Vegetarians check in here

[ChristInAction]

hey starelda

 

[Firehotchickadee234]

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Right here =]]

I just discovered this section on CF... So Cool!!!

 

[TankGirl]

Just discovered this section!

Pescetarian here

No meat for 15 years, and I didn't eat fish for 10 of them, but I do know. I also eat eggs (we have pet hens...yummy eggs!) & dairy. I was also raised without meat, although I'm a little hazy about when I first had it...

My daughter's 10 and has never eaten meat, but she did start on fish when I went back to it...

 

[Lilium]

Hello there TankGirl

 

[TankGirl]

Hello there TankGirl

Good to see you honey! Like the new name btw...

 

[RJAZ]

I'm new to this-3 months.

 

[Lilium]

Good to see you honey! Like the new name btw...

Thanks

I'm new to this-3 months.

Welcome to the veggie section

 

[xThirst4Godx]

I am straightedge (and therefore veggie by extension). not necessarily for animal rights (though in part) or for religion (though again, in part--God did not condemn meat-eating or meat, but some people just don't feel that its good for the soul). No meat since my birthday (6/6/07). hasn't been long, but i've only been sxe since december of '06.

 

[FreeBessi]

Me and my husband are both struggling vegetarians. It is difficult sometimes, but we stay on the right track 90% of the time. I've been doing awesome these past few weeks; he's cheated only twice, I think.... but we really believe it's wrong to eat meat, morally. That's us.


Bessi

 

[Lilium]

Hi Bessi and Thirst4God

 

[Beastt]

Vegetarian for 32-years. Vegan for the last 15.

 

[Beastt]

I am straightedge (and therefore veggie by extension). not necessarily for animal rights (though in part) or for religion (though again, in part--God did not condemn meat-eating or meat, but some people just don't feel that its good for the soul). No meat since my birthday (6/6/07). hasn't been long, but i've only been sxe since december of '06.

I can't speak for the soul. But eating meat is definitely bad for the body and the ecology. Vegetarians suffer less than a quarter the heart attack rate of those who consume meat (heart attack is by far, the #1 killer in countries adhering to western diets). Vegans display only one-fifteenth the heart attack rate. Vegetarians have only 40% of the cancer rate found in meat-eaters. Strokes, diabetes, kidney failure, osteoporosis and a multitude of other diseases common to western-diet cultures show a similar reduction.

Twenty vegans can eat on one acre. That same acre can support just one meat-eating human. The list of reasons goes on and on but for me the most convincing is human digestive physiology which places us squarely in the herbivorous monogastric category. Compassion for animals runs a very close second.

 

[Macrina]

I can't speak for the soul. But eating meat is definitely bad for the body and the ecology. Vegetarians suffer less than a quarter the heart attack rate of those who consume meat (heart attack is by far, the #1 killer in countries adhering to western diets). Vegans display only one-fifteenth the heart attack rate. Vegetarians have only 40% of the cancer rate found in meat-eaters. Strokes, diabetes, kidney failure, osteoporosis and a multitude of other diseases common to western-diet cultures show a similar reduction.

Twenty vegans can eat on one acre. That same acre can support just one meat-eating human. The list of reasons goes on and on but for me the most convincing is human digestive physiology which places us squarely in the herbivorous monogastric category. Compassion for animals runs a very close second.

Although the highlighted reason wasn't what initially prompted my decision to eat veg, it certainly ranks high on the reasons why I stay veg. It seems like people are aware of other overconsumption issues, but this one usually flies under the radar. And, or course, even when people recognize that they overconsume, change is slow in coming.

 

[Beastt]

Although the highlighted reason wasn't what initially prompted my decision to eat veg, it certainly ranks high on the reasons why I stay veg. It seems like people are aware of other overconsumption issues, but this one usually flies under the radar. And, or course, even when people recognize that they overconsume, change is slow in coming.

While most people are aware of the rapid loss of the rain forests, few people seem to have any clue why the forests continue to be slashed and burned. The answer is simple. Land owners in South America have little use for forests. But the U.S. dollar is something they can use. So they're happy to cut and burn forest lands to plant pasture grasses which will support cattle for 3 - 5 years before all of the nutrients are lost from the thin layer of fertile soil common to rain forest lands. Then the rains wash the land away, eroding it and leaving it barren and useless. So they simply slash and burn the next several thousand acres, plant more grass and the process continues.

We (the U.S.) simply don't have enough agricultural lands to support our craving for cheap meat anymore so we contract other countries to provide areas to graze cattle. We get our $1.00 hamburgers and our heart attacks while the world loses a finite resource containing half of the life forms on Earth.

 

[rebel_conservative]

I am straightedge (and therefore veggie by extension). not necessarily for animal rights (though in part) or for religion (though again, in part--God did not condemn meat-eating or meat, but some people just don't feel that its good for the soul). No meat since my birthday (6/6/07). hasn't been long, but i've only been sxe since december of '06.

cool, sxe is great there is no scene in the UK though, so I never really could partake, I downloaded a couple of minor threat songs though

do you have any tattoos yet?

HaShem did not exactly condemn meat-eating outright, but there are a whole heap of regulations and hoops to jump through, so to me it is clear that this wasn't His preferred diet for us.

great custom title btw, I just changed mine, used to be the Shema in Hebrew

 

[Rembrandtfan]

I am a new vegetarian, for about 2 weeks now. I guess I would be considered lacto-ovo. I would eat organic fish and chicken, but it's so expensive, so I don't bother most of the time.

 

[Rembrandtfan]

So far, I haven't had too hard of a time staying away from meat. After learning of what the hormones in the meat may be doing to my body (fibroids), I can't bring myself to eat it. I feel like I'm poisoning myself. I feel like I may have a little more energy, in the short time I've been doing this. I'm hoping to lose about 50-60 lbs. as an added benefit. I have been staying away from high fat and high sugar foods as well, because body fat encourages estrogen production in the body which leads to fibroid growth. I pray that I will keep this desire to stay away from harmful foods.

 

[tigercub]

I am straightedge (and therefore veggie by extension). not necessarily for animal rights (though in part) or for religion (though again, in part--God did not condemn meat-eating or meat, but some people just don't feel that its good for the soul). No meat since my birthday (6/6/07). hasn't been long, but i've only been sxe since december of '06.

Interesting. I didn't realise sxe had a vegetarian thing going.

 

[wizdim10]

I may sound stupid but what is SXE?

 

[RJAZ]

uhm,I don't think it has anything to do with the main topic.google it.

I'm feeling a great deal of energy and clarity in my mind since leaving the flesh food world. Try it.