Topic: What Are Your Thoughts On Vegans? Or Going Vegan ? - page 5. (Read 8982 times)

Our body does fine with a mix of veggies and meats. If you are Vegan because you love your dog, I am sorry you are vegan. I am not a vegan, no problem with vegan diets. Love some beans and broccoli, but can't live without eggs and bacons. So much hate and anger in some of the posts, care to walk it off ?

I think whatever we eat is not a problem, we are born to be omnivorous which means we can eat either meat or vegetables. We just need to respect if someone can't eat vegetables or meat. But i mostly eat vegetable to keep my energy up . Meat has always have cholesterol which slow our body movements.

Anecdote:
"My wife is a Veteranian."
"Mine does not know how to cook, either."

Actually, to each his own.
Some blood groups can not live without meat at all. So it's not for us to condemn them: that they chose this and live.

This is their choice, let them eat whatever they want. The main thing is that they do not stick out their vegetarianism and do not read the notations of meat eaters. And it often happens that a person refuses meat and begins to demonstratively fool into cutlets and scold other people calling "corpses".

In my family everyone ate meat because I too
But against them I have nothing bad I do not have

If you lived in a forest or in a small village where there are no shops, would you be able to eat only plants and vegetables? I think that even without selling animal products a person will have to hunt or fish to eat normally.

Sorry, but I'm not ready to become a vegetarian. I love animals and I like the idea, but to abandon animal products I can't yet. If they were not in the sale it would be easier not to eat, but it seems to me that this problem is much deeper.

The way I see it, it's impossible for a farm to be ethical because it's unnatural.  People can talk about "the food chain" all they want, but the reality is that they way animals are being killed is entirely unnatural, whether it's with a gun, a factory farm, or just a regular free range farm.  Humans would naturally be lower than, say, lions in the food chain, but if humans want to they can just shoot the lion with a gun.

The idea of animal products which are not meat is even more confusing, because cows only produce milk after having a child, much like what humans do.  Not only is it stealing the cow's milk which is supposed to be for cows, but cows produce far less milk after it would no longer be needed for their calf.  This means that far more cows are produced than the amount that are needed to stay on the farm, so inevitably the calves are taken from their mothers at birth and cows have to be killed to sustain the production of milk.

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Clarification:  vegetarianism is to not eat meat or fish.  If you eat fish, you're called a pescatarian.  If you don't eat meat, fish or any animal product, and you refrain from the use of animal products in your life e.g. leather, then you are a vegan.  A lot of people are getting confused about this.

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I also wish that people would stop saying "I eat what I want to" or statements of that sort.  They don't contribute anything to a discussion, because no government is telling you whether you can eat meat or not.

I just listen to my intuition what I need now. If I want pork, then you need to eat pork, because if I eat vegetables or fish or even beef, I can not get any psychological pleasure or cover my physiological needs. The use of growth hormones for animals can be harmful, but I think that in moderate amounts can be consumed. The main thing is not to load the food you eat with your negative thoughts.

Not everyone likes meat. In my place, a lot of the upper caste Hindus are vegetarians. They have remained like that for the last 5,000 years or so. They can't even tolerate the smell of meat dishes. For them, it has almost become genetic or hereditary.

I do eat meat, but the amount of meat that I eat is decreasing as time goes by.

I don't like factory farmed animals that are treated like garbage, given terrible living conditions and pumped with antidepressants and antibiotics.  That has come to bother me more and more vs. farms that treat their animals good, or even hunting for your own venison in the wild.

What's tough about giving up meat (and fish) completely is having food to eat when you go to restaurants or travel.  Your options become limited, and it requires a lot of planning as well as being able to cook really well.  That is key for being vegetarian in terms of being able to make food that is appetizing consistently.

I'm not sure if I'll ever be vegetarian, probably not completely but I can see myself continuing to decrease how much meat I eat.  And I used to be a fucking carnivore.

If it is very hard to go vegetarian for a few days, how much more to go vegan? That must be some kind of a death march or hunger strike.  But I salute those people who are really into it wholeheartedly. Discipline is the key I guess because I'm sure they also like meat. 

Yeah... this is the best thing to do. Eat whatever you want, and allow others to eat whatever they like. But restrictions exist everywhere. Pork is not available in Israel and the Muslim nations. Beef is not available in Hindu nations such as Nepal and India.

I would agree it's too hard and probably not wise to completely abandon meat and fish, now that I think about it.  Small amounts of non processed cooked meats are good, fish is good if the water they lived in wasn't contaminated I suppose.

Aside from that, I think most people would do very well to cut out all the garbage like fast foods, processed meats, too much dairy, and up their intake of fresh fruits and vegetables and have bigger meals, avoiding snacks and soft drinks and so on.  We've been doing that for a while, cutting out fast food, chocolate, avoiding too many eggs on toast breakfasts,  satly or sugery snacky things, much more fruit and veg etc.

Diet may be sometimes necessary to unload the body, but it is not entirely reasonable to completely abandon meat and fish. Milk can be consumed in extreme cases, but as a rule it is enough for a calf and a little people take it.

I really wonder how do you determine what your body needs for health? Why meat? I also eat meat, but I don't think it's helpful. I just like the taste. It seems to me that meat is harmful to our body. Especially if for animals using growth hormones.

Everyone must decide for himself what he has. I eat meat, I need it to maintain the body in a healthy state, but I do not impose my way of life on anyone. Every organism has different needs and it is necessary to choose the food ration at which you will feel good.

I don't think it hurts to go for a diet that excludes meat, fish, diary completely, although some people might experience some upsets if they try to do it quickly.

I think we have to ask questions like, if cow's milk is for raising calves, then why should we drink it?  Source of calcium maybe; as far as I am aware, there are no real benefits to it.  You can get calcium elsewhere that is absorbed just as well, including from a diet that excludes fish and dairy.  It makes shopping harder and is a source of much groaning and fidgeting and staring at labels and taking forever at the supermarket, but if you don't mind, what the heck.

I watched a "documentary" called What The Health on Netflix just a few days ago with my wife, and it scared the socks off me.

Yes, so that both of us should eat, so that we can be more beneficial to our health.

I don't feel that I need to change my dietary habits. I am pretty comfortable with my omnivore diet, and I have no plans to go 100% vegan. If I become vegan, I may add one or two years to my lifespan. But it is just not worth it. I prefer to eat whatever I like, even if that means that I would live only up to 80 years instead of 82.