anybody here a vegan?

[lemon boy]

the one thing that I've always found bizarre is that people will cut out beef/pork and yet keep the chicken, IMO chickens have the worst life under factory farming conditions of any common food animal.

[buckethead]

i pretty much limit my animal product intake to the cheese on pizza, and the occasional baked good...but no meat or cheese or eggs in the house for well over a decade.
i did have a little bit of omelette the other day at a B+B...

[runethechamp]

the one thing that I've always found bizarre is that people will cut out beef/pork and yet keep the chicken, IMO chickens have the worst life under factory farming conditions of any common food animal.

I always thought the same thing.

[lemon boy]

Attention Vegetarians:

Humans were not supposed to live like that. You're equiped with the teeth of an omnivore and the eyes of a predator (unless you're some freakishly wide eyed bizarrolander like Christina Ricci). A balanced diet of meat, veggies and grains are what you're built for...eat it up!

[Buster Highmen]

Attention Vegetarians:

Humans were not supposed to live like that. You're equiped with the teeth of an omnivore and the eyes of a predator (unless you're some freakishly wide eyed bizarrolander like Christina Ricci). A balanced diet of meat, veggies and grains are what you're built for...eat it up!

For those of us with pictish metabolisms, whose ancestors likely survived on moss, rutabagas, parsnips and scotch, less meat might be a good thing for yea olde heart disease. Statistical health studies of cultures that consume less meat and dairy support this.

[Buster Highmen]

But I do make exceptions for foie gras.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

I like that scene in Dances with Wolves where Takes a Whole Fist is eating the buffalo meat right off the bone.

[lemon boy]

But I do make exceptions for foie gras.

me too, it's the very definition of exceptional.

[Greydon Clark]

Attention Lemon Boy: I’m not dead yet. In fact, I’m remarkably healthy. HELP!!!

[lemon boy]

you will be dead! I promise

But I didn't say anything bad would happen to you just that you're not eating how you were designed...a life without foie gras = no kinda life at all

[Adolf Allerbush]

Attention Vegetarians:

Humans were not supposed to live like that. You're equiped with the teeth of an omnivore and the eyes of a predator (unless you're some freakishly wide eyed bizarrolander like Christina Ricci). A balanced diet of meat, veggies and grains are what you're built for...eat it up!

If memory serves humans were scavengers historically that usually ate grains, nuts, veggies, etc. and would resort to eating meat when lacking the former. I think it depends on your heritage if you "need" to eat meat to be healthy.

[moose pit]

For those of us with pictish metabolisms, whose ancestors likely survived on moss, rutabagas, parsnips and scotch, less meat might be a good thing for yea olde heart disease. Statistical health studies of cultures that consume less meat and dairy support this.

Keep eating meat our pictish ancestors had a variety of domestic animals and game (red deer, grouse) and increase intake of scotch .

[Greydon Clark]

just that you're not eating how you were designed...

99% of America falls into that category. God built us in his image and that does not include eating Doritos or Super-value meals.

Kind of ironic that in America the poor eat meat and the rich eat vegetables.

[lemon boy]

99% of America falls into that category. God built us in his image and that does not include eating Doritos or Super-value meals.

Kind of ironic that in America the poor eat meat and the rich eat vegetables.

I'm glad it makes you happy to be a part of the majority!

LB = top 1% of eaterz

[adam]

I recently stopped eating meat, but I'll keep cheese, eggs, milk and other dairy products.

[hutash]

"You don't eat meat?..........



That's okay, I'll fix lamb"

[TurxSki]

Attention Vegetarians:

Humans were not supposed to live like that. You're equiped with the teeth of an omnivore and the eyes of a predator (unless you're some freakishly wide eyed bizarrolander like Christina Ricci). A balanced diet of meat, veggies and grains are what you're built for...eat it up!

Well, so what ?
We weren't "supposed" to sit on our asses, in trucks, in traffic either. We're equiped to walk/run/jump.
Nor wear glasses.
Nor be cooled and heated in buildings. etc, etc.

Hey, you're equiped with nipples !!

(oh btw, veggy, since b4 you were born, 1975 )

[telepariah]

I'll eat almost anything with legs.

Dabbled in not eating cow, pig, fowl etc in my youth. Found it very difficult to keep weight on and energy high.

But last year I was in a fancy restaurant in Catalonia in which I finally had to ask, "Do you have anything that doesn't have fois gras in it?"

[scoober]

...Vegan beer is hard to find...

http://veganconnection.com/veganbeer.htm

So all those beers listed don't use animal finings, but what about the yeast?

[Buster Highmen]

This is a song about vegetables . . . they keep you regular; they're real good for ya.)

Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Call it by name
(Call any vegetable)
Call one today
(Call any vegetable)
When you get off the train
(Call any vegetable)
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Ooooh! The vegetable
Will respond to you

(Some people don't go for prunes . . . I dunno . . . I've always found that if they . . . )

Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Pick up your phone
(Call any vegetable)
Think of a vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Lonely at home
(Call any vegetable)
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
That a vegetable will respond to you-hoooo

RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
RUTA-BAYYYYY . . .

(A prune isn't really a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable.)

No one will know
If you don't want to let 'em know
No one will know
'Less it's you that might tell 'em so
Call and they'll come to you
Covered with dew
Vegetables dream
Of responding to you
Standing there
Shiny & proud by your side
Holding your hand
While the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable
Something to hide?
YAR-R-R-R-R-G-H!

[Greydon Clark]

[URL="Doh!"] but what about the yeast?

8th grade science... Yeasts are unicellular eukaryotic microorganisms classified in the kingdom Fungi

[leroy jenkins]

I seriously have nightmares where I can't eat meat anymore.

I do make a serious effort to eat free range hippy meat and try to keep my corn consumption as minimal as possible.

WTF is wrong with corn? Don't tell me its causing global warming or something.

[Adolf Allerbush]

WTF is wrong with corn? Don't tell me its causing global warming or something.

I try not to eat round up resistant corn personally.

[lemon boy]

The US is becoming a corn monoculture, everything you can think of and then some has some kind of corn product in it. As an omnivore I take exception to being force fed corn all the time.

[buckethead]

Attention Vegetarians:

Humans were not supposed to live like that. You're equiped with the teeth of an omnivore and the eyes of a predator (unless you're some freakishly wide eyed bizarrolander like Christina Ricci). A balanced diet of meat, veggies and grains are what you're built for...eat it up!

gee, thanks for straightening me out there, lemon boy.
when i see a cow en route to my next ski outing, i'll try my damn best to tell myself " i wanna eat THAT!" and if i have enough sack, i'll sneak up on the old lass and see if i can bury my vestigial fangs into that sweet flesh. ditto for the chickens and pigs who cross my path.

meat was rare for our hunter/gatherer ancestors, to whom you must be referring. the staples were the grains/fruits/vegetables that were gathered during the warmer months. the hunt would be a source of fat to allow these folks to survive the cold months.

fast foward to america today and we have an environment choking on the unprocessed excremant of literally tens of millions of animals (which of course trickles into the gulf of mexico to harvest the ever growing dead zones...we have an increasingly obese population that eats cheap meat grown in felled amazon rain forests, heart disease, cancer...not to mention
diseases like mad cow tht caused the destruction of the entire UK cattle herd about 8 years back.

i've been a vegeratian for about 17 years...all of my coworkers (many younger than me) sport double chins and huge bellies...and i'm often mistaken for being 15+ years younger than my age.

to talk about how humans should live is a topic far beyond this discussion, but i for one choose not to partake in the cruel and toxic environment that is the meat industry...except tp feed my cats...but even they love tofu turkey and seitan, so there's even hope for them