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Veganism/Vegetarianism
hmm.. i have no opposition to eating meat, and i typically do eat it, but if it was a bit more possible to just eat veggies, i would, cuz meat just tastes like dead stuff to me. D:except bacon.
bacon is the supreme being of all artery clogging foodz... :D
Blick, I hate it all. I hate the smell, the sound, and I bet if I ate it I'd throw up. (Not even joking) But that's just me. =DWhat do you mean by 'but if it was a bit more possible to just eat veggies' you would?
I used to hate red meat. I would only eat fish and chicken. but now i am a steak fanatic! I love meat its AMAXING.
I just have to question this, just like I question everything else.What do you find 'AMAZING' about it?
Matthew Saves Your Soul wrote: "Blick, I hate it all. I hate the smell, the sound, and I bet if I ate it I'd throw up. (Not even joking) But that's just me. =DWhat do you mean by 'but if it was a bit more possible to just eat ..."
oh, smell, definitely... gross..
well, like nobody else in my family will eat stuff.. like, if they have chicken, it "chicken" and that's it. no, like, sandwhich, with other stuff. just, chicken. like, so mom doesn't buy ingredients, just boring meat, or boring veggies, not stuff for like veggie soup or anything... as soon as i move out, though... only bacon shall remain..
Well, I am happy to hear that someone else on this group hates the smell of it. =DAnd that is quite sad, what you said that you're mother doesn't get ingredients. It really is, because there is so much you can do with vegetables it's mind blowing really.
Even bacon I find disgusting now, the last time I smelt it I really almost barfed in a garbage can.
haha, i know, like you can make so much with all the spices!! my cousin made this soup once, holy kowz it was sooo good.... like, i think it might've had chicken in it, but it wasn't chicken soup, though, cuz you couldn't even notice it was in there with the dumplings and all the flavors... potatoes, carrots, everything... but everyone in my family either hates any food that's even a bit spicy, or they're actually allergic to it.... so :(
That stinks!Right now, at the moment I'm only really a ovo-lacto-vegetarian, buuut! When I move out of my family's house I'm going straight to vegan. At the moment I can't drink milk anymore because it disgust's me, unless it is in something. But cereal I can't eat anymore, I tried the other day and I ended up throwing it out. Cheese doesn't really appeal to me either anymore, I kind of like it but when I think about what the animals had to go through it just makes me sick. And then there are eggs... never really liked them unless they were in something, but they can be replaced in baking easily.
how about fish? i've actually always hated that more than meat, the smell just drives me nuts...
Never liked anything that came from the sea growing up EXCEPT fishsticks.
Now, I don't eat any of it. My parents ate lobsters' the other day and I had to plug my nose because I was ready to throw up.
What about it is a pure delight?(I'm trying to be civil guys but no one's answering my question, 'cept Tigger)
i am trying to be vegetarian but its HARD it is SOOO hard me and my mom are both trying and i think meat is totally wrong and awful and inhuman and just BLA but i must say; burgers are good.
I've actually been trying really hard to change myself to become vegetarian, but it's not working out to my liking, because 1) my mom says that she won't buy my vegetarian food. If I want to eat, I'll eat what she cooks, which is some sort of meat most times. And 2) I'm so used to eating meat that it would be so hard to break myself of it. I know I could do it, but my mom's making it a bit difficult on me. (And my friends think I'm insane. They just laughed in my face when I asked them what they thought about me becoming vegetarian, so I told them that it was just a hypothetical question so they wouldn't give me anymore crap about it.)I'd love to become vegetarian. It's so much more healthier (assuming that I'd get all of the proteins and the like from some other food source since I wouldn't be getting it from meat). But I'd have to majorly alter my current lifestyle. Not sure if I'm ready for a big change like that yet. Maybe when I graduate from high school and am not living with my disapproving parents.
Matthew Saves Your Soul wrote: "What about it is a pure delight?(I'm trying to be civil guys but no one's answering my question, 'cept Tigger)"
its just yummy.
i tried being a vegetarian for a while but it was really hard. i guess its just a big adjustment and sometimes you are in situations that make it hard to eat. like if you are going to a barbecue or a bat mitzvah and there aren't many other options. now i kind of flip flop, some days i go vegetarian, some days i eat meat.
well yeah its yummy to you, but food is an opinion, not a fact.and michael its hard because i LIKE meat and its EVERYWHERE and my family is NOT vegetarian and i can't exactly eat nothing but salad at every meal because they would think it was weird.
I would be a vegetarian if meat weren't so dang yummy. I admire you guys. I never think of my hamburger as a cow, just as yummy delight(unless it's from McDonalds).The thought of killing animals disgusts me, especially now because we are open to so many food sources but we still kill/eat animals. And our anatomy might not even be equipped for the omnivore lifestlye, just vegetarian.
But I don't think I could be a vegetarian. I'll try to eat less meat though, but definitely not cutting back on the cheese/eggs/milk/other things produced by animals.
Well, it's not wrong, and everywhere you go you are surrounded by meat. It's even in the salads now! So little options are out there for vegan/vegetarians! I used to be one, very difficult. But I do think people should eat in moderation. Not only are animals dying but arteries are being clogged!
i ♥ steaks. i honestly think though vegitarians can substitute there proteins with nuts & stuff- but vegans cant be healthy!@ no dariy?
yeah thats true sarah jean. vegans are never healthy.
i don't like too many meat . . . i love fish though . . . and some beef is good . . .
Emma the Dork wrote: "yeah thats true sarah jean. vegans are never healthy."Some vegans are healthy.
Liz wrote: "Emma the Dork wrote: "yeah thats true sarah jean. vegans are never healthy."Some vegans are healthy.
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If you moderate yourself well, vegetarians and vegans can be healthier than people on normal diets. But it's very very very very very very very hard.
Liz wrote: "Emma the Dork wrote: "yeah thats true sarah jean. vegans are never healthy."Some vegans are healthy.
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its impossible. u can't get diary when your vegan, and you need dariy. all dariy is animal byproduct.
Why do you need dairy? For calcium. Certain juices will have added calcium to it. You can take calcium pills. See what I mean? And then, if it just happens to be unpasteurized(very rare), then there's no chance of you getting poisoned. Plus, milk thickens your mucus, making it harder to get over a cold. Also you can get constipated.
Broccoli and other veggies contain lots of calcium. Being vegan and being healthy and balanced are not exclusive. Many vegans manage to maintain healthy lifestyles though sometimes the lack of dairy and meat need to be supplemented by vitamins.
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calcium isnt the only thing about dairy you need.
Lauren wrote: "Humans are not biologically meant to survive without meat. Vegans can be healthy, and functional, but they can't replace everything meat gives. "Ahem, actually, more scientifical discoveries are proving that we might have to be vegetarians. Like, it takes longer for meat to digest in our system and our teeth aren't made to chew meat.
Sarah jean wrote: "calcium isnt the only thing about dairy you need."
Please elaborate. What else do you need from dairy?
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Uh....http://www.gtchild.co.uk/content/imag...
Compare these to:
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They're similar, aren't they?
Now compare them to these ones.
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We're supposed to be a vegetarian.
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I'm going to have to actually disagree with Lauren on the post before riley's and also agree with others. The human body was designed to obtain meat from animals. They only cause disease and sickness, HOWEVER!! You have to eat vegetables also. So yeah. It works equally. And don't worry I'm completely against animal cruelty as well but there are other ways to obtain meat than by hurting animals
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i want to be a vegetarian, i believe in not killing animals, at home my mom and i are totally veggie but at other people's houses i eat it. we were NOT supposed to be vegetarian, if we were we wouldn't be able to digest meat and it would make us sick. what i don't think is fair is domesticating animals and raising them to be slaughtered. they should have a chance to live, or to fight for their lives. i know it sounds stupid, but i think we should never have domesticated animals for slaughter. its wrong. in the ancient days, thats what they had to do and thats whats right.
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Also, emma. People need to understand as well that if animals are not killed for meat, the world can become over-populated with animals and covered in their poop...not cool. anyway, so yeah we still need to eat meat and as much as it pains me and hurts me to say this, we must kill them too..:(
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Riley wrote: "Lauren wrote: "Humans are not biologically meant to survive without meat. Vegans can be healthy, and functional, but they can't replace everything meat gives. "Ahem, actually, more scientifical d..."
Nevermind, i was wrong
BUT! so are you- calcium pills come from from oyster shells, an animal byproduct so again no dairy/calcum
that's completely different. dairy comes from a cow's milk not their meat.
Wait what?i am discussing vegans...
your realy not making sence, i was speaking with riley about vegans who incase you didn't know DONT eat meat or animal BYPRODUCT. milk and SUCH.
yes i know what vegans are. i know what vegetarians are. i know the difference. just whatever. i'll shut up.
Anyway, what are you're thought and opinions on this topic?