<p>when a vegetarian stares at your cheeseburger and says "it had a face", you say...</p>
<p>"Eating no-faced animals is weird."</p>
<p>Stuck-on-1700, I know people who enjoy brain, and I also know people who enjoy eye. People eat different things in different parts of the world. I personally would never eat eye or brain (I never ate them when I was growing up, those were just the parts that were creepy to eat) but in China they eat sheep eye, for example, and I hear that cow brain is part of Mexican food. Different strokes for different folks!</p>
<p>"...one of the top ten most delicious faces i've eaten of late"</p>
<p>I like to look at the brains in the freezer in supermarkets but I've never even come close to eating one. I was tricked into eating an eye once though. It wasn't that bad...until I found out what it was.</p>
<p>"would you rather have me starve?"</p>
<p>I have a question for the vegitarians..</p>
<p>well, obviosly, vegitarians or vegans don't eat meat. so where do you get protein and all the necessary things that only meat can provide? Doesn't that deficiency affect your health in any way?
:)</p>
<p>"But Darwin told me it was okay."</p>
<p>Pardon me, has CHEESEburger any meat at all?</p>
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well, obviosly, vegitarians or vegans don't eat meat. so where do you get protein and all the necessary things that only meat can provide? Doesn't that deficiency affect your health in any way?
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Study nutritions. There are a lot of vegan foods with proteins, for example: milk, rice, beans.</p>
<p>On topic of brain/eyes/stuff: I ate, I believe, tongue of cow :)</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that vegans and vegetarians get their protein from eating normally plus vitamins.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>They apprantly can get their daily dose of all that stuff from vegetables although i would find it much more difficult. (i learned that in one of my environmental classes)</p>
<p>"It had a face..."</p>
<p>my reply-</p>
<p>"So did the little squirrel and the rabbit you ran over on your way to work this morning"</p>
<p>I lived in a town where there was something always dead on the road side. ek.</p>
<p>PS- replying to the brain and eye thing, i never ate any of those but was tricked into eating half a cow ball. I didn't know what it was and it tasted weird so i stopped. My friend didn't and ate all 9 of them. rofl.</p>
<p>Krys, I am confused if there isn't something dead on the road side. Last fall (I think), there were 3 dead deer within a quarter mile of my house (on one road).</p>
<p>Then the DNR cam and finally got them. :) Then more deer got hit...</p>
<p>Ive never seen deer before</p>
<p>To answer the OP, I would say, erm....</p>
<p>Don't you love my new leather jacket with matching goat-hair pumps? (j/k)
I'd really say,"Your lettuce had roots. I'm sure it was just looking for its place in the world, waiting for someone to come along and complete its life, but you snatched that opportunity away from it by picking it and consuming it."</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>"Actually it didn't. So I put it out of it's misery and am now eating it. Didn't want to let it go to waste..."</p>
<p>what bothers me is that I've never met a vegitarian and no one has ever told me that something "had a face" before.
vegitarians aren't that common where I live.</p>
<p>Most vegetarians that I've met (including myself) aren't really interested in converting others to vegetarianism. For me, it was a personal decision, not a religion.
While I do love animals, I don't think it is necessarily wrong, as humans, to eat them. I choose to be vegetarian because I think factory farming is sickening and I don't particularly like the taste of meat in the first place.</p>
<p>P.S. It's really not hard at all to get the nutrients you need from a non-meat diet. Most people get too much protein from their food anyway.</p>
<p>^Maybe sedentary ones. I have to go out of my way to get my necessary protein intake. Vegetarians do no get 'complete proteins'. They can only be had in meat products. And it is a bit hard to get too much protein. I like animals, but I also like to eat them. Meh.</p>
<p>It's easy to get protein if you're used to eating high-protein foods like lentils, beans, nuts, eggs, and dairy products. My mom has been vegetarian all her life and she's used to eating most of these foods daily. The rest of us are meat-eaters but we sometimes go for days without meat...if you can open your mind to eating food like lentils and beans and nuts (which are staples for traditionally vegetarian societies) then you'll be absolutely fine without meat. Unfortunately in American society people eat meat a lot more than they eat these other foods, so it's difficult for Americans to believe that it's possible to live off of them and find them extremely delicious. It's not "health food," it's the staple of many a foreign culture. Meat isn't a be all and end all and it's most certainly not necessary for human survival or nutrition. It's simply a common myth that carnivores toss around: vegetarians can't get enough protein.</p>
<p>I myself am a meat-eater and I love it. But as I said before, I do not have any problems with going without meat for a week or so. After that, I miss my vegetarian mom's mean BBQ chicken (the woman is a great cook of meat but won't eat any of it).</p>
<p>I'd like to talk about two points, particularly.</p>
<p>1) Humans are at the top of the food chain so we have the right to kill, eat, or do whatever we want to animals below us? That's interesting logic.
I have a gut feeling that a lot of the kids on here are lower on the social chain than most other people. Does that mean they should have to be treated like crap or beaten up? No, it doesn't. Stuck-on-1700, why don't I make fun of how stupid you are because your SAT score sucks? By your logic, my 2230 entitles me to deride you and do whatever I want because I'm smarter than you are. But, even though by your logic it's fine, I wouldn't do that. Just like I don't needlessly kill animals just because I can.</p>
<p>2) If you think that meat is the only way to get "complete proteins" you should be doing a lot less talking and a lot more listening. "Complete proteins" in meat just means that an individual can get all of the proteins vital to maintaining human life from ONE source. Guess what? A vegetarian can get ALL of those SAME proteins except [pause for suspense] he/she has to eat two different foods to get it. The downside to doing it the vegetarian way is that you also get a significant amount of other nutrients with your meal because it's more balanced. Oh wait............Get the point?</p>
<p>For future reference: If you are talking to a vegetarian, and the vegetarian is alive, then logic should tell you that it is possible for people to get all of the necessary proteins from non-animal sources.</p>
<p>^2230 SAT scores doesn't mean anything friend. Enough with your crap logic already. Eating animals and having lower SAT scores are not even closely analogous Not taking all the proteins will not kill you. Thus, just because a vegetarian is alive doesn't mean he is healthy by any standards. Thus, your 'logic' is invalided. </p>
<p>Doing it the vegetarian way gives you more nutrients? Like what? I am about 99.99% sure I am getting all my nutrients. I get my food from a variety of sources. I am not dogmatic about not eating beef because it once had a face.</p>
<p>Go back and read through your posts. Learn some logic. Read some nutrition articles. Please do not preach to me. I am on a rigorous training program, and nutrition is extremely vital to my life. I can guarantee you I am more well read and knowledgeable in this field than you think you are.</p>
<p>I cannot help but laugh at you magic monkey. I have seen plenty of your types in high school. Know it alls get owned in the school of hard knocks. So enjoy your blissful ignorance and be an internet warrior while you still can.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>Sam</p>