What food don't you eat for reasons unrelated to taste or allergy?
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i dont like tomato on my subway. i dont mind tomatoes taste but tomatoes always slide out of the subway and take half the salads with it.
i also dont pavlova cause of its texture. make be feel all wierd. like nails on a chalk board just thinking about pavlova.
i also dont pavlova cause of its texture. make be feel all wierd. like nails on a chalk board just thinking about pavlova.
This. Except I won't eat anything that is meat, anything containing meat or anything containing meat derivatives. That includes gelatine and rennet which are in jelly based (jello for you American people) and some cheese based foods respectively.Queen Michael said:
Yes, I'm a VEGETARIAN!
But seriously, it's not just the chickens, all animals get a raw deal when they're slaughtered, aside from the whole dying thing. I think it's all become just an industry where animals are moved along a conveyer belt and are thoughtlessly killed simply for our pleasure. Do you have any idea how much we waste? That's animals killed for nothing and in my book that's wrong.
Oh I won't touch McDonalds either... anything from them. You can't eat ANYTHING in there without ingesting some form of animal, especially the milk shakes. Besides, it's not even real food really.
I'm with you on that. I will never choose to eat Mayonnaise for the very same reason, I mean raw eggs? People get salmonella from that you know! Urgh...King of the Sandbox said:
I'm a vegetarian because of the Peter Singer arguements myself. Basically:
1) Ethically animals are treated poorly and are themselves sentient. They evolved alongside us and feel pain just like humans.
2) Human's don't need to eat meat to have a healthy diet. In fact many people have far too much meat in their diets and have health problems because of it.
3) Farming meat is completely inefficient. Beef is one of the most inefficient sources of protein to produce over time. We feed the animals on grain and other things which humans can eat ourselves and so theres a boatload of nutrition lost in the production process.
4) Carrying on from 3, if we produced everything arably then we could actually feed most of the worlds population. Considering the world is growing and is set to peak at 9 billion by around 2050 we need effecieny and sustainability in food production.
It is for this reason too that I reject free market capitalism. Not that i'm socialist or anything, just that if people produce what is demanded then when there is more and more demand for meat it means that there will be less and less food in the world. Those who can't afford food are left to starve while those who can will eat everything.
1) Ethically animals are treated poorly and are themselves sentient. They evolved alongside us and feel pain just like humans.
2) Human's don't need to eat meat to have a healthy diet. In fact many people have far too much meat in their diets and have health problems because of it.
3) Farming meat is completely inefficient. Beef is one of the most inefficient sources of protein to produce over time. We feed the animals on grain and other things which humans can eat ourselves and so theres a boatload of nutrition lost in the production process.
4) Carrying on from 3, if we produced everything arably then we could actually feed most of the worlds population. Considering the world is growing and is set to peak at 9 billion by around 2050 we need effecieny and sustainability in food production.
It is for this reason too that I reject free market capitalism. Not that i'm socialist or anything, just that if people produce what is demanded then when there is more and more demand for meat it means that there will be less and less food in the world. Those who can't afford food are left to starve while those who can will eat everything.
Oh, also; Liver, beef heart, gizzards, etc. Basically any organ. Just seems wrong. It's not meat. It's the thingies inside the meat that you're supposed to make cool pouches and bags out of... like the prize inside the box of cereal.
I don't eat McDonald's either, because that food just isn't very good for you.Proverbial Jon said:
I've never eaten any shelled sea creatures because I imagined the texture to feel like blowing your nose when you have a cold and sucking everything off the tissue. I don't know, I've eaten raw egg before, but eggs are so transparent and clean looking that I can ignore the gross texture.
I don't eat meat or anything else sourced from animal carcass because a) I feel more at peace that my flesh isn't sustained by something else's death, it just seems nicer, and b) I don't want to support some of the practices in the meat industry. There are a few more, but those are the main ones. According to one of the premises of my vegetarianism, I should be turning down non-fair-trade chocolate, leather, perhaps milk, and all possible factory farm products if I'm offered, but it's just convenient to draw the line at meat because people tend to be more used to vegetarians than people who examine the ethics of the consumption of every specific product and choose accordingly.
Other than that, I can't think of anything in particular that I turn down, although there are things I don't buy and avoid having too much of. I don't really like soft drink/soda much, but I make my own lemonade with actual real lemons and about 1/5th of the sugar.
I don't eat meat or anything else sourced from animal carcass because a) I feel more at peace that my flesh isn't sustained by something else's death, it just seems nicer, and b) I don't want to support some of the practices in the meat industry. There are a few more, but those are the main ones. According to one of the premises of my vegetarianism, I should be turning down non-fair-trade chocolate, leather, perhaps milk, and all possible factory farm products if I'm offered, but it's just convenient to draw the line at meat because people tend to be more used to vegetarians than people who examine the ethics of the consumption of every specific product and choose accordingly.
Other than that, I can't think of anything in particular that I turn down, although there are things I don't buy and avoid having too much of. I don't really like soft drink/soda much, but I make my own lemonade with actual real lemons and about 1/5th of the sugar.
I don't eat meat or dairy that has been farmed unethically. For dual reasons of ideology and taste. (Some dairy farming practices, totally legal, are truly horrific)
I would much rather pay more to eat a healthy, (ex)happy and very tasty chicken, using the whole bird for several meals and go veggie half the week, than eat the tasteless, watery, cruel caged variety breasts & wings in plastic every day (this doesn't just apply to chickens but you get my meaning).
I would much rather pay more to eat a healthy, (ex)happy and very tasty chicken, using the whole bird for several meals and go veggie half the week, than eat the tasteless, watery, cruel caged variety breasts & wings in plastic every day (this doesn't just apply to chickens but you get my meaning).
Nestle. I don't eat Nestle products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
All my mates laugh at me about it but I don't see the funny side
I also don't eat lamb, veal or duck because lamb and veal are young and ducks are just awesome and should not be eaten. I know that it makes me a slight hypocrite, not eating lamb but still eating all other meats because they're all being slaughtered but meh, lambs are cute
And yeah, Dr Pepper is the drink of Zeus
All my mates laugh at me about it but I don't see the funny side
I also don't eat lamb, veal or duck because lamb and veal are young and ducks are just awesome and should not be eaten. I know that it makes me a slight hypocrite, not eating lamb but still eating all other meats because they're all being slaughtered but meh, lambs are cute
Similar to this, I also don't eat any sweets made from gelatine (like Haribo) because I just find gelatine, and the process of making it, disgustingKing of the Sandbox said:
And yeah, Dr Pepper is the drink of Zeus
I'm the same way about Nestlé. I can't boycott everything that's immoral, but I have to draw the line somewhere.CrashBang said: