Your thoughts on Vegitarianism

I don't practice Vegetarianism but I don't disapprove of it either

I like the way vegetarians taste. 

I have no real considerations one way or the other. Certainly no condemnations. What people choose, as long as they don't interfere with me is a-okay. But I do appreciate anyone with the conviction to stick to the positive choices they make, and I view making a dietary, and often, philosophical choice as positive.
Vegans have a tougher row to hoe when it comes to easy sustenance choices, and I could never put myself through that. Too lazy. Though I do tend to run across the rare militant vegan who wants to interfere with my life and I want to trip them into a gutter for the smug moral superiority lectures about my choices. Vegetarians tend to be more docile and non-confrontational, live and let live.

I try not to eat meat because of, well, the horrendous things I saw at the end of the film Fast Food Nation. I don't know anything about the intelligence and feelings of animals on the part of life, family, and such, ... and I'm just going to assume the worst. And if I do have to eat meat in front of my mother, I'll just ... "take one for the team", so to speak.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - January 15 2013 at 02:03

Atavachron wrote: actually I've noticed the vegan meals they offer in place of a 'normal meal' (like on an airplane) are often delicious and far better than the meat & starch thing they give everyone else.

I used to think that, so on a KLM flight to Amsterdam I booked the veggie meal, and while my fellow passengers tucked into a meaty starchy ham and lettuce sandwich - I chewed on my lettuce sandwich.

It's a sad fact that animals now are merely part of a huge industrial process with all the bad (but perfectly legal) practices pertaining thereto. It doesn't matter how many people go for 'organic' meat or 'free range' product, the fact 99.999% of the population doesn't will not change.

Once, this bothered me mightily, especially after the UK's Channel 4 showed the animals film in its entirety, uncut and I was strict vegetarian for 10 years (and this in a time when the standard vegetarian option in a restaurant was a horribly foreshortened cheese & tomato quiche, quorn was unheard of & ready meals for veggies were inedible pap), but eventually, I weakened, the temptation of various meats (yes, that was primarily bacon) drew me back in & now I'll eat anything - call me weak willed, whatever, I'm no longer vegetarian - I do however have major respect for those who manage to maintain such a diet.

Yes, me too. Vegetarianism and veganism are life-style choices and open to all who have the luxury of choosing, properly balanced (and if necessarily supplemented with vitamin supplements) it can be as healthy as a normal diet, though not as natural.

I'd also like to add that I know full well how the meat gets to my plate.
I'm just not going to apologize for it. As Popeye is fond of saying, I yam what I yam.

I agree that vegetarianism is a noble cause, but anyone wishing to give up eating meat needs to take care. I gave up meat for a time, but ate a lot more fish. This gave me gout from which I still suffer :(

Like any religion, it has its good points and its bad ones.

Dean wrote: I do not believe that vegetarianism is a noble cause. I believe it is a cop-out - the art of doing nothing while thinking you're doing good.