What benefits do you get from being Vegetarian?
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2 main reasons I don't eat meat.
1 - I actually hate the taste of meat (but love fish and seafood..bugger.)
2 - I could never shake to feeling of guilt when eating meat. I think because I didn't know how they died or were treated in life. Also meat wastage is a huge problem.
ETA: My mum is a vegan but will happily make meat dishes for my step-dad. So in our family hom we have 1 meat eater, 1 veggie & 1 vegan. We all get along, eat what we want and are healthy. No problem!
1 - I actually hate the taste of meat (but love fish and seafood..bugger.)
2 - I could never shake to feeling of guilt when eating meat. I think because I didn't know how they died or were treated in life. Also meat wastage is a huge problem.
ETA: My mum is a vegan but will happily make meat dishes for my step-dad. So in our family hom we have 1 meat eater, 1 veggie & 1 vegan. We all get along, eat what we want and are healthy. No problem!
Huh. Never knew.Elsarild said:
Side note: Becoming vegan also turns you into an evil boy/girlfriend.
If you don't eat meat, why would you want to eat meat substitutes? I get that you need to eat more eggs and nuts to compensate for the lack of protein, but isn't eating tofu/Quorn basically fooling yourself?lRookiel said:
"Look at me, I am a humanoid man who can survive without eating meat, because I find animal slaughter appaling! We do not need meat to survive at all! *noms on fake meat*"
Just seems like masturbation without the added bonus of an orgasm.
In regards to the topic: there are no benefits to being a vegetarian, we are omnivores by nature, and if you eat the right kinds of meat in the proper amounts, you will be healthier for it. Being vegetarian is more about congratulating yourself that you have such sympathy for animals, while in reality the few thousand vegetarians do little to stem the tide of the meat industry.
No, because if everyone became vegan today farmers all around the world had to kill of most of their stock anyways.henritje said:
The only reason livestock is kept is because of food production/for their hides, unless they have wool...
So yeah it could lead to the cow becoming extinct
Being Vegetarian's considerably cheaper for a start. It's also more economical as it's a considerably more efficient use of farmland than meat-farming (meaning that a farm that produces vegetables will feed more people than one that produces meat of the same size) which is something to consider given how large the planet's population is getting. The feeling of having a clearer conscience can be nice too.
Of course on the flipside quite a few meat-eaters react surprisingly badly just to being told you don't eat meat (a lot of vegetarians and vegans can be pricks, but there are people who'll still give you flak about it even if you're civil). It can also be a little trickier finding places to eat out, particularly if your friends aren't vegetarian (although most places now provide vegetarian options).
Of course on the flipside quite a few meat-eaters react surprisingly badly just to being told you don't eat meat (a lot of vegetarians and vegans can be pricks, but there are people who'll still give you flak about it even if you're civil). It can also be a little trickier finding places to eat out, particularly if your friends aren't vegetarian (although most places now provide vegetarian options).
Source?Elsarild said:
Really down to the individual. Both being vegetarian and a meat-eater is fine, as long as you're eating decent meals. Vegan can be more problematic - as someone said - more prone to osteoporosis - which is due to a lack of vegan-suitable calcium substitutes.
Personally, I've been both vegetarian and non-veggie, and hasn't made much odds in my life (parents were veggie so I didn't eat any meat until 16 or so).
Sooo... as far as I've seen, it's only really a personal choice, apart from in certain instances whereby some physical quirk makes a certain diet easier to maintain.
Personally, I've been both vegetarian and non-veggie, and hasn't made much odds in my life (parents were veggie so I didn't eat any meat until 16 or so).
Sooo... as far as I've seen, it's only really a personal choice, apart from in certain instances whereby some physical quirk makes a certain diet easier to maintain.
Humanity evolved eating meat. Even different races have varied digestive systems based upon diet. To simply forsake a vast chunk of your dietary evolutionary history seems somewhat shallow to me ... but then again, obviously, I'm not vegetarian. But that being said, I eat far less meat than most people who, like me, don't give a damn for the animals.
As an adult white male in my 30s, I am well beyond any kind of biological need for eating meat (I don't have the demands for appropriate proteins that a growing child's brain has, for example).
I have to agree with Ickorus' tongue-in-cheek response. Anecdotally, and through my own experience, almost every single vegan/vegetarian from a culture that is not typically vegetarian (ie non-Buddhist, for example) is .. well .. likely to skew towards the 'pretentious' end of the spectrum.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very arrogant. My nickname in one of my prior workplaces was 'Pretentio' (a nickname I came up with myself actually to describe my superiority issues). But someone who tells me they are against animal cruelty, yet wears leather shoes or belts, is a tool. Someone who tells me they think killing cows for meat is sick, yet has no problems squishing a cockroach underfoot, is a tool. It's all moral relativism, a flawed and, frankly, unscientific process.
I was vegetarian, actually, for a period of about 2 yrs. I'd just moved to university. New life, new surroundings. The girl I was interested in (who became my girlfriend and dare I say it almost wife!) was vegetarian. She said 'look, kissing a guy who eats meat makes me heave'. I could respect that. She also didn't like guys who smoked. So I stopped smoking.
As a curious side note, I found stopping smoking much easier than giving up meat. I felt lethargic, weak, and I actually *gained* weight (despite muscle mass reducing) during that period. Whether that is merely coincidence I don't know. I was also having a LOT MORE SEX ... that could explain the lack of sleep and preference for being in bed.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, I know nicotine is an appetite suppressant hence many people gaining weight when they stop smoking. But I'm talking over 2 yrs. Nicotine leaves your body in a matter of days.
As an adult white male in my 30s, I am well beyond any kind of biological need for eating meat (I don't have the demands for appropriate proteins that a growing child's brain has, for example).
I have to agree with Ickorus' tongue-in-cheek response. Anecdotally, and through my own experience, almost every single vegan/vegetarian from a culture that is not typically vegetarian (ie non-Buddhist, for example) is .. well .. likely to skew towards the 'pretentious' end of the spectrum.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very arrogant. My nickname in one of my prior workplaces was 'Pretentio' (a nickname I came up with myself actually to describe my superiority issues). But someone who tells me they are against animal cruelty, yet wears leather shoes or belts, is a tool. Someone who tells me they think killing cows for meat is sick, yet has no problems squishing a cockroach underfoot, is a tool. It's all moral relativism, a flawed and, frankly, unscientific process.
I was vegetarian, actually, for a period of about 2 yrs. I'd just moved to university. New life, new surroundings. The girl I was interested in (who became my girlfriend and dare I say it almost wife!) was vegetarian. She said 'look, kissing a guy who eats meat makes me heave'. I could respect that. She also didn't like guys who smoked. So I stopped smoking.
As a curious side note, I found stopping smoking much easier than giving up meat. I felt lethargic, weak, and I actually *gained* weight (despite muscle mass reducing) during that period. Whether that is merely coincidence I don't know. I was also having a LOT MORE SEX ... that could explain the lack of sleep and preference for being in bed.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, I know nicotine is an appetite suppressant hence many people gaining weight when they stop smoking. But I'm talking over 2 yrs. Nicotine leaves your body in a matter of days.
Damn I must have missed that episode haha.Monoochrom said:
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You pretty much covered it with the italics there, No there aren't any direct benefits to being a vegetarian, but there's certainly nothing wrong with it either.The Human Torch said:
Oh and eating Quorn (which is made out of Mushrooms/Fungi) isn't exactly fooling myself is it. since the idea of Quorn being a meat substitute is that it is not just a successful substitute, but a very possible and superior replacement.
EDIT: But hey, everyone has their preferences (Taste, texture etc.)
19 and vegetarian, dairy products provide all the fat you need, (don't ask me how vegans get on though because i honestly don't know) alot of people say that Quorn sossages taste just like the real thing, while i've never tried real sossages i find that had to believe because quorn tastes like cardboard, HOWEVER! if you spread butter over them before cooking them, they get unbelievably tender and juicy... holy crap, i'm drooling, back on topic back on topic, the benefits are that i've spent my whole life stuffing my face because i love food and i never got fat! not easy to gain weight on a veggie diet. the reason i'm a veggie is because i love animals and i don't think it's fair that they should have to die so we can eat certain kinds of food
edit: also i resent people saying that kids need meat for brain developement, because i've never eaten meat, and i have a 138 IQ and totally owned my GCSEs
edit: also i resent people saying that kids need meat for brain developement, because i've never eaten meat, and i have a 138 IQ and totally owned my GCSEs
everything you just said, good call, good call, except the quorn thing, see my earlier mentioned cooking tips for my views on that, i'm sorry i have to add you as a friend nowlRookiel said:
actually, we've devolved from predators, we've lost all the natural weapons we had when we were apes, we're now something completely unique and new, surviving with our brains instead of our bodies, which is why we have the right to choose what we want to eatShark Wrangler said:
Even though you pointed out it was a joke, its still pretty accurate based on every vegetarian I know. Most go to great pains to tell me how horrible it is how meat is prepared or the issues around how animals are killed and so on.Ickorus said:
Only nice vegetarian I knew later switched back to eating meat (the call of bacon was too much).
i'm not sure if that's better or worse than what my step-dad did, he didn't like my mum having the moral highground so just plain made her stop being a veggie, don't get me wrong, i don't know your step-dad so won't judge him, but it just doesn't seem decent to have a vegan cook meat for youRed Bomb said: