Pescetarian for 7 years.
― Virtual Bart (EDB), Saturday, 17 March 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
I eat meat. Burgers and all kinds of pork products are my favorite. Poultry less so, but chicken is such an easy staple food I probably end up eating more of that. I'm not fronting, it's the way I've eaten my whole life.
― Jeff, Saturday, 17 March 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
Vegetarian, vegan or meat eater, I really don't mind so long as smugness and elitist attitudes are not involved.
I have come across several food blogs when I went in search of protein shake and juicing recipes then tried to find a soup based on chicken broth, sesame oil and ginger that I use to make. There are a lot of people out there obsessed with wanting to eat as "perfect" as possible. Whether it is to ward of illness or be as hip as can be going gourmet at home daily. The eesh factor comes in with the way they praise themselves on their own diets and food choices. It is such a turn off.
― *tera, Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
vegetable fruit and grain-based here but eat some sort of seafood weekly (mostly at work for "quality control" purposes). been this way since 1982 when i was 15
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't eaten meat or fish for 6 years, think about going vegan all the time but I'm too transitory and don't cook enough to be vegan. (I'm also not pushy enough; takes balls to go into, say, a taqueria and ask for vegan food). Greenhouse gasses/factory farming's effects on humans are my main reasons. I've become a bigger animal fan as the years have gone by, though, and have come more into the idea that making any living thing with the capacity for suffering suffer so that your dinner tastes better isn't an okay thing to do.
I often wonder why it's easier for me to not eat meat, which is a moderately significant inconvenience in America, than to remember to turn everything off before I leave the house or seek out ethically made clothing. I think it's latent Catholic in me, mildly reveling in the self-denial.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/3642661392_5801c3b218.jpg
― phuturephase, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
I really think the whole blood type thing has a lot to do with it. I am AB and if meat were removed from my diet, I wouldn't miss it. However, that being said, my body eventually does miss it and I did become anemic on a vegetarian diet in my 20's. I still do if I go too long without it so for that reason I do meat.
I did raw food for three weeks and was satisfied but that was a ton of pricey nuts, like bulks and bulks to use in all sorts of recipes. I went broke before the end of the month and had to return to the stove top.
― *tera, Sunday, 18 March 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Unabashed is a bit too much, flexi is a bit too little. Should have an option inbetween :-(
― StanM, Sunday, 18 March 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Just what I was thinking - I am unabashed in that there isn't much meat I'll shy away from, but I try and have about 50% of my meals meat free.
― ledge, Sunday, 18 March 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really try, it just works out that way.
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, me neith
― flopson, Monday, 19 March 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
i like eating meat plenty but i would become a vegetarian if i dated one or like, lived with a bunch of them
― flopson, Monday, 19 March 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
i checked vegan, but i guess i'm flexivegan, given that i have been eating foods like cadbury creme eggs lately. plus, i often don't ask "vegan questions" in restaurants where sauces are concerned - like, i won't order a cream sauce, but i also won't grill the waiter to find out if half a teaspoon of fish sauce went into something. meat eaters that know this about me say that i'm a HUUUUUUUUGE hypocrite.
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Monday, 19 March 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
ignore them, anybody with any ideals beyond apathy ends up being hypocritical sometimes.
I was a vegetarian for around 13 years, but I started eating meat again in 1998 so it's been a while. I definitely bring a more veg influence to our meal planning though, I make veg dinners at least twice a week. my wife is a serious carnivore but I have swayed her somewhat.
I am kinda in the same boat as ENBB in terms of not having had very much practical experience in cooking meat, I usually defer to mi carnivorita.
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Monday, 19 March 2012 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
really enjoying my vegatarian lifestyle
― buzza, Monday, 19 March 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
vegetarian lifestyle sounds like a dreadful slick magazine
― Aimless, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
"great tofu farm getaways"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'm trying to eat less meat so I've adopted these personal rules: no red meat, no processed meat, no more than one meal a day that includes meat (so if I have meat at lunch, then I don't have it at dinner).
― o. nate, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
that is making eating less meat real complicated, just eat less meat
― thomp, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Actually I find it easier to have rules, because then I don't have to think about it - it becomes kind of automatic.
― o. nate, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
no processed meat
Fuck that rule. If I can't have pastrami at least one time a month, someone dies.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
These things aren't set in stone so once in a blue moon I might treat myself to pastrami (only if it's really good). I've only been doing this for a couple of months so far.
― o. nate, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Good man.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Can't live without hot dogs. And scrapple.
― Jeff, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
When I get seriously depressed, I eat bologna sandwiches.
― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
procesed meat gives u bowel cancer
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Worth it
― Jeff, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
I don't smoke, so I opted for a diff cancer :/
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― 1staethyr, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
*fist bump with system*
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Compared to the comments in the thread, the result is suprising. Not that meat eaters won, but how many there are!
― zooey bechamel (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah while I was reading this thread I was like, holy shit all of ILX is vegetarian
MEATEATERS WE ARE LEGION lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
well it's really 73 meat, 27 flex, 50 some-kinda-vegetarian, which is kinda amazing considering that the national figure is like 5%
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
tho like many like this you have to adjust for the fact that 100% of vegetarians were gonna click on the thread
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
many polls like this*
don't ruin this for me iatee
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
:)
'national', f u
i'm glad to know there are no raw foodists on this forum, though
― thomp, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I was gonna put something about 'also british people exist I guess' but I decided not to
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― zooey bechamel (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
you mean they are cashews
― dayo, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:12 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
real talk
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
some kind of raw lasagna, with the "cream" being pureed cashew...
*shudder*
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
it was more the concept of a raw lasagna in general
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link