Vegetarianism/Veganism
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| idk. my bff jill? Demolition Lover  Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 18372 | and i love the bingo card. i hear 'do you eat fish' so much. |
| S!NNER. Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 3181 | idk. my bff jill?: i hate that! fish have feelings just like all the other animals i don't eat! :p |
| Battery Acid Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 3394 | I'm 100% vegan, and I have been for a little over a year. Animal rights is really my passion. |
| misa misa. Shotgun Sinner  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 8241 | sookeh.: high iron levels are also unhealthy. several of the vegetarians i know all have to take iron supplements, but it all depends on the individual. spiralina is good for iron, especially if you are trying to recover from illness as it also high in protein it doesn't taste very good though. |
| sookeh. Crash Queen  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 32114 | ^ i said that high iron is bad, and i said my iron was at the higher range of ~normal. all i was saying is it shouldn't just be "oh i'm veg, better take some iron". if you levels are normal, even at the low of normal you should not take anything. i was just making sure people thinking of going veg knew that. |
| spencer smith. Devil's Got Your Number  Age: 32 Gender: - Posts: 36167 | on the subject of vitamins and such, a couple of weeks ago i had really important exams for school, and i went on a vitamin taking spree to try and improve my brain function. i didn't really realise before, but obvioiusly all vitamins containing fish oil were not an option. i finally found a vegetarian supplement that was supposed to increase memory and blah blah blah and i was just wondering if you guys also had troubles finding things like this. |
| not so pretty. In The Murder Scene  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 22895 | ^yeah, my mom bought me some vitamins with fish oil and i had to tell her "i can't take these." i felt really bad :/ at health food stores such as Sprouts, Henry's, and Whole Foods (if you live in America) (and please note that Whole Foods is terribly anti-union, and doesn't much support local farmers, and pays their employees extremely low wages) it's much easier to find fish-free vitamins and such. |
| sookeh. Crash Queen Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 32114 | i had that problem as well. so i take a women's daily vitamin that has all the essentials but not fish oil (i hope xD) it's called "Cenovis Women's Multi: vitamins and minerals once daily" i just bought them from woolworths and it was about $16 for four months supply. |
| snow at christmas. Crash Queen  Age: 38 Gender: Male Posts: 31690 | mine has fish oil. :/ I feel like it'd be worse if I didn't use it up and just got more, so I take it anyway. but next time, I'm finding one without. |
| thank fsm. In The Murder Scene  Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 20564 | Dana.: First of all, protein =/= fat. Secondly, I have never ever heard of a vegan not getting enough protein. As a matter of fact, studies have recently shown that omnivores may actually be consuming far too much protein, which is a contributing factor to osteoporosis, since when the body has an overload of protein, it draws from calcium sources to help digest, and since the protein-to-calcium ratio is imbalanced, calcium is drawn from the bones to adjust. Still, though. Most veggies get more than enough protein. It's hard not to. |
| spencer smith. Devil's Got Your Number Age: 32 Gender: - Posts: 36167 | people overestimate the problem vegetarians have with getting enough protein. you'll find people on a heavy red meat diet actually get TOO MUCH protein. i have a book called "being vegetarian for dummies" (that and the vegetarian bible pm saved my life) and it says that even if all you ate in a whole day was one large baked potato, that would give you enough protein. cheeses, legumes and nuts contain a lot of protein, as do meat-substitutes like veggie burgers and sausages. even just putting a couple of red kidney beans in a salad goes a long way. plus, if you ONLY get protein from meat, it actually allows more calcium to pass out through urine. it's usually the iron that people have a problem with, especially women on a heavy menstrual cycle. i hope it doesn't sound like i'm pushing vegetarianism, because i'm really not. i'm just saying that if you want to be veggie, you most definitely can. undone.: i know this is going to sound weird, but i really respect you for this. the animals have already been killed andthe vitamins have already been bought. if you threw the vitamins away, their deaths would have been in vain. this way at least something good can come of it. (: another thing, i recently found out that the majority of cheeses contain an enzyme called rennet. this enzyme is taken from the stomach of slaughtered baby cows that are still suckling to help humans digest cheese! this made me so angry, i've been searching everywhere for cheese that doesn't contain this, and i found a couple of brands that use non-animal rennet obtained from plants. it just makes me think, if people were meant to eat cheese, they wouldn't have to take an enzyme from baby cows. we obviously aren't meant to be eating it, or we would be able to digest it properly. also, it's really kind of unnatural to drink the milk from a cow. isn't it gross to think about other animals drinking breast milk? |
| Poisoned Cookie Killjoy  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 26 | I am a pescetarian. It sucks. My mum wouldn't let me be a vegan. 'your body is growing you need vitamins'. She doesn't understand that I want to throw up in the plate. |
| brandleys; Death Defying  Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 186346 | ^ that sounds like something my mom would say, but she still lets me be a vegetarian. a lot of people don't know that vegan food is just as healthy- if not, healthier- than non vegan food. if she's really worried about the vitamins, then a multi vitamin would be fine. i've been a vegetarian since i was 12 and now i'm 14 and i've been growing fine. spencer smith.: sorry, this just reminded me of a story: one time when i was like, 5, my sister had a friend over who was like, 6, so we were still young enough so it wouldn't be weird to bathe together. so when we got out of the bath, were were all naked and had towels on us, and my sister's friend held our small dog, and the dog bit her nipple XD |
| Malfoy. Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 4515 | So far I've cut out red meat from my diet and basically only eat poultry and fish/seafood. I've been doing this for nearly two years now. Hopefully someday I'll aquire the taste of soy products and become vegetarian totally. |
| Beast And The Harlot Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 2829 | I was vegetarian in 2008 til the begining of last year. So probably a year. I'm not now, I jsut really craved a whopper one day from Hungry Jacks...horrible I know! lol. I think once I'm living on my own, I'll go vegetarian again. Don't think I could do vegan though...I love chocolate too much. <3 My sister is vegan. She started of vegetarian, and she took that so seriously, and then one day decided to try being vegan for a week with her friend, and then they both decided to go vegan completely. I supprot her 100%, so does my mum, though I think she wishes she'd just be vegetarian. However, my nan and uncle always go on and on about it, and it always causes arguments, and she gets upset. Now, i'm her sister so I back her up, and go off at them cause, it's her life, so leave her alone. Not just vegans or vegetarians can get sick, ffs...and eating meat can be just as unhealthy as not eating meat, actually, it is more unhealthy. My nan always says "God made animals for us to eat, that's why we have teeth." and "If we didn't have animals, then they would breed too much and the world would become too crowded. We'd have dead animals everywhere, and nothing to do with them" or some shit like that. I always tell her that's a load of fucking bullshit, and I highly doubt that, if god even does exists, that he would've put animals on the earth for us to eat, shouldn't he care about every living being, and not put them on the earth jsut for us to kill and torture? I don't say it in those words exactly though. |
| try Killjoy  Age: - Gender: - Posts: 22 | I've attempted, but epiclly failed. wow. |
| City Lights. Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 2374 | Vegetarian for 16 years, and still going.  |
| brandleys; Death Defying Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 186346 | ^ that's awesome. When I was like, 10, me and my friend became vegetarians because we just felt like it and it didn't last that long. But I decided two years ago that I want to be a vegetarian for real reasons and I haven't stopped ever since. |
| idk. my bff jill? Demolition Lover Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 18372 | we had, like, a class-wide discussion yesterday about how i don't eat meat. xD it'll be 4 years in august :) |
| tay jardine; Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 28 Gender: Female Posts: 3068 | i would like to go vegetarian, but i like chicken too much :/ i hate like every other meat though, which would make it easier |
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