eating meat or being vegetarian

KCourtnee said:
I love meat! Chicken, fish, turkey, beef, YUM!
BUT! I also love my fruits & veggies <3
Broccoli, corn, carrots, green beans, pinto beans, black beans, grapes, peas, cauliflower, cherries, strawberries, blueberries, spinach, sweet potatoes, you name it, I most likely love it :D
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strawberries are my life, theyre so good.
 
I do love veggies, but living without Pork? uh no thanks.
 
Strict vegetarian and on-off vegan (health reasons keep me from being vegan full time)
 
Due to health reasons I cannot become vegetarian or vegan- I stayed with my Aunt for a month a few years ago and she's a strict vegan and she's rather stereotypical in her ways and shoves her veganism down your throat, in that month my health severely deteriorated and she refused to let me eat any animal products so my diet was thrown way off :(

After that I realised that if I want to be as healthy as is possible for me I have to have meat and other animal products in my diet.

Also, I don't understand vegans who make their pets have a vegan diet?
 
xiaonu said:
I'm a really picky eater, so this would be impossible for me or I'd end up starving. My main food groups are grains and white meat. Not a fan of many red meats.
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As much as I would LOVE to help take down the horrible meat industry and their abusive ways, I just sadly can't. I also have SED, so taking out meat or diary products in my diet would make me extremely malnourished.
I will now try to eat organic meat, and hopefully once a week.

I also decided not to buy leather or wool anymore. ;;
 
Colour Bandit said:
Also, I don't understand vegans who make their pets have a vegan diet?
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Ugh. I can't stand people like that. They're always the same people who push their veganism onto people, too. I always see people saying, "If you want a pet with a vegan diet, get a rabbit." No. If you want to push your diet onto a pet, don't get a pet period because I frankly can't see you taking care of that animal either.

As for me, I'm vegetarian. I became a pescetarian in 2009 and a full vegetarian a year later.

I thought about being a vegan for a little while, but decided against it. Although any animal products (mostly honey, eggs and yogurt) I do eat will definitely come from local farmers. Besides, buying honey is good for said local beekeepers anyway. I don't understand people who say that eating honey is bad. Having bees in the world is actually good.
 
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I used to be a vegetarian for 2 years. Now I'm Pescatarian. I'm not a huge fan of meat unless it's fish/seafood. There are some things I miss but for the most part...I feel better when I don't eat pork, beef, chevon, and chicken. The cruelty, conditions, and chemicals used in livestock is another factor. Though I've never been a huge meat eater even as a child.
 
SonatinaGena said:
Besides, buying honey is good for said local beekeepers anyway. I don't understand people who say that eating honey is bad. Having bees in the world is actually good.
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Yes. Without bees, there would be no pollination, and that's something that we need on this planet.
Plus, honey (natural pure honey) is very good for you. Eating a tablespoon of honey before going to sleep is good for your body, especially your liver. (I'm a health freak so I'm all about doing things that are good for the body)
 
KCourtnee said:
Yes. Without bees, there would be no pollination, and that's something that we need on this planet.
Plus, honey (natural pure honey) is very good for you. Eating a tablespoon of honey before going to sleep is good for your body, especially your liver. (I'm a health freak so I'm all about doing things that are good for the body)
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Right, we need them. But still Americans do everything to rot them out. Thanks to monoculture, immense number of chemicals and pesticides (Monsanto is another important factor here).
'murica...... smh
Their agriculture is dependent on European bees they have to import every year(!)
(Bees are not native to the American continent anyway)

This movie / documentary is SO important to wholly grasp this topic:


Edit: I'm vegetarian / part time vegan and don't consume honey.

The level of ignorance in this thread is insanely high.
 
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I honestly don't know why you're blaming only the USA for cruelty to bees.

"Top Five Natural Honey Producing Countries
(in metric tons)
Rank Country 2010 2011 2012
1 China 401,000 431,000 436,000
2 Turkey 81,115 94,245 88,162
3 Argentina 59,000 74,000 75,500
4 Ukraine 70,873 40,311 70,134
5 United States 80,042 67,294 66,720"
 
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I'm very picky when it comes to food. I mostly only eat chicken, ground hamburger(tacos, hamburgers, etc), and bacon. Can't stand steak or porkchops. Absolutely hate hate HATE veggies.
 
Think of all the innocent plants that vegetarians kill each year.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I could probably live pretty easily without eating meat. When I was younger I told my parents I didn't want to eat meat anymore because it meant killing animals, but back then I was younger and didn't know what I was talking about. Killing animals for fun is something that I don't agree with, but killing them for food is fine by me.
 
Lafiel said:
I honestly don't know why you're blaming only the USA for cruelty to bees.

"Top Five Natural Honey Producing Countries
(in metric tons)
Rank Country 2010 2011 2012
1 China 401,000 431,000 436,000
2 Turkey 81,115 94,245 88,162
3 Argentina 59,000 74,000 75,500
4 Ukraine 70,873 40,311 70,134
5 United States 80,042 67,294 66,720"
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Yep, the US doesn't produce a lot of honey, because they need most of their bees for pollinating plants. The other countries don't rely on import bees for agriculture, so they have enough resources to produce honey. I don't blame only the US; bees are dying worldwide, but the numbers in the US are significantly higher than they are in most other countries.

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Yui Z said:
Think of all the innocent plants that vegetarians kill each year.
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Well, except that omnivores "kill" way more plants than vegetarians.
 
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