emotional vegetarians
By cripfemme
@cripfemme (7698)
United States
August 4, 2008 7:41pm CST
I've always thought I should be a vegetarian because it doesn't seem appropriate to eat something that was alive when we have other options. I mean it's not 4BC anymore. Plenty of people have healthy productive lives and never eat meat. Unfortunately for me, I'm not one of those people. If I don't eat meat for two days or if I over eat on vegetables especially raw vegetables I get the runs and am trapped in the bathroom for most of the day. I don't know if there is any way I can become a vegetarian without this side effect and have decided to refocus my efforts on eating meat that was treated well rather than factory farmed. If I'm going to eat meat, I want to know that it got to run around outside and eat grass before it was slaughtered. Does this make me weird?
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
11 Aug 08
That doesn't make you weird.Maybe you can just eat Chicken and give up every other meat.Chicken can be cooked in a healthy way so your system gets some meat protein.
I guess I am the polar opposite. I like meat and I never eat vegetables unless you count green peppers on a pizza.
@turtlegirl (148)
• United States
8 Aug 08
You know everyone is different. I am a vegetarian but I live with all meat eaters. I don't expect them to change. But, even being a vegetarian I don't eat raw vegetables very often. They also make me sick. I cook them in appealing ways. I eat a lot of chicken fried tofu so my meals sort of match the rest of the family. If they have steak i have a veggie burger seasoned the same way as theirs. I personally can't stand the thought of eating veins and meat and flesh. For me its not only sympathy for the animal but, disgust at the thought of putting carrion in my mouth. But, hey, different things turn different people on :). I could almost cave at the smell of a BBQ restaraunt. They need to get some veggie dishes up in there! Some mushroom, tofu, pepper shiskebabs or something.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
5 Aug 08
A vegetarian is an uninformed individual! To remain alive and functioning in this dimension Humans and animals depend entirely upon ingesting living energy. Life in this dimension is Energy. This means that to live we must ingest living organisms. Animal or Vegetable,(take your pick) both are radiantly alive, and must be eaten before they decay in order to supply the needed Energy higher forms require. A Vegetarian is a person so uniformed he/she has never studied biology.
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I'm mostly a vegetarian by choice because I don't like meat all that much or much at all meaning, only certain types I like but only a couple of bites and that's it for me. Now as for knowing about the animal before it was slaughtered, I couldn't do that because it's kind of like getting to know it intimately before it's killed and that would just throw me a curve ball in the worst way. Just knowing it was a live animal alone is too much for me but some how I bear with that thought with just a couple of bites.
