Vegetarians

[Dirty Commie]

Any one other than myself a vegetarian?

[Sensitive]

I grew up around vegetarians, but I only consider myself to be about 90% veggie. I hate milk, but cheese is good. I guess it is mostly just a taste thing for me.

[Dirty Commie]

If you don't drink milk or eat cheese and eat no animal products you are a vegan

[Sensitive]

I eat cheese, beef and chicken maybe 5-10% of the time. I don't eat pork though. PORK IS EVIL!... According the religious-culture I grew up around anyway, hehe. =P

Even though I've been an atheist for 10 years, I still hate the taste of pork.

[hazard]

i was a vegetarian for like a year when I wa in high school. but then all the other vegetarians said I was just doing it to "fit in" with them. so I stopped. if they really cared about animals, like I did and still do, they wouldn't have cared why I became one at all. they should have been pleased that anybody refused meat, at all, for any reason.

i really only started ( I've always been a huge environmentalist but never motivated enough before this ) doin it because a girl I liked was one. same goes for smoking, drinking, shit. just about everything. that girl was somethin.

[Dhul Fiqar]

I don't eat meat, but I eat fish from time to time.

Oh, and I took a couple of bites of a turkey sandwich the other day and made a thread about it. It was disgusting ;)

--- G.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Quote: from Sensitive on 8:07 am on May 1, 2003
I don't eat pork though. PORK IS EVIL!... According the religious-culture I grew up around anyway, hehe. =P


Islam, Judaism? I'm asking because I'm curious whether there are Christian sects that outlaw pork...

It seems a lot of religions have a big beef with pork, har har, pun intended ;)

--- G.

[Comrade Daniel]

I don't eat meat nor fish, only flies which fly in my mouth when I'm cycling trough the forest.

[Felicia]

Quote: from Comrade Daniel on 1:22 pm on May 1, 2003
I don't eat meat nor fish, only flies which fly in my mouth when I'm cycling trough the forest.
A fly flew into my mouth once when I was a kid....... it was the grossest thing ever. I took the fly out and there were still legs on my tongue..eeeeewie

[Sensitive]

Quote: from Dhul Fiqar on 5:43 am on May 1, 2003


Islam, Judaism? I'm asking because I'm curious whether there are Christian sects that outlaw pork...

It seems a lot of religions have a big beef with pork, har har, pun intended ;)

--- G.
Yes, there is this horrifying Christian sect called Seventh Day Adventism that took the most annoying aspects of Judaism and Southern Baptism and combined them into one religion!

Don't eat meat.
Don't dance.
Don't do anything non-religious on Saturday.
Don't wear jewelry.

[Zombie]

I eat meat, i eat fruits, i eat vegetables, i eat and drink dairy products, i eat anything that doesn't smell like shit.

If you're going to tell me killing animals for food is murder, i couldn't care less, human lifes are more important to me than the cow's that ended up in my plate at lunch yesterday.
Animals devour each other for god's sake, i wonder why humans can't eat them too...

Yeah I'm cruel, get over it.

.Z.

[Dirty Commie]

Flies land in peoples mouths at my command, for I am their beloved leader.
Fur is murder
leather ain't no better
meat ain't neat.

I am listening to jimi hendrix and he rocks!

[Donut Master]

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?

I'm a carnivore and I love to eat animals.

[Soul Rebel]

I have been a hardcore VEGAN for 5 years and a vegetarian almost my whole life. I will be vegan until the day i die. Its something i am very passionate about. Animals dont have a voice so they need people to speak for them. They dont deserve the cruelty they go have to endure.

So basically I will never eat an animal or any of their products, i will never wear an animal, i will never use anything tested on animals or that uses animal products, i will never go to a circus, etc.

People this is just my opinion so dont think i am trying to shove it on you. I notice people are very sensitive about this and get angry for no reason. :)

[Dirty Commie]

Well donut master, humans are made of what I hear is very tasty meat, and you apparently eat a lot of donuts, add the age old truth that says 'you are what you eat' so logically, you are a meat donut. YUM!

[Sensitive]

Quote: from SenoraChe on 5:40 pm on May 1, 2003

People this is just my opinion so dont think i am trying to shove it on you. I notice people are very sensitive about this and get angry for no reason. :)I get this feeling that you want to rip the hamburger right out my hand! =P

NOOOO! MY STEAK!!!!!!!!!! GAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[Comrade Daniel]

Flies who fly in my mouth are probably flies who don't like it to live and commit suicide by flying into people's mouths.

[RAGING BULL]

My cat looks tasty.

[hazard]

i dont eat meat on fridays, unless I forget it is friday or am eating as a guest at somebody's house

[Dhul Fiqar]

Why on earth? Is that some christian thing?

--- G.

[CubanFox]

Hardcore Catholic thing, to my knowledge. I like being Protestant. It's Catholicism with out all the complex stuff.

[Moskitto]

Religions such as Judaism, Islam and Sheikism outlaw eating pork because pork was often contaminated with a dangerous food poisoning bacteria which could survive heat, so in a sense pork really was unclean.

[Dirty Commie]

Comrade Daniel, I am the Lord of the Flies.
Bow down.

[DISTURBEDrbl911]

i am trying to become more of a vegetarian, only eating meat occasionaly, but it is kind of hard living in a family that eats meat at every meal pretty much and who were raised that way, and it would be impossible to be a vegen, for i reside in the dairy state, and you gotta love cheese

[chaz171]

Vegetarianism is an ethical system. It holds animal life to be the standard of good. In this context, vegetarianism does not just mean those that don't eat meat. It is limited to those that do it as part of a particular ethical belief. The belief that it is "wrong" to eat animals.

Regardless of the reason for this belief, it causes an enormous problem for a code of ethics. As a standard of value, it doesn't answer how people should act. It acts as a limit on morality. Since it cannot answer the question of how to act, it relies on a second standard. Two standards, though, make rational choice impossible.

It may be claimed that vegetarianism isn't really an ethical system. Some may just accept it as an ethical principle, part of a larger system. But what system? The only ethical system that cares more about the lives of animals than humans is environmentalism, with its hatred of mankind. If the ethical principle does not conform to the ethical system, than it is immoral.

One claim to support vegetarianism is that it is wrong to kill living entities. This is a faulty induction based on a different ethical code. It can be shown that it is wrong to kill other human beings (under certain contexts). But to expand this to animals is nonsensical. Humans can work together to mutual advantage. They are capable of respecting each other's rights.

Further, if it is wrong to kill animals, why stop there? Why isn't it wrong to kill plants as well? Vegetarians sometimes argue that plants don't suffer. They don't have feelings. But this implies ethics is based on suffering. Under this premise, it would be okay to kill people if they were suffering.

Vegetarianism is a hodgepodge of faulty abstractions, irrational conclusions, and lack of logical vigor. It is a mind killer, though. It is so incoherent, any attempt to integrate it can only result in epistemological chaos. It screams that morality is absurd, and that anyone who takes it seriously is a fool.

[RedLenin]

Vegetarianism doesn't have to ethical. I'm a vegetarian for 1 reason. Because the animals are exploited for food that we don't need. It is actually much healthier to give up meat anyway. So animals are exploited and killed to satisfy our tastebuds. That is why I am a vegetarian.

[RevolutionarySocialist MadRedDog]

I'm a vegetarian...don't eat meat and fish...do drink milk, eat cheese and (biological) eggs though...

I am a vegetarian because I can't stand the process of cruel mass-production that exists right now.

[choekiewoekie]

I am a vegetarian also. When i lived on my own i was a vegan, but my friend didn't like that, and he was a vegetarian. So since we live together i am a vegetarian again.
For me being a vegetarian has nothing to do with the mass-production. Even if animals have a good life i don't approve of eating meat. Ofcourse the situation right now in west europe is awfull, it must be hell to be an animal and live here. :angry:
I will never say it in a conversation without being asked, but i simply cannot look at people eating meat without a feeling of contempt and disrespect. I know that might not be a very nice trait of caracter, but the feeling is simply too strong.
I must say, this feelings about meateaters only include the meateaters in the First World.

[freegirl]

I'm not a vegetarian, though I do plan on becoming one eventually. The thing is if I give up all bad habits at once I will crack and give up in two days, so I'm building on it gradually.

[Socialist_Smurf]

I completely understand the reasons for not eating meat, but why not cheese or milk? I've read somewhere that cows need to be milked and it does not injure them in anyway, so why no milk? Unless the cows would be placed in inhumane living conditions...or exploited somehow?...Am i answering my own question..insanity is confusing :D Anyway yes, so why no milk?

[Freidenker]

Vegan. I'm not that strict though. I don't care about being around meat eaters. I'm not all nazi like some vegans are that I know.

[Freidenker]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2005, 02:47 AM
I completely understand the reasons for not eating meat, but why not cheese or milk? I've read somewhere that cows need to be milked and it does not injure them in anyway, so why no milk? Unless the cows would be placed in inhumane living conditions...or exploited somehow?...Am i answering my own question..insanity is confusing :D Anyway yes, so why no milk?
Organic milk is fair and safe for the animals. But most milk is produced in factory farms where cows are constantly impregnated so they can constantly produce milk. It's unhealthy and often fatal to the cows health.

While organic milk, the animals are treated better, they aren't constantly impregnated, and they're overall healthier. No hormones or anything is used to speed up the cows growth and what not.

[Danielle]

I'm a vegetarian. I've tried to go vegan but it just doesn't agree with my body. I have been vegetarian for about 4 and half years I think. It's become such a normal thing to me that I feel like I've done it forever so I lose count.

[RiskyRhonda]

well i eat meat, but i only eat meat in a healthy way like a large steak, friggin gross. I eat what ever is healthy for my body. but i dont think that a bunch of vegiterian people are going to change anything with the way that animals and famred for food or they way that they are killed to obtain their meat. so i own a shirt that says " For every animal that you dont eat om going to eat three" and there is a picture of a monkey, a toocann, and a kawalla [sp? (on alot of stuff)] in a pan. i think its funny.

[_juggz_]

i used to not eat meat when i was still hindu (like 2 years ago) but i became atheist then and now i eat MEAT like whenever..but not at home cause my parents dont know im atheist

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Personally, I think Atheists have EXTRA reason to go veggie. With no afterlife or anything of the sort, and the knowledge that this is the only planet we've got, the only life we've got, safeguarding these things becomes something of a priority.

Seriously, given the choice between sausages and clean ground water, or between steak and superbugs . . .

[praxis1966]

Who comes to a leftist board and names themselves "juggz" anyway?