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lacto-ovo-vegetarian for about 7 or 8 years now

I've asked my parents if I could be a vegetarian, but they said that it would be too much work. However, only eat red meat about once or twice a month. I want to be a lacto-ovo-vegetarian when I grow up (no fish.)

You need to find yourself a better cook ,no seriously.

I had (made) an awesome (vegan Christmas dinner) that will give you all the "highs" of a traditional turkey Christmas dinner.

1. Redwoods roast beef (some faux meats are puke though redwoods generally is the bees knees . It had a really yummy stuffing which contained wild rice.

2. served with minty peas, roast (rosemary potatoes) roasted dutch carrots (glazed with cardamon and orange juice) Yorkshire pudding Yum-o who doesn't like fat and flour deep fried in fat ! It was serverd with home made gravy (using my home brew beer.)

It was served stacked up restaurant style everyone said it had photo magazine look to it.

Since it's so hot here , for dessert I made a Oreo ice cream Christmas pudding, yes Oreos are vegan , the best by default vegan (industrial/cheap) cookie. . Served with lots of berries and white (vegan chocolate)

Have Christmas with me and you'll change your mindset instantly.

Ethical vegetarian minus eggs for 10 years now. Same with my kiddos.

Very recently vegan, due to dx dairy allergy. Also gluten and soy free...yippee! lol Seriously I miss grilled cheese a lot.

I would love to meet a veggie aspie man <3

Vegan for about 4-5 months.

I want to be a vegetarian, but my parents say that they cannot handle buying different food for me than for my siblings. They say I'll have to wait until I'm living on my own. I only eat red meat about once a month, though.

I must say, if it is only once a month it is hardly a difficult change. That is just an excuse to not fully consider what would be different about it from your parents side in my opinion.

Hey, I've been a vegetarian on and off since I was 13 years old. I'm 20 now, and I tried to be vegan, but it got really expensive. Now I'm just a semi-strict vegetarian. I dont drink milk, I limit any other dairy products. I dont eat eggs, but if they are in bread or something I buy from a store, I'll eat it. I don't eat any meat whatsoever.

What really turned me off from meat in the beginning was the "Meet your Meat" video from PETA. Also, when I was around 10 years old, I went moose hunting and I witnessed the people I was with kill a moose, and cut it open and everything, and I'm still scarred from that, as well as seeing chickens getting their heads cut off when I was around 6. I was bound to be a vegetarian at some point.

The film Eathlings made me stop eating milk and eggs after i had already been a vegetarian for a month or so.

Dairy cows who could live for 20 years can die in 4 years due to exhaustion. They can, well mostly in America (it was banned in Europe) get fed Bovine Growth Hormone which has been proven to cause disease. Monsanto, the people who dominate the food industry, the FDA and the media do their best to prevent the truth. Milking cows are also fed anti biotics which cause their immune systems to be weakened and for lots of drug resistant bacteria to grow. The effects of these things is in the milk you drink unless you buy Raw Organic or just even Organic milk.

Eggs are not much better - chickens are put along a conveyor belt, have their beaks cut off, their eyes blinded and their claws snipped off whilst they are a wake. I've seen several videos of it. It is not how any life form deserves to be treated. Organic eggs are also better in terms of the conditions the animals live in.

I'm pescatarian, althou I don't atcaully like fish on itself, I do eat fish sticks and shell fish.

I also don't Dink cow milkcoz its full of chemicals and cruel so I habve soya milk instead. Been like that for about 4 years and its acyalllu inporved my eating alot.

I will nevere be the worlds biggest easter but the thought of eating dead animal turns my stomach.

Lots of people say to me Soya milk is not healthy at all due to the Estrogen content. That needs verification, and remember if science says it is safe question who is funding it before deciding.

I love Rice milk and Oat milk

Want to try hemp milk some time.

I didn't know they made hemp milk?? I have tried Rice and oat milk and they are both ok.

I don't really drink alot of soya milk, just add it to about 4 cups of tea a day.

I've never seen Hemp milk advertised but have a friend who has a very good blender. She just blends a nice amount of organic hemp seeds and adds some water to it. She only has it occasionally because it is expensive, but definitely nutritious and tasty.

are you in scotland? and they use battery hens? in australia there's been big pushes for free range hens, the hens live roaming free in big sheds instead of in cages.

you can buy eggs marked "free range" from just about every supermarket

http://www.rspca.org.au/how-you-can-hel ... -hens.html

Yes they use battery hens here. It is such a shame. I am glad there has been a big push for fairer treatment. I would that to happen on a global scale. It may need to start with humans caring for each other a bit more or who knows what.

I'd like people to see compassion through intelligent discussion but that does not work that quickly. Shock tactics, like say going to super markets with images of the conditions that animals live in is possibly very effective.

I used to be a full-time vegetarian. Now however, I eat meat only a few times a week for the protein.