any of you guys vegetarian?

el böthy wrote: JJLehto wrote: "I'm a level 4 vegan, I won't eat anything that cast a shadow" "I practice yoga... but I did it before it became popular"

Snow Dog wrote:   I would eat the nut roast with you.   I like nut roast!

I prefer to eat food that used to have mother.

I'm avoding vegetarian cuisine(s) simply because I don't like cooked vegetables. However, if they are prepared well, I wouldn't mind skip a meat every few days or so.

fandango wrote: Snow Dog wrote: purplepiper wrote: I recently had blood testing done, and although I have been a vegetarian for 3+ years, I was absolutely 100% perfectly healthy! I'm no food nazi either, I don't persecute those who do what society tells them to. I understand that their minds are weak and that they are selfish.   his sort of comment is EXACTLY what I'm talking about.   Its almost Pious.   c'mon now, Mr Dog... not all of us veggies make a religion out of our diets...   ...I'd be perfectly OK sat with you while you're munching down a steak, providing you didn't make fun of my nut roast...

I rarely eat meat, almost only if am offered .

JJLehto wrote: "I'm a level 4 vegan, I won't eat anything that cast a shadow"

"I practice yoga... but I did it before it became popular"

I'm no vegetarian, but I don't like a lot of meat.  I think Steak is nasty, ham is OK in fried rice, no roast pork, but I enjoy bacon.  Turkey is alright, and burgers and hot dogs every now and then.  Fish is disgusting.  NO DUCKS and of course odd animals or animal parts (although I did mention I enjoy hot dogs...). 

When I get meat I do my best to only get one bad day or cage free, etc kinds because factory farms are horrible things, and the meat you get from them is bad too.  So I stay away from that.

I have a friend who became a vegitarian just for the hell of it a couple of months ago; he'd never been that much of a meat eater, and he realized he hadn't eaten meat in four days, so he decided to be vegitarian forever.  

purplepiper wrote: I'm slightly annoyed at people who become vegetarian simply for diet reasons...it's suppossed to be about more than that, for me anyway.

We have really good vegetarian and vegan food at the university I attend and I know a few people who eat it because they think it's like being on a diet...but I've worked in the kitchen and I know that the vegan curry is full of coconut milk, which isn't exactly fat free...and, much worse, the "vegan whipped cream" is full of scary synthetic chemicals.  A lot of people make that mistake, thinking vegetarian or vegan means lowfat and healthy, but that's often not the case.

I'm a vegetarian, one of those "I don't like the taste" people, and I just find it more convenient.  Meat is tricky to cook and clean up.  I'm glad I never have to deal with that.  But no, I'm not a man, so I can't join the small vegetarian males' club.

I once met a Vegan who wouldn't wear wool.