Are you a vegetarian?
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americanharley said:
''For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three'' Maddox.
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jdb67 said:
Jesus man, you're scaring me! Well, drink up... :glugglug:
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Nightfly said:Does eating pussy count? LOL!
I AM largely vegetarian, to answer the question. I just honestly don't eat that much meat. It's not by choice, particularly, but when I was in 10th grade I was vegetarian for about a year. I never noticed any particular benefits to it (vegetarian diet), so I stopped when I started weight training. As to why I don't eat much meat today, well, I eat lots of soups, salads, and pasta without meat in the sauces... I LOVE the taste of meat, when properly cooked in a nice dish or even just a steak, chicken wing, a ham, or a hamburger, etc., but I just don't eat that much of that stuff.
One exception: veal. I don't condone how veal cows are "raised" and treated. I refuse to it veal on principle. It's not because they're baby cows. It's that NO animal should be refused the ability to move like that (I even have problems with how some chicken farms are run....those chickens are STUFFED into the cages). I've had veal, and it was tasty, but I only ate it once and that was before I learned about what veal was and how the animals are treated.
To each his/her own, though. Whatever works for you and whatever makes you feel conscionably good and/or physically healthy. :hatsoff:
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mcrocket said:
Soy is about as bad as you can get for protein replacement/suppliment - especially for men, and almost as much for women. Microfiltered whey isolate is a good source of quickly "uptakeable" protein. Casein is a far more balanced and longer digesting source, usually it is combined with whey, and egg protein.
Shakes no matter how well engineered, cannot replace natural sources.
There is evidence that man started to evolve much more rapidly once meat was added to the "caveman's" diet. (Don't ask me where I read that!) IMO I can usually pick out the vegetarian in a real conversation like this, not by the hemp clothes
, but more by the sallow and often depleted appearance.I've seen men die in a ditch, horses hooves chopped off, pigs throughts cut and hung up alive and screaming. Veal cows force fed, chickens run with no head, cows analy electrocuted. AND I have eaten Army food.
You guys better hope I'm not in a plane crash in the Andes with you, cause I'll eat 'cha! I'd eat a horses ass, you cook it right.
You guys better hope I'm not in a plane crash in the Andes with you, cause I'll eat 'cha! I'd eat a horses ass, you cook it right.
Definitely not a vegetarian...although I have to respect someone that has such strong beliefs that they'd put themselves through it :hatsoff: ...I've always wondered why people choose to be a vegetarian, maybe its has something to do with the evolution of the human conscience (and feeling guilty for the death of a living animal). After all I use to think humans have k9 teeth so therefore we're intrinsically designed to eat meat, but I understand we aren’t "cave-people" anymore and have developed stronger emotions and a freedom of choice. Still not to eat meat just puzzles me when it is the best source of protien (some may argue)..and tastes so damn good. For a vegetarian there are a large number of products sold in stores to taste like meat, which confuses the hell out of me....if you like the taste of meat, then eat it
...I'm not a nutritional expert or anything but I know 1 chicken feeds 4people for a day(ish).......so it would take at least 4 vegetarians a day to save a single chicken (and maybe a leg of a cow). Doing a basic sum I can’t understand the benefits of 4 people putting them selves through a blandness selection or flavorless meals for the life to one chickens.
Many people argue that if you want to eat meat then you should go out and kill it yourself instead of distancing yourself from the animal and buying a pre-prepared frozen steaks etc …..However I could quit easily go out fishing and eat everything I caught for example.
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...I'm not a nutritional expert or anything but I know 1 chicken feeds 4people for a day(ish).......so it would take at least 4 vegetarians a day to save a single chicken (and maybe a leg of a cow). Doing a basic sum I can’t understand the benefits of 4 people putting them selves through a blandness selection or flavorless meals for the life to one chickens.
Many people argue that if you want to eat meat then you should go out and kill it yourself instead of distancing yourself from the animal and buying a pre-prepared frozen steaks etc …..However I could quit easily go out fishing and eat everything I caught for example.
flylicker
I am not a vegetarian. I grew up in the Midwest and have eaten homegrown beef my entire life and I couldn't imagine my life without chicken.
I had a professor that was a vegetarian because she didn't like the texture of meat, lol.
I had a professor that was a vegetarian because she didn't like the texture of meat, lol.
I feel sorry for her husband :rofl:foxycougar said:
x4g63x said:
That takes a stomach stronger than steel to manage. When I saw them handing out MRE's to the Hurrican victims, I actually felt bad for them, they didn't deserve to suffer anymore.
the lives of animals aside, consider the lives of your fellow humans...
in addiction to vast rainforrest destruction as a result of cattle grazing, chemical waste used to treat the animals for hygenic purposes goes into the ground and winds up back in the soil which effects the crops both us and the animals themselves eat. tons of thier organic waste also washes into rivers polluting the water that we drink.
laslty, the simple fact is that if we converted all the land currently devoted exclusivly to cattle grazing to growing vegetables on, it would produce enough food to end world hunger.
in addiction to vast rainforrest destruction as a result of cattle grazing, chemical waste used to treat the animals for hygenic purposes goes into the ground and winds up back in the soil which effects the crops both us and the animals themselves eat. tons of thier organic waste also washes into rivers polluting the water that we drink.
laslty, the simple fact is that if we converted all the land currently devoted exclusivly to cattle grazing to growing vegetables on, it would produce enough food to end world hunger.
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Where's Sting when you need him for a preachy speech about consumption and the debauchery of humankind? lmao Oh, that's right....it's no longer en vogue to be a high-profile celeb and ask to save rainforests... Now the thing to do is protest re: Iraq and toss a few coins to hurricane victims. :2 cents:
i love the steak and chicken
D-rock said:
well yes and no, but there's no such thing as world overpopulation. the problem is that you have one rich person that lives on 40 acres, and 40 poor people that live on one.
oh yeah, and I don't really think that our bodies were "designed" to do anything, other then fall apart eventually. you probibly don't hunt your own food, so if you are buying shit from the store you can't talk to me about what the natural state of humanity is. from a modern technological standpoint we don't need to eat meat to survive. it's as simple as that.
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calpoon said:
Living to me is about more than just survival. That base need has been eased by a "modern technological standpoint".
Food is also: 4 me:
Enjoyment of food and dining, flavors and preparation.
Building and growing a massive, strong physique.
Dining as a social event.
National pride in regional, historical dishes.
If I just ate to survive, I stand by my comment that I'd wither down to a drawn, tired stringbean.
There is a reason that cults serve vegetarian and vegan diets! (Reduced brain function, reduced creativity, seriously reduced physical capacity..)
calpoon said:
Actually we just recently passed the point where the world’s population is big enough that there are not enough resources to feed everybody anymore. I think it was a couple years ago, and that includes the modern technology, and agricultural techniques we use today. You can't plant food on every piece of available land, and can't terraform everything that doesn't grow crops. Even if people did, would we be any different than the people that cut down the rainforest for every square centimeter of available cropland.
calpoon said:
Actually I hunt and fish almost all the food that that my local governmental agencies will permit me to and as time will allow me.
In any case our bodies don't function in any significant way differently than they did 10,000 years ago. We have the type of teeth and digestive system we do for a reason. Just because we have cars and computers doesn't mean that my body doesn't require any different substances to live. Who cares who does the work to get those things to me? To get by without eating meat and getting everything you need nutritionally is a pain in the ass, as you have to go about it in a round about way, and usually have to pay more. I can see no logical reason for doing so.
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