How many of you are vegetarians?

[Stephen]

Strange that this thread has popped up. I have always wanted to go vegetarian, and have been at points, but living at home with parents that don't understand made it very hard. I was basically living off of normal meals, but just without the meat. So my vegetarianism has been short lived, for my own health reasons.

However, with university comes a new opportunity and I would really like to give it another go. I was even considering veganism, but one step at a time.

The question I'd like to ask you guys, is will I be able to live off of a vegetarian diet, and not spend more than I would on a meat based diet? What advice can you give, and are there any websites that are particularly helpful?

I'm sure all you veggies will be keen to help!

Cheers

 

[Anker Ignis Fatuus Von K.]

Strange that this thread has popped up. I have always wanted to go vegetarian, and have been at points, but living at home with parents that don't understand made it very hard. I was basically living off of normal meals, but just without the meat. So my vegetarianism has been short lived, for my own health reasons.

However, with university comes a new opportunity and I would really like to give it another go. I was even considering veganism, but one step at a time.

The question I'd like to ask you guys, is will I be able to live off of a vegetarian diet, and not spend more than I would on a meat based diet? What advice can you give, and are there any websites that are particularly helpful?

I'm sure all you veggies will be keen to help!

Cheers

Hey Stephen!

Great that you would like to go vegetarian! I would also advise you to take one step at a time, from meat eater to vegetarian, and then, if you want to, from vegetarian to vegan.

To live off of a vegetarian diet isn't more expensive than a meat based diet, it's actually cheaper. But a vegan diet costs more, unfortunately. Lots of vegan products are really expensive, at least here where I live.

I find http://www.goveg.com is a very good website. There you can order a "vegetarian starter kit", for free! It's really helpful and inspiring!

 

[troubleluvsme]

I didn't even know that.

Never been, never will.

I was 14 or 15 when I stopped eating meat.
Fifteen or so years later I woke up craving a cheeseburger.
I found out the next day that I was pregnant.
I rarely eat meat now, but I'd never call myself a vegetarian again.

 

[MuteWitness616]

I am. I am a hardcore fan

 

[shawnxvx]

The question I'd like to ask you guys, is will I be able to live off of a vegetarian diet, and not spend more than I would on a meat based diet? What advice can you give, and are there any websites that are particularly helpful?

I'm sure all you veggies will be keen to help!

Cheers

a veg diet can be cheap. i haven't eaten animals since i was 12, so i wouldn't know the cost of a animal based diet. i went slowly from vegetarian to vegan(2 years...which was way to long in retrospect). i've never really taken vitamins, but a good vegan multi is highly suggested.

anyway, here are some links that will be more helpful than i:
action for animals
animal ingredients a to zthis book is great for learning all of those crazy ingredients that we have no idea what they are.
a-z in a txt format for printing or web viewing.
soy, not oi!classic punk cookbook. making things on the cheap!
veganthisno bs, straight up...because we must.

To live off of a vegetarian diet isn't more expensive than a meat based diet, it's actually cheaper. But a vegan diet costs more, unfortunately. Lots of vegan products are really expensive, at least here where I live.

I find http://www.goveg.com is a very good website. There you can order a "vegetarian starter kit", for free! It's really helpful and inspiring!

by vegan products i assume you mean all the 'fake meat' stuff? i've noticed most vegetarians eat that stuff in addition to dairy. yes, most processed things like those are tasty, but you can do without. if you stick to mostly all veggies, then it is dirt cheap. hit up a farmers market if yr area has one.

 

[Anker Ignis Fatuus Von K.]

by vegan products i assume you mean all the 'fake meat' stuff? i've noticed most vegetarians eat that stuff in addition to dairy. yes, most processed things like those are tasty, but you can do without. if you stick to mostly all veggies, then it is dirt cheap. hit up a farmers market if yr area has one.

I also mean the "fake meat" stuff, but mainly I meant soy products like tofu or soy milk, rice milk, vegan cheese etc. It's all very expensive, but for me that might have to do with Denmark being the most expensive country in the EU and me being a poor student. For example, here a liter of milk costs 3-4 danish crowns, and a liter of soy or rice milk costs ca. 20 crowns. So I don't know if the difference is that big in other countries as well.

 

[sistasheila]

veggie since im 13
discovered moz a few years years later afterso he had nothing to do with it

eat magarine instead of butter and try to lower down the milkproducts but cant get rid of them completely since i live off cheese

not eating gelantine of course!

dont miss meat at all.

also if you still want to eat meat try to buy it from a plce where the anmials didnt get raised in a factory farming. ita also healthier if they dont come from there as lots of antibiotics are feeded to avoid illness (many animals held in smalll places, easy way to spread diseases)
http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?pd=Home


i think its important to see the connection between the meat on your bread and the living animal.i often sat on a table while people saying oh i dont eat meat often while biting into the bread with the cold meat on it.
as long as it dont have a face people cant relate to it being a animal once
also if people (from the city) where forced to kill their animals instead of buying them in the grocery not seeing the cold hearted process in the factories(often the maschines dont work well/dont kill the namimal properly) they would often think twice
a few years ago i saw a documenary of people living in circumstances centuries ago for a few weeks and they were forced to kill their animals who belong to the house. lots of crying and refusing (the childrens in the family mainly in this docu, )
so it also important to teeach them that this was once a living and breathing animal..-regardless if they later will eat meat again but the should be shunned from the facts) while at home in their normal lives they just go the grocery buying it
meat substitue..you can always balance the vitamins in meat
http://www.vegetarian-nutrition.info/positions/english/vegetarian-meat-substitutes.php
http://www.vegetarianvitaminsguide....vegetarian-substitute-for-the-meats-they-lack

http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/nutshell.htm
# Vegetarian Nutrition

* Protein
* Iron
* Calcium
* Vitamin B12
* Omega-3's

# Children and Vegetarianism
# About The Vegetarian Resource Group
# Vegetarian Resources
# Vegetarian Teaching Materials
# Did You Know All These People Advocated Vegetarianism?
# Recipes
# Vegetarian Foods
# Decreasing Fat Consumption
# Egg Replacers (Binders)
# Dairy Substitutes
# Meat Substitutes in Stews/Soups

gelantine free sweets
http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a416.asp
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090715171443AAaOyiM
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Gelatin-free-gums-hit-the-market



http://www.vegieworld.com/
http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=44439
http://shmooedfood.blogspot.com/search?q=tofu+fish

http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=102200&highlight=recipes

 

[MozCrooner]

Is anyone here a vegetarian but still eats fish? I think I could do without eating meat quite easily as a starting point but I do love prawns alot. I can't remember what they call people who eat fish but not meat, anyone know?

 

[Our Lady]

I didn't even know that.

Never been, never will.

Too Hungary?

You get what you pay for.

 

[Raised on prisoner's aid]

Is anyone here a vegetarian but still eats fish? I think I could do without eating meat quite easily as a starting point but I do love prawns alot. I can't remember what they call people who eat fish but not meat, anyone know?

Eating fish but no mammals means the person would be called a "Pescetarian".

 

[lainey]

Is anyone here a vegetarian but still eats fish? I think I could do without eating meat quite easily as a starting point but I do love prawns alot. I can't remember what they call people who eat fish but not meat, anyone know?

you can't be vegetarian and still eat fish, it's impossible.
It like saying you allergic to Dairy but you still drink milk and eat cheese. it's wrong.

vegetarians don't eat animals.
they don't eat anything with gelatine in.....sweets, chocolate, biscuits and so on.
Also fish is added to bread and milk these days so be careful

 

[Raised on prisoner's aid]

Also fish is added to bread and milk these days so be careful

o___o really?!

 

[shawnxvx]

I also mean the "fake meat" stuff, but mainly I meant soy products like tofu or soy milk, rice milk, vegan cheese etc. It's all very expensive, but for me that might have to do with Denmark being the most expensive country in the EU and me being a poor student. For example, here a liter of milk costs 3-4 danish crowns, and a liter of soy or rice milk costs ca. 20 crowns. So I don't know if the difference is that big in other countries as well.

wow. yeah, the price between animal milk and 'alternatives' is not that drastic in the states.

 

[sistasheila]

I also mean the "fake meat" stuff, but mainly I meant soy products like tofu or soy milk, rice milk, vegan cheese etc. It's all very expensive, but for me that might have to do with Denmark being the most expensive country in the EU and me being a poor student. For example, here a liter of milk costs 3-4 danish crowns, and a liter of soy or rice milk costs ca. 20 crowns. So I don't know if the difference is that big in other countries as well.

i went to the supermarkets when i visited denmark and the prices there (in denmark ) are drastically higher than where i live...

 

[oye terence]

I think anyone wishing to be a vegetarian or vegan should read " Eat To Live".Education is important, and you often hear people claiming they went vegetarian and it made them ill. Yes ,they became ill , but only because they had horrible diets, not because they were not eating meat.
The book is often spoken about as if it is a diet book,but it is not, he is seeking lifestyle changes, as in for the duration, your life.
Plus, his chapter on the Atkins cancer revolution is both educating and amusing.

 

[MunchyBrain]

I'm vegetarian, I have massive guilt about not being vegan. I'm 'economically' vegan, as in I only buy vegan stuff. And I eat two meals a day vegan, as in, the two meals I make myself, breakfast and lunch. The only thing is dinner, which my dad cooks, sometimes isn't vegan, and he'd be really angry and offended if I stopped eating it. So, until I leave home, I'm just stuck being vegetarian not quite vegan.

Also, loving all of the anarcho band talk on this thread.

 

[shawnxvx]

I think anyone wishing to be a vegetarian or vegan should read " Eat To Live".Education is important, and you often hear people claiming they went vegetarian and it made them ill. Yes ,they became ill , but only because they had horrible diets, not because they were not eating meat.
The book is often spoken about as if it is a diet book,but it is not, he is seeking lifestyle changes, as in for the duration, your life.
Plus, his chapter on the Atkins cancer revolution is both educating and amusing.

never heard of that book. sounds good.

also, diet for a new america is worth a read.

 

[oye terence]

never heard of that book. sounds good.

also, diet for a new america is worth a read.

I have it as an E book, I will upload it and send it your way.

His ideas are basically vegan, as he finds cheese and meats tobe the unhealthiest things one can eat, same goes for eggs.He does have some ideas for those who do not wish to give up meat completely, but he advocates full vegan diet.

 

[Kleinfeld]

There is absolutely no reason to eat meat. It's bad for your health, bad for environment and most importantly, bad for the poor animals who are dying just for the sake of satisfying your stomach for an hour. Honestly, there should be no place in modern society for this type of thing. The meat industry should have been abolished the same time slavery was. There is no difference in my eyes.

I was a vegetarian but then became vegan. I really urge all vegetarians to aim to do the same. It can be slightly hard for some. Getting away from milk in chocolate bars, eggs in cakes, leather in shoes..etc. But it's do-able.

For anyone who isn't veggie/vegan, I would suggest watching the film EARTHLINGS. It will change your life.

You can watch the trailer here:

http://www.earthlings.com/

and then the full movie here:

http://www.earthlings.com/earthlings/video-full.php

“We must not refuse with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies.” - Gretchen Wyler

 

[Meat Is Murder]

There is absolutely no reason to eat meat. It's bad for your health, bad for environment and most importantly, bad for the poor animals who are dying just for the sake of satisfying your stomach for an hour. Honestly, there should be no place in modern society for this type of thing. The meat industry should have been abolished the same time slavery was. There is no difference in my eyes.

I was a vegetarian but then became vegan. I really urge all vegetarians to aim to do the same. It can be slightly hard for some. Getting away from milk in chocolate bars, eggs in cakes, leather in shoes..etc. But it's do-able.

For anyone who isn't veggie/vegan, I would suggest watching the film EARTHLINGS. It will change your life.

You can watch the trailer here:

http://www.earthlings.com/

and then the full movie here:

http://www.earthlings.com/earthlings/video-full.php

“We must not refuse with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies.” - Gretchen Wyler

ouu, I like the slavery comparison. Your right, there is no difference