Any other vegetarians / vegans?

[Gnome]

Umm...

technically speaking, once it's dead... it doesn't poop.

Okay, anything that pooped. Happy now?

 

[BOZ]

i know a vegan who *loves* cheese, and dairy products of all sorts. we usually order chesse pizzas in our gaming group, and i know he dies a little inside every time because he can't have any.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

if you eat chicken or fish, then "vegetarian" is not the right word for you. (not speaking about anyone on here, even if it seems i am, just ranting about people in general).

We run into it all the time when we ask if there will be vegetarian food for my wife to eat and someone will say "Sure, we have fish." When we try to explain that fish is in fact meat, we usually end up getting the confusion over the Catholic "no meat on Fridays but fish is perfectly OK" thing.

Wait, am I allowed to post here since I am technically not a vegetarian? I do the cooking for three of them, does that give permission to post and not be accused of threadjacking?

 

[BOZ]

the sarcasm in this thread is dripping.

 

[jgbrowning]

Wait, am I allowed to post here since I am technically not a vegetarian? I do the cooking for three of them, does that give permission to post and not be accused of threadjacking?

Stop threadjacking. Go back to the kitchen and make some falafal.



joe b.

 

[Shemeska]

it's a shame that too often, diet and politics mix in western culture, when they really have no need to.

3 words: wierd white hippies.

And I say this while I eat blood drenched keishka, I went vegetarian for 10 months about 5 years ago and lost around 50 lbs eating mostly vegetables and pasta, with eggs and milk for protein. Since then however I'm simply not willing to abstain from the variety of food that the human body is geared to consume. I'm made to be an omnivore and I'll happily be one.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

Incidentally, a recent talk I was at mentioned things that various cultures did that were accepted at the time but deemed horribly immoral later, human slavery and sacrifice being obligatory examples. I suspect that in a few generations, if there are any humans left, they will probably be vegetarians.

Eating meat however is something humans have evolved to do, it's a simple fact that we are omnivores. Not eating meat could arguably be abberant (which would give you the abberation type from the MM ) and unatural, though I do not hold this point of view.

You saying that me eating meat is akin to slavery and human sacrifice though is offensive. May I point out that plants are living creatures as well? Why do you spare all of your hunger for just that one life form? Are you trying to cause a mass plant genocide? Just something to think about

I do not eat alot of meat but around 3 or 4 meals a week I have a good helping of it.

 

[talinthas]

i'm vegetarian, as i mentioned, by culture and habit. my girlfriend, however, isnt. she comes from a family that are bonafide foodophiles--so when she announced that she was going vegetarian some time into our relationship, it shocked the hell out of both me and her family. If there is anything i'm staunchly against, it's missionary evangelism, so i didn't want to be the reason she went vegetarian. But she basically was only eating chicken anyway, so apparently it wasnt too hard for her to give it up.

but still, five years later, i still wonder periodically why she would give up something just for me, especially now that we're in japan, where meat eating is a survival trait.

 

[BOZ]

Stop threadjacking. Go back to the kitchen and make some falafal.

mmm, yummy!

 

[Voadam]

One of my favorite quick jokes from a comedian I can't remember:

"I'm not a vegetarian because I like animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

I eat vegetarian meals regularly (my breakfast is usually cereal during the work week and I like cheese pizza and PB&J sandwiches) but I do not claim to be a vegetarian.