Veganism and you: would you ever want make that choice?

[El Poncho]

I hate it when they comment on what we eat or do but it's apparently not good for us to say that we think just eating vegetables is wrong. What! Are you saying it can go one way or the other, you can suck one big bloody sausage because I know you would hate that more than my cock.

Anyways I have no problem with vegies or vegans, do what you want but don't tell me what I'm eating is wrong or I will say something back.

I could never become a vegie either I would die with lack of meat and bacon(so good it is a food group in itself

 

[mattman106]

I am a vegetarian.. Thats it.
I dont eat fish. I eat eggs.

I respect the SHIT out of you sir.

 

[Cptn_Squishy]

My room mate last year was a strict vegetarian, and he dated a vegan girl. They both thought I was disgusting because I ate a kielbasa sausage when I went with them to dinner. Furthermore, she refused to wear leather, and dislike that I wore a leather jacket.

This is why I don't like vegans. I worked at a health food store where many of the employees were vegans. And while the chef was a good guy and was well liked by everyone, pretty much everyone else was a self-righteous pain in the ass. I could (and should) definately go vegetarian because its a great way to lose weight and it's easy to maintain health by eating proteins that a lot of non-vegs think are hard to obtain, but I wouldn't go vegan because I like cooking with milk, eggs, and butter.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I will always eat meat, for there are few greater pleasure than a 30oz steak, cooked medium rare with fancy bread to mop up with afterwards
And i think people who dont eat meat are wierd o___0

 

[GodofDisaster]

Nope I eat mixture of all kinds of food including meat and I completly respect the life style of a vegetarian.

 

[Cptn_Squishy]

No, because going full vegan would require waaaay too much work. You'd have to check in on every single food manufacturer to see if they do anything that might even remotely affect animals. Also, the food tastes bleh. I've tried some.

yeah, especially if you're going to GNC to pick up supplements and you have to make sure the gelatenous covering on the capsules isnt made out of pig fat.

 

[Ivan Issaccs]

While I really dislike the typical snobbery and condescending attitudes vegans have forced me to associate with them I have to say that ideally, I should take a few cooking lessons from them.

As much as I love my steak and chicken breasts, most of us eat ALOT more meat than is necessary and its beginning to bother me a lot more now than it did in the past.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

And don't come back with "it's a life imprisoned" or the ilk - it's a chance of life, what happens in that life may not be in there control but they will not go hungry and will not have to worry about predators (until they reach the "right-age" when they will at least be killed quicker than a tiger attack). Yes it's a life in prison but would you like every man who's in prison for life be terminated too, not having a chance of life?.

Remember that I'm only saying this because you brought up this argument in the first place.

A short lifetime of boredom, lack of space, and discomfort? That we are imposing on generation after generation of animals? Animals who can feel pain, suffer, and become psychologically damaged?

When you have a system that cranks as many animals out as cheaply possible to meet our excessive the demand for meat, you end up with animals that aren't treated as feeling beings, but animals that are treated as simple machines that convert grains and plastic pellets into protein. The animals are often confined in spaces where they are not given the freedom to stretch, because of the size they are forced to grow their legs are broken bloody messes, and the social animals, such as chickens, go cannibalistic from being crowded into little boxes. Farms don't care about their well being, they care about them as meat.

They're all going to die horrible deaths anyway, within the factory farm system, so is it really worse if we prevent future generations from living and dying horribly at our hands?

 

[brtshstel]

my uncle lives on a farm, so i saw animals get slaughtered regulary ...and dam that bacon tasted good!

Agreed completely.

This holds true for just about any food you produce yourself, be it meat, dairy, eggs, grains, fruits, or vegetables. I hate grocery-store tomatoes, but the one ones my neighbors and I grow in our back yards are so good I would eat them like apples, raw.

It has to do with the fact that the food you produce is fresher than when you buy it, and it also has to do with the fact that you are enjoying the fruits (no pun intended) of your own labor.

Now, I love bacon and ham and pork ribs, but my neighbor (one of the aforementioned tomato growers) doesn't, and our conversations dealing with swine are just like this:

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I am a vegetarian.. Thats it.
I dont eat fish. I eat eggs.

Eh, if you do the research, eggs are probably worse than meat. :S

Look up "battery cages." It's how we get eggs. Even so-called "free range" eggs.

 

[Izerous]

My Aunt only stopped being a vegetarian after a doctor told her that she needed nutrients etc from certain meats she simply was not getting from her current diet. So she went from an extreme vegan diet to an extreme organic diet but at least she started eating meats etc.

She is one of those odd ball extremest that refuses to allow cell phones in her home, removes the microwave from the kitchen and gets rid of it (if a place comes with one), and the list goes on getting more and more awkward.

 

[Julianking93]

Being vegetarian, I would not.

I like cheese and peanut butter too much.

 

[asinann]

I've never in my life met a truly healthy vegan or vegetarian. They usually look jaundiced and are rail thin. The human body needs animal proteins to be healthy and build or maintain muscle (your muscles aren't made of soy.)

I personally think that vegans and the like can do what they want until they try to look down on me or tell me I'm a bad person for eating meat. That's when I show them that I'm a bad person, but because preachy people make me short tempered not because I eat cow (mmm, sweet sweet cow.)

 

[linwolf]

Meat taste good and I don't want to have to think about what I eat so I will keep eating meat
Have a cousin that is a vegetarian, and who have been sick because of it 5-6 time (hospitalized)

 

[ellie91]

I am a vegan :-D so naturally therefore i do like it . the lazy appraoch to answer the why question is to link to peta so here it is: http://www.peta.org/

Basically veganism is my passion and i wouldn't give it up for anything, despite everyone i know thinking i'm nuts for being one and being bombarded with the same questions everyday. I love animals and don't think they are on this earth for our own personal use so we should treat them fairly. Btw there are fake dairy products which help.

So you're killing all the animals? Farming is demand and supply - the more the demand, the more animals raised, vegan-ism means less demand and therefore less raised - millions of animals have gone without the chance to exist because of freaks like you (your in a statistically low population percentage and therefore a freak by technical definition).

And don't come back with "it's a life imprisoned" or the ilk - it's a chance of life, what happens in that life may not be in there control but they will not go hungry and will not have to worry about predators (until they reach the "right-age" when they will at least be killed quicker than a tiger attack). Yes it's a life in prison but would you like every man who's in prison for life be terminated too, not having a chance of life?

I love animals so I eat as many as I can, even those that don't taste so good (never been a big sheep or cow lover, but piggies, hmmmm, I could eat bacon raw, let the blood drip right down my jaw)..

Animals raised for clothing live even better lives so no one should be against your leather jacket.

How many animals are wild? Especially of the size or lethality of a bull? If it wasn't for farming most of them wouldn't exist.

So grit your teeth and dig in, even if you don't like the taste, it's for their own good!

I'm killing the animals? technically i'm not as animals who would have been eaten by me aren't being raised and killed. You can't compare a man imprisoned to a an animal born simply to be raised for our food as the imprisioned man made a series of choices which led to his status, whereas the animal had no choice, and the man wasn't born into prison simply to be eaten.

You know there are wild animals? they do still exist therefore animals are still gonna exist and be a hell of a lot happier in the wild. People do still raise animals just for the fun of raising animals and they give them nice conditions where they are happy. I'm sorry but i am gonna use the life imprisoned arguement as i personally don't see what's so great about an entire life spent in cramped horrible conditions just so someone can have a nice steak. I know i wouldn't want to live like that. How does it help with the whole keeping that animal out of extinction thing as yeah ok they aren't extinct but only for food and other uses. They still aren't wild and free outside of the 'farm' setting.

If people care so much about animals not extinct rather then raising them for food why not focus on conservation and helping out animals in the wild meaning they don't don't have to be farmed to keep them from extinction.

Where is your information from about animals raised for clothing live better lives? as i've seen a whole bunch of stuff which says otherwise and that actually some rather cruel practices go on for no reason, there are plenty of other materials which could be used for clothes why do we need to use animal sources.

 

[Me55enger]

If god designed us to be vegetarian, he would have given us hooves and an udder.

Chicken is a chicken. A dead chicken is edible.

Vegetables aren't food, they eaten by food.

and Veganism is an illness best cured by a small piece of lead inserted between the ears at high speed.

Most animals were harmed in the making of this statement.

 

[brtshstel]

I like cheese and peanut butter too much.

Peanut butter is not vegan? What, do they use animal fat?

 

[YoUnG205]

I am a vegetarian, However veganism seems to be a step too far, so no never.

 

[Nazulu]

No! One of my favourite things in life is good food and most of it is some kind of meat.

 

[Plurralbles]

I could do it, I'd just not want to.

Meat's easier to make delicious than non meats.