evest Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Don't worry , this not a fuel related post. I'm thinking of going vegetarian, maybe even vegan eventually, for various reasons. In fact I've been quietly considering it for some time but just haven't taken the plunge yet. Has anybody on here done this? Would be glad of any advice, cheers! Quote
Maccaman Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 No meat, are you kidding At least we will be able to recognize you at meets, you will be the white pasty looking one Quote
spursmaddave Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Once went to my brothers for Christmas dinner, risoles My daughter went vegan in her teens (as many do) but that ended one sunday morning when I was making a bacon sandwich and turned round to see her chomping it down Fair play though, as long it is for the right reasons and not just appearances, my brother has just bought a Prius to sit in his drive... Quote
spursmaddave Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 No meat, are you kidding At least we will be able to recognize you at meats, you will be the white pasty looking one Surely meats will be off the agenda Quote
evest Posted August 28, 2010 Author Posted August 28, 2010 Well I'm pushing 30 so it certainly won't be a fad thing, and its not to try and look nuevo-eco or whatever the phrase is. Tbh, I won't go into my reasons as I don't want to spark a big debate - but they are genuine. Just wondered if anybody had done the conversion, and how they found it. Quote
evest Posted August 28, 2010 Author Posted August 28, 2010 No meat, are you kidding At least we will be able to recognize you at meats, you will be the white pasty looking one Surely meats will be off the agenda Quote
chrisjones6699 Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Pointless! We are designed to eat meat and you will miss is! Dave mentioned his daughter with the bacon butty, the smell of cooking bacon will turn a vegie in the blink of an eye! Quote
chrisjones6699 Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 being vegetarian offends me slightly Quote
spursmaddave Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Pointless! We are designed to eat meat and you will miss is! Dave mentioned his daughter with the bacon butty, the smell of cooking bacon will turn a vegie in the blink of an eye! True and you never see a vegetarian pig, just ask Brick from Snatch Quote
evest Posted August 28, 2010 Author Posted August 28, 2010 my brother has just bought a Prius to sit in his drive... Do they have a forum?!? Maybe I should ask on there - I can see the general momentum of opinion here is somewhat against the idea...just a bit... Quote
Zugara Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Correct me if i am wrong...... First off, each to their own.... whatever makes you happy. But how come vegetablearians can eat fish? I would have thought that fish is "meat"? THB i think IMO vegan is a step too far. Quote
spursmaddave Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 If the OP goes vegan don't all GT's have the finest moohair seats? Quote
evest Posted August 28, 2010 Author Posted August 28, 2010 Correct me if i am wrong...... First off, each to their own.... whatever makes you happy. But how come vegetablearians can eat fish? I would have thought that fish is "meat"? THB i think IMO vegan is a step too far. Good question, I guess there are different stage or degrees of vegetablearianism. I don't think I could convert overnight. Giving up meat wouldn't be a that massive an issue for me, I don't really eat that much of it anyway. Giving up dairy would be much harder for me though. And yeah, I'd miss fish too! Quote
ATTAK Z Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 vegetablearianism Blackadder ! ............. I think I've found a new word Quote
Zugara Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Correct me if i am wrong...... First off, each to their own.... whatever makes you happy. But how come vegetablearians can eat fish? I would have thought that fish is "meat"? THB i think IMO vegan is a step too far. Good question, I guess there are different stage or degrees of vegetablearianism. I don't think I could convert overnight. Giving up meat wouldn't be a that massive an issue for me, I don't really eat that much of it anyway. Giving up dairy would be much harder for me though. And yeah, I'd miss fish too! Fish..... Cant stand the stuff, its all too, well, well, Fishy for me. Quote
Ricey Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Depends if your doing it for ethical or health reasons. Personally I think you need to eat meat for a healthy balanced diet. If its because for one reason or another you no longer think its ethical to eat meat then to each his own. So the study goes.......the average human will carry 5lbs of undigested mean in their colon by the age of 50....mmmmmm undigested meat (which incidentially I would rather eat the undigested meat from my own colon than a tofu burger!) Quote
evest Posted August 28, 2010 Author Posted August 28, 2010 Personally I think you need to eat meat for a healthy balanced diet. Still doing my homework on that. I think you probably can get everything you need, but looks a lot harder to do, and to make sure you don't miss out on iron, etc... Quote
Ricey Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 As far as my fairly limited research goes I'd agree. It can be done but its just a LOT harder to get all your essentials in. Depends what your lifestyle is like too. If you excercise a lot then stopping meat will mean you need to eat even more to make up the protien and other good stuff that meat give you. My other half decided she was going to be a veggie for about 3 months.........the weight I had spent 6 months and what felt like 1 billion hours in the gym putting on dropped off in weeks because I was basically forced into not eating meat Quote
evest Posted August 28, 2010 Author Posted August 28, 2010 I exercise quite a bit and don't want my fitness to suffer - one of the main things stopping me going for it at the moment. My missus a veggie too and we've just moved in together! She's okay about me eating meat though - I can see her getting a bit edgy when I'm doing bacon butties though! Quote
rich5259 Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Eat Meat!!! Steak is just the meat from cows, who have ruminated the cud several times in their 4 stomachs having first eaten GRASS - which IIRC is GREEN and VEGETABLE so Steak is just a very refined and processed derivative of vegetable matter Quote
AK350Z Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 I exercise quite a bit and don't want my fitness to suffer - one of the main things stopping me going for it at the moment. My missus a veggie too and we've just moved in together! She's okay about me eating meat though - I can see her getting a bit edgy when I'm doing bacon butties though! Bing! There's the real reason there! But seriously, Bacon butties must be the number 1 wrecker of veggie ideals on the planet. It made my mates girlfriend cave in eventually, the smell is like catnip to them Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.