Food The Vegan Thread

[Applesauce]

To add to that, I feel TONS better when I go for at least a week with no sort of meat, which includes all sorts.

 

[Amstel]

To add to that, I feel TONS better when I go for at least a week with no sort of meat, which includes all sorts.

Hmmm. I read that There's some kind of bacteria that naturally exists in meat eaters digestive system that, after about a week, disappears they you eliminate animal products....

 

[gee]

I do wish I could understand why some people would cut out an entire class of food, essentially for fun. But, like most things, I also really don't care.

Being vegetarian makes rational sense. It's cheaper to eat, it lowers your ecological footprint, there's no "I'm eating dead things" ethical issues.

I enjoy meat too much though. I'm an asshole.

 

[fly]

Being vegetarian makes rational sense. It's cheaper to eat, it lowers your ecological footprint, there's no "I'm eating dead things" ethical issues.

I enjoy meat too much though. I'm an asshole.

I disagree with all of that, except your summary. I'm an asshole too.

 

[Amstel]

Let's be honest, if i were Adam and God came down and said this is a pig, and this is the bacon from a pig. You can see and smell it, but you can never eat it. It wouldn't take a serpent to convince my woman to convince me to eat it.

Bitches, you don't need to tell me where the highway to hell is. I'm on it and hitch hiking.

 

[Domon]

my favorite sandwich shop added blt to their menu recently. Had one yesterday, it was delicious.

 

[gee]

I disagree with all of that, except your summary. I'm an asshole too.

Cheaper to eat: Chickpeas are 19% protein by weight, beef is 26%. You can buy a great big bag of chickpeas for fuck all, and store them in your pantry without any refrigeration. You can't do that with beef.
Ecological footprint: It needs no explanation that a vegetarian diet requires less farmland and produces less CO2/methane emissions than a diet with meat.
Ethical issues: well no shit, you're not eating dead animal if you're a vegetarian.

Those are the facts I choose to ignore

 

[fly]

Cheaper to eat: Chickpeas are 19% protein by weight, beef is 26%. You can buy a great big bag of chickpeas for fuck all, and store them in your pantry without any refrigeration. You can't do that with beef.
Ecological footprint: It needs no explanation that a vegetarian diet requires less farmland and produces less CO2/methane emissions than a diet with meat.
Ethical issues: well no shit, you're not eating dead animal if you're a vegetarian.

Those are the facts I choose to ignore

Okay, if you're not going to base the cost in any form of reality, sure. I'm pretty sure that you'll need more farmland for all your chickpeas than the one cow that replaces it.

 

[APRIL]

Being vegetarian makes rational sense. It's cheaper to eat, it lowers your ecological footprint, there's no "I'm eating dead things" ethical issues.

I enjoy meat too much though. I'm an asshole.

This is my conundrum. I believe we should be eating meat, but I hate the thought of eating an animal when I love them so much.

 

[gee]

Okay, if you're not going to base the cost in any form of reality, sure. I'm pretty sure that you'll need more farmland for all your chickpeas than the one cow that replaces it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_protein_per_unit_area_of_land

 

[Domon]

This is my conundrum. I believe we should be eating meat, but I hate the thought of eating an animal when I love them so much.

pfft.

Although id probably eat a horse.

 

[Domon]

and a bunny.

 

[fly]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_protein_per_unit_area_of_land

Uhhh, not how we raise them here in CAFOs... There's like 100 cattle per acre.

edit: Correction, 500 per acre.

 

[gee]

Uhhh, not how we raise them here in CAFOs... There's like 100 cattle per acre.

edit: Correction, 500 per acre.

What do they eat?

 

[fly]

What do they eat?

They sure aren't grassfed...

 

[nukes]

I was a non vegan vegetarian for a little over 2 years.
Ate so much cheese I probably took 2 years off my life.

 

[gee]

They sure aren't grassfed...

So you're not accounting for the farmland required to grow their feed.

 

[Amstel]

So you're not accounting for the farmland required to grow their feed.

Gates did some work on this & came up with alternatives to eggs that had significantly lower footprints over raising chickens.

 

[Amstel]

http://kvpr.org/post/why-bill-gates-investing-chicken-less-eggs

 

[august]

I do wish I could understand why some people would cut out an entire class of food, essentially for fun. But, like most things, I also really don't care.

ethics

which is not to say I feel like my ethics are superior to anyone, or that me doing anything will change the world, I just personally felt bad about it and chose to stop or at least cut down.