<p>With the risk of coming off as if I'm trying to convince someone something, sucharita, please read this:</p>
<p>I'm not trying to convince you anything, but it's good to know that someone who had made the claim that "chicken is good" knows stuff like this.</p>
<p>I was talking only about acclimatization - not about health. I know chicken is unhealthy so you don't have to do much convincing :(</p>
<p>I think I'll stick to being vegetarian :)</p>
<p>Oh please. Nothing in that article provides any evidence that chicken is unhealthy. Chicken itself is a very healthy meat. Just because the conditions under which it may be processed may be somewhat unsanitary, doesn't mean the meat is unhealthy. If people were getting sick, then yeah, sure, it's unhealthy. But that's not really happening on any significant scale. The aim of that article is to hit your stomach and make you not want to eat chicken. It has absolutely nothing to do with how healthy chicken itself is.</p>
<p>I've eaten some kind of meat pretty much every day of my life. During junior and senior years of high school, I ate fast food at least several times a week. I've never gotten sick -- not even a cold -- since elementary school.</p>
<p>Although I obviously don't support the unsanitary conditions reported in that article, cooking eliminates the problem. Now, if one were to eat raw chicken, then I would be more concerned....</p>
<p>Are you serious? Cooked feces are still feces.
Besides, cooking doesn't eliminate salmonella.</p>
<p>ya'll are way to cofusing for your own good
I suggest drinking a tall glass of ice water and going for a five mile run. That should cure ya.</p>
<p>Cure what?</p>
<p>your confusion............it was a joke, all though it would probably work.</p>
<p>"Are you serious? Cooked feces are still feces.
Besides, cooking doesn't eliminate salmonella."</p>
<p>Unless you can provide evidence of widespread salmonella poisoning resulting from chicken consumption, then you have no argument.</p>
<p>Hey, you run the risk of eating feces, not me.</p>
<p>Have any of you even looked at the statistics for the highest allowable fecal contamination levels of dry goods like pasta and canned beans? I'd suggest that you stop breathing, but I realize that that might make you sick, too.</p>
<p>People knock hot dogs all the time by saying, "You don't really know whats in hotdogs." Just buy the all beef hotdogs.</p>
<p>cooked feces :eek:</p>
<p>This is why I am vegetarian. Maybe I shouldn't even try to change! :eek:</p>
<p>You know what vegetarians live off of isn't so far from cooked feces...</p>
<p>In fact, manure is a superb fertilizer. Wash your apples!</p>
<p>yeah I wash my apples :p</p>
<p>Umm...to the OP: I've been a vegetarian for 6 or 7 years, and I've never had any health problems. I'm much healthier than most people around me, I work out and used to run CC with no problems. Well...I did have to quit running because of knee problems, but I don't think that has much to do with diet. Protein is basically not an issue, if you eat enough and a fairly varied diet. I don't take any vitamins and never have, and my iron is good. I recommend mexican type food, of course w/ beans instead of meat. Beans have lots of protein and iron.
<em>I do not have bad gas</em> Your body adjusts to these things. I have lots of good recipes for tofu and other veggie food, PM me if you want them. I don't like eating things that taste like meat, but I do like substancial food--no salads for me, unless I have some real food to go with it. Don't be afraid of carbs...the atkins diet is dumb. I have never had problems with my weight, and I eat a LOT. One of the nicer things about not eating meat, actually, is that meat is a high-calorie food. Once you get rid of it, your meals will probably be healthier and lower-calorie, with better nutritional value. This means you can eat more brownies/donuts without getting fat. Just an added bonus. Also, once I became a vegetarian, my diet gradually became more varied than it had been while I ate meat. This is partly because I live in a very meat-eating part of the country, and had to look for veggie stuff, and found lots of ethnic food, in addition to staples, meatless versions of "normal" dishes, and inventions.</p>
<p>I found that once I quit eating meat, mainly for animal rights reasons, more reasons to be vegetarian built up. Mainly, I felt much healthier. I also felt better about my environmental impact. I had planned to phase meat out, but ended up going cold turkey. Once I decided meat was bad, I just couldn't eat it any more.</p>
<p>*Note: it is a good idea to carry power bars or something with you. Sometimes, meatless food is not readily available. I do not like to go hungry, and am sometimes a touch rude to people who are supposed to be providing me with a meal and really should have vegetarian options, but don't.</p>
<p>Now, for the biggest question - WHY?</p>
<p>"Sometimes, meatless food is not readily available. I do not like to go hungry, and am sometimes a touch rude to people who are supposed to be providing me with a meal and really should have vegetarian options, but don't."</p>
<p>Honestly, if you choose to be different from 99% of other people, then you can't always expect people to go out of their way to cater to your needs.</p>
<p>According to the Vegetarian Journal and a 2003 Harris Interactive Survey--</p>
<p>In the US...</p>
<p>30-40% of the nation's consumers buy (specifically) meatless products.</p>
<p>2.8% of the population don't eat any animal products (vegan)</p>
<p>4-10% are vegetarians (no meat, but dairy or eggs)</p>
<p>10% of 18-34 year olds are vegetarian.</p>
<p>However only about 1.4% of Americans are Jewish... and Kosher meals are usually fine to ask for. What gives?</p>