Basically vegans are just fools. What is the harm in eating a by product of an animal? nothing. Nor the animal itself. Milk, cheese and all those things don't even hurt the animal, its natural and eating them is just optimizing the cycle.
Humans have been doing it for years and years and just because we have got this 'moral' and high tech ability to understand things doesn't mean were any less of the animal kingdom. In a nutshell 'back in the days' when we were cavemen we would go hunt some animal to go eat for our family, so why do people idiotic people now see this is 'unethical' and all this rubbish? Just absolute foolish to me. As you can tell I am a strong believer in eating whats good for you. Animals are beyond tasty and full of nutrition and that wont ever change! MEAT FTW!
I guess I would call myself an "omnitarian." I do eat meat, but not very often. I cut beef down to a couple of times a month, chicken once or twice a week at most, fish once or twice a week, and I get my protein from whey protein powder, egg whites, tofu, and other non-gmo soy. It's a great way to lose weight without trying that hard.
xxx - 12 years ago
im vegan but voted for other becouse i think freegan aplies to me. my food and cloathing are vegan, and most of my food is dumbstered
Pamela - 12 years ago
I've been vegetarian for about 4-1/2 years although I stopped eating red meat and pork 20 years ago and chicken 7 years ago. I figured it only made sense to cut out the rest of the meat I was eating, which was only turkey and seafood. Now, I need to tackle dairy products but I love cheese and vegan cheese IMO is not very tasty.
Brianne - 12 years ago
I eat about 98% vegan, but probably have three or four things a week that have milk or eggs (normally a slice cake or some other baked good). As soon as I move off of this college campus and into my own apartment I will eat completely vegan. I do try to limit my animal product consumption as much as possible, mostly for moral reasons. So I voted vegetarian, but I normally do eat vegan. But that 2% or so disqualifies me for the vegan category. I have been a vegetarian for well over a year, and immediately knew I would transition into a completely plant based lifestyle one day.
Allea - 12 years ago
I don't think there's a word for the way I eat, but I am an environmentally/ethically-driven omnivore. I am not against vegetarianism, there are many reasons to be a vegetarian, but it's a personal choice and these are some of my reasons why I have made mine.
Many people say that the most environmentally-efficient food sources are plant-based, however this is a perspective without much substance behind it. Yes, the lower on the food chain the organism is, the less energy is placed into growing it, but to look at that as a basis for an argument for vegetarianism is superficial.
First of all, as a small-mixed-farm-girl (raised alongside 50-head cattle-herd as well as various crops), I know how farming works better than the average person, as well as how it doesn't and one thing that doesn't work is trying to get marginal cropland to produce a crop for human consumption. Marginal land is the term for land that is not very good for producing a crop. It is too dry (or potentially, too wet, but in the case I know and what I'm talking about here, is too dry) and/or sandy to produce a crop that will turn a profit under normal conditions. In order to farm it special measures such as irrigation and extra fertilization (usually artificial) need to be taken. Often, since the crop won't be as thick as it would be under normal soil conditions, you will get more weeds (very drought hardy) than usual and will have to resort to extra tillage (creating topsoil loss) and increased herbicide use. And in the end, it will still only produce a sparse crop of a generally lower quality.
However, there are plants native to this type of soil that THRIVE there (in the case of my area, grasses). My family has a pasture that has never been tilled and it's booming with biodiversity, particularly since we started on a grazing rotation program developed by a grass specialist that mimics the way a herd of bison would move through a grassland. The plants in the prairies evolved with the bison eating them and they formed a symbiosis that can still be tapped today by using particular rotational practices. This remarkable system would not exist if we grew a crop there and once tilled, that diversity is nearly impossible to get back.
However… humans can’t eat grass.
When it comes to meat production, there's MUCH needed to be changed (the same with plant production too) both ethically and environmentally (if you can even look at those two ideas separately) such as intensive, large-scale feedlots/”high-health” (definition of health being warped to a huge degree) hog barns/”high-health” chicken barns/etc… which as well as keeping animals in ABHORRENT conditions, pollute water with chronically leaky cesspools and create anti-biotic resistant bacteria in droves with daily low-dose anti-biotics to keep gains up and sickness down.
If faced only with this choice for my meat/egg consumption I would be nearly vegan (dairy, though not great by any means is still not quite as bad as a general rule, though there are still some very horrid cases there too), however, there are still farmers out there who have smaller herd/flocks and who care a great deal about both their animals and their end-product and I support them. The same goes for plant products; whatever I can get locally, or at least organically-grown, I do. That’s some of the reasons why I’m an ethically-driven-omnivore.
Kari - 12 years ago
Technically I am a vegan (no meat or dairy, basically nothing that is produced from a living creature's body-other than I do enjoy and eat honey) The most important thing to remember here people is to respect WHERE your food comes from, whether or not the animals that provided their lives for your plate were treated with respect while they were alive, whether or not the vegetables in your salad were grown in earth treated with respect for the environment, and lastly whether or not what you are choosing to eat is natural and not added with a bunch of artifical ingredients or preservatives THAT CAUSE CANCER!! (my mom, grandma, aunt, friend, friends 2year old son, etc have all died from cancer, the list continues to grow) How to proceed?? 1. think about your health and your longevity: eat natural! 2. don't keep the "selfish-spiral" alive, put unethical farmers and fishermen OUT OF BUSINESS just by not buying from them... a final note that sums it all up? FIND OUT WHERE YOUR FOOD CAME FROM AND WHATS IN IT! and treat others (including the earth and all of it's tenants) as you would want to be treated.
I put down Opportunistic Omnivore. Historically that is more correct as a description for developing humanity's diet. While I don't wait until I find a dead gazelle to gorge on meat or anything like that, I do try to limit it to an irregular schedule.
Bruce, in case you read this, eggs and milk are no better than meat for diabetics (or ANYONE for that matter). When they say "a plant-based diet can reverse the symptoms of diabetes", they really mean "plant-based diet", not "I'll just replace all my meat by cheese and fried eggs". They contain the same amount of cholesterol, harmful fats, too much protein and calcium for human consumption, etc. Here is a blog by a vegan diabetic http://veganhope.com and a quote from it:
"The physicians she was seeing for her diabetes took a look at her numbers, were amazed, and wanted to know how she did it. "I told them I had adopted a completely plant-based diet. They didn't seem surprised at all, and told me that plant-based diets were helping to reverse diabetes. When I asked why they had not suggested it, they told me because it isn't practical."
Aghast, she asked her doctor, "Do you think it's practical to be 30 years old and lose a leg?"
She walked out of that doctor's office and never went back."
That's without mentioning that using animals in any way is unnecessary and causes them harm, if you don't consider non human animals to be objects or our property then don't stop at the plant-based diet, go vegan.
More on health: http://www.mombu.com/medicine/heart/t-vegan-children-healthy-and-happy-visit-wwwpcrmorg-diabetes-blindness-bronchitis-asthma-diet-3217600.htmlhens
BRUCE - 12 years ago
i am a diabetic. i intend to take off 50 pounds in three mounths. today is the first day of my vegitarian diet. so far this morning i have had diced tomatoes and egg beaters. i plan to have an apple for my snack at 9:30 this morning, but i have not planned my lunch. i plan to look on the net for vegitarian lunches and dinners.
Peggy - 12 years ago
I've been vegan for almost 4 1/2 years and it has been the best choice I've ever made. If you are against animal cruelty, go vegan. It's a clear-cut as that. :)
Chandra - 12 years ago
There is no way there are that many vegans as voted "vegan" here! I think many people think that the word "vegan" is short for "vegetarian." And they further think that vegetarians eat fish and/or chicken. That's been my observation! It's just currently trendy to say you're vegan. I'm a true vegan for 16 years now.
Jen - 13 years ago
What am I? I eat fish, fruits, veggies, grains, beans, but no eggs, dairy, or other animal products?
Jacquel ine Vargas - 13 years ago
well i voted pescatarian im just starting as a vegetarian but still have fish, i might little my little turn vegan or just simple vegetarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian im getting many info reading books until i discover what will be my real category for know fish, milk and eggs are ocasionally in my diet. Thanks hope to hear more comments or advice
Jacquel ine Vargas - 13 years ago
well i voted pescatarian im just starting as a vegetarian but still have fish, i might little my little turn vegan or just simple vegetarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian im getting many info reading books until i discover what will be my real category for know fish, milk and eggs are ocasionally in my diet. Thanks hope to hear more comments or advice
Basically vegans are just fools. What is the harm in eating a by product of an animal? nothing. Nor the animal itself. Milk, cheese and all those things don't even hurt the animal, its natural and eating them is just optimizing the cycle.
Humans have been doing it for years and years and just because we have got this 'moral' and high tech ability to understand things doesn't mean were any less of the animal kingdom. In a nutshell 'back in the days' when we were cavemen we would go hunt some animal to go eat for our family, so why do people idiotic people now see this is 'unethical' and all this rubbish? Just absolute foolish to me. As you can tell I am a strong believer in eating whats good for you. Animals are beyond tasty and full of nutrition and that wont ever change! MEAT FTW!
I guess I would call myself an "omnitarian." I do eat meat, but not very often. I cut beef down to a couple of times a month, chicken once or twice a week at most, fish once or twice a week, and I get my protein from whey protein powder, egg whites, tofu, and other non-gmo soy. It's a great way to lose weight without trying that hard.
im vegan but voted for other becouse i think freegan aplies to me. my food and cloathing are vegan, and most of my food is dumbstered
I've been vegetarian for about 4-1/2 years although I stopped eating red meat and pork 20 years ago and chicken 7 years ago. I figured it only made sense to cut out the rest of the meat I was eating, which was only turkey and seafood. Now, I need to tackle dairy products but I love cheese and vegan cheese IMO is not very tasty.
I eat about 98% vegan, but probably have three or four things a week that have milk or eggs (normally a slice cake or some other baked good). As soon as I move off of this college campus and into my own apartment I will eat completely vegan. I do try to limit my animal product consumption as much as possible, mostly for moral reasons. So I voted vegetarian, but I normally do eat vegan. But that 2% or so disqualifies me for the vegan category. I have been a vegetarian for well over a year, and immediately knew I would transition into a completely plant based lifestyle one day.
I don't think there's a word for the way I eat, but I am an environmentally/ethically-driven omnivore. I am not against vegetarianism, there are many reasons to be a vegetarian, but it's a personal choice and these are some of my reasons why I have made mine.
Many people say that the most environmentally-efficient food sources are plant-based, however this is a perspective without much substance behind it. Yes, the lower on the food chain the organism is, the less energy is placed into growing it, but to look at that as a basis for an argument for vegetarianism is superficial.
First of all, as a small-mixed-farm-girl (raised alongside 50-head cattle-herd as well as various crops), I know how farming works better than the average person, as well as how it doesn't and one thing that doesn't work is trying to get marginal cropland to produce a crop for human consumption. Marginal land is the term for land that is not very good for producing a crop. It is too dry (or potentially, too wet, but in the case I know and what I'm talking about here, is too dry) and/or sandy to produce a crop that will turn a profit under normal conditions. In order to farm it special measures such as irrigation and extra fertilization (usually artificial) need to be taken. Often, since the crop won't be as thick as it would be under normal soil conditions, you will get more weeds (very drought hardy) than usual and will have to resort to extra tillage (creating topsoil loss) and increased herbicide use. And in the end, it will still only produce a sparse crop of a generally lower quality.
However, there are plants native to this type of soil that THRIVE there (in the case of my area, grasses). My family has a pasture that has never been tilled and it's booming with biodiversity, particularly since we started on a grazing rotation program developed by a grass specialist that mimics the way a herd of bison would move through a grassland. The plants in the prairies evolved with the bison eating them and they formed a symbiosis that can still be tapped today by using particular rotational practices. This remarkable system would not exist if we grew a crop there and once tilled, that diversity is nearly impossible to get back.
However… humans can’t eat grass.
When it comes to meat production, there's MUCH needed to be changed (the same with plant production too) both ethically and environmentally (if you can even look at those two ideas separately) such as intensive, large-scale feedlots/”high-health” (definition of health being warped to a huge degree) hog barns/”high-health” chicken barns/etc… which as well as keeping animals in ABHORRENT conditions, pollute water with chronically leaky cesspools and create anti-biotic resistant bacteria in droves with daily low-dose anti-biotics to keep gains up and sickness down.
If faced only with this choice for my meat/egg consumption I would be nearly vegan (dairy, though not great by any means is still not quite as bad as a general rule, though there are still some very horrid cases there too), however, there are still farmers out there who have smaller herd/flocks and who care a great deal about both their animals and their end-product and I support them. The same goes for plant products; whatever I can get locally, or at least organically-grown, I do. That’s some of the reasons why I’m an ethically-driven-omnivore.
Technically I am a vegan (no meat or dairy, basically nothing that is produced from a living creature's body-other than I do enjoy and eat honey) The most important thing to remember here people is to respect WHERE your food comes from, whether or not the animals that provided their lives for your plate were treated with respect while they were alive, whether or not the vegetables in your salad were grown in earth treated with respect for the environment, and lastly whether or not what you are choosing to eat is natural and not added with a bunch of artifical ingredients or preservatives THAT CAUSE CANCER!! (my mom, grandma, aunt, friend, friends 2year old son, etc have all died from cancer, the list continues to grow) How to proceed?? 1. think about your health and your longevity: eat natural! 2. don't keep the "selfish-spiral" alive, put unethical farmers and fishermen OUT OF BUSINESS just by not buying from them... a final note that sums it all up? FIND OUT WHERE YOUR FOOD CAME FROM AND WHATS IN IT! and treat others (including the earth and all of it's tenants) as you would want to be treated.
I put down Opportunistic Omnivore. Historically that is more correct as a description for developing humanity's diet. While I don't wait until I find a dead gazelle to gorge on meat or anything like that, I do try to limit it to an irregular schedule.
Bruce, in case you read this, eggs and milk are no better than meat for diabetics (or ANYONE for that matter). When they say "a plant-based diet can reverse the symptoms of diabetes", they really mean "plant-based diet", not "I'll just replace all my meat by cheese and fried eggs". They contain the same amount of cholesterol, harmful fats, too much protein and calcium for human consumption, etc. Here is a blog by a vegan diabetic http://veganhope.com and a quote from it:
"The physicians she was seeing for her diabetes took a look at her numbers, were amazed, and wanted to know how she did it. "I told them I had adopted a completely plant-based diet. They didn't seem surprised at all, and told me that plant-based diets were helping to reverse diabetes. When I asked why they had not suggested it, they told me because it isn't practical."
Aghast, she asked her doctor, "Do you think it's practical to be 30 years old and lose a leg?"
She walked out of that doctor's office and never went back."
That's without mentioning that using animals in any way is unnecessary and causes them harm, if you don't consider non human animals to be objects or our property then don't stop at the plant-based diet, go vegan.
More on health: http://www.mombu.com/medicine/heart/t-vegan-children-healthy-and-happy-visit-wwwpcrmorg-diabetes-blindness-bronchitis-asthma-diet-3217600.htmlhens
i am a diabetic. i intend to take off 50 pounds in three mounths. today is the first day of my vegitarian diet. so far this morning i have had diced tomatoes and egg beaters. i plan to have an apple for my snack at 9:30 this morning, but i have not planned my lunch. i plan to look on the net for vegitarian lunches and dinners.
I've been vegan for almost 4 1/2 years and it has been the best choice I've ever made. If you are against animal cruelty, go vegan. It's a clear-cut as that. :)
There is no way there are that many vegans as voted "vegan" here! I think many people think that the word "vegan" is short for "vegetarian." And they further think that vegetarians eat fish and/or chicken. That's been my observation! It's just currently trendy to say you're vegan. I'm a true vegan for 16 years now.
What am I? I eat fish, fruits, veggies, grains, beans, but no eggs, dairy, or other animal products?
well i voted pescatarian im just starting as a vegetarian but still have fish, i might little my little turn vegan or just simple vegetarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian im getting many info reading books until i discover what will be my real category for know fish, milk and eggs are ocasionally in my diet. Thanks hope to hear more comments or advice
well i voted pescatarian im just starting as a vegetarian but still have fish, i might little my little turn vegan or just simple vegetarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian im getting many info reading books until i discover what will be my real category for know fish, milk and eggs are ocasionally in my diet. Thanks hope to hear more comments or advice
I roar at you, ROAR!
your one to talk
tate is an absolute idiot
I am a t rex i am a carnivore
"pesco-vegetarian makes about as much sense as "bovo-vegetarian" or "swino-vegetarian."
I am "Flexitarian", I eat 90% vegetarian and occasionally eat meat.
your information has shaped my diet but it still is not healthy. But thanks. =SM