re: Anyone here vegan or vegetarian or tried a vegan or vegetarian diet?

Maybe I should reconsider. You really sound like you know what you are talking about.

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religious reasons.

Curious....what religion does not allow anyone to eat meat?

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Many of the Eastern religions (Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism) have tenants of their faith that encourage vegetarianism.

I am a Jain, and one of our main doctrines is non-violence, and from that belief stems the belief of vegetarianism. I ate meat growing up, but once I was old enough, my parents let me make my own choice. It just seemed like the right decision for me.

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Since you are so knowledgable explain why I am an idiot for doing this and what I am missing from my diet .

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That would take waaay too much effort, so...No.

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That would take waaay too much effort, so...No.

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So basically you don't know wtf you are talking about. Got it.

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Please tell everyone what I am missing from my diet then genius. You won't because you can't. You are likely just another overweight slob who likes to talk out of his arse on the internet about something you have zero knowledge of.

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Here's how it works. Eat whatever the frick you want. Just make sure you burn more calories than you eat. It really is that simple.

Now do I need to help you with figuring out the number of calories you need...or don't need. And BTW...I'm sexy.

Are they tortured, or are they just confined to smaller cages (as in chicken plants)? That's not torture. That's maximizing space so that they can produce more for less. There's a reason organic free range stuff costs more. It takes more space and money to produce that way. You know how many mouths cant afford the price of organic or free range raised food. I would bet it would put a hurting on half the populations check books. I personally don't care if a chicken is raised in a cage if the whole reason it was born was to die for me to eat.

And I actually try to buy grass fed beef and free range chicken eggs, etc. But my reasons aren't ethical. Its health. I'd like to keep as much processed chemicals and crap out of my body.

I grew up in a farming family. I ate chickens that I cut the heads off of earlier in the day. I ate pork from pigs that I named as a kid. I ate beef from my cousin's cows. I just learned from a very young age where meat came from. I guess I was raised with no hang ups on the process. We do what we have to do to eat.

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Animal farming is the best thing to ever happen to those species. Cows outnumber us, live in easy paradise, fat and happy, isolated from brutal survivalistic nature, and then we spare them the agony of old age


You're welcome, cows.

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To the OP, I don't think I could ever become a vegetarian.

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Are they tortured, or are they just confined to smaller cages (as in chicken plants)?

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You don't sound very informed.

You should read a couple of books before posting like you are educated on the matter.

FTR, I'm not vegan or vegetarian I eat meat every day. I'm also not blinded by what corporate America does to make an extra buck on the bottom line.

fair enough I've never read a book either but there are plenty of non-biased articles out there to understand what goes on behind closed doors.