any of you guys vegetarian?

emdiar wrote: blaughida wrote: emdiar wrote: I've met a couple of people who have claimed to be "vegetarian, but I do eat fish though."   By this logic I too am a vegetarian. I do eat mammals though.   There are a number of reasons people call themselves "vegetarian, but I eat fish."  Historically, fish has not been considered meat in some cultures (for example, mixing milk and meat is forbidden under kosher laws, but fish is not considered meat), so there is a bit of a precedent for considering fish somehow separate from beef and turkey. I know a lot of people who don't call themselves vegetarian, but they are weirded out by eating mammals and thus only eat fish and poultry.  I actually started telling people I was vegetarian around age 9 or so, when I still ate fish and chicken (my mother never cooked any other meat), because it was so much easier than explaining that "no, I'm not vegetarian really, but I won't eat the bacon you're serving for breakfast, because I don't eat that."  Now I don't eat chicken or fish, either, because I make my own food and don't have to eat anything I don't like. Fish aint vegetables last time I checked. The premise is therefore ridiculous. As for it being "easier" to claim vegetarianism than to explain your personal eating habits, I don't eat horse, because I'm British and we tend to regard eating horse as taboo, akin to cannibalism. Here in the Netherlands the Dutch have no such qualms, but I don't tell them I'm a vegetarian just to avoid the trouble of explaining my equine abstinence.

emdiar wrote: I've met a couple of people who have claimed to be "vegetarian, but I do eat fish though."   By this logic I too am a vegetarian. I do eat mammals though.

There are a number of reasons people call themselves "vegetarian, but I eat fish." 

Historically, fish has not been considered meat in some cultures (for example, mixing milk and meat is forbidden under kosher laws, but fish is not considered meat), so there is a bit of a precedent for considering fish somehow separate from beef and turkey.

I know a lot of people who don't call themselves vegetarian, but they are weirded out by eating mammals and thus only eat fish and poultry.  I actually started telling people I was vegetarian around age 9 or so, when I still ate fish and chicken (my mother never cooked any other meat), because it was so much easier than explaining that "no, I'm not vegetarian really, but I won't eat the bacon you're serving for breakfast, because I don't eat that."  Now I don't eat chicken or fish, either, because I make my own food and don't have to eat anything I don't like.

Edited by Niki ( IO ) - June 29 2007 at 05:32

I have two friends who are millitant Kevin Keegans. They won't sit on a leather chair. (I'm serious!)

rileydog22 wrote: Either way, it doesn't harm the cow.  There isn't really any moral reason why you shouldn't drink the milk.

This is crap. If your stomach is meant to digest it, you are supposed to eat it. I don't see any tigers fighting against their feeding needs. That's enough for me.  

This is a man vegetarian ,he only drink milk,and eat beans ..all  100% natural without preservatives,colorants or artificial flavors...

Edited by markosherrera - June 27 2007 at 21:17

1800iareyay wrote: I don't understand the vegan apporach. No diary? If cow isn't milked she gets sick.

Niki ( IO ) wrote: I' m almost VEGAN...  It's a consequence of CRITICAL and RESPONSIBLE consume + my own ethical, political, social and esthetical values...

Say what? Joke post?

Edited by evilromero - June 27 2007 at 14:12

I am not vegetarian but believe in everything in moderation. We humans are omnivores and have developed to to use the nutrients in meat. Granted we eat too much of it these days due to its easy availability.