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

[Projekt Spartan]

They have food that does not come from an animal?! Why was I not made aware of this? :O

 

[NuclearPenguin]

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.

Thankyou for turning me off eggs.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

If a cow could eat you... it would... look into it's eyes!

 

[NuclearPenguin]

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

I respect the SHIT out of you sir.

Thankyou...
[sub]Why?[/sub]

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

However, if I have veggies round I'd make a vegetarian meal.

Do they feed you meat when you go around their house?

Some do.

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.

Thankyou for turning me off eggs.

Not to mention the fact it is just the result of chickens menstruating...

 

[Takoto]

I literally can't. I attempted to when I was younger but the lack-of-meat made me really ill. Not that I'd want to now, anyway, I like meat.

 

[ellie91]

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.)

Sorry i'm just curious about this but how many have you met? Personally being a vegan i'm deffinately not rail thin or jaundiced looking and am actually rather healthy as is the same for every veggie i've met or spoken too. It is very doable.

 

[Split Moon]

I love meat. I would never intentionaly give it up unless i had to for some medical reason.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

However, if I have veggies round I'd make a vegetarian meal.

Do they feed you meat when you go around their house?

Some do.

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.

Thankyou for turning me off eggs.

Not to mention the fact it is just the result of chickens menstruating...

Oh dude that's disgusting, I can almost not eat this egg sandwhich now... almost

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

However, if I have veggies round I'd make a vegetarian meal.

Do they feed you meat when you go around their house?

Some do.

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.

Thankyou for turning me off eggs.

Not to mention the fact it is just the result of chickens menstruating...

Oh dude that's disgusting, I can almost not eat this egg sandwhich now... almost

I was told that before making an omelette. I added another egg.

 

[Aesir23]

I love meat far too much to even consider being vegetarian.

And I will NEVER become vegan! I could maybe handle no meat if it was a doctor's orders. But going without, eggs, dairy or any other animal related foods, I would go insane.

 

[ellie91]

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?

Wow that was put rather eloquently and much better then i could ever manage Kudos your rather awesome

 

[FoolKiller]

Meat is murder... tasty, tasty murder.

2 things about this topic that I always need to get off my chest when it arises:

1. I like vegans/vegetarians. More meat for me. And by that I mean that the vegetarian/vegan (referred to from now on as Veg) are herbivores and I am an omnivore. You know what omnivores eat? Herbivores. So I see the Vegs as lower on the food chain. If I am on a plane that crashes and I need food to survive, I am coming for the Vegs first.

2. I once dated a girl whose sister's boyfriend was a vegetarian. When it was our turn to make dinner for everyone we had to make at least one extra veggie dish to feed him because that is what he eats. What I am not happy about is that when it's their turn to make dinner, why didn't they have to make me a meat dish? If I catered to his choices, shouldn't he have to cater to ours?

 

[ThePocketWeasel]

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.

I'm a vegetarian just because I can't stand and never have been able to stand the taste of meat for some reason.

But that ^ ^ just annoys me to the point of ranting. I couldn't care less if people eat meat round me. Vegetarians & Vegans who do that are the reason I get people constantly going 'You don't mind me eating meat round you' or 'I can't eat that it's meat'. *RAGES*

I can see why people become vegans and vegetarians from the whole animal point of view and I respect their views but I could never ever be a vegan, cheese is too tasty.

SNIP

I couldn't agree more on the whole 'I don't eat meat because it's cruelty to animals but I'll eat that BIG TASTY FISHY!' it doesn't make any sense....at all.

 

[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.

Thankyou for turning me off eggs.

Eh, sorry, I guess?

Personally, I blame Peter Singer and my first year ethics class for making me examine the animal rights side to the issue, and not just write vegans off as cutesy animal-loving, oversensitive wackjobs.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I'm a pescedarian myself. I eat fish, but not meat.

I think that veganism is a step too far.

Sure you're healthy, but life is for enjoying.

The reason I don't eat meat is because it tastes horrible to me.

This man knows the truth: Fish ain't meat. Delicious though.

Now, me, I love meat. I enjoy the sensation of sinking my teeth into flesh of another creature and there are times where I want meat so badly I will not stop until it has been aquired.

[HEADING=1]MEAT![/HEADING]

For those of you who read this now, it will come as no surprise when I am eventually arrested for cannibalism

But I can understand its just not for some people. Those people should shut the fuck up and let me eat my delicious steak with a side of chicken while I wear my leather boots.

*gnash*

 

[Daystar Clarion]

However, if I have veggies round I'd make a vegetarian meal.

Do they feed you meat when you go around their house?

Some do.

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.

Thankyou for turning me off eggs.

Not to mention the fact it is just the result of chickens menstruating...

Oh dude that's disgusting, I can almost not eat this egg sandwhich now... almost

I was told that before making an omelette. I added another egg.

Thing is, if I already know something is tasty and that I like it, you could tell it was made from baby vomit and I'll still enjoy it. If you told me that before I ever tried an egg then I might reconsider.

 

[nolongerhere]

No. I love the taste of a good steak, just on the bloody side of medium. Or a bit of beef with some mustard, or maybe orseradish. Or bacon. Or gammon. Or chicken, or rabbit. Oh god. So much delicious meat.

Spoiler: This man has the right idea.

 

[ostro-whiskey]

Dont kid yourself, Veganism ideology is comepletely unnatural.

As beautifull and magnificent as Nature is, it is profoundly cruel and harsh. You look at Nature from within a space controlled by us, a culturally shaped landscape, rarely venturing into Utgard.

If ever you become lost in the Forest a shadow will creep into your mind and fear as the suspicion grows that Nature does not care about us as individuals, whether we live or die, and the incredible amount of energy it takes us to survive from nature alone.