i'd like to be a vegetarian, but honestly i just love chicken too much xP

You are what you eat. Cows eat grass. I eat cows. Give me my vegan card!

Vegetarian for 42 years.

Yay for veggies. I've been vegan since I was 16.

I think I prefer eating vegans and vegetarians, since they usually taste WAY better! 


To be serious: I like eating both meat and vegetables, so I could cook steak one week but make a (vegan) vegetable stir fry the next.

I heard they taste like chicken!

I think the few-dozen results so far are enough to comment about 1/2 of those surveyed being on the Veg-spectrum.

Have those of you who are been so for a significant amount of time? If so, I may suggest this greater propensity towards Veg- living reflects an overall instinct towards compassion and nonviolence. (Those who go veg- for health reasons rarely stay so for life.)

I can't even go a day without meat. I rarely eat any fruit or vegetables.

Food for thought - it's widely accepted that eating more meat raises testosterone. There's thus the possibility that so many of us avoid it because of subconscious changes higher T brings about.

Obviously it's no replacement for puberty blockers; but, anecdotally, I found growing up vegetarian helped my physiology not... disfigure as much as it likely would have otherwise. For someone pre-transition, on the fence, and in their teens or 20's, a veg- diet may be worth considering.

I "went" vegetarian for 2 years to prove to myself I needn't be dependent on meat daily. I found it quite easy.
For a living, I actually prepare meals for a couple vegan families and am amazed at the cuisines that are primarily meat free - Indian, Moroccan, even a lot of Cuban meals substitute beans over meat.

I have very strong feelings about this. Animals have legs, and instinct tells them to run away from hungry looking varmints like me. They have a fighting chance. 

Poor vegetables on the other hand are immobile.  They have no teeth to defend themselves with. Sneaking up on some defenseless cabbage just seems....immoral.

Devlyn - The compassionate carnivore.

I've been a vegetarian for seven years, I started when I was eight. My primary school gave me meatballs and I refused to eat them

Last week, I tried bacon for the first time in seven years. I can tell you now I won't be a vegetarian for long 

I have been a strict vegetarian for a little over 29 years.  I have nothing against eating animals (it's what they get for being made out of tasty meat.)  I choose to avoid eating meat, fish and fowl for the benefit of my health and well being.

I do enjoy an occasional egg, and I am a big fan of cheese, though I very much moderate consuming dairy products because my body just seems to like it like that.

I stopped eating straight-up animal parts when I was a young teenager, but it took years to be consistent about it. I was never actually a fan of milk, but I didn't completely cut out dairy until I was at least 20. I only spent a few years in my early twenties being an "official" vegan and avoiding honey. I'm 33 now and I will overlook certain animal ingredients in medications or food that is gifted, but I try not to ever spend money on food or clothing made from animals.

I admit I have more feelings for some animals than others. Cows are easy to care about. Fish are easy to care about. Bees, I don't know. I can catch and stir-fry grasshoppers with no qualms at all, though I put them in the freezer first so when they are cooked they have a slower and dreamier hell. I will wear leather if it is second-hand, especially as I have a hard time finding good boots that fit me.

I don't usually want strangers to know how I eat, and if I have to mention it I keep it vague. I don't like talking about heavy concepts with strangers, so when I do have to talk about diet I try to stick to the idea that what I am doing is for my health. If nothing else, it would out me to explain that breastfeeding taught me how important it is for mammals to be allowed to follow primal urges without interference.

Devlyn, I know this was intended as a joke, but I find this really cynical. If you see how animals are treated by the meat and dairy and egg industry. Like the male chicks that are ground alive after hatching by the 100,000s because they don't have any value?

I'm not normally very vehement and ideological about veganism / vegetarianism, but this kind of "joke" gets to me, sorry.

You would have hated how my great grandmother slaughtered her meat. I'll spare you the details.

Anyway, people have different views on this stuff, and humor is very subjective. I laughed pretty hard at that joke. I really don't care if someone thinks that makes me a bad person. Because I care about and help out humans more than 90% of the population seems to. So I'm not very impressed by people who want to claim some moral highground because of their diet. If vegetarianism is something that makes you feel good, great. If you're willing to cut meat out of your diet because you feel eating it is wrong, I admire that you're willing to take a stand for something you believe in. But that doesn't mean I have to share the same opinion or sense of humor as you.

The OP strongly implied in an earlier post that she thinks vegans/vegetarians are more compassionate, something I personally took offense to, but I didn't say anything.

Well you may have noticed I only talked about how I felt about it. I wasn't claiming to be on some "moral highground" or attacking anyone.

Personally, I have way less issues with people killing animals they eat than with industrial meat production.

Anyway, out of here now. Don't want to derail this thread.

I'm sorry you didn't like the joke, just look around the forums, I promise you will find one you like!   

Hugs, Devlyn

Im an omnivore. even mice, dogs, raccoons and bears are omnivores.  That reminds me of an old Ren & Stimpy episode where they made a meat sandwich. Instead of bread they used toasted meat. Kinda gross but it was Ren & Stimpy. ;p

So yeah, I'm an omnivore.