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my fave veggies are mushrooms and asparagus.

cruciferous veg for the win.

veganism aside i am browsing my faves and cackling

wow, i must be one out of 3 vegans on ONTD.

next time you meet a vegan please dont defensively scream in their face how much you love hamburgers. people always do this to me before i even say anything more than "im vegan".


"want some fo my ham salad??"
"ah, no thanks, im vegan."
"WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?! :horified face: I LOVE MEAT SO MUCH WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?"

we don't give a fuck. i never try to tell anyone to change their diet or ask them whats wrong with them, lol. in fact i've learned that my diet is best kept secret because carnivores flip the fuck out way more than i do.

i knowwwww. GOD. i hate when they try to act like they know what theyre talking about.

also.. how do you like bikram yoga?! i've been wanting to do it for sooo long but its like 25$ for one class!

I went pescetarian about two months ago and I don't really miss meat at all. The only time it gets hard for me is when I start my period, and I usually cheat and let myself have one meal with a little beef. Yay low iron!

Currently I'm trying to phase out fish, but I'm having trouble letting go of shrimp and lobster.

Edited at 2012-03-25 08:47 am (UTC)

lololol surprise!

Considering the majority if not all Vegans and Vegetarians eat massive amounts of processed foods and intake a load of refined and processed carbohydrates, I'm not sure how anyone can conclude that Vegan/Vegetarian = Health.

But eh, you eat that way and wonder why your digestive system is fucked up from trying to process indigestible fibers and unnatural foods in the form of breads/pastas/grains...

It's not just about giving up meat for the sake of not contributing to animal cruelty..

I've heard many times that in order to sustain the earth's growing population, we actually need to cut back on meat and even eliminate it from our diets... like, the land used to allow livestock to graze could be better utilized for grain & fruit/veg production, allowing for larger numbers of people to be fed...

Also, there are the issues with greenhouse gasses emitted by livestock contributing to climate change...

but... why not???

This post is reminding me once again I should start eating better for myself. I've noticed my depression and how I feel about my body just gets worse the more I eat junk, but quite a bit of the deep fried stuff at my job is so tasty and so is the soda, especially mixing in tasty syrups to make cherry or black raspberry, vanilla Dr.Pepper. But this doesn't help I feel like shit after eating it. I should bring stuff to work, but work feeds me for free and bringing stuff in costs money, and I am poor.

I just need motivation too stick with it, along with exercise. I have veggie burgers at work, so I should work on cutting meat out again.

Thanks, and I would say I try but failing horribly. On days I do not work, I tend to eat pretty well and stick with the moderation thing. I need to find a better job.

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And don't even with the "hew" comments people...

I could never be vegetarian let alone vegan. I love food too much to limit myself.

No, the two are about limiting.

The term vegetarian denotes someone who abstains from eating meat. Vegans go even further by drawing a no-go line around animal products as well. Those choices are fundamentally about choosing to not eat certain things, so if that's not a definition of limitation, I don't know what is. Even if you can replace the meat with a soy or gluten substitute (which never tastes as good anyways), you are making the decision to say yes to everything except x food group.

Or let me put it around this way. As an omnivore, I can eat anything I want to because I actively choose to not bar certain things from my diet. As an omnivore, I can eat all those delicious things that vegetarians or vegans can't or choose not to - from wonton noodle soup to fried chicken to obscure Thai dishes that require pork neck meat. If I decide to become vegetarian, I can't eat those things anymore because I've said no to meat. I can still eat tons of other things, even those meat substitutes and all, but those aren't things that I couldn't have have eaten before as an omnivore. Does that make sense?

But all of that is semantics really (limitation/replacement). In the end, I just fundamentally disagree with the notion that you can love food without at least liking all the major subgroups that comprise it.

Edited at 2012-03-26 07:57 am (UTC)

I've been trying to decide whether to become a vegetarian for the last year or so. I no longer eat pork, seafood or red meat, the only problem is I love cheese and chicken. THEY ARE SO DELICIOUS.

Plus, I've suddeny began getting the urge to expand my palate and almost everything on my list of things to taste/learn to cook are def not vegetarian. I took that as a sign it wasn't meant to be.

Edited at 2012-03-25 09:07 am (UTC)

Disagreed.

Meat has intrinsic taste as all food does. Some are more subtle than others, but chicken has a taste independent of whatever spices or other materials that's added to it. And yes, I actually think cooked chicken with nothing on it is appealing, though not as appealing when baked in the oven for an hour with salt and pepper and the pot deglazed to create gravy for it. Guuuuh.

It sure would be a lot easier to be vegan if you only had to tell your chef to switch up the menu.

I don't eat tons of meat to begin with, but I could never give up dairy. I have such a narrow range of foods to begin with (super-taster!) that I can't really cut things out.

Why does this post have to come up right when I have to go to bed?!