Vegetarianism and Harassment

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Wow all this makes my college seem so nice vegetarians getting along with meat eaters, Indian kids talking with people eating hamburgers (which Ive done before lol), must just be a local thing.

PS by Indian I meant from India (which my college has about 10 of I think which isnt a bad portion for a school of 1600.)

I believe "pooheads" is a good term because it's immature. Using people's psychological complexes against them is SO imature.

I've been a veggie since I was 19. I haven't touched meat since (although I have accidentally had it because of mistakes in restaurants).

I tend not to discuss it with people at all. I do it for my own personal reasons. It has led to some embarrassing situations where I have been in a restaurant and they don't have veggie food.

This is farther reason why I think pizza is the most perfect food. I mean you to go a pizza place and there sure to have a couple veggie pizzas!

and if they don't you can always ask them to make your favourite anyway!

I've been a vegetarian since I was in the womb. People tease me about it but I don't really mind. The main problem is finding stuff to eat when I'm away from home- when you combine vegetarianism with aspie pickiness, well...

Add a restrictive diet to Aspie pickiness and vegetarianism and you get an idea of how easy I am to feed.

I tend to have major problems with certain foods. I am very conscious about food being out of date. I struggle to eat eggs because I can't stand that stringy bit... Anything unidentifiable sometimes puts me off too.

I think those two reasons are just a general and a specific example of the same phenonemon. Take religious intolerance as another example, the pious types making the most noise, striving to either convert or demonize everyone are, deep down the most frightened and insecure. Its much easier to project that self doubt onto someone else and demonize them than do a bit of soul-searching and risk having to make difficult lifestyle changes.

I used to let them pester me at school and hated it, being (then) completely non-confrontational, if it happenned now id probably find it amusing. I find it curious that something as innocuous as my dietary choices can make another person feel so threatened and insecure. Then the whole sorry 'debate' inevitably unfolds for the hundredth time as the moral dialogue is played out between the meat-eater and their veggie conscience, often with hilariously dumb variants on the famed 'desert-island rationalization' and other pathetic cliches

Try gluten, dairy/casein & nightshade free combined with a penchant for ethics!

I made the switch about a week ago and initially there was literally nothing in my old 'aspie' repetoire (basically pure gluten/casein ) i could eat at home, forget about going out.

I'm sure you veggies will hate me, because I'm a brutal carnivore. (I used to work as a steak chef, carving 15 pound cuts of beef, and grilling literally hundreds of steaks a night) But my point is more a counter-argument to the animal cruelty argument. I hate to tell you this, but cows are extinct. Beef is comes from a genetically bred/enhanced animal that once was related to a cow. There are no cows left, it's just something the human race created. You can't claim that someone is being cruel to concrete. It was something humans discovered/invented.

As for chickens, I'm sure that they aren't real chickens either. Again just some invention of the human race. Maybe I just lack empathy (is there an Aspie here?), but I can't convince myself that anything you do to these foodbags is cruel. If you want to be religious and somehow believe that they have a soul or something, fine, but I don't think it's even possible for these animals to have thoughts they're bred to be so dumb. (no matter what a Disney movie tells you)

I mean you don't have to agree with my thoughts on what's cruel, but I think that people need to understand that centuries of humans breeding livestock has wiped out the original species. Livestock is another name for food in my books.

And what do you think about cruelty to dogs? Perhaps the most diversely & perversely bred species ever.

McManager- is your name a reference to McDonald's? ((If it is I think it would be pretty quixotic to argue with you, but that's just my guess.))

A Mcdonalds employee describing themselves as a 'steak chef' might be construed as somewhat pretentious

btw

carnivore = only meat
herbivore = no meat
omnivore = mixed diet

Interestingly, i cannot remember reading a veggie thread where a non-veggie did not proudly declare themselves as a carnivore

Hahahahahaha!! !! That actually doesn't bother me as much as the fact that people repeatedly say I'm a vegan. I COMSUME ANIMAL PRODUCTS!! !! Rrrrgh. That, and the "I'm a vegetarian. I only eat chicken." No, you're just picky. Pesco veggies, yeah, you squeak by in my estimation, though I still wish waiters didn't list off the fish entrees when I say I'm a vegetarian and I'm eating out. </veggie rant>

I'm omnivorous in widest sense... If it's edible chances are I'll eat it...