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2009-10-25, 19:16 | Link #262 |
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I love animals
I also love eating meat I don't understand 'Veggies' and will make no effort to do so, 'Veggies' don't understand me and will make no effort to do so ...All is well with the world
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2009-10-25, 19:18 | Link #263 |
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That's not true, I understand quite well. You like shit so you eat shit, I do the same thing. My position may have been initially because of religion but considering my current state of agnosticism, my mom even said I can eat w/e I want if I choose to, I choose not to because I just don't like it. Also considering my dad's chemical analysis of his blood (cholesterol check I suppose), doc said he has the health of a 20 year old (he's in mid 50s). Pretty sure his diet has to do with it
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2009-10-25, 19:30 | Link #264 |
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Wish a mod would come clean out all the troll posts in this thread, like they did with the gay marriage thread.
I knew it'd get trolled when I posted the thread initially, but we did get a lot of good discussion in here and I definitely feel like I better understand the perspective of those people who are vegetarian out of moral concerns.
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2009-10-25, 19:32 | Link #265 | |
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2009-10-25, 20:44 | Link #268 |
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I fully and utterly respect vegies, and some time wish i took that road. But honostly spinach, celery, broccoli, and varies assortments of fruits, and vegetibles, taste so God Danm Nasty. And i'm sure you could say the same for varies meats. But really arn't we just living the Cirle Of Life, survival of the fittest. Don't animals do it every day in the wild, and are we not but animals our selves. Then again their are animals that eat only vegetables. So we could neccessarily eat any of which.
Also vegeies can not neccessarily be considered healtheir than meats, which resort in long life. Since if eaten in correct value and prepared correctly, meat can result in very fitting health. But personally i think humans, being born with teeth and a digestive system capable of both plant and meat consumption, should enjoy the mixture of the two (which is found in most homes). But what do I know.
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I personally believe in living according to nature, but not in this context.
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2009-10-25, 21:36 | Link #270 |
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I don't particularly like nature. It's dirty, it's smelly and it's wet and cold. Or hot and dry. I'm always kind of in awe at people who get nature and can understand animals and the natural world.
Of course, they're also in awe at how I can tear apart, fix, and reassemble various bits of electronics without even a manual. Different people are different. ^^; @SoulCorpse: Not liking spinach is a crime. You horrible person you. Try eating fresh spinach and see if that changes your mind about the flavor.
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2009-10-26, 00:36 | Link #275 | |
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I eat meat. I don't have a particular reason to be a vegetarian. Also, I love meat. It is a crucial, tasty part of my diet. Of course, veggies can do what they want; I don't think they're harming anyone, and it's a perfectly normal personal choice. Some health benefits too, but also negatives that require you to balance out your meal a lot more. Protein, for example: soybean's a great source, but it doesn't provide all that the body needs. I do...dislike...how some like to do haranguing against meat-eaters though. On the other hand, I agree wholeheartedly with some arguments about the rather brutal conditions of some livestock industries. They aren't just unnecessary animal cruelty, but also human health threats and reductions in the quality of the meat. Mad cow disease shouldn't be nearly as troublesome as it is if the meat industry actually gives a damn and proper regulations put in place... But the lobby alliance is too powerful, eh. You can't easily defeat a lobby backed by the entire "Fast Food Nation" empire eager for cheap, easily processed raw materials to fuel the machine. **** I have some questions for the vegetarians in this thread though: I know there's a gray area for seafood, eggs, and milk, and some are more "stringent" than others. You've probably answered this before somewhere in this long, meandering thread, but if it's okay: how do you fit in that spectrum, and why? Quote:
Spinach is a wonderful, wonderful vegetable. Good fresh, yet easy to cook. You can of course cook it wrong and make it bitter, but it shouldn't be. |
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There are vegetables which also contain similar proteins advantageous to muscle growth and more to the point red meat is not the best source for those proteins... try turkey (twice the protein with less than half the fat). >.> |
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Tons of people I know have kids who say they hate broccoli, until I told them how to cook it properly. Now their kids eat broccoli, asparagus, green peas, everything. Cooking a vegetable till it turns brown and mushy, no wonder people don't like them. You have to cook them carefully, and never overcook!
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2009-10-26, 04:17 | Link #279 |
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^You speak my heart right there! Honestly, I really feel the same about broccoli -- so many people don't know how to cook them. Broccoli, properly cooked, is great. Broccoli boiled unceremoniously until bitter makes me feel sick.
American cooking in general is pretty horrible against vegetables. So unimaginative, so bland. No wonder everybody's unhealthy around here. "Ethnic" cooking, as the myriad of human experiences other than Aunt Jemima's-style cooking is known (we shan't consider fast "food"), tend to be so much more creative in their uses of vegetables. People speak so much about health issues in the USA, yet I think the problem is with a very simple thing: our food. What we eat, how we cook it, etc. Solve it, and we're halfway there. Oh, but I'm getting off-topic here. To pretend I was actually kind of on topic, I'd say that being a strict vegetarian is, to me as an eater at least, pretty awkwardly limiting. Oyster sauce -- which I assume is off-limits to veggies who don't go for seafood as well -- is wonderful with vegetables in Chinese cuisine. Of course, vegetarians might not see it the same way. As I would never feel left out of life because I've never eaten a monkey's penis, so I assume they would feel the same about the cuisine I love so much. |
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I have a friend who used to be a meat eater and switched to being a veggie who wouldnt even eat sweets with gelatine in them (no roundtrees for her heheheh). She says she doesnt miss anything about it but I myself can NEVER go without meat because I am Nigerian and most of our foods have meat in them and I have yet to meet a vegetarian Nigerian and when I was younger the meat of the food would be almost the only thing I would eat because I didnt want anymore bites. (Of course now I always want more bites of the food than there is in my plate...) Now I have a hankering for jollof rice the nicest of all rice
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