vegetarian

truest Lies, you're blissfully ignoring your hypocrisy in favour of trying to keep your agenda moving.

I'll eat real lettuce with you when you eat real meat, that's what a compromise is. It has nothing to do with what you like or dislike, it's about common courtesy. Not that it matters, you'll continue to force other people to submit to your way of thining at their own expense, after all that's how vegetarianism works in the main.

Yes but just because the animal is dead does not mean we should eat it. Animals give disease. ew. No I am not trying to force my opinion. I am just telling them being vegetarian is good for man kind and the animals.

..It's healthy to get protein. Not too much but it's good to get some. So yes, when it's dead we shouldn't let it go to waste. I'm not saying we should eat some rotting corpse with diseases swarming around it.
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*sigh* It is simply that meat is so unhealthy these days... animals are brought up on pelets....then killed unmercifully... I am sorry, but I have decided that I'm not putting that in my mouth, because they died unfairly, painfully, unhealthy, and, well, it just makes me sad.

Bret, really, veggies are good for you. You can still get protein in a vegetarian diet, but if you eat pure meat, where do you get all your vitamins and enzymes. But don't worry, I know you will have at least a dozen more frightfully smart words to throw at me... That's ok, too.

//T.L.//

Not ALL meat is unhealthy. Yeah I admit that a burger or processed meat could contain anything from genticly modified stuff, too calcium supplements or whatever... But none of it will contain disease, that's what the food regulation people are here for.

Plus I've been brought up eating anything - god knows what bird or animal my dad has shot. But at least if he shot it from the wild I know its had a good life. My dad fishes and we eat that too. We eat free range anything that we have to buy. Plus animals and birds that the majority of people would never even dream of eating, even meat eaters, things like wild rabbits, hares, pigeons, squirells...... they're all pests and if we're going to kill them, why not eat them???

okay now I do not know what to say anymore.

I used to go pigeon shooting all the time, it's actually a very tasty bird with a unique rich texture. It's good in a pie, fried or roasted.

I've only had rabbit once and that was when I was 10 or 11, can't remember how it tasted but I know I ate it all.

And just to comment on the animal disease thing, vegetables manage to kill us without being diseased. Eating healthy animals will not kill you (unless it's a bear and it's still alive and angry).

SATURATED FATS CAUSE HEART DISEASE. Unsaturated fats, especially polyunsaturated fats, balance hormones, strengthen the immune system, and prevent cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, and all types of inflammation. Some polyunsaturated fatty acids are so important to health that they are called essential fatty acids, or EFAs — you literally can’t be healthy without them. Polyunsaturated vegetable oils are the safest fats for cooking, especially deep-fat frying, and they’re the key ingredients in healthful salad dressings. Canola oil, flax seed oil, soy oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, and other polyunsaturated vegetable oils are today’s true health foods.

Right?

“Wrong on all counts,” says Ray Peat, Ph.D., a physiologist who has studied hormones and dietary fats since 1968. According to Peat, every one of the above statements is incorrect. In fact, he says, the polyunsaturated fatty acids or PUFAs in vegetable seed oils are the bane of human health — they actually cause cancer, diabetes, obesity, aging, thrombosis, arthritis, and immunodeficiencies. Their only appropriate use, he says, is as ingredients in paints and varnishes.

http://www.thescreamonline.com/essays/essays5-1/vegoil.html

A friend of mine made herself borderline-diabetic after being vegetarian for awhile.

The truth is, you need balance in your diet. We're omnivores for a reason.

and we're not superior to animals. except in how we live, perhaps. they eat us too.

i guess but i still say poor animals

She probably became diabetic because in her house all she could eat was occasional salad and dessert. :-(
People have become so meat-centered that being a vegetarian can be quite difficult... since one is forced to eat simply whatever there is, and apart from meat, that's not much.

//T.L.//

I was also borderline diabetic, BEFORE I was a vegetarian. It just depends which way you go about it. In fact, if I hadn't gone vegetarian, I think I would be diabetic right now.

o ok. I just like being vegetarian. I would never eat meat in my life.

If you just don't like the taste or texture of meat then fair enough, I can't stand the taste of raw onion and hate the texture of mushrooms so I eat neither.

If you don't eat meat because sharks, lions, rabbits and cats are cuddly wuddly creatures etc the pfui! I bet that if it was a case of you eat an animal or die of starvation then I'd be serving up chargrilled chinchilla for lunch.

Hunger is a very funny thing.

In that case I would but life is not that case. I eat alot and no meat and I am fine

Eating meat is horable. In the past it was fine but now we have more fruit and vegetables. So why eat meat?

because i like the taste... why not eat meat?

Eating meat is horable. In the past it was fine but now we have more fruit and vegetables. So why eat meat?

There has always been more fruit and veg than meat. What do you think animals were surviving on?

So why eat meat? Apart from the nutritional advantages to living up to our omnivoral ancestry meat tastes good. That's why.

"no they are there to live like we do"-Crazygirl..

-OK. So, what you're saying is: Animals live to be like us. Right. So. They go to school. Get a decent education. Go to College. Then University. Become a doctor and start treating psychopathic patients?

^Sounds like thats what you're saying to me. But you know what I think. Like, seriously. They are there to be eaten. And thats about it. =].x

In My Opinion Animals Were Put On This Earth To Be Food, Its Evident That We Need The Protein In Meat To Even Survive And Other Important Things That Meat Contain, Otherwise Vegetarians Wouldn't Need To Take Pills To Substitute The Difference
xoxo-Nikki-xoxo