Any vegetarians here?>

[cosmonaut]

Would you like to share why you went veggie and how you feel its worked out for you?

I'm thinking of going Veggie, and would be interested to hear of others experiences.

Cheers

[trinity1]

I went veggie a few years ago because I thought the evidence supporting the fact that humans are supposed to be vegetarians overwhelming. I also don't like the way that animals are treated in preparation for being slaughtered for our table, not to mention the health risks involved in eating something as nasty as chemical-injected rotting flesh. :D

I feel a lot healthier since being veggie. But you have to make sure you replace the meat with pulses, nuts and veggies rather than bread and dairy products.

Go for it, you'll be glad you did.

[jimijams]

Ditto! I been thinking the same myself recently, although I love a good steak I think vegetarianism is a healthier and more aware choice..

Besides the inhumanity of factory farming, livestock are the planets greatest producers of greenhouse gasses(methane)a fact conveniently overlooked by the MSM..

[eternal_spirit]

I've been vegetarian for about 8 years maybe longer, it's a good way to stay thin, recent studys have shown it's healthier less colestrol no build up of fat in the colon and many other health benefits go read this.
www.vegetariansociety.com or www.vegansociety.com if you really want to know the facts.
The hard part is reading the labels at the shops but you get used to it after a while more and more products have the vegetarian symbol on the packets these days. :D

[cosmonaut]

cheers

The mass brutal farming and killing of animals is horrible, theres no need.
My own laziness and denial has blinded me from it too long all along.

[jimijams]

I've been vegetarian for about 8 years maybe longer, it's a good way to stay thin, recent studys have shown it's healthier less colestrol no build up of fat in the colon and many other health benefits go read this.
www.vegetariansociety.com or www.vegansociety.com if you really want to know the facts.
The hard part is reading the labels at the shops but you get used to it after a while more and more products have the vegetarian symbol on the packets these days. :D
And according to a recent study vegetarians on average have a higher IQ..

High IQ link to being vegetarian
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6180753.stm

[cannibalised peta veteran]

Would you like to share why you went veggie and how you feel its worked out for you?

I'm thinking of going Veggie, and would be interested to hear of others experiences.

Cheers

judging by your picture your in tip top shape
why would you want to risk that??

[cannibalised peta veteran]

cheers

The mass brutal farming and killing of animals is horrible, theres no need.
My own laziness and denial has blinded me from it too long all along.

lest not forgot the brutal killing of humans for food too :mad:

[cosmonaut]

i was born one
trust me
i'm fucking worthless

no worries, I'll take you on your word

[eternal_spirit]

Go read the facts.............^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^up a few posts^

[cannibalised peta veteran]

i like to wank off homeless people when i'm not posting shit on this cocksuck of a forum

poor boy :(

[eternal_spirit]

I have meat and two veg in my pants, that's for the girls only sorry boy.

[cosmonaut]

lol moderators, forget the "forum spammer" title nonsense, just have him banned.
You think he's going to settle down and comply? :D

You lot criticise and piss off members and imply them being trolls yet piss around when the real thing does come about.

[ennui]

Yes I am a veggie. I had excema for years but I got rid of it by changing my diet. I'm actually on a vegan/sugar-free diet right now which I do every now and then as a sort of detox.

[freakonate]

I am still in transition.

But if you are serious about becoming a vegetarian...You most deffinately need to look into the raw food/vegan teachings of David Wolf at www.rawfood.com.

I highly recommend his book "The Sunfood Diet Success System" 2006 Edition.

Check out the reviews on Amazon.

[light worker]

I have been a vegetarian since I was 7 and would like to add to this thread that as a supposedly evolved species humanity should be vegetarian. The dietary implications of the subject are only one factor. In terms of morality and spiritual fortitude it is imperative one understands that to kill for food out of necessity is one thing but to have someone else kill for your food out of a craving is quite another. The manner in which animals are bred to be killed on mass for our "civilised" world is one of the things that has always troubled me.

[ho1ogram]

I was raised on meat, veg and sugar. I went veg and then vegan for about six years from the age of twenty. Now I am back on meat. I found it wasn't quite right for me. I feel my genetic programming over rode my desire to exclude myself from the meat industry. For a long time being veg just didn't feel right even though intellectually I was adament it was the 'right' thing to do.

I began on meat again after three times being mistakenly given meat meals. I took it as a sign that I was meant to eat it, for the moment anyway. I can feel myself changing and have been reducing my meat consumption accordingly. I don't worry about the ethical concerns now, I just trust my instincts.

I feel I have to overcome the dna embedded program from my ancestors x amount of lifetimes of eating meat.

When I was vegeterian and then vegan, I became very one eyed and self righteous about it, and enforced my opinion and beliefs onto others. I was also very upset that everybody else was a part of the slaughter and destruction of gaia and her creatures.

Now I have a different perspective on 'life'. I would love to be veg again, but I'll know when/if the time is right. There is a lot more to this world than following what we are told is the 'right' way to live.

I have met many bigoted vegetarians, and many beautiful meat eaters.

I just feel better; more clear headed and healthier eating meat. BTW I didn't experience all the health benefits that were put forth by the veg promoters. Especially the one about meat rotting in your gut. I actually find it easier going to the toilet as a meat eater. I was more constipated as a veg. I think that had to do with vibrational blockages because of the rigid mind set I was carrying around.

But that's just my experience. One of my friends has been vegan for twelve to fifteen years and has no probs with it. He has a similar ancestry to me too. Everyone's different.

[eternal_spirit]

I stopped eating meat 16 years ago, then went back to eating meat on and off until about 8 years ago then became a vegan for about 2 years.

It's not easy being Vegan, getting enough vitamin D from natural sunlight isn't easy in the winter here in the UK. I found it difficult to find the right food as a vegan, so became veggie again( cheese eggs) But I have issues with dairy products and the treatment of the animals producing dairy.
I may try and be vegan again soon.

The endless bullying and stupid comments i have had and still get from meat eaters is almost beyond belief! I know my choice to be veggie is the right choice, I'm doing something good and being kind to animals etc.

I think deep down most meat eaters feel guilty and they express thier guilt and turn it into anger on the vegetarians.

My immune system is stronger, I never catch a cold or any viruses anymore
unlike all the none veggies I know are always ill with something, my teeth are in better shape unlike the none veggies who are always at the dentist.

Why eat meat when you have a choice not to? A cat or dog for example is a natural hunter and eats for survival it can't go the supermarket and buy quorn and veggie burgers!

[dinachick]

I will still have fish or chicken especially if I am dining out and not much veggie choice, otherwise most other times am veggie with egg and dairy. I found cooking East Indian vegetarian gives alot of balance and flavor with a variety of veggies and spices. One does have to go easy on the rice and dal poori and not use too much oil as alot of the veggie ( and meat) dishes start out with onions ginger and garlic and various spices etc fried in a little oil to get the flavors out, then add veggies. Nothing is ever steamed or bland. Madhur Jaffrey and Hare Krishna cookbooks taught me how as well as travel to an Island whose cuisine is Indian and Creole.

[bicycle]

VEGETARIANS are being urged to eat each other after it emerged their own gas was now the major cause of global climate change.


New research by the Vegetarian Society shows vegetarian emissions are responsible for more than 80 per cent of the most potent greenhouse gasses.

The Society is telling its members to start eating themselves immediately or they will kill all life on the earth “with their wind”.

Dr Stephen Malley, head of research at the society, said: “Vegetarian gas is a particularly harmful emission fuelled by an explosive mixture of lentils, mung beans and sawdust.

“You sit in a vegetarian restaurant and see a kindly old man in sandals quietly letting a stinky one off in the corner, I see a planet killing machine.

“It is no exaggeration to say that we are being killed by the mass effluence of trendy westerners.”

Dr Malley said the society had abandoned its policy of urging people not to eat cows after they realised that not eating them would not actually make them go away, and that cow farts were not that potent anyway.

He said: “Given the choice of standing behind a giant masticating cow and a giant masticating woman who has just eaten a tofu burger, I know where I'd rather be.”

Celebrity vegetarians have already pledged their support, with Paul McCartney promising to eat as many vegetarians as he can, starting with his estranged wife Sir Heather Mills.

[entrangermercenary]

vegetarians are being urged to eat each other after it emerged their own gas was now the major cause of global climate change.


New research by the vegetarian society shows vegetarian emissions are responsible for more than 80 per cent of the most potent greenhouse gasses.

The society is telling its members to start eating themselves immediately or they will kill all life on the earth “with their wind”.

Dr stephen malley, head of research at the society, said: “vegetarian gas is a particularly harmful emission fuelled by an explosive mixture of lentils, mung beans and sawdust.

“you sit in a vegetarian restaurant and see a kindly old man in sandals quietly letting a stinky one off in the corner, i see a planet killing machine.

“it is no exaggeration to say that we are being killed by the mass effluence of trendy westerners.”

dr malley said the society had abandoned its policy of urging people not to eat cows after they realised that not eating them would not actually make them go away, and that cow farts were not that potent anyway.

He said: “given the choice of standing behind a giant masticating cow and a giant masticating woman who has just eaten a tofu burger, i know where i'd rather be.”

celebrity vegetarians have already pledged their support, with paul mccartney promising to eat as many vegetarians as he can, starting with his estranged wife sir heather mills.


lol :d

[kiwimaj]

I went veggie around the time of the foot in mouth awfulness that was happening, around 2001 (??) And simply because I cannot bare to eat the flesh of dead animals. Also, not to mention all the hormones/poisons that are fed to animals that are eventually going to be slaughtered for human consumption..not good (understatement of the century that..!!)

I now support raw veganism as being the best diet for humans (obviously, depending on your location on the planet..) If they did away with all the cow/sheep production and free'd up the land to grow more veges...wow..what a better world THAT would be..

It is my choice to not eat meat, but as I have said, I have not always been that way, it has been a learning experience for me and each comes to their own realisation about health and diet in their own time. What is good for one, may not be for another. I have found though that the more pure your diet is, the better you feel, both physically and spiritually.

:)

[smariot]

Aliens, fractals, and selfishness.

If we say that we have the right to use animals because we are superior to them, then should we ever encounter a form of life superior to us (i.e., aliens), then the the same reasoning those aliens would be free to do with us whatever they want, and we have no right to complain, because we're doing the exact same thing, but on a lower scale.

Now, it's a big universe out there, so odds are that there are aliens out there that are superior to whatever aliens find us, and them abusing us effectively forfeits their right not to abused by the aliens out there that are superior to them. Anything that resembles itself at different scales is a fractal.

Anywho, the solution to the problem is simple. You get the golden rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity). Treat others the way you want to be treated, or else forfeit your right to be treated the way you want to be treated.

So, I try not to unnecessary harm other living things, lest aliens show up to teach me a lesson.

Additionally, karma. Not the divine retribution kind where I'll be reincarnated as a worm, the all life depends on each other, and so hurting others indirectly hurts myself kind of karma.

And then there's the metaphysical reasons. If the world is a fractal, then if I change myself, the levels above and below me will necessarily change to reflect me. It's the "Be the change you want to see in the world." type deal.

And then there's the common reasons you hear all the time. Like health, and the environment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegetarianism). And uh, I guess I already did ethics. So, I guess I'm done.

But, I don't try to force it on anyone. For all I know, I'm bat shit crazy (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bat-shit%20crazy). So I'll just wait here quietly. If I'm wrong, I didn't waste your time, if I'm right, everyone else will come to the same conclusion on their own. Eventually.

[swethirte]

I'm a vegetarian for religious reasons.

[Ratiocinator]

I'm a vegetarian for religious reasons.

Why don't you elaborate?

By the way, proper vegetarians only consume plants. The word has been bastardised.

[swethirte]

Why don't you elaborate?

By the way, proper vegetarians only consume plants. The word has been bastardised.

Maybe it has, but that's strictly irrelevant, because it now has a defined meaning. The word you're looking for, I think, is vegan, which I'm not.

[Ratiocinator]

Maybe it has, but that's strictly irrelevant, because it now has a defined meaning. The word you're looking for, I think, is vegan, which I'm not.

Still waiting for the elaboration.

[swethirte]

Still waiting for the elaboration.

I don't eat meat, but I do eat animal products such as milk and eggs.

[pacoquerak]

I don't eat meat, but I do eat animal products such as milk and eggs.

ask him if he eats honey

[swethirte]

ask him if he eats honey

Good point. Though I've already asked him if he eats plants, and he had to admit it. After all, you have to draw the line somewhere, and those life forms on the other side of it can be slaughtered with impunity.

[Ratiocinator]

I don't eat meat, but I do eat animal products such as milk and eggs.

Er, the elaboration concerning your religiosity and how it determines what you do.

It is clear that your subconscious mind prevents you from even reading certain contradictory things. The first stage to a recovery is to be aware of this, and not be so arrogant and ego-led that you refuse to acknowledge the lesson.

[swethirte]

Er, the elaboration concerning your religiosity and how it determines what you do.

It is clear that your subconscious mind prevents you from even reading certain contradictory things. The first stage to a recovery is to be aware of this, and not be so arrogant and ego-led that you refuse to acknowledge the lesson.

What I eat is only a tiny part of my religiosity, but I find that it suits my lifestyle perfectly. I have nothing to recover from, what I do now is precisely what I should be doing.

[element]

I went veggie around the time of the foot in mouth awfulness that was happening, around 2001 (??) And simply because I cannot bare to eat the flesh of dead animals. Also, not to mention all the hormones/poisons that are fed to animals that are eventually going to be slaughtered for human consumption..not good (understatement of the century that..!!)

I now support raw veganism as being the best diet for humans (obviously, depending on your location on the planet..) If they did away with all the cow/sheep production and free'd up the land to grow more veges...wow..what a better world THAT would be..

It is my choice to not eat meat, but as I have said, I have not always been that way, it has been a learning experience for me and each comes to their own realisation about health and diet in their own time. What is good for one, may not be for another. I have found though that the more pure your diet is, the better you feel, both physically and spiritually.

:)

Aw what a good post. :)

[brainfreeze]

ask him if he eats honey

Honey is not an animal product, though pollen in collected and produced into honey by bees, it is not FROM the bee. So, honey is veggie food dispite the fact the bees made it. :)

[Ratiocinator]

I have nothing to recover from,

How about a morality deficit?

Concerning physical malady, you likely soon will have.


what I do now is precisely what I should be doing.

I get a kick out of religious folks, I really do.

[Ratiocinator]

Honey is not an animal product, though pollen in collected and produced into honey by bees, it is not FROM the bee. So, honey is veggie food dispite the fact the bees made it. :)

It is not vegan:

http://www.vegetus.org/honey/honey.htm

[swethirte]

How about a morality deficit?

Concerning physical malady, you likely soon will have.




I get a kick out of religious folks, I really do.

I disagree, and I certainly take issue with being described as having a "morality deficit".

[Ratiocinator]

and I certainly take issue with being described as having a "morality deficit".


Tell it to the cows and their calves, as well as your conscience.

[swethirte]

Tell it to the cows and their calves, as well as your conscience.

My conscience does not trouble me in the slightest. Please stop trying to impose your own morality onto others.

[Ratiocinator]

My conscience does not trouble me in the slightest.

That's called psychopathy.

Please stop trying to impose your own morality onto others.

The most moral live lives of least harm. It isn't my morality, it is morality. You cause a great deal of harm to creatures who suffer as you and I do. That is immoral because it is completely unnecessary.

If you consider what you do to be perfectly moral, then why not explain why? How is causing suffering and death to many creatures, environmental destruction and pollution (created by the farmers and the industries supporting them), exploitation of third world people (who live in poverty because most of the crops they grow are shipped to over seas animal farmers), and wasteful and inefficient land usage possibly moral? You could put an end to all of this, but you choose not to. That is either due to ignorance or a lack of morality.

[swethirte]

That's called psychopathy.



The most moral live lives of least harm. It isn't my morality, it is morality. You cause a great deal of harm to creatures who suffer as you and I do. That is immoral because it is completely unnecessary.

If you consider what you do to be perfectly moral, then why not explain why? How is causing suffering and death to many creatures, environmental destruction and pollution (created by the farmers and the industries supporting them), exploitation of third world people (who live in poverty because most of the crops they grow are shipped to over seas animal farmers), and wasteful and inefficient land usage possibly moral? You could put an end to all of this, but you choose not to. That is either due to ignorance or a lack of morality.

I think you'll find that psychopathy has more in common with assuming that one's own moral lights should be applied to everyone else. I always choose locally produced organic products. I do not support exploitative farming. It is my opinion that traditional farming methods are neither cruel nor harmful, and you're not going to make me change my mind on that.

[enga]

That's called psychopathy.



The most moral live lives of least harm. It isn't my morality, it is morality. You cause a great deal of harm to creatures who suffer as you and I do. That is immoral because it is completely unnecessary.

If you consider what you do to be perfectly moral, then why not explain why? How is causing suffering and death to many creatures, environmental destruction and pollution (created by the farmers and the industries supporting them), exploitation of third world people (who live in poverty because most of the crops they grow are shipped to over seas animal farmers), and wasteful and inefficient land usage possibly moral? You could put an end to all of this, but you choose not to. That is either due to ignorance or a lack of morality.

Didn't she say she was vegetarian?

[enga]

I actually came to this post to say that last week I embarked on full vegetarianism after being semi-vegetarian for months. I don't miss meat at all and I know I wont. The guilt of eating meat would kill me. My family eat vegetarian for evening meals (and most) because I do the shopping although they don't want to be vegetarian and that is their choice so they still eat meat when they want. They like the quorn products that are like meat, so it's been a pretty smooth transition.

[lauren_almighty]

i have been a vegetarian since i was 14. i made the decision because i thought it was wrong to kill animals for food and for vanity purposes. it disgusts me that there are people in this world that have no respect for animals. what gives humans the right to take an animals life? why does it have to be done in such an inhumane way? i love animals so much that i want to work for an animal welfare service.

i recently watched "the day the earth stood still" and i had no sympathy for the humans. in fact, i think the earth should be taken away from us because there are only a small minority of people that you could call decent. a pet shop got deliberately set on fire close to where i live. it disgusts me that there is such evil in this world.

i dont have the time for anybody who eats meat. they are murderers in my eyes... and i would class it as cannibalism.

[element]

I actually came to this post to say that last week I embarked on full vegetarianism after being semi-vegetarian for months. I don't miss meat at all and I know I wont. The guilt of eating meat would kill me. My family eat vegetarian for evening meals (and most) because I do the shopping although they don't want to be vegetarian and that is their choice so they still eat meat when they want. They like the quorn products that are like meat, so it's been a pretty smooth transition.
It's very easy to do, if you have the needed motivation.
Many people think it's hard to give up chicken, but there are replacements who have a similar taste. I don't eat all that kind of stuff anymore, but it's good when you start...very easy.
It's much harder though to go from veg. to vegan, from a 'bear-diet' to veg. is easy as pie.


Lauren: There are only few people who would be able to kill an animal. (insects excluded) What bothers me the most is that people eat animals that provide most of them with milk from early age.. :/ And calves and lamb slaughter, people enjoying that and a minute later they hug their pets as if it were angels....insane.. :/

[infin8_possibility]

i have been a vegetarian since i was 14. i made the decision because i thought it was wrong to kill animals for food and for vanity purposes. it disgusts me that there are people in this world that have no respect for animals. what gives humans the right to take an animals life? why does it have to be done in such an inhumane way? i love animals so much that i want to work for an animal welfare service.

i recently watched "the day the earth stood still" and i had no sympathy for the humans. in fact, i think the earth should be taken away from us because there are only a small minority of people that you could call decent. a pet shop got deliberately set on fire close to where i live. it disgusts me that there is such evil in this world.

i dont have the time for anybody who eats meat. they are murderers in my eyes... and i would class it as cannibalism.

Harsh but a fair point. Although I tend not to discriminate against people's diet chioces. If they wanna fill their body with the stench of suffering, thats their choice.

I would also like to point out that anyone that eats meat should be prepared to kill the meal that they wise to consume.

And IMO anyone that eats the flesh of animal for none life or death survival has NO right to call themselves an animal lover.

[thenymph]

Harsh but a fair point. Although I tend not to discriminate against people's diet chioces. If they wanna fill their body with the stench of suffering, thats their choice.

I would also like to point out that anyone that eats meat should be prepared to kill the meal that they wise to consume.

And IMO anyone that eats the flesh of animal for none life or death survival has NO right to call themselves an animal lover.

I agree with all of your points. The "stench of suffering" is such a wonderful way of putting it - the meat is saturated with uric acid which the animal releases during the terror of its assassination - and that is the taste in meat which people love, though they don't know it. Whether an animal or "organically" reared or not, it still has to go through the absolute terror of a sudden and horrible death. They are not stupid either and they sense when the culling is going on, even when they are not immediately in the "queue". Tell me this is not cruel.

Let the people who buy their convenient packs of meat actually have to go and kill the animal for their food - there would soon be a huge shift away from meat-eating and they would also discover that meat is not essential for survival if a balanced vegetarian diet is followed.

True animal lovers do not kill for their taste buds.

PS From a health aspect, it has been established that eating meat also does you more harm than good. What else would you expect from ingesting rotting flesh ?

[infin8_possibility]

I agree with all of your points. The "stench of suffering" is such a wonderful way of putting it - the meat is saturated with uric acid which the animal releases during the terror of its assassination - and that is the taste in meat which people love, though they don't know it. Whether an animal or "organically" reared or not, it still has to go through the absolute terror of a sudden and horrible death. They are not stupid either and they sense when the culling is going on, even when they are not immediately in the "queue". Tell me this is not cruel.

Let the people who buy their convenient packs of meat actually have to go and kill the animal for their food - there would soon be a huge shift away from meat-eating and they would also discover that meat is not essential for survival if a balanced vegetarian diet is followed.

True animal lovers do not kill for their taste buds.

PS From a health aspect, it has been established that eating meat also does you more harm than good. What else would you expect from ingesting rotting flesh ?

Exactly, once you stop eating meat for a while, you're able to view the situation from a whole new perspective. The whole meat industry and the consumers that eat it are like one big digusting horror film, but you need the metaphorical "They Live sunglasses" to see it.

[hellosatellites]

i'm vegetarian so far for 28 years. It wasn't a conscious decision, i just never liked meat really. Somehow find meat repulsive on all levels...probably a spontaneous reaction to what Infin8 just coined 'the stench of suffering' - and so i just stopped eating it completely around age 12. I tend to eat a lot of high calorie foods such as nuts, avocados, dates, bananas and chocolate, and high protein foods like lentils and eggs, because i have a physically extremely demending job and training scedule. I don't follow a particular diet, i just eat whatever i want, including what is called junk food - pizzas, falaffels etc. I usually eat loads of fruit every day. I love royal gala apples :)
Like many women i have a tendency for iron deficiency so i eat loads of spinach and broccoli, and sometimes take an iron supplement during my periods. Otherwise i don't eat food supplements or vitamins of any kind and i would say my health is excellent.

[infin8_possibility]

i'm vegetarian so far for 28 years. It wasn't a conscious decision, i just never liked meat really. Somehow find meat repulsive on all levels...probably a spontaneous reaction to what Infin8 just coined 'the stench of suffering' - and so i just stopped eating it completely around age 12. I tend to eat a lot of high calorie foods such as nuts, avocados, dates, bananas and chocolate, and high protein foods like lentils and eggs, because i have a physically extremely demending job and training scedule. I don't follow a particular diet, i just eat whatever i want, including what is called junk food - pizzas, falaffels etc. I usually eat loads of fruit every day. I love royal gala apples :)
Like many women i have a tendency for iron deficiency so i eat loads of spinach and broccoli, and sometimes take an iron supplement during my periods. Otherwise i don't eat food supplements or vitamins of any kind and i would say my health is excellent.

I can relate to that, when I was an omnivoure - the masked taste that covers up "the stench of suffering" was enjoyable as it does taste good. Which is the trap that most people fall into. But after eating I would always get an intuitive, guilty sick feeling in my stomach like my guts where telling me..."Hey!!! What the FUCK are you doing!"

[thenymph]

i'm vegetarian so far for 28 years. It wasn't a conscious decision, i just never liked meat really. Somehow find meat repulsive on all levels...probably a spontaneous reaction to what Infin8 just coined 'the stench of suffering' - and so i just stopped eating it completely around age 12. I tend to eat a lot of high calorie foods such as nuts, avocados, dates, bananas and chocolate, and high protein foods like lentils and eggs, because i have a physically extremely demending job and training scedule. I don't follow a particular diet, i just eat whatever i want, including what is called junk food - pizzas, falaffels etc. I usually eat loads of fruit every day. I love royal gala apples :)
Like many women i have a tendency for iron deficiency so i eat loads of spinach and broccoli, and sometimes take an iron supplement during my periods. Otherwise i don't eat food supplements or vitamins of any kind and i would say my health is excellent.

Your diet sounds identical to mine !

[lostwonderer]

I guess i'd say i'm a newly vegetarian, lasted 8 months last year but i've recently started on a non-meat diet again.

[hellosatellites]

I can relate to that, when I was an omnivoure - the masked taste that covers up "the stench of suffering" was enjoyable as it does taste good. Which is the trap that most people fall into. But after eating I would always get an intuitive, guilty sick feeling in my stomach like my guts where telling me..."Hey!!! What the FUCK are you doing!"

I can imagine. i think even if i wasn't already vegetarian by nature i would become one just by knowing about the meat industry, and the sad conditions for the animals.

[hellosatellites]

Your diet sounds identical to mine !

:)

[queenofleon]

I have recently turned veggie, and as somebody who loved meat I havent struggled at all (I do miss the taste of sea food though)

it was always a moral dilemma for me because of my love for animals, and I have known and felt for a long time how interconnected we all are, and as we are all the same energy vibrating differently, it was always my knowledge of that against my love for food.

I gave meat up about 9 months ago and my reason for this was I read that when the animal is slaughtered, the terror that animal feels is locked into the tissue and when you eat that you consume it. Given what we know about reptilians and how they like to slaughter children at the peak of their fear, that totally resonated with me, and as I feel we are not the top of the food chain, I dont feel comfortable being such a hypocrit.

The powers that be premote eat meating and have turned us into carnivors because they know it lowers the vibration of the human body, and all contributes towards the scacrifical aspect of slaughtering these poor bloody animals.

Plus it is better for you. Colon cancer is caused by red meat, so never again for me for all of the above.

[Ratiocinator]

(I do miss the taste of sea food though)

Mock salmon

Ingredients:

½ cup hazlenuts (soaked in water for 24 hours and drained)
1 ½ cups carrots
1 cup chopped green onion, with the tops
1½ cups chopped celery
1 Tbsp dried parsley
1 Tbsp plus 1 tsp dried dill (save 1 tsp for decorating)
¼ cup lemon juice
3 Tbsp kelp powder
3 Tbsp dulse flakes
1 Tbsp red bell pepper (for decorating)

Preparation:

1. Put the carrots in the food processor and process until they are very fine and so juicy that if you squeeze a handful the juice will run out. Take the carrots out of the processor and put in a bowl.

2. Drain the water from the hazlenuts and put them in food processor. Blend the hazlenuts until very fine. Remove from processor and add to the carrots.

3. Chop the celery, parsley, and onion by hand and add it to the carrot and nut mixture.

4. Add the lemon juice, dill, kelp and dulse to the mixture and toss by hand.

5. After combining, put on a decorative plate and form into a fish or oval shape. Decorate with parsley, dill, onions, and minced red pepper.

http://goneraw.com/recipe/mock-salmon

[queenofleon]

Mock salmon

Ingredients:

½ cup hazlenuts (soaked in water for 24 hours and drained)
1 ½ cups carrots
1 cup chopped green onion, with the tops
1½ cups chopped celery
1 Tbsp dried parsley
1 Tbsp plus 1 tsp dried dill (save 1 tsp for decorating)
¼ cup lemon juice
3 Tbsp kelp powder
3 Tbsp dulse flakes
1 Tbsp red bell pepper (for decorating)

Preparation:

1. Put the carrots in the food processor and process until they are very fine and so juicy that if you squeeze a handful the juice will run out. Take the carrots out of the processor and put in a bowl.

2. Drain the water from the hazlenuts and put them in food processor. Blend the hazlenuts until very fine. Remove from processor and add to the carrots.

3. Chop the celery, parsley, and onion by hand and add it to the carrot and nut mixture.

4. Add the lemon juice, dill, kelp and dulse to the mixture and toss by hand.

5. After combining, put on a decorative plate and form into a fish or oval shape. Decorate with parsley, dill, onions, and minced red pepper.

http://goneraw.com/recipe/mock-salmon

Thanks!! Is this nice?

[cleft_asunder]

Mock salmon! ROFL!!! ^_^

[Ratiocinator]

Thanks!! Is this nice?

I have not tried it myself, but I have heard that those transitioning to the vegetarian diet, who previously were fond of certain non-vegetarian fare, have found it to have an identical taste.