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Why are you Vegetarian??
Posted by siralmo • 1/11/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: choice, vegetarian, what, why
tell us about your choice
why are you a vegetarian? (religion, beliefs, morals etc... )
what kind vegetarian are you?
User Comments
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I am a vegetarian who eats eggs milk and cheese, and I have been one since I found out where meat came from ( eight years ago?) and I am a vegetarian because I love animals!-
Like Madeleine, I ate some meat as a child.
But one day I was driving behind a lorry taking hundreds of young calves to an abattoir. It was horrible - no water and no space between their bodies.
I don't have the same feeling of revulsion about fish, eggs and dairy products. Of course fish have a brain too, so at least one exclusion may be hyprocrital on my part.
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I'm a fish and poultry eater for half or the week. The other half I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian. The reason why is because I don't digest red meats very well, and when I eat meat frequently I have health problems. Luckily I have access to meat from animals, who are organically raised locally, and who live real lives outdoors before they are slaughtered. I also have access to fish straight from the sea as I live on an island. If I lived somewhere else where this was not the case I would not eat meat at all because most of it comes from factory farms, where the animals are kept in confinement in conditions that are disgustingly inhumane, barbaric and entirely unacceptable to me.
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this question is only for vegitarian..not for carnivore.
Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all meat, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products. .../ (u have written.....where the animals r kept in confnmnt in condn tht r disgtnly inhumane...)Eating animals or animal's by-product ALSO inhumanity -
subhra123, I think that is a bit harsh. Just as there are all gradations of sexuality and politics, so there are many levels of vegetarianism. For example, I would not eat pig flesh under any circumstance (except to save life). You clearly draw the line at "poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea".
As long as people think about what they put in their mouth, I applaud them - they are thinking about the world and not just mindlessly devouring everything in sight. Thoughtful people do what they think is morally right.
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I'm not anymore, but I was a vegan.
Partially because of animals rights issues, partially because of food allergies and intolerance, partially due to preference.
We switched back to eating meats once in a while when the vegan friendly foods became to expensive to buy, and consuming dairy products after our intolerance issues seemed to not be so bad (It comes and goes in cycles, so sometimes I can have milk, sometimes I can't).
Obviously I can't eat anything I'm allergic to, and I still have preferences that direct me to not eat certain animal products. -
Good topic question, Almo. There's actually a lot of ways I can answer it. I became a veggo when I was around your age ie 21. At the time it just felt right, as if it were a natural transition or progression and it was something I knew I wanted to do.
Not to sound dramatic, but you do take into yourself the energetic vibration of what you eat. If you decide you want to start advancing spiritually, you automatically start refining your personal energies. After a time, you realise you simply aren't compatible with the vibration of violence in killed meat. Most modern conditions farm animals are kept in you would not believe, but this is beside the point.
Lastly to anyone thinking of becoming a vegetarian, I would say only do it if you feel ready. Don't force yourself to because of ethics; etc. Listen to your body, it will let you know what it wants and if it wants meat, it wants meat. -
In 1972, I had KFC (then called Kentucky Fried Chicken) and it wasn't so finger lickin good. It had veins in it. -
I'm not, but my mother is. She doesn't like the thought of eating flesh and killing animals. She DOES eat fish though.
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Not a vegetarian but wouldn't mind being one! -
When I was 20 I met a man who was 40, he was a vegetarina and I admired him so. I thought he was so fit and young. I became a vegeterian because of Bill and have always thought my choice to not eat red meat was a good healthy move in my life. It has been over 30 years now and I hardly miss meat. I get my protein from many other sources and love beans for that purpose. I know red meat is a absolute no with cancer patients.
I am a great cook tonight I made my male household, Southern Livings, Beef Stew recipe they loved it and it made them happy. Me I had the Hot French Bread with Butter and Trade Joes Organic Tomatoe Soap and red wine. Lovely how life is:) -
"I am vegetarian not because I love animals But I hate Trees"
I am vegetarian for more than 10 years I guess. First I thought I should try to be vegetarian and notice that no bad effects or any health issues. Then decide to continue. I don't fee like eating meat at all now. I did many sports (soccer, badminton) without any problem as well. So I am enjoying been vegetarian and I don't think I miss anything !! -
I don't like slaughterhouses. -
This is a question I've always wanted to ask if I ever had a vegetarian girlfriend: Is it against the tenets of vegetarianism for girls to swallow semen? Humans are animals, and semen is therefore an animal product.
Now, before you people flip out, cry "That's offensive!" and click report, it's a serious question.-
It doesn't kill (I assume) so should be fine!
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You are assuming that unfertilized semen amounts to anything, or that she has to swallow.
*Every sperm is saacred, ever sperm is greaaaat. If a sperm gets waaaasted God gets quite Iraaaate!* -
No, Kobra. That's sacrament. I'm lacto-ovo vegetarian. The only thing of animal origin that enters my mouth pertains to sex. So milk and eggs are acceptable, as they do.
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Vegetables are a form of lives as well. -
Why not?
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I don't get on with animal fat. I'm reading about what science knows and what it doesn't. We know the chemical composition of prions in meat and we think they cause CJD. We know the chemical composition of dioxins in meat but we don't know what they're doing. -
Initially, by marriage. Vegetarianism is like an in-law to me. -
That is very funny
When spouse and I married, we were in deep trouble. I was lacto-ovo-pisco by conviction and my in-laws made their living with a kosher chicken shop. They didn't like me from the very first day ha ha
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DO you hug trees?-
Yes.
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Sure...as long as there aren't ants running all over them.
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I'm a vegetarian. Not a vegan but a vegetarian. I'm a vegetarian partly as a matter of personal preference[I don't hug trees] and partly as a part of my religion[I'm a Hindu Brahmin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin ]. -
I eat fish. I stopped eating meat because it made my stomach hurt. Now when I think about eating meat I am repulsed and wish I stopped eating it many years ago. It's weird how your psyche changes. I don't object to other people eating it but just don't want it myself. I won't even eat meat flavoured crisps.
I'm not a vegetarian but I understand it a lot better than I did and there is much more choice for vegetarians now. It's not regarded as quite so 'alternative' now. I rarely have to explain why I don't eat it.-
that is totatly psycological, if i beat you with a lavender bush to the point where you were battered and bloody, you would forever respond with fealings of fear towards the smell of lavender. for you meat and the sickness you felt in your stomach has made a psycological impression on you to forever asociate meat with sickness.
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yeah thats what meat is like for me, because I haven't eaten it since I was 3. Some times people ask me what I would do if I was trapped in a cave and there was a huge steak next to me, and I just tell them that even if I ate the meat,( and digested it!) I would still die because of the lack of vegetables.
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@ voodooKobra
If I answered your question, it would give you nightmares.
@ siralmo
huh?? How do you know its psychological for sure, or even psychosomatic for that matter? I'll tell you now, if I ate meat stomach cramps would be the least of my worries. But let's go back to the lavender bush... lavender??-
this is what told me it was psychological,
"I stopped eating meat because it made my stomach hurt. Now when I think about eating meat I am repulsed..."
although i can't know for sure because i have never met myriadlife
if you want to be completely sure we would have to know what exactly it is that repulses myriadlife about the meat.
as for the lavender, its an example of association. Because lavender is a smell that most people can identify with they find it hard to think that someone can dislike it, but give the circumstances of the example, one can actually can be completely put off by the smell just by the associated event. though not many people are beaten up with a lavender bush, you can find that (staying with the example of being beaten) if someone was beaten as a child by their father, and the father used to smell of old spice, one may have an aversion to say geranium.....
it all depends on the associations made -
I'm not I wanna taste u -
say what now? -
Hahahahahaha!
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I basically got into vegetarianism as a teenager, and that as a matter of economics. My parents went to Oklahoma for a month in the summer when I was 15 years old. They left me with $50 and a messy house and said, See ya next month. I bought my own food. And the house was spic and span when they returned. I never bought meat. But I did eat well. I had omelettes on weekends and fixed my own rice and vegetables. I even had money left over for 4th of July fireworks. Not only that, but I had money to give back. My mother's jaw dropped when she saw all this.
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I'm not.
don't you think it's a tad assumptuous that you think everyone blogging is a vegetarian?
nah im just kidding =]
Vegetarians are awesome-
i'm not assuming anything, it's a tool to find the BC vegetarians
it would be different if i said
"why are all bloggers vegetarians?"
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Lay off all that wine, Holly! Drunk blogging isn't always such a good idea.
I feel guilty when I eat meat.
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All kinds of meat?
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Hahaha. Well, there is certain meat that I don't have to kill to have. So in that case, I won't feel guilty.
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I see
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OMG all these talks of meat make me want to find one And it is almost lunch. -
What meat are you talking about?
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Red and white meat, medium rare. Why do you have other kinds of meat in your mind?
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Bacon. It gets its own classification.
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Yeah because it is pork. But it can be red or white. Hmmm.... someone's cooking.
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I'm not a vegetarian, but I do occasionally have meatless (meaning no poultry of fish either) meals.
My wife and I mostly avoid beef as it seems to do bad things to our digestive tracts. We have cut down on poultry and fish as well and after about a year I am half-way to my "ideal weight", so it can't be all bad. -
Celtic
There is meat, and then there is meat. hahahaha-
Oh yeah I remember,there's also fish meat.
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you know that when there is too much meat, it just doesnt do much just stands there and expects things to happen on their own!!
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I'm a (lacto-ovo) vegetarian because I don't feel that a creature should have to die for me. -
I prefer nonveg jokes and non veg foods.-
I know you are a pure Vagiterian
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I hate the moo sound when the fork goes in
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I was a veggie for 4 years, mainly in protest over the way abbatoirs kill their livestock. Have recently cut down on meat and poultry, although that's really for health reasons! -
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I'm a vegetarian who eats dairy, except for milk (I drink soy). I have been a vegetarian for almost a year now. I became one because I've never had a craving for meat anyway. I also don't like the way animals are abused to become produce. I don't like how unsanitary the conditions are, and would rather not have that in my body. -
I've been a vegetarian off and on my entire life. I go through phases where eating flesh just grosses me out. I know there are "humane" farms and so forth but I still just can't seem to do it. And more recently, I noticed I have way more energy on a vegetarian diet (and easier keeping weight off.)
I was doing dairy but just found out I have a severe immune reaction to the stuff. Who knew?
So right now I'm a semi-vegan. (I still eat eggs from certain farms.) -
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -
HA HA HA HA, that means I hate both
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I'm not a die-hard vegetarian, although I eat fruits, veggies, and fish most often. It's not by choice, it's doctor's advice I have to abide by. I'm a diabetic.
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