Poll: Are you a Vegetarian?
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I'm a vegetable-rights activist. Except for potatoes, they have none. When I see a cow, I don't think of it as food, but when it's been killed, slaughtered and on the grill...I get hungry.
Hell no, don't get me wrong I like my vegetables but not eating meat is just wrong, it's not natural. We adapted over tens of thousands of years to eat meat (hence our adapted canine teeth) and the chemical energy meat provided us allowed us to evolve into super-intelligent beings...
A lot of people are annoyed or anti-vegetarian because many moral vegetarians (Not all, not even the majority, but quite a few) like to rub their moral superiority in meat eaters face. They tell us that we're evil, inhuman devils who should grease the gears of hell with our blood.interspark said:
Now, why wouldn't we like people like that?
Personally, I don't mind vegetarians (Though I don't fully understand some of tghe reasoning behind it). But when one starts preaching... well, sometimes I can't help myself.
I was raised veggie, stopped for about a year (16-17), then went back. I'm 19 now and I'm thinking about starting to eat meat again. If it weren't for my love of baked goods I'd have been a vegan, as I don't drink milk or eat eggs.
Oh and to anyone who thinks veggies only eat salads and tofu, I rarely eat tofu and I hate salads. Not to hate on anyone but the only diet I think is is a little out there is being raw food w/o being vegan.
Oh and to anyone who thinks veggies only eat salads and tofu, I rarely eat tofu and I hate salads. Not to hate on anyone but the only diet I think is is a little out there is being raw food w/o being vegan.
its no worse than going for a crap, in fact the process is remarkebly similar, remember that tomorrow morning over your fried eggs on toast XD loleggy32 said:
(is it a coincedence that your name is "eggy" or do you deliberately seek out thread that are remotely "egg" related?")
hey i gave up on converting you condemned little (not gonna say the next word in case im put on probation again) a while ago, as for the reasoning, its cos your ending another life for the purposes of dinner! reason enough for ya?AccursedTheory said:
I decided to be a vegetarian when I was five years old... It's been fourteen years and I still haven't gone back. I don't have a reason, I don't care about other people's eating habits. I just... am...
I agree totally. In my animal science class we raised around 2 dozen little chickens until they were big enough to be cooked. Also in that class we watched 2 videos that examined the lives of animals living on farms, and how the farmers raise the animals. The first video showed how farmers took there job seriously and cared for the animals as they were raised. The other one was a PETA video that showed how cruel the process is with farming animals. It was quite graphic and it was obvious that they were exaggerating the whole thing by using every single dreadful word to describe each little step in the processes. LOL our teacher was able show us that the farmer guy doing all the gruesome acts was seen throughout the video. They tried to make it look like every farm was this way.interspark said:
I didn't evolve the ability to eat meat for nothing, not eating meat is like slapping nature in the face.
interspark said:
Than go out forth and kill every carnivore on the planet.
We are omnivores. Either nature or God (Whichever you believe) designed us this way. Therefor, why feel bad?
But that's my own personal reasoning. Lets not side track the thread with an argument (besides, we're never going to change each others eating habits).
STEAK!!! BACON!!! RIBS!!! SHRIMP!!! LOBSTER!!! BURGERS!!!
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ya I love my meat.
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ya I love my meat.
I tried it once. I have no idea why. But no, I'm not one. I only know one person who was, and once she had chicken, she gave up on that. Vegetarians don't know what they are missing.
I don't think this statistic is that out of the question. In North America, particularly on the west coast, the veggie thing is pretty big. But given the world's population and cultures vegetarianism is just not really prevalent.interspark said:Ive been thinking lately about something my dumb ass, spoiled brat cousin said the last time i saw him, what he said was this "only 1% of the worlds population are vegetarians" (hes not actually smart enough to use those big words, its just how id have said it). Obviously this is a load of crap hes just pulled out of thin air for no obvious reason, but it got me wondering, just what is the veggie to non-veggie ratio?
edit: there! i added an option for bloody so called "semi-veggies" happy now?
(oh and if your reading this gunjack65, yes, well done, you knew it was me)
In some countries, any food is good food as there just isn't enough to be picky and choosy. The thing is, these countries tend to have giagntic population densities. Take India for example, there are millions of hungry people there. China, of course, is another country where there are many impoverished people. There's a saying in china "If it's back faces the sun, we'll eat it", or something like that.
In others, the price of being a vegetarian would be more or less outrageous. For example, fish in Japan is cheap where vegetables they need to import are much more expensive. Japanese culture has traditional vegetarian dishes, but the idea of only eating vegetables is very strange to the majority of Japanese people.
Actually as a fellow vegetarian there is a small difference in that in the vegan/vegetarian debate you still aren't killing animals. Also I justify easting eggs I own chickens and I see it as an exchange. Food water plenty of room to run about and shelter from predators in exchange for what would otherwise be a wast product. As for cows, well, It's really fucking difficult to live without milk okay.Hurr Durr Derp said: