<p>^so am i, and in my experience being choosy about what you eat is more expensive. where in my post did i include anything in any relation to "wealthy" anyhow?</p>
<p>viciouspoultry, B12 is available in nutritional yeast, which is a natural product that can be fortified with B12 produced naturally from bacteria. And nutritional yeast is considered vegan (despite the fact that it is not considered plant). Sprinkle it on popcorn (add red pepper flakes if you like spice) or use it in Macaroni-No-Cheese. Or sprinkle it on vegan pizza, or . . .</p>
<p>Oh yea, Vegimite has B12 too.</p>
<p>Folates are also important and nutritional yeast and Vegimite help there also.</p>
<p>a lot of people in developing countries are vegetarian out of financial necessity.</p>
<p>but i'm not sure if that study included them or if it was only restricted to americans.</p>
<p>I've been vegetarian for 18 years. </p>
<p>Although, out of curiousity, I have tasted chicken nuggets, turkey and chicken tikka. Each was just one time. It tasted ok- although I was suprised at how mush chewing it required.
I'm a hardcore vegetarian but its only because of habit- I'm surrounded by vegetarians- my parents, friends and whole family. And as I grew up, I thought about turning non-vegetarian, but everytime I tried picturing myself eating meat- I would think something like- "You are eating something that used to have a face! or something that used to **** and pee" and then when I was in 7th grade I did this project on methods by which animal meat is processed and there were all these articles on animals being brutally slaughtered and I just decided that I could never eat something that had caused a living being pain.</p>
<p>I'd probably pass out halfway through practice if I stopped eating meat =/.</p>
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<p>I like that view.</p>
<p>I am a vegetarian. I'm not vegan, but I almost completely don't have any eggs or milk or other animal based products. I'm selective, plus it is hard to stay healthy.</p>
<p>I hate any "fake meat" products. AKA chicken nuggets, deep fried. I cannot understand people who don't eat meat for moral reason. Were humans, its natural to eat meat. Plus is good and yummy. I love just a good ole steak. </p>
<p>I think there are definite advantages of going vegetarian, but I'm im a man, and I'd rather have my meat.</p>
<p>I eat meat and I like it. </p>
<p>My vegetarian friend used to flip out and get on my case at lunch though, like if I got a chicken sandwich or something. "How can you eat that? You're eating a tortured animal." Stuff like that. It got really annoying, but she's stopped now.</p>
<p>I think if you're a vegetarian/vegan, well then jolly good; I have a lot of respect for you. But don't try to force your views onto other people if that's not the way they want to go.</p>
<p>^i hate veg kids who try to push it on other people. theyre just a whole lot of the worst. luckily i dont have any friends like that even though the majority of my friends are veg</p>
<p>I read an article the other day about how meat eaters have a HUGE HUGE carbon footprint compared to non-meat eaters. I thought that was pretty ineteresting</p>
<p>I am a quasi vegetarian....haha</p>
<p>I eat fish but no other meats. It is a personal choice and I do it just because i really don't like meat. Most people don't even know i don't eat meat. I think it is strange when people try and push their own personal lifestyles on onto other people. We are all free to do what we want to. Some people drink and others don't....some smoke and others don't.</p>
<p>yeah, being veg is way more environmentally friendly since it takes a lot of food to feed animals to eat rather than just eating plants and things of that nature. one of my friends is veg simply for enviro reasons</p>
<p>I may not be vegetarian but I am a self-righteous liberal.</p>
<p>BTW vegetarianism kills more animals than being a carnivore does.</p>
<p>I've tried to do it for two days for health reasons... but it didn't really work out...</p>
<p>It is possible to be non-veg for health reasons, just so you "omgz we dont eet meet so we r leet!" noobs know.</p>
<p>I have been a vegetarian for about a month, and before then I ate meat on very rare occasions anyway (never red meat). The thought of eating it now disgusts me, and I am sure I will be vegetarian for the rest of my life unless some dire situation occurs where I must eat meat. I am under the philosophy "if I can't kill it I should not eat it," and I am far too humane to even hurt a fly. lol I suppose I also do it out of environmental responsibility. Meat never tasted good to me anyway. It was not the meat I liked - it was the seasoning or sauce on it.</p>
<p>I do not think I could be vegan though. I eat so much dairy.</p>
<p>What are you people on about? Are you not aware that other animals kill other animals to eat? It's natural to eat meat, our bodies easily digest it. The only thing that isn't really natural about our diets is drinking other animals' milk; no other specie does that.</p>
<p>I eat meat every day. Better to buy the meat and eat it rather than let it rot on store shelves, which is very wasteful.</p>
<p>edit: This reminds me of last night. I was eating at Red Robin when the woman sitting at the table next to me requested a burger with lots of vegetables but no meat.</p>
<p>Lol @ "natural" arguments and being humane. How cute.</p>
<p>xSteven, well said. And what other adult animals drink mother's milk besides humans--that is strange and stranger yet since the mothers are a different species. :P</p>