Should I become a Vegetarian?

[Nyarlathotep]

Just thinking..... Which is a dangerous prospect with me, I know

[fdeck]

Do you like meat? Vegetables? It's hard to be a vegetarian if you don't like vegetables.

[vbasscustom]

NOOOOOOOOO BACON IS ALL POWERFUL!!! MUUHAHAHAHA, I AM BUT ONE OF ITS FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS, ONE OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS, THE BACON SHALL LIVE ON, LIVE ON I TELL YOU!!!!

[Nyarlathotep]

Im actually getting to like fruits and veggies more and more lately....

Grains are a givin. Give me bread or give me DEATH!

[crimson_basser]

i dont know about you
but i dont think i could completely give up meat

ive tried cutting down on my meat intake
(for health reasons)
and tried cutting out red meats all together

i have failed
bacon is too powerful


but, if you have the willpower, at first try cutting out just red meats
ween yourself off em hahaha

or pick a day or two (or three or more) and on those days, you dont have any meat?


i know there are lots of substitutes for meat, but i personally dont think its healthy to cut it out of your diet completely

obviously, there are tons of things you can do to make the meat you eat better for you
organic, lean etc

but try whatever works for you

[Jonny B]

My only wish in life is that I could grow filet mignon in my garden right next to the peppers...

[WarofAges]

as long as your not a stupid vegetarian like all my friends. They all try to convert every one and say theyre healthy when all they eat is fast food french fries, potato chips and cheese pizza.

[crimson_basser]

oh, and i obviously voted bacon

[hbarcat]

I'm assuming you're not considering this based on a moral concept that it's wrong to eat meat (otherwise you wouldn't be starting a thread asking us our opinions) so I'll assume you're considering it for health reasons.

I took a step by step approach and eliminated pork from my diet for about a year and then other mammals from my diet for the past two years. I've also stopped eating most complex carbohydrates like bread and pasta and gotten rid of canned foods, high fructose corn syrup and other processed foods.

So now over the past two years, my diet is about 2/3 fresh vegetables with the rest being fruit, fish and poultry, cheese (gotta have that) and small amounts of "miscellaneous".

I don't mind if fish and birds get killed to provide me with protein and vitamins but others may have a different opinion. Too much red meat is definitely not good for your health.

[MJ5150]

I quit eating pork after watching Pulp Fiction and then seeing a PETA video shortly after. I gave up chicken a year ago after reading about chicken farms and all the hormones and drugs pumped into chickens before they get carved up and put out for sale at the grocery store.

I have never liked any living species that comes out of the water, so I am fine there. I'm working on beef. I don't eat steak anymore, so just about done with beef in general.

I need some assistance keeping my diet balanced since I don't like a lot of veggies and resort to carbs, carbs, and more carbs now when I am hungry. I have an appointment with a nutritionist next week to help me out.

-Mike

[bmc]

Vegetarian = maybe

Vagetarian = absolutely

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

I quit eating pork after watching Pulp Fiction.

I ate MORE pork after watching Pulp Fiction. Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.

I nearly sigged Benjamin Strange's comment on this, "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. It's because I hate plants."

hbarcat has a very reasonable approach.

I've been eating more healthy the last year or two by simply not making meat the focus of most of my meals. The problem that most people have when changing their eating habits for health reasons is that they do it too radically, too quickly. And unless there's some serious motivational factor (say, a heart attack) then people can't stick to it.

[GregC]

A poll, seriously? This is a totally personal choice. I say if you can pull if off, then more power to you (I wish I could). Just don't assume that it's an automatically healthy choice--you have to do it right, not just load up on carbs.

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by GregC

.....you have to do it right, not just load up on carbs.

That's what I'm working on. If they had a Carbaholics Anonymous, I'd be going to meetings a few times per week.

-Mike

[::::BASSIST::::]

I've been a strict vegan since 1996. The biggest hassle is eating at restaraunts. Aside from that its not that big of a deal. So yeah go veg if you are so inclined. Even just reducing eating meat down to 3 or 4 days helps alot.

[warwick.hoy]

I don't have a problem with vegetarianism....I think that the way food is processed and sold in this country leaves a lot to be desired.

Dan; here is what I think FWIW.

If you should become one of those pretentious, fad, anarchist, take myself too seriously, I'll do anything; including emptily standing behind a cause to get laid, vegetarian; then you would suck.

I'm not saying that all vegetarians are like that....but a lot of people have jumped on a bandwagon and that to me seems a little fake.

[Fli]

Originally Posted by DanielTulip

Just thinking..... Which is a dangerous prospect with me, I know

If you don't have a health problem that keeps you from eating meat, why in the world would you want to stop eating it that's like using a wheelchair when your legs work fine...
Do you not enjoy eating meat? Have you never had barbecue ribs before? Fried chicken? boiled crawfish? Veal Parmesan? What exactly is wrong with you?

[MaxRossell]

There are only two legitimate reasons why you would stop eating meat:

1: You have a medical problem that means meat makes you ill, or

2: You just don't like the taste of it.


I've never understood vegetarians who roll out the "meat is murder" schtick. Vegetable farming causes just as much, if not more animals deaths than meat farming. Okay, so you don't eat the thousands of insects and rodents and so on that have been directly or indirectly killed to keep your vegetables intact, but that's actually a fairly minor difference.

[Happynoj]

Is a vote for carrots a vote for vegetarianism? Or is it the usual expression of apathy? I think that if it is vegetarianism, you should have had an extra 'carrots' option to save confusion.

[WickedPissah]

I voted bacon.