Any other vegetarians / vegans?

[elforcelf]

I was one for seven years but becasuse (sp) of health reasons eat some Beef and Some Turkey.

 

[Jonny Nexus]

I'm a vegan. This is the kind of thread that makes a chap feel quite lonely.

Anyways, my friend and a couple of other guys managed to convince her that the hot dogs cooking on the grill were actually veggie dogs. She ate two of them, and soon after suddenly felt very ill and left the party. My friend learned from this that if you begin eating meat after being a vegitarian a long time, it'll make you pretty sick. As for the woman who ate the hot dogs, I don't think anybody ever told her the truth about the "veggie dogs".

Just out of curiousity: if the anecdote had been about some of your friends tricking a Jew into eating pork or a Hindu into eating beef, would you still have put a winking smiley at the end?

 

[Dark Jezter]

Just out of curiousity: if the anecdote had been about some of your friends tricking a Jew into eating pork or a Hindu into eating beef, would you still have put a winking smiley at the end?

Probably not. But since the girl in question who unknowingly ate the meat was a self-rightous biatch who probably only became a vegitarian because it was the fashonable thing to do for college-age activists, I don't feel a lick of remorse over taking amusement in it.

 

[fusangite]

Just out of curiousity: if the anecdote had been about some of your friends tricking a Jew into eating pork or a Hindu into eating beef, would you still have put a winking smiley at the end?

Are you suggesting that your vegetarianism rises to the level of religious faith? Are you a Buddhist or Jainist? Actually, Buddhists are a poor example because for Buddhists, vegetarianism stems from a desire to avoid doing harm rather than from some kind of ritual impurity covenant breach. Most vegetarians I know are simply trying to avoid causing themselves or animals harm to the greatest possible degree; this is very different from keeping kosher or halal which stems from an idea that ritual impurity damages the link between the self and God.

Anyway, I can't answer for the original poster but I think there are legitimate reasons to view secular vegetarian food proscriptions differently than religious purity rules.

 

[elforcelf]

It still is regious for them fung-man,

 

[Tewligan]

Easy, guys...this is maybe starting to drift into the kind of talk that gets threads locked.

 

[talinthas]

been a vegetarian my whole life (my parents became orthodox hindus (as opposed to run of the mill hindus) right before i was born), except for one time when i wondered why everyone else could get happy meals and i couldnt. my dad took me to wendy's, bought me a burger, cleaned me after i was violently sick, and i've not desired it since. It's not that i'm militant (my best friends would eat the cow if it was still moving, on the assumtion that it would stop eventually on the way down), but more out of habit than anything else. Besides, my culture is entirely vegetarian, and my cuisine is too, and since indian food is so damned good, i've got no reason to stop =)

However, since i moved to japan a few months ago, i gotta say it's been really freakin' hard to be vegetarian here. at least in the states, it's possible to eat out and get junk food or whatever that's vegetarian. but here in japan, don't even bother.

As for meat, i just don't have the enzymes to digest it, so when a stray chunk of something gets in my food, i pretty much autohurl.

 

[BOZ]

if you've been a vegeterian your whole life, i.e. meat was never introduced into your system, does it become impossible to introduce it later in life, or merely just difficult? say, if you ate something with tiny bits of chicken in it every day for a week would your system start to accept it after awhile or would that be futile?

 

[talinthas]

i dont know. i know that there are vegetarians who have managed to become meat eaters (my dad, for instance, came from india to texas during the 70's to go to school. being vegetarian there ceased to be an option, and his first job was at a mcd's, no less.)
but as for practical experience, i recently thought hard about just giving up vegetarianism, but i couldnt do it. my conscience just wouldnt let me give up my cultural customs.

 

[BOZ]

i can respect that.