Would you be able to NOT eat meat?
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April 14th, 2008
i’ve been a vegitarian for 2 years now, and everytime i tell people they say “i wouldn’t be able to not eat meat” as if it was a matter of life and death, how about you? would you be able to do without meat? (don’t worry, im not trying to convince people, just curious)
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I’ve been a vegetarian near six years now. Meat just stops being a food item. I see it the same way I see paper towels. It doesn’t qualify as edible… to me…
No.
PETA
People Eating Tasty Animals.
i love meat. its part of human nature. we are omnivores, just look at our teeth. theyre designed for tearing flesh off of a bone.
although when the animals are being tortured before death, that sucks.
it’s not a matter of design, human nature, etc. the question is..could you do without meat?
It’s really not hard to give up. I’ve been vegetarian for a solid four years now, and I keep going back and forth between vegan and vegetarian. But eating meat in today’s society is really not necessary to any degree. Go into any super market and within seconds you can find hundreds of alternative energy sources to keep yourself alive.
@ Mtl zack: No, our teeth are not designed for tearing meat. Look at your teeth, you will notice they are flat and have a large surface area. Perfect for grinding vegetation. Now look at your cat or dogs teeth, they are sharp, used to tear flesh.
here is a great source by the creator of Bizzaro
Of course. People can survive in many ways. Without meat is one way. But it seems that some people thrive more on meat than others. And sometime when healing or pregnant or at other times, meat seems more necessary or even desired by people who normally have no interest.
Yes, I could. I choose not to but there are plenty of great non-meat options, at least where live.
I’ve tried and even cooked things that taste exactly like meat.
in that case, i would still eat meat. i just love it and i grew up with it. also, meat is very important for protein, which helps grow muscles and is very good for you. and i do have a protein deffiency, so i dont think i can survive without meat.
@ shockvalue: look at our front teeth, not the back.
Quinoa has a ton of protein, just as a side note.
Mtl zack: we don’t have teeth for eating meat. We don’t have bodies for digesting it particularly well either. article
And there are other ways of getting protein.
I appreciate when people give up red meat. Beef is one of the biggest energy wastes there is.
Sorry, wrong link. Here is what I meant to post about humans and meat.
I think everyone is capable of not eating meat, it’s just a choice.
im still curious why people like zack realy believe they can’t do without it, it’s not like breathing air, everyday thouasands of vegetarians prove the opposite…
900,000 tree hugging dirt worshipers cant be wrong.
;) True, that, shock.
Plus its significantly healthier. Americans eat terribly, Vegetarians usually are health food fanatics, grow a lot of their own stuff, and eat incredibly well.
I avoid chemicals going in to my body at all costs. I only have pop when I desperately need caffeine. I haven’t had fast food in around six/seven years. No cheetos or anything like that. No unnatural colorings.
My family changed their lifestyle to suit mine. My parents will live longer lives because of me. :]
I became a vegetarian on December 29th after reading “skinny bitch” still miss it sometimes but I have adapted an addiction to everything morning star and boca
Alina: Have you ever tried Quorn? Great protein amounts, really low fat, and they’re Sooooo delicious…. Mmmmmmmmmm.
aaah, quorn, tival..“albert heijn huismerk”...that last one i think is a dutch exclusive ;)
@delerium, what about fish?
If you eat fish you aren’t vegetarian.
fish are friends, not food.
I do eat fish, but only farmed or locally caught fish.
And its called pescetarianism, and its just another kind of vegetarianism. I don’t have a choice about eating fish, I have a very serious degenerative joint disorder and am on meds that limit my food choices which make it practically impossible for me to get the right amount of protein without some fish in my diet.
@ delirium: there are plenty of ways to cook meat that is healthy. not all meat is mcdonalds, you know. i havent had fast food in my whole life, aside from when i was absolutely broke once in my life and had exactly 99 cents in my pocket across the border. and in quebec, the food standards are raised very high, so no weird carcinogenic growth hormones for me.
@ peedub: thanks for the suggestion, ill try it out.
and as for fish, its very good for you and has no fat. the only risk nowadays is mercury poisoning. and even when i do get fish, i go to the market where it was caught the day before.
I actually stick to fish as well. Canned wild salmon is actually great and can be prepared in variety of ways. If there is a costco near you it’s very affordable.
another thing: these protein “imitators” that taste like meat and have the same texture can contain certain chemicals that can harm you. not all, but some. also, it could screw up your digestive tract.
i eat a “friendly fish” once a month max. good to know that has a name too, thanks delirium :)
No, most of the protein ‘imitators’ don’t, if you pick good ones. I don’t eat anything that I haven’t read thoroughly about.
Which protein “imitators” are you speaking of? everything I have found and consumed has been perfectly healthy.
Then again, I DO live in Berkeley, so it’s not hard to find vegan and vegetarian substitutes for anything you can imagine.
another point to bring up: do vegetarians hate vegetables? vegetables are living organisms too. who says that they cant have a conscient mind? everyone says “protect the animals because they’re innocent and they’re treated with cruelty”. what about the millions of cobs of corn that go through the blades of a harvest truck. and by the way, im being serious.
As far as I am aware, no reputable study has ever shown that plants can “feel pain”. They lack the nervous system and brain necessary for this to happen. A plant can respond to stimuli, for example by turning towards the light or closing over a fly, but that is hardly the same thing. I find it hard to see what purpose pain could serve for the plant, since they can hardly run away.
People who care about that become fruititarians. People who only eat fruit.
We know that plants aren’t sentient beings. They don’t have that capability. It would be pointless, evolutionarily.
a running corncob…the thought makes me smile
By the way, i’m not a vegetarian because the animals are innocent and treated with cruelty, although that does bother me.
I don’t eat meat because I couldn’t kill meat, and therefore I don’t have a right to be eating it.
I could kill at fish. And a plant. So I am justified in eating it. I would not, however, be able to kill a cow, or a chicken or a pig.
I respect people who hunt for their own food more than I respect almost anything. Its very commendable, and isn’t supporting an evil and wasteful industry.
@iwamoto: wasn’t there a Corn Nuts™ commercial like that a few years back?
i dont eat meat, because i just didn’t want to anymore, just like when i lost my faith, one day i just lost it, im thinking all the time, even when im trying to relax my mind races, i guess theat’s why it just happens
im not sure if i could kill an animal, but i dont wanna find out, i’d rather play with animals
@shock, no idea, im from europe ;)
fruits, vegetables, same thing. all a fruit or vegetable is is the ovaries of the seeds that come out of it, that grow into a fleshy substance. a sentinent being must comply with several rules: it must get its own nourishment, it must excrete its own waste, it must regulate its internal environment in order to comply with outside forces, it must be able to reproduce on its own and it must have a response to stimuli. aresponse is often expressed by motion, for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun or an animal chasing its prey, but not always.
mtl zack: you’re wrong. A vegetable requires killing the plant, a fruit doesn’t. Most fruit are meant to be eaten anyways.
the word vegetable is a culinary term, not a botanical term. in 1893 the u.s. supreme court made the tomato a vegetable just to support the new tarriff act at the time. however, a tomato is a FRUIT. vegetable is just a culinary term to put on a menu.
Great, well i’m speaking botanically. Culinary terms are really really stupid. Its just allowing ignorance.
Fruititarianism is intended botanically too.
yes yes, tomato, tom- a -to. what it all boils down to is: don’t eat meat.
Mtl Zack: I’m not really sure what you are trying to prove… just throwing wikipedia pages at people is hardly an argument. and unless you happen to be an expert in the field of botanical terminology, it might not be the best idea to start a food fight.
The word vegetable is derived from vegetation.
By the way, if you want to talk to an expert in the field of botanical terminology, or botany, I can call in my father, the man with a Ph.D in botany, as a reference.
so, to awnser my question, zack can’t do without meat because a tomato is a fruit?
That seems to be the consensus!
@ shockvalue: i learned about this precise argument of fruit vs. vegetable in my civics and law class. we practically spent an entire unit on this subject. im just tossing easy to read articles at people who may or may not understand the terms used in the actual records of that case.
@deliriam: wow, your father is a biologist :o does that make you a biologist as well? my dad is a biologist too. maybe we’re twins seperated at birth.
@iwamoto: this conversation has gone waaaay off topic. i eat meat because thats just what i do. if you’re not happy with it, then do whatever you want, but dont try to impose your beliefs on me. i can believe what i want to believe, just as you can believe what you want to believe.
read my opening question ;)
everyone should do what makes them happy
this is intense. I have been a vegetarian for 7 years. I was a huge meat eater before that. Like, two meals most days contained meat, usually. I never thought I could give it up, but I had been thinking about losing meat for a while, and after watching Michael Moore’s “Roger and Me” I knew I had to stop eating it. So I did.
The best way to go: breatharian.
Well, okay, maybe not.
I no longer eat meat; my diet is no one’s business. I feel fine.
Meat-free diet
- A large study offers the strongest evidence yet that a diet the government recommends for lowering blood pressure can save people from heart attack and stroke.
Researchers followed more than 88,000 healthy women for almost 25 years. They examined their food choices and looked at how many had heart attacks and strokes. Those who fared best had eating habits similar to those recommended by the government to stop high blood pressure.
The plan, called the DASH diet, favors fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk and plant-based protein over meat.
The response that you offer is a somewhat simple response, given without thinking, as seen also in the response to, “Hi, how are you,” “I’m fine, thanks, how are you doing?” In my opinion many folks don’t really give dietary choice a second glance unless they’re either forced to, or because they’ve been confronted with in in some fashion, such as the ethical treatment of animals or wanting to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
Eating meat, however, is a choice, it is a choice that each person has to make on their own, some do it with thought, some do it without thought. But I don’t consider myself a sort of vegetarian police officer, who has the right to go around asking everyone to defend their decision.
Sans anything with a face since 1987, and quite happy and healthy.
Vegetarians do taste better…
i seriously wonder how human meat tastes, i think it would be good if you fry it, but then again, i dont eat meat….
I don’t she meant it in the literal sense.
aaah ok, well, i have to agree, my smell is higher than that of my house mates, and smell is an important part of tasting…
lmao… I meant in the sexual sense!
hahaha, see, sometimes girls ARE perverts….or well, naughty sounds more women like….
It says it on the back of my car. I love how vague it is.
That may depend on who’s driving the car.
if i ever get a car…or a licence, i’d write down something like…“loco pedal ut metal” or a shark eating the christian fish
!!!! Iwa! I have a T-rex eating a jesus fish on the back of my car! Its SO CUTE. Its just looking happy and nomming away at it.
:D see, just what i like !!! do you have a picture of it?
Remind me through PM and i’ll take a picture of the back of my car for you. :D
damn, it says “moved or deleted” !
iwam really wants to see that trunk!
damn righ peedub, did you see that trunck? sooo cool, the rex, the vegitarian, even the apple logo, incredibly cool!
too bad the rest is password protected, oh well, maybe if it’s not too private and or raunchy she’ll PM me the pass, was that a hint?
I have little dinosaur stickers snuck in on the edges.
Hahahahahahaha, There’s a VERY good reason that its PW protected. And you WISH that I would send you the pw. ;P
ah well, it was my question to begin with, only thing is, i never get an awnser back on campfire, is it because im using safari? shouldnt be a problem right?
Meat qualifies as one of my meals each day. I would never be a successful vegitarian.
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