any of you guys vegetarian?

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

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

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

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.

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.

Definately not at all, but working on that I think....

Interesting how many posts are from meat eaters...

Slartibartfast wrote: No, but I could be if I wanted to after I got into Indian vegetarian food.  Anyone with me on this? I don't smoke tobacco, but I do enjoy alcohol.  I make three mean batches of frozen drinkies.  Anyone interested in the recepies send me a private message.  I'd share them here already but it would be off topic.

Post them in the Prog Chefs Unite! thread - we could do with some drinkies : http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=35081

I am not vegetarian, though at some point in the past I considered becoming one. However, the almost fanatical stance of some people I knew put me off big time, so I remained omnivorous. I do eat lots of fruit and vegetables anyway, and I'm not a great consumer of red meat. 

Slartibartfast wrote: No, but I could be if I wanted to after I got into Indian vegetarian food.  Anyone with me on this?

  Although, I still couldn't give up meat.  But sometimes I feel I could eat Indian every day and not get tired of it.