Off Topic Veganism

[Steven Toast]

That post was filled with as much rubbish as the militant vegans spout.

The appendix is a vestigial organ, its testament that we evolved from organisms with a plant based diet.

Vegans don't need to get protein from supplements, the human body only needs around 60-80g of protein a day, which is quite easily obtainable through a balanced and nutritious vegan diet.

Supplements are not 'chemicals' vegan protein supplements are made from natural sources such as hemp or pea protein, sure it has to be processed but thats no more unhealthy than the hormone and chemical ridden meat we eat.

When you refer to 'draw nutritious proteins' I presume you mean complete proteins (those which contain all 20 amino acids), it is true that the only complete sources are not vegan friendly (meat, fish, eggs...etc) however all 20 amino acids can be found in vegan foods such as nuts, beans, legumes, eating a combination of these foods in a balanced diet will provide all 20 amino acids (we only actually need 9 from food, the body can produce the other 11 on its own).

I'm not vegan or vegetarian and can see how the aggressive or militant stance of some can wind people up, however don't mistake your dislike for them as a disregard for their lifestyle, it is and has been proven to be a perfectly healthy alternative to the common western diet.

I'm not saying it isn't a healthy alternative, I'm sure it has many merits. It's their righteous indignation against everybody else that gets on my nerves.

The appendix in other herbivores is much more prominent as it carries more of a function. In our bodies, it has been proposed that our appendicies are linked to diarrhoea recovery.

 

[DMD]

Ellan

Sorry but you have not seen Wyoming Chainsaw Massacre with Cabbageface and the naive student cows.

Was it a moovie?

 

[Learning To Fly]

Was it a moovie?

yes but the sequel went straight to BSE. Do you remember BSE? I bought Betamax. Mad. Every time I switch it on I fall over in my own sh!t.

 

[DMD]

yes but the sequel went straight to BSE. Do you remember BSE? I bought Betamax. Mad. Every time I switch it on I fall over in my own sh!t.

Of course I remember BSE's. I got one in geography and another in maths. I struggled in English, but I blame that on dyslexia.

 

[Learning To Fly]

Of course I remember BSE's. I got one in geography and another in maths.

Of course I remember BSE's. I got one in geography and another in maths.

hay levels next young man. Enough. Nightie night.

 

[DMD]

hay levels next young man. Enough. Nightie night.

Aye, I think we've sunk to to Oh level. At least you got it back on topic mentoning hay. Nom nom.

 

[ellewoods]

I tried the vegan thing for a bit in college it lasted about 2 days when I decided pizza was to important.

 

[onlyme]

but arnt banana,s gassed?

 

[Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC]

I don't eat meat. However, I eat fish, cheese, eggs.

For me, it's a health reason. But I do also resent 'militant' diet-ism.

Think on, though - a lot of awful things go on in the livestock business:

http://www.ciwf.org.uk/?gclid=CPe-ge-hiskCFSMYwwod83AP0w

 

[Walter Sobchak]

I could quite happily have sausages, bacon, steak etc for every meal. I don't obviously. But I I frigging love my meats and I shan't give them up for anyone.

 

[originallambrettaman]

but arnt banana,s gassed?

I think it was only the Jewish one's.

 

[originallambrettaman]

I had a vegan working for me for a while, everything she ate stank, I made her eat in the kitchen in the end.

She got the right hump and left, last I heard she was stinking up Ted Baker's office.

 

[Fez]

I'm an all round omnivore and believe that is the natural way; although I understand and respect other's choices. The key issue for me from the points of the OP is that concerning the food animals; it is one thing to farm them and to try and do it with compassion (the wild lacks any compassion), but I just wish we could do it with far less waste.

 

[OneOptimisticTiger]

It seems to me like you're every bit as militant as you claim the vegans to be. I've known a lot of vegans and barely any of them were preachy, but as soon as they mentioned it people jumped down their throats. This is obviously a guilt thing, if you were so comfortable with your diet you wouldn't feel the need to ridicule anyone else.

 

[DMD]

I worked with someone that was vegan on moral grounds, but anti-abortion because they believed all life is sacred.

Isn't that a paradox, as if it wasn't going to be eaten, most food livestock wouldn't exist.

 

[OneOptimisticTiger]

I worked with someone that was vegan on moral grounds, but anti-abortion because they believed all life is sacred.

Isn't that a paradox, as if it wasn't going to be eaten, most food livestock wouldn't exist.

Not even slightly a paradox

 

[tigers 2008]

Many vegans, (not all by any means), like animal rights activists and their ilk do come across as beardy weirdoes and professional protesters.

 

[HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)]

It seems to me like you're every bit as militant as you claim the vegans to be. I've known a lot of vegans and barely any of them were preachy, but as soon as they mentioned it people jumped down their throats. This is obviously a guilt thing, if you were so comfortable with your diet you wouldn't feel the need to ridicule anyone else.

I've noticed that as well, when people force vegans/vegetarians to justify themselves it really winds me up, its their choice leave them to it.

 

[Fez]

Many vegans, (not all by any means), like animal rights activists and their ilk do come across as beardy weirdoes and professional protesters.

I know quite a few vegetarians, even more confused selective omnivores (won't eat red-meat, even though they like it - sneak a bacon sarnie), but I don't know one as-defined Vegan. How many do you know?

 

[Amin Arrears]

I would eat a Vegan