View Poll Results: Are you a vegetarian and why?

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  • Absolutely not! I love my meat!

    14 56.00%
  • I limit/refuse to use animal products for moral reasons

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  • I limit/refuse to use animal products for health reasons

    6 24.00%
  • I limit/refuse to use animal products for other reasons

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Thread: Vegetarian or Omnivore?

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    Default Vegetarian or Omnivore?

    From reading the opostings in the Vegetarians Unite Thread, I started wondering...How many of us are vegetarians, and why?

    For myself, I have several reasons. I never liked meat much anyway, then I quit red meat for health reasons. THen I gave up all meat for lent one year, and during that time, I had to do about half a dozen disections in my various college courses--including human cadaver work!! I became intimately acquainted with the insides of ALL kinds of animals. I tried to eat a little chicken at my Mom's house that Easter, and jsut could not do it! YUCK!

    Now I am becomming more aware of animal rights and the poor conditions under which many farm animals live. Consequently, I am becomming more concerned about the origins of my eggs, milk, etc.


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    Health reasons, spiritual reasons, and above all, environmental reasons.

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    I eat meat. I like it a bunch. But I certainly appreciate the arguments for limiting our, um, carniverous ways, the main one being the insane amount of resources it takes to produce, say, beef. I don't think I could ever be convinced it's morally wrong to eat meat. But I am rigorously conscientious about buying organic dairy and meat products--commercial dairy operations are pretty damn gross, to say the least. Vegetarians at least only have to worry about food additives and pesticides rather than hormones or E. coli.

    It's amazing I still eat meat considering that I've read The Jungle and Fast Food Nation, come to think of it. Thank god for Whole Foods.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward
    But I certainly appreciate the arguments for limiting our, um, carniverous ways, the main one being the insane amount of resources it takes to produce, say, beef.
    What recources?! You take baby cow , feed baby cow , then shoot big cow, , then knife cow and put the chunks in the freezer.

    I was kidding, I know what you mean Susan. I'm just in a cynical mood.

    I eat the hell outta veggies, but there is nothing better than a perfectly cooked rare steak. Unless you want to count lamb, chicken, fish, gator, bear, rabbit, deer or fowl.

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    I live in dairy country, and so I have been using animal products all my life. I am ashamed at the treatment of dairy cows, and the pollution produced by the dairy industry.
    Right now I'm trying to improve many parts of my life, and a reduction in animal- produced food is one move. In many countries, consumption of any kind of meat is limited, mostly because of economics. My grandmother had to split one chicken between eight kids so they could have a nice dinner in rural Mexico...often we forget how good we have it in the U.S....

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    I didn't get to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian

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    I am a vegitarian not because i love animals, but because i hate vegitables.
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