Veganism & vegetarianism

[Chad32]

I love fruits and vegetables, but I also love beef, chicken, and pork sausage. I don't like what happens to animals in factory farms, but I'd rather see new regulations than totally give up meat. I will pet a cow, and eat a cheeseburger for lunch afterwards.

I do diet at home, and the only meat I eat is white meat. Chicken and turkey. The thing is, I don't want to ask other people to make something special for me when I'm at someone else's house. I will eat what they feed me. So I'm not going to so strict vegetarian, and I wouldn't want to be vegan. That prohibits dairy products, and you don't have to kill an animal to get eggs and milk.

[AFTT47]

I'm not technically a vegetarian because I eat meat on occasion but rarely. It's a matter of my total aversion to cooking. For someone unwilling to cook, it's hard to avoid meat.

[robvalue]

My diet would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. Because of intestinal scarring, I can't eat anything that's got too much fibre in it. So I'm a vegan who can't even eat fucking apples or carrots. I even miss eating things I wasn't even that bothered about before like cucumber.

I have to have my fruit and veg mostly cooked and mashed up like a baby. We have a blender for making smoothies but I don't have the energy to use it most of the time. I'm hopeless at cooking, and so I live mostly on toast and extremely bland cereal. My wife does incredibly well given the shit she has to endure from my diet, and finds lots of interesting ways to get nutrients into me. Luckily I can still have pizza, my favourite food, but without any extra toppings.

My wife was actually trying to get me to eat some free range egg just for some variety in my diet. I tried it, but I freaked the hell out. No way, I can't eat it.

[Athene]

As a vegetarian, I felt very healthy, had more focus of energy, and became ill less frequently. However, the times I did become ill, I really went down for the count. It seemed as though my body couldn't heal/repair itself adequately on a vegetarian diet, despite my best (and informed) efforts. 

That's just my experience. I know that there are others who never had such problems and I do view vegetarianism as a positive thing. We engage in many things that aren't necessarily natural to humans, and learn to make them work to our benefit.

[Minimalist]

Yum.

And to compliment it....

[Gawdzilla]

Humans are omnivores. EOF

[vorlon13]

Damn, I gave up (recreational) drugs and alcohol only with considerable effort, please don't make me quit meat.

[Longhorn]

I'll be cringing for saying that v, but we all know how much you love yourself some meat .-.

[MentalGiant]

I have been a vegetarian since I was 10 and a 'raw until 4' vegan for the past few years. I did have serious health problems in my teens, but am in excellent health now. I don't need to justify what I do or don't put in my body to any of you either. I do find the thought of consuming cooked (or raw) flesh, cow/goat/sheep/camel lactation, poultry menstruation and bee regurgitate pretty fucking vile.

[Lemonvariable72]

I just want to eat cheese! Buckets and buckets of cheese!

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