I'd love to be able to go vegetarian, I'm a huge believer in animal right's.. But, uh, I can't. :shifty I like my steak, dammit.
December 4th, 2007 at 08:55am
But nobody needs meat. I might not know exactly what's in the pill, but do you know what's in the steak? Hormones, unhealthy hormones. I never said how you eat is cruel, I said the meat industry is cruel. There are places where animals are not killed in an inhumane way, eating that isn't cruel. Pills aren't natural, but are those hormones in that burger natural? No. And what about the milk and cheese? It isn't either. Those are also packed with hormones that were originally made for the cow to keep producing milk, to make it think it is still feeding a calf. So, now milk, and meat, is causing girls to begin maturing far before they naturally are.
- Dirty.LittleRockstar:
I do need meat. You don't know the health of everyone in the world so don't say that everyone doesn't need meat. If you want to be vegetarian go for it but don't push other people and tell them how they eat is cruel. Pills aren't natural and I refuse to run my life based on pills. If you want to have fifty different vitamin pills go for it, I think it's stupid. You don't know what is in the pill.
- Frazzle Dazzle:
You do not need meat. That is the biggest lie I have ever heard.
- Lovesick.:
Actually I've just read an article on how bad is it for kids not to eat meat or dairy products, especially milk when they are still young.
- Fallen From Grace:
You really don't need meat. Seriously. I was a vegetarian for years, and I am trying to be veggie again. My mum's a vegetarian and a doctor. There are other ways of gaining what you get from meat. I don't want to be vegan myself, because I think that's too restricted and it draws out too much of your diet, but you really don't have to have meat. You can do fine without it.
- Lovesick.:
- I've been vegetarian for about a month/month and a half and then gave up because I realized that you need to eat an equilibrating diet. You need meat too. About animal cruelty, dunno, in the EU there are pretty strict rules about that and most -if not all- animals are killed in such way they don't feel pain.
Just don't eat meat every day.
Also we actually do need meat. Meat is brainfood and our ancestors used to eat it and we still have the same genes as they did.
As a matter of fact my mum's a doctor too, and she's not a vegetarian and she was actually the one who stopped me from becoming one.
I would rather eat a stake than take a pill.
What is in meat that isn't in anything else? Why would you choose to eat a slaughtered animal before a pill? That's just cruel to me.
I have been vegetarian since the age of 12. And vegan since February '07. The meat industry is disgusting
...Have you ever heard of iron deficiency?
- Frazzle Dazzle:
- You do not need meat. That is the biggest lie I have ever heard.
What is in meat that isn't in anything else? Why would you choose to eat a slaughtered animal before a pill? That's just cruel to me.
I have been vegetarian since the age of 12. And vegan since February '07. The meat industry is disgusting
Unless it's organic. :cute:
- Dirty.LittleRockstar:
- You also kill bugs with pesticides from the plants you eat :D
Well I think that is bullshit.
- Lovesick.:
- Actually I've just read an article on how bad is it for kids not to eat meat or dairy products, especially milk when they are still young.
Also we actually do need meat. Meat is brainfood and our ancestors used to eat it and we still have the same genes as they did.
As a matter of fact my mum's a doctor too, and she's not a vegetarian and she was actually the one who stopped me from becoming one.
I would rather eat a stake than take a pill.
I'm not vegan but I agree.
- Rowan InkDemocracy:
Well I think that is bullshit.
- Lovesick.:
- Actually I've just read an article on how bad is it for kids not to eat meat or dairy products, especially milk when they are still young.
Also we actually do need meat. Meat is brainfood and our ancestors used to eat it and we still have the same genes as they did.
As a matter of fact my mum's a doctor too, and she's not a vegetarian and she was actually the one who stopped me from becoming one.
I would rather eat a stake than take a pill.
I've never eaten meat. I've been vegetarian since the day I was born as my parents were vegetarian and I'm perfectly healthy and manage to achieve good grades in school. So 'meat is brainfood' is rubbish, as I seem to get along just fine without it. You can make up for lost protein in pulses and lentils.
I was vegan for a few months but grew ill, so I will admit that as a young child, dairy foods are important for health, but meat isn't.
I accept that other people have different opinions, and I am willing to listen to them. I do not agree with eating meat, but it does not mean that I will not hear other people's point of view. But, no offense, but I think it is a little narrow minded to say that meat is 'brainfood'.
It depends on your diet. Meat provides protein, iron, zinc, B vitamins, selenium, vitamin D, and long chain omega-3s. (just red meat alone). It also depends on your body type, age and other factors on how much of each vitamin and mineral you need. If you can get them without meat or pills good for you.
- Dirty Mouth:
I'm not vegan but I agree.
- Rowan InkDemocracy:
Well I think that is bullshit.
- Lovesick.:
- Actually I've just read an article on how bad is it for kids not to eat meat or dairy products, especially milk when they are still young.
Also we actually do need meat. Meat is brainfood and our ancestors used to eat it and we still have the same genes as they did.
As a matter of fact my mum's a doctor too, and she's not a vegetarian and she was actually the one who stopped me from becoming one.
I would rather eat a stake than take a pill.
I've never eaten meat. I've been vegetarian since the day I was born as my parents were vegetarian and I'm perfectly healthy and manage to achieve good grades in school. So 'meat is brainfood' is rubbish, as I seem to get along just fine without it. You can make up for lost protein in pulses and lentils.
I was vegan for a few months but grew ill, so I will admit that as a young child, dairy foods are important for health, but meat isn't.
I accept that other people have different opinions, and I am willing to listen to them. I do not agree with eating meat, but it does not mean that I will not hear other people's point of view. But, no offense, but I think it is a little narrow minded to say that meat is 'brainfood'.
Plus why does everyone go on about pills? I've never ever had any type of pill, and I rarely eat meat. You do not need stupid amounts of pills if you do not want to eat meat, unless you have a deficiency of some kind which requires you to get extra iron.