How many of you are vegetarians?

[WalkerInTheWoods]

Well, let me put it this way...
That is how much what you eat matters to me. .001%. Otherwise I think of you as a human being. Not a meat eater, not a vegetarian. It's not something that matters to me. I will not judge people based on what they eat. It's a concept I find too absurd.

Also, I never consumed much meat. And yes I did try to ween myself off with help from knowledgable vegetarians. Just believe me when I say It didn't work. You also missed a very huge point I made. I'm allergic to supplemental vitamin B12. So, what option does that leave me since it only occurs naturally in one thing? I have to eat meat.

I get very sick when I eat anything enriched with B12. Try to understand...it's also hard for me to make sure everything I eat doesn't contain certain things. I know the pain in the butt it is to avoid certain ingredients. I also have celiac disease and must do my very best to avoid gluten (guess how many things gluten is in ). I'm also highly lactose intolerant and allergic to half the vegetables in existence. I KNOW what a strict, altered diet is like. I know it so well that I've stopped eating out and when I eat at someones house, I just eat what I can. I'm not going to complain to people because I have a different diet.

I'm also a type 1 diabetic, and must count carbs religiously, and purchase items based on that. Understand that I must eat food like taking medicine. If I was to alter my diet one more time...I'd probably go insane.  :sad3:

And sometimes I do quite enjoy meat above all else. Because it's the one carbfree thing I can eat without having to inject insulin.

I'm actually exhausted with dieting and watching everything I eat. It's such a pain that I'm ready to go anorexic... :sad3:

I was not trying to "recruit" you, so I hope you didn't take it that way.    I understand. I read labels. I know that it is hard to avoid gluten, and many other things.

[falsetigerlimbs]

I'm not a vegetarian, but I could be very easily because I don't eat meat often at all.

I just don't like meat. If I eat beef especially, I feel nauseous afterwards. I will occasionally eat bacon, only if it's crispy, and only like a few times out of the year, because I don't come across it. It's not something I cook for myself.

I used to eat chicken, but even that repulses me now. Just the stringiness of it.

So I'm more of a vegetarian just because I'm a picky eater. Not because I feel bad for animals...although I say that...but the main reason I don't eat beef is because it looks too much like cow flesh. Chicken nuggets don't seem as bad.

My favorite food is salad. I love lettuce.

Ok rambling over.

[Doch]

I've been vegetarian  for a while now, but for the most part I was never a big meat-eater anyway. Aside from the nightmare that is factory farming, I realized that I was a hypocrite: I would never kill an animal myself ( unless perhaps my life depended on it) so why should some other person being doing the dirty work for me? No, it was a conscious decision that I had to make and I have felt really good since making that decision.

Additionally, over the long term I think that factory farming is unsustainable, and I'm hoping that it will end with the unraveling of globalization. So, to this extent it is probably better to start eating lower down the food chain anyway.

[WalkerInTheWoods]

My favorite food is salad. I love lettuce.

I use to like lettuce until I started using spinach in its place. Now I can't stand lettuce. Next time you make a salad try using spinach instead. Spinach has a lot more nutrients than lettuce  and is a lot better for you. I like its texture and taste better in salads (and everything else in my opinion).

[WalkerInTheWoods]

maybe you are eating the wrong types of lettuce.
I never eat iceburg but I love romaine. Romaine is my
favorite. Arugula is good too, very spicy. And I love mache.

LOL Maybe I should not have said I can't stand it. Iceburg is not worth buying reguardless of how cheap it is. Romaine and Arugula are good, for lettuce.   I don't think I have ever had mache. I will have to look into that.

I still prefer spinach, though.  

[falsetigerlimbs]

I don't like spinach. I'm really picky about textures, and I don't like the texture. Or the taste for that matter.

I love romaine lettuce though. My parents always buy iceberg but I insist on getting separate lettuce.

[WalkerInTheWoods]

But it is really good for you. Look what it did for Popeye!

[Nay]

Yeah!  He has a mishapened mouth,  freakously huge forearms, smoking problem, anger problem, romance problems and stutters.  Bring on the spinach!    :justkidding:

[WalkerInTheWoods]

Yeah!  He has a mishapened mouth,  freakously huge forearms, smoking problem, anger problem, romance problems and stutters.  Bring on the spinach!    :justkidding:

Yeah, the things you have to do to get on tv.  

Did you ever see The Family Guy episode with Popeye? That was funny.

[Nay]

Yeah, the things you have to do to get on tv.

:rotfl: :rotfl:  What did Olive Oil ever see in him?  

I don't know why I can't sit through a whole episode of the family guy...  the dog ticks me off..LOL.   My son, however,  told me about an episode where they were making fun of poltergiest and that sounded funny as heck!  I do want to catch that one.