Your opinion on vegan and vegetarian diets?

[Oliver #MAGA]

Over the years, there has been many reasons brought up as to why one should take up a vegan or a vegetarian diet, and many have different reasons as to why they chose to do so. What do you personally think about vegetarian diets as well as vegan diets and their impact on both themselves and the world? Since they are quite different, I'd find it more reasonable to present seperate opinions on both.

If you are a vegan or a vegetarian, how did you come to decide on becoming one, and what changes has it brought to your life? How long have you followed this diet, and how is it going for you?

Feel free to discuss that on this thread.

[psychotron666]

Eh whatever floats your boat, leaves more meat for the rest of us.

And in today's day and age, with vitamins and supplements, it's entirely possible and healthy to go on vegan diets or be vegan.

I just don't like when some vegans sit on their high horse and criticize everyone else. Some people simply can't afford to be vegan ( you use lots of resources to extract specific vitamins into tablets, so it's expensive to go full vegan and burns lots of resources doing so), like in third world countries you'd kill millions if they went vegan because they don't have those other needed vitamins rich people can buy in western civilization.

Or if they make up ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, like claim vegans would best survive post apocalyptic environment (forgetting that vitamins and protein pills don't grow on trees), or last longer in bed (Peta has been making this claim for over a decade with no evidence to back it, just trying to appeal to sex to sell).

But the way we digest stuff, I can see going vegan and using protein and vitamin pills can be healthier. But I love meat, I love the taste of it and I love eating so it's my choice to not go vegan.

[Lathrim]

It is very unlikely I'll become one. However, I do know it is entirely possible to adopt such a diet and live a healthy life - and I do understand the ethical reasons why others make that choice - and that's cool. Do your thing.

But I'm going to keep eating my meat. Pork. Mm.

[Z]

It's okay. I believe they have better healthy teeth because they don't eat meat. I can confirm that.

[sage2001]

Who cares? Eat what you want.

[JobeGardener]

Always wash your hands before preparing and serving food.

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

I officially became a pescatarian since a week ago, which is simply cutting away land animals meat - fish is the best of both worlds, in my opinion. I hate the food industry, I don't trust it anymore, and still find fish to be the best meal. I do want to perfect it with perhaps cutting dairy 75%, obviously staying away from junk food (will stick to pizza though, for being the "healthiest" junk food). And, it's the lowest form of a vegetarian or vegan, which practically speaking I'm still eating meat, I just don't have "feelings" for sea animals.

Of course, I won't judge, accuse, and condone or condemn meat eaters whatsoever. I still support the decision of being a meat eater and very much support hunting.

[Plaid]

Meat is kind of gross but I eat it to maintain.
I'll probably give it up one day (I mean, before I die).

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

I am Vegan. I was Vegetarian when little but went full Vegan few years ago.

I'm skinny and very healthy and active.

I choose not to eat animals because I frequently went to an animal farm when I was little to feed and play with the animals and used to get depressed when I knew my favourite animals were missing and new ones were there. I was only like 5 or 6 but I knew where they went and I refused to eat meat because It upsets me and I find it gross.

Also I'm a Carrotaholic.

[tmwfte]

Publicado originalmente por psychotron666:

...like in third world countries you'd kill millions if they went vegan because they don't have those other needed vitamins rich people can buy in western civilization.

I don't know, the vegetarians and vegans in India seem to be doing fine. Same with Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, Bhutan... I think you've got a particularly ethnocentric view of third world countries.

If you mean developing nations, you should probably use that instead of an outdated Cold War term.

[FluffyBunny]

I have no tendency to go vegan, I can do few vegeterian days in a week but I rather eat meat. I just love the taste of it, and being quite a foodie I cant say no to a great stake.

But saying that I love to eat meat because of its taste and nutritional value - after stumbling across this website - https://impossiblefoods.com/ - if that would really taste, smell and feel like meat I would change over for this one. Until then, I keep eating everything.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Hunting is necessary if not we would be over run with deer and other animals. That is why i eat meat. To help control the animal population.

[The Weirdist]

Publicado originalmente por psychotron666:

(forgetting that vitamins and protein pills don't grow on trees

You mean like you are forgetting that beans and rice can be farmed?

[pants]

For those of us with objections to eating animals and/or animal products, they're great.

For those with no real hard and fast objection to either, but who want a more balanced and potentially more ethical diet than the usual, flexitarianism is also a thing. That's more my kinda jam, as chickens are bastards and deserve it, but I don't hate cows enough to kill myself slowly via the medium-rare of too much steak.

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

Publicado originalmente por Connoisseur of Tanqueray:

Hunting is necessary if not we would be over run with deer and other animals. That is why i eat meat. To help control the animal population.

For what it's worth, I'd like to hunt just for the fun of it and give the meat to whomever I know that eats meat.

[tmwfte]

Publicado originalmente por Plaid:

Look at the human population

Ixnay on the ongpiglay.