Go vegitarian.. reduce AGW.. save the planet

So, does anyone really believe someone on an all bean diet really produces less gas than someone who has a few weenies with those beanies?

 

My daughter is 13 and has been a vegetarian for a few years. Inspired (and prodded!) by her I gave up meat two days after Christmas and am still going strong. Yes, I miss meat, but not so much that I ever feel the need to give in. I do indeed get pleasure out of being a vegetarian and driving a Prius, knowing that I'm doing my tiny part to help the environment. But I don't "preach" to friends or strangers, though if asked will attempt to educate them.

 

It's the lack of meat in their diet that makes them that way.

 

Best way

I respect your views and comments more than those who push their views or use emotions such as calling me a carcass cruncher which really gets my goat. lol

 

Define "respect."

Any chance it means "Thanks for making it easy to ignore your views, and not have any pressure on mine?"

I'm not trying to pick on you GrumpyC, you just seem a little more honest than most, and therefore a target

 

Vegitarian: Old Indian word for poor hunter...

 

No amounts of them eating pineapples would change the taste.

Based on personal experience from an uncle of the H persuasion.

 

um . . . . . . I better leave that one alone.

:madgrin:

 

lol it certainly does

I'm a Yorkshire man, I say what I like and more importantly I like what I say. Not a fan of BS full stop. I like people to be honest and up front even if their views are different to mine. Not a fan of people who claim to be vegetarian but still eat fish and chicken! lol what's that all about. But I'd respect a vegan if they were cool and not pushy about their choice, even though I'd never be one myself.

I look at it this way - you can never judge a book by its cover and a jerk is always a jerk, rich, poor, old, young, male or female.

 

"Not a fan of people who claim to be vegetarian but still eat fish and chicken!"

GrumpyC - when I agreed to become a vegetarian I thought that meant I could still eat fish! When my daughter informed me otherwise I wondered if it was too late to back out lol! I miss seafood more than anything. But when I read what we are doing to the world's oceans and fish stocks I quickly regain my verve.

 

I stopped eating meat, I started eating hotdogs.

 

My cat likes chewing on seaweed; (not the same variety as nori) but I don't think he actually eats much. I can't bring myself to try it. It would make eating simple, as I have literally tons of it.

 

Professor Nathaniel Dominy of Dartmouth has some ideas about the historical human diet. Basically humans are starch eaters, and are not biologically designed to eat meat. His video..

And then there's Rip Esselstyn, author of "The Engine 2 Diet". Amazing. Vegans in Texas!

 

HA! Popped into this thread this morning to get caught up, and what's the advertisement in the banner above the posts?

Bob Evans Sausage! Oh the irony...

 

They have a term for that don't they? My daughter does not eat any meat other than fish and chicken. This started when she was like 5 years old and her older sister told her hamburger came from a cow! She refused to eat anything beef after that and soon extended it to anything with 4 legs!

My wife and I are not vegitarians, however, we have cut all artificial additives, checmicals, and preservatives from our diet and don't eat fatty or fried foods. We've also started cooking with grapeseed oils and WildTree seasoning, which are 100% free of any additives or preservatives. We have both lost weight, feel 100 times better, and I have drastically reduced the amount of meds I take to control my cholestrol, high blood pressure and diabetes! It is possible to eat healty without giving up meats...

 

As one of the resident grammar nazis, this thread is the perfect opportunity for me to point out that the term "eat healthy" is nonsense. A "healthy" is not a thing, therefor you can't eat it. The expression is "eat healthfully", or perhaps "eat a healthy diet".

Tom

 

Kelp - eat that in large quantities - look how healthy the whales are.