I've been a vegetarian since sixteen years ago, but I try not to be too uptight about it. I'll eat meat if it's an animal I've never tasted, and once every few years i eat steak (I love it raw even though that's dangerous), and sometimes I do gumbo even though it makes me sick every time. At home I'm mostly vegan but I'm a freegan/opportunivore and I try not to turn down things with dairy and eggs if they drop out of the sky. I try to be normal and I don't spend much extra on premade vegan stuff.

In real life though I do tend not to tell anybody. The responses to that info are often mean.

Yep, been a vegetarian since 2008.  Will likely be one the rest of my life.  I have absolutely no desire to ever eat meat again.  I'd probably be sick if I tried.

Nah, if anything I am anti-grain. I eat lots of fruit and veg with a little meat, but rarely does a grain or a sugar or flour enter my body.
I try and buy clean meats, like wild fish as opposed to factory farmed.

Quote from: Felix on October 01, 2012, 05:55:31 AM
I'll eat meat if it's an animal I've never tasted, and once every few years i eat steak (I love it raw even though that's dangerous),

If you just seal the edges of steaks then it's perfectly safe and although I've never tried it I'd guess it wouldn't change it that much.  Because it's a slab of meat the bacteria can't get all the way through like it can in burgers and sausages and other products that have been minced and squashed back together.  Might be worth trying next time.

I'm a meat-eater through and through.  I can't imagine a world without meat, I very rarely go a day without eating some form of meat.  Vegetables alone just don't do it for me, and bacon.  Life without bacon would be pointless.

I am still an omnivore but slowly becoming more vegitarian as well.  The only meat I can eat on a consistant basis is white meat chicken these days.  I think its very hormonal, changing the way things taste in my mind, but a salad with a really fatty dressing and butter croutons seems more appetizing these days.

My gf's dietary habits are changing me as well, she makes really delicious looking vegitarian food x3


By vegitarian means no meat, not the kind that stays away from cheese and other animal byproducts.  As long as it wasn't actually a physical chunk of the animal xD

I used to get chicken cutlet parm, not I get Gnocci with tomato or alfredo sauce.  Its delicious, and leaves you with the same consistancy of meat while it being potato pasta.  Alfredos tyle is like the best tasting mac n cheese ever.  In fact I am getting some tonight since I will be at work a few extra hours.

Quote from: Alex000000 on October 01, 2012, 06:30:59 PM
Life without bacon would be pointless.

I'm a bacontarian. I only eat bacon.

Alex what do you mean about sealing the edges? I think if I got free range stuff from non-kosher slaughterhouses I might could be okay on the ethical end and if I only did it once in awhile (and didn't add grease and salt) I could be okay on the physical health end. Direct safety concerns would be nice to resolve.

Part of my issue is not just that I have a bleeding heart soft spot for mammals, but that most of my blood relatives are fat and diabetic and have heart disease. A lot of them live to be very old, but a lot of them don't, and none of them are pretty along the way.

Quote from: Felix on October 03, 2012, 07:02:26 AM
Alex what do you mean about sealing the edges? I think if I got free range stuff from non-kosher slaughterhouses I might could be okay on the ethical end and if I only did it once in awhile (and didn't add grease and salt) I could be okay on the physical health end. Direct safety concerns would be nice to resolve.

I don't know the proper terms for cooking (I'm no chef but my parents are...) but because bacteria is only going to be on the outside of a solid lump of meat like steak (doesn't include poultry or pork though) as long as the edges are cooked at a high temperature to kill off any bacteria that might be on them it'll be perfectly safe to eat.  I've never tried it, or eating it raw, but I can't imagine just slapping it on a griddle (a frying pan in a domestic kitchen I suppose) for a few seconds would make any difference to the steak in general apart from making it safer to eat.  I hope that makes sense.

As long as you sear the outsides your pretty much good when it comes to steak.  Obviously if you chop beef up you have to cook it well, rare hamburgers are dangerous.

I like my steaks medium, just the right amount of tasty juicyness and the right bite to it.  Anything rare-medium rare is to soft and gooey for me.

Quote from: big kim on October 03, 2012, 04:13:12 PM
Not a strict vegetarian i will eat fish and if society gets like mad max I will eat meat again just prefer not too.I love cooking people ask me if being a vegetarian is boring, if you eat cauliflower cheese every day it would be. The past week I ate goulash, cottage pie, sausage and mash, pasta, curry, chilli Thai curry and Chinese sweet and sour Quorn stir fry.

XD

I'm sorry, but that was really funny. 

Quote from: Alex000000 on October 03, 2012, 12:52:19 PM
I don't know the proper terms for cooking (I'm no chef but my parents are...) but because bacteria is only going to be on the outside of a solid lump of meat like steak (doesn't include poultry or pork though) as long as the edges are cooked at a high temperature to kill off any bacteria that might be on them it'll be perfectly safe to eat.  I've never tried it, or eating it raw, but I can't imagine just slapping it on a griddle (a frying pan in a domestic kitchen I suppose) for a few seconds would make any difference to the steak in general apart from making it safer to eat.  I hope that makes sense.

Yes it does, thank you.

Quote from: big kim on October 03, 2012, 04:13:12 PM
Not a strict vegetarian i will eat fish and if society gets like mad max I will eat meat again just prefer not too.I love cooking people...

Wouldn't that make you a humanitarian?

Quote from: dalebert on October 02, 2012, 10:45:31 AM
I'm a bacontarian. I only eat bacon.

I have expanded my diet to include things that have been cooked with bacon grease.

Quote from: TessaM on September 30, 2012, 12:48:35 PM
Im vegetarian, practically vegan. I stopped eating meat for a variety of reason (poultry and fish included). The number one reason for me was not necessarily the morality behind eating meat (I dont like factory farms as much as any other vegetarian) but rather the health reasons. They inject cows with a bunch of hormones. The meat is dirty, not cared for properly. What the hell, and were then putting that in our bodies? Have you seen how unnatural chickens look after all those hormones are injected into them? And what about all those farmed fish... so much mercury in them! For my own sake, I stay away from eating anything that once lived, and I think twice about eating other things that had at one point come form animal.

I had been vegetarian for some 15 or so years mostly because of the reasons Tessa mentioned above ^

What made me want to start eating meat again was the continual "better than you" attitude I saw in the veg/vegan community. God I got so sick of it I didn't even want to be in any way associated with it. I know not everyone is like that but I just seemed to run into it over and over and over. Evey time I would go to areas where there happened to be a lot of veg people it was just overwhelming. My viewpoint was always that it was a personal choice what you ate. It wasn't a "lifestyle", I never thought eating honey was an utter tragedy, I wore leather, I never told anyone else I was "better" than them because I didn't eat animals and no matter what anyone says I do not believe we can all save the earth if everyone went to a veg diet.   

I still rarely eat meat and red meat does not agree with me at all, but I'm not calling myself a vegetarian anymore. I won't eat meat out in restaurants unless I know for sure it's organic/free range/not injected with crap. And of course anything I eat at home is absolutely 100% organic/free range/not injected with crap.

Quote from: dalebert on October 02, 2012, 10:45:31 AM
I'm a bacontarian. I only eat bacon.

Bacon was my "gateway" meat...

Quote from: insideontheoutside on October 05, 2012, 12:56:25 AM
What made me want to start eating meat again was the continual "better than you" attitude I saw in the veg/vegan community. God I got so sick of it I didn't even want to be in any way associated with it. I know not everyone is like that but I just seemed to run into it over and over and over. Evey time I would go to areas where there happened to be a lot of veg people it was just overwhelming. My viewpoint was always that it was a personal choice what you ate. It wasn't a "lifestyle", I never thought eating honey was an utter tragedy, I wore leather, I never told anyone else I was "better" than them because I didn't eat animals and no matter what anyone says I do not believe we can all save the earth if everyone went to a veg diet.   

This is my problem almost exactly. I still don't want to eat meat (I rarely do but if I have to it's usually sushi... it's just so darn tasty!) but that 'holier than thou' attitude just drives me up the wall. I think of other vegetarians as being like my drunken brother. Sure I'm glad he's out there, I just don't always want to readily acknowledge I know him, haha! I mean, if someone attacks them I'll defend, but if they're just out there being arrogant, I suddenly have better things to busy myself with. I have a hard time admitting to strangers I'm veg because of that attitude. My other problem, though, is the constant teasing from carnivores. The incessant 'oh, well, you can't eat that, it was cooked in the same building as a cow, har har'. My co workers are always picking fun, but if we ever have a day where we don't get a lunch break and order pizza, someone always says, "Order a cheese too!" for me. It's kinda nice, and I know they care/respect my decisions (well, most of them), but I pay for it with the constant teasing 

A pizza with Jalepenos, onions, green peppers and if your daring pineapple.  Will stop them in their tracks xD I have mines wit' pineapple.

If I do have meat on my pizza its with BBQ sauce, chicken, bacon, Onion, and pineapple.

I eat anything that moves or does not move, death or alive, cold or hot, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, AND IN BETWEEN, It make no differnce. The only two things that I will only eat under duress are rHubbard and pumpink pie, yuK!

Let me see, to gross you out, I am going to describe some of the most unsual organims that have gone down my hatch: steemed spider legs (tarantula), fried white bettles (sans wings), boiled giant earth worms, white maggots (1/2 inch) (sans eyes), marine and terrestrial snakes, parrot, monkey, seal, horse, bull testicle (Rocky mountain oysters), bull penis (sopa de manguera), guine pigs, star fish, sea urchins, light seared medusa (Jelly Fish), and last but not least, the pages of a good quality bible.

Oh my god O_o /puke through eye sockets

Ok Peky, this is just weird.

I am not a vegetarian but I might become one after reading Peky's post.

--Jay J