any of you guys vegetarian?
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Topic: any of you guys vegetarian?
Posted By: purplepiper
Subject: any of you guys vegetarian?
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 02:44
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i've been a vegetarian for 3+ years now and wondered if any of you were 'like-minded'. It seems to me like i'm a rare breed...don't drink, don't smoke, or eat meat! I aint no hippy either...damn hippies...also, it seems like women are more likely than men to be vegetarian. is this true? I'm a 19 years young guy personally. Seems like all the veggies i've known were girls. calling all vegetarian brethren! ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 02:52
Sorry to bump in with my meat-eating arse, but I'd like to say something perhaps 
I was thinking of vegetarism. Most vegetarists that I know don't eat meat because of the taste. The rest are more ideological, and hate the butcherin and raising animals in tight cages. I have this friend who didn't appreciate all that, but stopped eating meat because a vegetable diet made her feel a lot healthier. Well as said, I wouldn't know about that. It's awful how expensive fruits and vegetables are in Finland. I couldn't be a vegetarian even if I wanted to, I just couldn't afford it. Also I personally find the taste of meat good
Anyway, I know there are people who make it a religion, and that annoys me a bit, as I feel attacked at times. But it's so common nowadays, especially among women, that I ask everyone if the eat meat or not. There's always someone who doesn't, so I'll prepare a vege-dish. Then there's the vegan thing too, right? I can't remember which is which though 
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Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 03:14
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I can admit that I remember liking the taste of it. My vegetariansim has nothing to do with health or taste. I'm not militant about it either...that would be childish. I simply have personal moral ideologies which motivate me to continue my vegetarianism. I'm not vegan either. I consider that to be a step too far as it is almost implossible not to consume any dairy at all. However, the only leather I use is on my guitar strap and call phone case. 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. ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 03:39
What kind of vegetables cost more than meat?  |
Passionist wrote:Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 08:49
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Im no vegetarian. I love meat! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:03
Driiping blood...... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: THE_POLE
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:03
My thoughts exactly  I'm 19(and a half) and have been vegeterian since i was born. I went through a stage in high school when i started to eat meat but i'm choosing to blame peer-pressure for that. I am now a vegeterian once again, and i'm proud to be one. And no i'm no vegan, i couldn't survive without scrambled eggs! or cheese! I love cheese! For me, if it once walked, crawled, burrowed, flew or whatever, i won't go near it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/the_pole/"> 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:08
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Shameless meat eater here.......we are omnivores,we need meat.Vegetarianism is not natural. Just my opinion of course. -------------  |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:10
Can you eat wafer thin ham? 
Most vegetarians I've met are Food Nazis.
And Vegans are TRUE vegetarians of course. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:11
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Sorry, but I can't live without a nice, juicy burger or a delicious rack of ribs. I believe humans were meant to be meat-eaters, I read somewhere that veggies are good for you and all, but prolonged periods without the nutrients from meats can shorten your lifespan or something like that. Dunno if it is true or not... ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:11
| No, I love to eat meat. But everything in moderation, though. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:13
Sounds quite alarming! Where/what are they now?  ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:20
Rabbits?  |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:22
The fresh kind |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:25
'ear,'ear -------------
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 09:27
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I would like to become a vegetarian, but I'm waiting until bacon and steak are reclassified as vegetables. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:09
Hey Doc!!! Great to see you back! The place just hasn't been the same without you....now just don't go spoiling things by upsetting any of those hyper-sensitive Canadian academic types.....
 anyway, YES, I am both vegetarian and Jewish, which means that the average life expectancy of the humble pig is slightly longer round these parts...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:18
Jared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:20
Hey Jody,
I PM'd you about the awesome Communic show I saw, and you didn't respond, so I figured you didn't love me any more...
 ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:22
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Here we go again. I've made my opinions on this matter clear many times before. Yes, I am a vegetarian, and it is because of my compassion for all animals. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:26
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I'm vegetarian. But I love the meat... That of the beautiful girls!!! It will be for this that I haven't the fiancée?     
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:28
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^^^ and of course Andrea, if you continue to refer to 'beautiful' girls as 'pieces of meat', you might 'haven't the fiancee' for quite a bit longer.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 14:13
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I've been called a vegetable before. Does that count ? In my teen days, we used to call girls by some of these names - tomatoes, peels (des pelures, think about the comparison between a vegetable & a human). In both cases, you could say it referred to some, er ... oral activity that we dreamed of, but never quite got to "indulge" in. ------------- "Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 14:23
Sorry my friend,I read your PM but didn't immediately respond and it got buried in my backlog.
Won't happen again.Communic is awesome,I am really liking a band that their guitarist/vocalist Oddleif Stensland was in called Scariot,check them out. ------------- |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 14:36
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I eat anything BUT vegetables.. Does that count? Well, some lettuce and a couple other vegetables are not that bad.... ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:32
Yours and science's ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:54
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^Yeah but we could get all the nutrients from other sources, it's just difficult. And a lot of vegetarians may not do that.
I think it's all about moderation, and trying to eat organic/free range and not factory farmed. That stuff tastes like crap anyway. ------------- 
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Posted By: THE_POLE
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 17:59
Not at all difficult. Apparently my iron levels are far below what they should be, and i'm fine. Im fit, and i never get sick. And i have been this way all my life. I strongly believe that there is nothing unhealthy about not eating meat. And you don't have to eat mountains of spinach either. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/the_pole/">
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 19:08
Everything above is hilarious.
And I am a carnivore. I love meat.
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Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 19:36
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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. ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 19:55
I am weak-minded and selfish because I eat meat? I had no idea. -------------   |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:03
So.....you don't eat meat because you're that much of a non conformist?
Seriously, I know prog is all about the non conformity...but that's nuts, if that's indeed what you're saying.
Anyway...I had an angus bacon cheeseburger a few hours ago. Delicious.
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Posted By: Novalis
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:17
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I once met a Vegan who wouldn't wear wool. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:18
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I think it would be an insult to be a vegetarian in the land of the best meat in the world
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Posted By: blaughida
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:55
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. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:00
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As I see it there are three reasons to be a Vegetarian. 1: The Health Vegetarian, is perhaps admirable, yet misguided as most doctors say that meat is healthy for you. I have a cousin whose doctor flat out told her that if she didn't start eating meat she was asking for trouble. It seems to have solved her health problems. 2: The Moral Vegetarian, is the one I most respect because there isn't really a strong argument that killing animals just because we like the taste is right. 3: The Habitual Vegetarian, only is one because he/she was raised that way, seems to me to warrant the least respect. Try something new, why don't you? I personally eat as much meat as I can get my hands on. ------------- 
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:04
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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.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:17
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"I'm a level 4 vegan, I won't eat anything that cast a shadow" |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:18
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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. |
Posted By: blaughida
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:51
Reminds me of a book I read as a child--I think it was one of the Stevie Diamond mystery series. There was a vegetarian character who said something like "I feel sorry for the plants, but I have to eat something." |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 23:01
"I practice yoga... but I did it before it became popular" ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 04:52
his sort of comment is EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
Its almost Pious.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 05:56
| I rarely eat meat, almost only if am offered . |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 10:52
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... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 11:01
I don't eat meat because society tells me to. I eat meat because it's yummy.
Good to see ya again Fandango, and I'm staying away from Canadians. Well, we will never have dinner together Fandango, because I would feel obliged to make fun of your nut roast. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 11:02
| I used to but i stopped, because i'm O blood and i need meat. I feel better now. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 11:04
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 11:06
I would eat the nut roast with you.
I like nut roast! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 14:15
you can keep your thieving paws off my nut roast...
 if you sit quietly in the corner, I'll ask the Doc to throw you some bacon rind...
------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 14:17
what, even if it was a posh one, containing cashews and brazils?? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 14:31
I was hoping someone would catch it. .
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 16:01
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I eat meat because, as The Doctor said, it's yummy. Then again, I can understand why some people don't. There's one thing that annoys me though, and that's people who sell, buy and eat things with names like 'Quorn Schnitzel' or 'Vegetable Burger'. If you really are a vegetarian, why would you need some non-meat that is named after a piece of meat? That, from where I'm standing, is pure hypocrisy. Feel free to disagree... ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 17:15
LOL I eat meat because it's tasty and it's a good source of nutrition. And yes, I'm selfish. I was born selfish, it's part of my primal instincts. This selfishness is part of securing the welfare of the future generations of my breed. ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 17:33
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I'll eat whatever tastes good as long as it's not human flesh or I knew it once.
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 17:58
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I'm a shameless carnivore. Alcohol, tobacco(not a habit though), weed, it's all masterliness. Screw morals and live your life to the fullest, just don't die(yet). ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 18:01
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 18:19
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Is alcohol vegetarian? I know it's made from vegetables (fruit or cereal) with sugar and yeast, which is a fungus, (drink more beer and be a fungi!), but don't they use issinglass and gelatin to clarify it?
I eat meat rarely, but prefer my vegetables to be cooked a little longer. ------------- What? |
Posted By: blaughida
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 18:57
Well, from my perspective, meat is disgusting so why would I want to eat an imitation of something I think tastes bad? It's not exactly hypocrisy, but I guess you could argue that it's promoting the continued existence of a "meat-eating culture"...but really, most vegetarians I know are doing it for personal reasons and not trying to eliminate human consumption of meat worldwide. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 20:05
Now THAT's the way to live.
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Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 22:29
------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 11:30
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I'm not a vegetarian, but my kids are, since last New Year's day.
I can't seem to conquer my craving for meat (plus, I am having an ongoing, long-term love affair with my barbeque -- there's something so elementally appealing, so positively primeval about cooking meat over flame), but I do therefore eat a lot of vegetarian food.
I can enjoy any food, no matter the content, as long as it's: (a) Tasty & (b) Plentiful.
 (BTW, my wife is a nurse, so she ensures that the kids get adequate protein/nutrition from their new diet.)
I am proud of my children for taking an often difficult stand on something they believe in, at such young ages (13 & 10).
They switched to vegetarianism mainly for moral/ethical reasons, but are also aware of the health benefits.Vegetarian eating is cheaper overall, too! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 12:35
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I am a vegetarian in second degree: I eat Cows, and cows eat only grass. Same thing with other species. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 14:19
You're nuts, so you can eat yourself and still claim to be a vegetarian. Have to add that today I almost became vegetarian. A guy over here was convicted to psychiatric treatment. He murdered his friend, cut him to pieces and stir fried the meat. He's a Chinese immigrant, claiming to be paying the price for a mistake in a past life. He'll have something to correct in his next life as well I guess... ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 14:36
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All i love is sea food
FISH
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 15:39
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Me too - I see food, I eat it. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 15:57
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Nicely put, Dean, that's what I felt like doing when I saw that delicious picture...
------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 16:27
That is wildlife for you: nothing but walking meals. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 16:35
Well... It would be able to be true... -------------
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Posted By: evilromero
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 19:15
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I find it humorous that you list "meat eating" as a vice similar to "smoking" and "drinking". I don't smoke or drink and I pump in the gym everyday for two hours. But I eat meat like a warrior. The benefits include greater muscle mass, strength, raging boners and less body fat. Oh, and thanks to our eating meat we're far higher on the foodchain. It's what seperates us from our plant eating brethren. |
Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 15:06
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Yes, I am vegetarian. That's how I keep my svelte figure. ------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 15:08
When it comes to the Simpsons, you can always count on me! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 17:06
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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.
Mind you I do get a bit narked about veggies. If I invite a veggie to a meal I either have to make a special meal for them or go veggie myself. If you go to a veggie for a meal you normally have to eat what they do.
I know a few veggies who drink milk (usually cows). Obviously casting a blind eye to the fact that for a cow to produce milk it has to have a calf - which ends up as veal.
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Posted By: Niki ( IO )
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 06:43
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I' m almost VEGAN...
It's a consequence of CRITICAL and RESPONSIBLE consume + my own ethical, political, social and esthetical values... ------------- IO |
Posted By: evilromero
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 14:08
Being a vegetarian has little to do with your figure. Your body composition is directly related to your daily activities, calorie consumption and genetics. I know vegetarians who soft fat cream puffs. I eat at least 200 grams of protein a day (at least 100 grams from meat) and I am cut to the bone. Show me a vegetarian bodybuilder and maybe I'll reconsider this trendy lifestyle.
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 16:44
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I don't understand the vegan apporach. No diary? If cow isn't milked she gets sick.
I knew a vegan who got all uptight that I eat meat and asked if I would shoot a cow for the burger I was eating. I said "Of course not, I'd beat it with a bat because it would tenderize the meat and save me some time down the road." I though it was funny, but he didn't laugh.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 17:58
Erm, no they don't, that is a falacy - if a cow isn't milked it dries up. It is a natural defence after loosing a calf. ------------- What? |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 21:03
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Either way, it doesn't harm the cow. There isn't really any moral reason why you shouldn't drink the milk. ------------- |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 21:12
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This is a man vegetarian ,he only drink milk,and eat beans ..all 100% natural without preservatives,colorants or artificial flavors...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPvxUWp4Nqg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPvxUWp4Nqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmA4nypfEvs
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 21:12
You could do it, but you'd have to pound protein shakes like no other. That's basically all you need that a vegetarian wouldn't have. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 23:03
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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.
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Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 23:10
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These let's-argue-about-each others'-lifestyles threads get so dumb, you can't even throw in a little levity without some guy dissecting it.
Chomp away, meat eaters, I don't give a rat's ass. ------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 04:05
That depends upon your morality. A calf was taken from its mother so humans could have the milk. ------------- What? |
Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 16:03
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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.
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Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 16:06
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I have two friends who are millitant Kevin Keegans. They won't sit on a leather chair. (I'm serious!) ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 19:34
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I don't get a lot of the morality questions. No other animal that eats meat doesn't do so because they might hurt the feelings of the creature they're eating. "Humans eat calves." So do lions, tigers, and bears Oh My! In fact, they TARGET the children when there isn't a sick animal to be found. I don't believe in killing for sport because I don't see why an aminal has to die just so some guy can feel like a man, but I have no qualms with digging into a delicious steak.
If you're a vegetarian, fine. Good for you, as a matter of fact. However, don't try an convert the rest of us. Note that I am not singling out anyone here because, to my knowledge, none of the vegetarians on PA is trying to convert "the rest of us."
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Posted By: Niki ( IO )
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 05:29
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NO JOKE... ------------- IO |
Posted By: Niki ( IO )
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 05:32
NO JOKE ------------- IO |
Posted By: blaughida
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 10:10
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. |
Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 12:36
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. Likewise, I don't eat dog. Would this make me a vegetarian in Korea? No.
I respect your right to eat just what you like, but don't call it something it's not. ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 13:54
in 12 century, monks thought Barnacle Geese hatched from barnacles (a type of shell fish) - and promptly delcared them to be fish, so they could eat them on Fridays. ------------- What? |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 12:37
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check my name!
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Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 22:17
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Definately not at all, but working on that I think.... ------------- The best you can is good enough... |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 23:33
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I consider myself more food chain sensitive than most vegetarians.
It is my plan to eat all the meat I can and get nice and fat so that when I die the nitrates released from my giant decomposing corpse will feed countless generations of vegetable life.
So there!!!
Just kidding, I do really have a strong appreciation for the commitment required for a strict vegetarian diet. I don't have it. It was hard enough to stop being a nicotinatarian. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 09:58
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Interesting how many posts are from meat eaters...
I don't eat meat because I think unnecessary killing is wrong. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:11
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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.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:16
Post them in the Prog Chefs Unite! thread - we could do with some drinkies : http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=35081 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=35081 ------------- What? |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:36
| I wonder why eating living vegetables and fruits isn't considered worse than eating dead animals? |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:37
| 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. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:41
There are people who will only eat vegetables that have 'died' naturally and therefore live on seeds, pulses and 'windfalls'. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:53
Although, I still couldn't give up meat. But sometimes I feel I could eat Indian every day and not get tired of it. |