Are you a vegetarian? (poll)

I don't smoke, so I opted for a diff cancer :/

i've been a vegetarian for abt 14 years and stopped wearing leather/eating gelatin/etc like eight years ago. i still wear wool and eat dairy and eggs, though. i'm more or less comfortable with that ethical compromise i think

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Compared to the comments in the thread, the result is suprising. Not that meat eaters won, but how many there are!

yeah while I was reading this thread I was like, holy shit all of ILX is vegetarian

MEATEATERS WE ARE LEGION lol

well it's really 73 meat, 27 flex, 50 some-kinda-vegetarian, which is kinda amazing considering that the national figure is like 5%

tho like many like this you have to adjust for the fact that 100% of vegetarians were gonna click on the thread

many polls like this*

don't ruin this for me iatee

:)

well it's really 73 meat, 27 flex, 50 some-kinda-vegetarian, which is kinda amazing considering that the national figure is like 5%

'national', f u

i'm glad to know there are no raw foodists on this forum, though

yeah I was gonna put something about 'also british people exist I guess' but I decided not to

My ex was talking about rawfood stuff when we went out the other night, wondering aloud wether it'd be fun to try (he isnt even a vegetarian so wtf) and i said I saw a Jonsi weblog where he made some kind of raw lasagna, with the "cream" being pureed cashew... R said "wouldnt even processsing raw food be cheating?" At which point I decided if thats the case, rawfoodists are all just NUTS.

you mean they are cashews

tho like many like this you have to adjust for the fact that 100% of vegetarians were gonna click on the thread

― iatee, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:12 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

real talk

my sister-in-law has been on a modified raw food diet since she was diagnosed with MS, and she has found it's helped with some of her symptoms. Dunno how scientific it is, but yeah in general raw foody ppl are kind of crazy...and honestly my brother in law gets a little out of hand with the chatter about it too

I'm pretty much okay with anything anyone eats as long as they don't need to tell me on an hourly/daily basis about it

some kind of raw lasagna, with the "cream" being pureed cashew...

*shudder*

i use pureed raw cashews all the time as a sub for cream in cooking - it works really well bc in their raw form, cashews don't really have any flavour, they're just fatty/creamy. especially good in mashed potatoes, or a creamy potato bake.

it was more the concept of a raw lasagna in general

i would cook more with cashews if i had a processor and they weren't really expensive, so instead i just keep consuming dairy

cashews go a long way as a fake cream, though - probably like 1/2 c cashews to 2 cups water? depending on how thick you want it.

what's the raw foodists' argument against cream - that it's been pasteurized?

probably that it's not vegan

Arent raw foodists mostly vegan? If so it'd be that.

xpost

the problem with the raw food movement is that there is SO MUCH conflict over what is good and what is bad. i've read stuff that says 90% of your raw food should be vegetables and other stuff that says 90% should be fruit. then there are all the 'bad' fruits and veggies. i think the reality is just... moderation. SHOCKING.

are there any omnivorous raw foodists?

i don't think it was a raw foodist that said there was anything wrong with processing cashews - it was trayce's non-raw foodist friend

raw (unpasteurised) goats' milk/cheese is popular with a lot of raw foodists

Yeah it was just my ex and he didnt even know, he was just musing aloud if that counted as "raw".

is there a temperature above after which a food has been subjected to, it is no longer raw

yep. according to noted vegetarian expert about.com, it's 115 F (46 C)

A summer day in Tucson and your food is cooked!

I'm going to put the raw foodist's dish in the sun for about half an hour and not tell them, they will be foiled!!

I can just imagine a raw foodist in tucson: it's too hot to eat today. going back into my hovel to hibernate in the darkness.

tbh that's my main strategy in the summer

according to noted vegetarian expert about.com

roffles

with the "cream" being pureed cashew...

This sounds dope, but also crazy expensive.

i could go for a hot dog right now

xp good place to buy nuts is indian groceries, you can get mad volume for a fraction of trad groceries ime

Disregarding flexitarian: 73 meat to 50 non-meat.

What a bunch of pussies! You've really outdone yourself this time ILX

"flexitarian" - what the fuck is this? You either eat meat or you don't. Even if you don't eat it often you call yourself a carnivore and maybe mention you don't often eat meat. BS category imo.

^truthbomb

"flexitarian" is more like responsible meat eating amirite

I go through phases where I hardly have any meat, but the meat I have during that time is more likely to be rare blood dripping etc.

If you gotta have meat, gotta do it right

I do flexicise

flexitarian could mean not letting food go to waste

well even vegetarians are just people who eat meat really, really, really infrequently

x-post - If you eat meat you eat meat period. I don't care if you're doing so because you don't want it to go waste. You're still eating meat. It's a made up dumb word.