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Are you / Could you ever be a vegetarian?

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  • 29-04-2009 7:46pm
    #1
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭


    I say fair play to those who adopt this choice and can do it, but it would never work for me. I'm a true and true carnivore (omnivore if you count mushrooms and onions) and the mere prospect of life without eating meat is a nightmare not worth entertaining.

    So are you a vegetarian or do you live for meat? (ahem)

    Could you or would you ever become vegetarian by choice?

    How does a life without meat sound? 203 votes

    I do live without meat.
    0% 0 votes
    I could live without meat, may even do it someday.
    23% 48 votes
    I need my meat, it makes me who I am.
    15% 32 votes
    I actually eat only vegetarians, where do I fit in?
    60% 123 votes


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    #2
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    i am one of those freaks and have been for the last 20 years


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    #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    never... i don't see any point in it.

    i don't consider a meal a meal without some meat..


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    #4
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I was throughout my teens. I started eating chicken in my twenties, but thats pretty much it. Im thinking about going completely veggie again.


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    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    I'm an omnivore. I enjoy meat. It's not a large part of my diet, though, I really only have meat once a week or so lately, and a bit in my bolognaise.

    Humans need certain proteins from meat for proper development, whether vegetarians/vegans want to believe it or not. It also helps with brain development. If we weren't meant to eat meat, we would not have evolved as omnivores, we would've evolved as vegetarians.

    Plus anyone who can say no to a good barbecue is simply insane.


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    #6
    metaoblivia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    I tried a few times and failed each time. I can't help it. I just really love bacon.


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    midlandsmissus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    Archeron wrote: »
    I say fair play to those who adopt this choice and can do it, but it would never work for me. I'm a true and true carnivore (omnivore if you count mushrooms and onions) and the mere prospect of life without eating meat is a nightmare not worth entertaining.

    So are you a vegetarian or do you live for meat? (ahem)

    Could you or would you ever become vegetarian by choice?

    Ah great a topic after my own heart.

    I'm a veggie. Never really liked meat as a child, gave it up properly at 12. Never liked the taste of it. Girl I work with doesnt like the taste of it either so I dont think we're all born carnivores.

    I do it for moral reasons aswell, but have long learned to just stick to 'I dont like the taste of it ' if anyone asks, as if you give moral reasons people will argue with you to the death, when I really dont care what anyone else does. They're like 'do you eat this , do you eat this?' and eventually theyll get you to admit that you ate a cake containing eggs or something, and then go 'AHA you're not REALLY a vegetarian'.

    Bloody anti - vegetarian nazis.


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    #8
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Love steak, chicken and rashers too much to even think about a life without them.


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    midlandsmissus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    liah wrote: »
    I'm an omnivore. I enjoy meat. It's not a large part of my diet, though, I really only have meat once a week or so lately, and a bit in my bolognaise.

    Humans need certain proteins from meat for proper development, whether vegetarians/vegans want to believe it or not. It also helps with brain development. If we weren't meant to eat meat, we would not have evolved as omnivores, we would've evolved as vegetarians.

    Plus anyone who can say no to a good barbecue is simply insane.

    I've been a vegetarian since i was a child and I was consistently top of my class.

    So you're talking sh*te!

    You can get all the protein you need from other sources.

    Plus some of the strongest and biggest animals are herbivores, so it does no harm to you physically either.


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    #10
    bronte
    Registered Users Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    I've been vegetarian for the last 16 years. Christ! It's been that long already!


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    #11
    laurashambles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭laurashambles


    Haven't eaten meat since I was 13. Dead stuff freaks me out.


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    phasers
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    No meat = not a meal


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    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    midlandsmissus wrote: »
    you're talking sh*te!

    Yup, utter shíte...
    http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html

    Without meat we wouldn't be where we are today.

    It still helps kids obtain necessary nutrients in a much easier, more efficient manner today, since a lot of kids really only eat junk and won't eat a lot of "alternative" veggies that adult vegetarians would consume to make up for the lost nutrients you can get from red meat.


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    midlandsmissus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    liah wrote: »
    Yup, utter shíte...
    http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html

    Without meat we wouldn't be where we are today.

    It still helps kids obtain necessary nutrients in a much easier, more efficient manner today, since a lot of kids really only eat junk and won't eat a lot of "alternative" veggies that adult vegetarians would consume to make up for the lost nutrients you can get from red meat.

    Sorry Liah, I didnt mean to phrase my post so harshly ,

    Kids yeah might find it hard to get all they need from a vegetarian diet, you do need to put a little bit of thought into it


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    #15
    Lilyblue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Lilyblue


    Meat doesn't "make me who I am" but I do love it and couldn't be without it!


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    #16
    az2wp0sye65487
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    No meat, No eat

    Simple as that.

    When going for dinner at a vegetarian's house, be sure to make them aware of your special dietary requirements that you will not eat a meatless meal...


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    Redpunto
    Registered Users Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭Redpunto


    Couldnt live without me quarter pounder and cheese - how much meat is in it is debatable.


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    #18
    Nature Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Nature Boy


    Been veggie for around 3 years.
    liah wrote: »
    Humans need certain proteins from meat for proper development, whether vegetarians/vegans want to believe it or not. It also helps with brain development.

    Fancy backing that up? Or did you just make it up yourself? EDIT: Sorry I see your link above!
    liah wrote: »
    If we weren't meant to eat meat, we would not have evolved as omnivores, we would've evolved as vegetarians.

    You obviously don't understand evolution. A more likely reason is that we started evolving towards becoming omnivores because it benefitted is at some point (e.g. it could have been out of necessity). What reasons do we have for eating meat now?


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    #19
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    the only meat that i really like would be steak

    everything else i could live without easily. id have steak maybe 5 times a year. i dont like the idea of vegetarianism if its based on absolutely anything other than simply not really liking meat


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    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Nature Boy wrote: »
    Been veggie for around 3 years.



    Fancy backing that up? Or did you just make it up yourself?



    You obviously don't understand evolution. A more likely reason is that we started evolving towards becoming omnivores because it benefitted is at some point (e.g. it could have been out of necessity). What reasons do we have for eating meat now?

    In this country? There probably isn't one.

    But in other less developed countries, it is a lot harder to get the required mass amount of "alternative" vegetables to make up the loss of meat in your diet. It is still very much of importance on a global scale in this particular stage in our evolutionary growth.

    As for the meat proteins thing, google it.


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    #21
    Snowie
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    read my sig


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    #22
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Thinking about it, if i found a dead baby / foteus in the fridge, i might consider giving it up.:eek:


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    #23
    b12mearse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭b12mearse


    I'm planning on becoming a raw vegan.


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    #24
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    i forgot i changed it no i eat meat i thin to deny my self meet is ethically incorrect...

    I eat meet i like eating meet its good for you :)


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    #25
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    Eliseo Round Yo-yo wrote: »
    No meat, No eat

    Simple as that.

    When going for dinner at a vegetarian's house, be sure to make them aware of your special dietary requirements that you will not eat a meatless meal...

    i cook a mean steak

    i would never invite people to my house for dinner and not feed them meat. that is just plain rude

    actually, i am on first name terms with my local butcher


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    #26
    Podge2k7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Podge2k7


    phasers wrote: »
    No meat = not a meal
    +1


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    #27
    slippy wicket
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭slippy wicket


    the very idea makes me gag.
    Anyone who has not eaten a big lump of steak extra rare hasn't lived


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    #28
    Disease Ridden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭Disease Ridden


    If I dont stop eating so much meat I'll end up being made out of the stuff


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    #29
    bnagrrl
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bnagrrl


    I couldn't live without steak.
    Chateaubriand... NOM NOM.


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    #30
    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    Been a Vegetarian for almost 10 years now, not dead yet and still not done with the "phase" as my parents like to call it.


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    #31
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Was off meat for over 3 years once, when I went back to eating it a friend of mine put it best when he said,

    "for 3 years you didn't eat a thing, now you'd pull a cow out over the ditch and eat it on the road"

    I think that says it all.:)


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