Animal Cruelty and Veg-inism

[princess666anne]

I live near ASDA, sort of, well, it's right next to school. SO I will go and check some time
THANK YOU SO MUCH
If I find any, I shell tell you all
*is happy*

[kezzykaulitz]

I am an animal lover and i tried to become a vegetarian i did it for two weeks but because i don't actually eat any vegetables cutting out meat was making me ill and my mum theatened she'd take me to the hospital if i didn't start eating meat again. It was pasta practically every night but i did finally learn how to cook :/

I am however siged up to peta2 i send for all the leaflets and hand them out to my friends i even got one of them to not drink cows milk one of my strongest memories is me age about 7 leaning over the edge of a lake to get a plastic bag out of the water so the ducks and fish wouldn't suffocate my mum and friend were like WTF are you doing! Then tey realised and even though my mums not an animal lover she's always said that was amazing! pity i don't have that kind of respect and care for humans

[turner]

Wahey! Veggie Marshmallows.
I need some of those.

I've been vegetarian for 5 years now, although I havent drank milk since I was a baby.
Someone said about quorn being too realistic, and I know what you mean, it kinda puts me off too. I think it's the texture of it aswell.

I orginially went veggie just because I didnt like the taste of most meat, then I came across some icky vid about animal cruelty and that was it. I was aneimic for a while too, but I'm fine now. I don't take tablets or anything either.

[Mikey]

I've been vegetarian since birth and think that it's quite unfair (and murderous, as can be seen by The Smiths quote under my Avatar ) that animals are born to die, especially when we have alternatives such as Quorn, or just no meat at all. And what really aggitates me is when omnivores admit to seeing no difference between the taste/texture of Quorn and meat, yet they continue to eat the meat anyway. A good friend of mine says he only eats meat now to help his mother, because she buys the meat, which also annoys me because that's a rather ridiculous reason to eat murdered animals in my opinion. This week I over-heard my head of year discussing killing over one hundred pheasants over the weekend, so I approached and questioned him, and called him barbaric He said he did it for food, and not sport, but then if food was the case he should have eaten something else.

[Amiee♥TH]

Jan 9, 2010 19:17:06 GMT 1 turner said:

I orginially went veggie just because I didnt like the taste of most meat, then I came across some icky vid about animal cruelty and that was it. I was aneimic for a while too, but I'm fine now. I don't take tablets or anything either.

The only meat I actually like these days is Chicken and I have to be in the mood to eat that xD Though I'm quite keen to cut it out altogether, just because I don't eat enough of it to ever want it. I'll never give up eating fish though (sorry to those offended but I have to have it in my diet). I much prefer the taste of Quorn to the taste of real meat, especially when it's used in like Spaghetti bolognase..
As for Animal cruelty, whether it's to do with killing them for meat or not, I don't stand for it, it's like beating your loved ones everytime they say something you don't like >.>

[NaomiOfC]

i turned vegetarian a few months ago, but i occasionally have a sausage and bean melt from gregs :3 i was addict to them, but it's very rare

[Mairi]

I admire vegetarians My boyfriend is a veggie and I'm so proud of him.

Buuut, unfortunately, I'm not. I am extremely picky about my food though, I only eat meat a certain number of times a week for nutritional purposes and I only eat free range/organic chicken, things like that. I also eat white fish, but again it's because it's just so good for you. I avoid processed meat and fast food at all costs. I try and eat quorn more than actual meat too. Mega picky lol. Like, I'm one of those types that only buys free range coffee and sugar, I don't eat nestle products anymore because of their unbelievable corporate crimes, and all that jazz. That means no wispas, aeros, most hot chocolates, alot of cereals, meh. It's tough but I try. Animal cruelty is so serious and I do try and account for it in my diet when choosing food, but there's also alot of human cruelty going on out there relating to our food, i.e. kids working in sugar cane fields for 18 hours a day, villages that harvest coffee beans to have them whipped away with no profit by large organisations, leaving them to starve. I could go on and on but I won't go into any more detail here since I'm already way off topic already (sorry).

Basically, I'm very passionate about fighting animal cruelty, and human cruelty, particularly in African nations. But I get that it must be hard to acknowledge all these things, there's so many awful things going on out there, it's hard to keep up. But we're all trying in this thread which is awesome

[turner]

I keep trying to incorporate more into my lifestyle.
Like, I have a thing about only getting free range eggs or I wont eat them and mum has taken to that purely for me.
Now I'm slowly trying to bring more free range stuff in.
I even turned down jelly babies today. Theyre one of my addictions, but I said no.
I mentioned veggie marshmallows too. I just have to keep trying slowly.

[Mairi]

That's exactly what I did Turner so I know how difficult it can be!

That's why I admire the folk that can just throw themselves into it so easily lol I had to ease into it too, still am really because I still eat some meats lol. But you're doing great by the sounds of it, that's how I started out actually, with free range eggs! lol ;D

[kezzykaulitz]

I wish i was a vegetarian and everytime i hear someone is one or even just tried it makes me smile so i just smiled about 8 times I can understand where people are coming from about 'meat is murder' as (and you guys will hate me for this) i have 2 ham sandwich's everyday and feel very guilty for it i try to not eat meat but it just makes me ill i don't eat enough foods right now but when i do i shall try it again it makes you feel better, your more positive, should be more healthy i wasn't but i wasn't getting enough of the things i need and i can't take tablets so that wouldn't work but best of all your saving lives i cried when i found out about all the male chicks being thrown in the incinerator i know peta exaggerate things but i would have still cried even if it was just one also about lobsters feeling pain and thrashing their claws to get out of a saucepan anyone who would do that deserves to have that done to them.

[turner]

What exactly is it that youre body isnt getting enough of?

[NaomiOfC]

yesterday my friend had this chicken masala pastie, and normally i'm like "omg that smells so nice" but yesterday i was having to keep away from her 'cz i was like my attitude towards meat has totally changed *if that's the right way to put it* :')

[Mikey]

I know what you mean. Even though it's harmless to smell meat (physically), it's still the smell of fried or roasted, or whatever, flesh and body of something that's been killed. It's vile, but the truth.

[Mairi]

Maybe that's why when I cook fish, I always wrap it in tin foil... I can't cope with that 'cooking' smell lol. Yeah I get what you mean to

I say when 'I' cook haha. I can't actually cook, but my boyf (the veggie) makes fish for me and he cooks it lol. I'm the one who insists it's done in foil. I make a mean salad though

[turner]

Jan 14, 2010 17:21:52 GMT 1 Mikey said:

I know what you mean. Even though it's harmless to smell meat (physically), it's still the smell of fried or roasted, or whatever, flesh and body of something that's been killed. It's vile, but the truth.

I haven't ever thought about it like that before. Ew.