so delicious the people on the ships could not resist eating them on the way back. Thats an animal you want to eat!

As for where I stand on the whole animals suffering business, they were bred to be killed. I don't see why i should care about the feelings of an animal who was bred to die.

I'm not seein much love for pork among the meat eaters. Is this a cultural thing? Do you guys not have sausages?

What? I can't hear you over the sound of popping gristle in my blood liver sausage! :hehe:

Not a vegetarian, but I like veggies.

Nutritionally, it is not healthy to go totally vegetarian because there are some things only found in eating meat that you need to have.

However, a largely vegetarian diet is healthy for you. Especially if they are home grown or from a local farm (most stuff in stores are picked way too early and are force-ripened for sale).

If you wanna do it, fine. Just don't preach about it, 'cos I don't wanna become one.

Whoa whoa whoa

Hamburgers are not "a lot better" than steaks

Banished

This is no meat lover

All this talk about meat is just odd. Even stranger it's making me hungry

I'm so confused right now

Food is food.
I like meat, and some vegetables.


:rofl:
Zeno, that is a joke right? The Cure for Cancer will happen long before that will. Colonizing Mars will happen first.
Building a Dyson Sphere will happen first!

Nothing wrong with being vegetarian. Personally I like meat and so I won't stop eating it.

It is ironic that the majority of the world's grain production is fed to livestock so that we in turn can eat them.

I dont really care about vegetarians, they defy logic...most of which has already been posted here.

If people don't want to eat meat, then they shouldn't have to. Don't come to me and cry just because I eat meat and you don't.

It doesn't bother me one way or another about being a vegie. I'm definitly an omnivore, but have done a few stints up to a month as a vegie due to external circumstances (leading backcountry trips). As long as I'm still getting my proteins and fats, I'll be good.

Regarding other people who are vegie, as long as they aren't radicals, then I'm good with it.

At least here in USA, I don't think that we should shift to complete vegie diets. However, I do think that we need to eat lower on the food chain and look at a more subsistance, natural or "olden-days" diet that fits the regions where one lives. More canning of the local summer crops, looking at what the American Indians were eating before European agriculture took over, etc.

He's right though. As you say, the only question is how long.

I live in the Pearl River Delta. People here are notorious for eating anything that moves. I was a vegetarian for quite a while. It restricted my dining out experience too much when I came here so I made the choice to stop. However there is an amazing amount chinese Buddhist vegetarian takeaways and restaurants can do with tofu and soya.

Thoughts on... vegetarianism?
Never even thought of it

I'm an omnivore, but I don't really have any problems with vegetarians. I don't think I could become one though, as I am a pretty picky eater.

C'mon you must have wanted to eat one sometime?

Personally I don't believe you can get all the nutrients you need with strict vegetarianism. That being said, it probably wouldn't hurt for some people who are overweight to try it.