Do You Eat Meat?

[countessnichole]

And to the vegitarians as a joke...

"What do you mean you eat no meat?!"

"It's okay, we'll make lamb."

[Jax]

Ooh many apologies for my jumping to conclusions.. if you like to eat red meat, that is fine and dandy for you. For me, it makes me sick to my stomach and causes vomiting. Ever hear of an allergic reaction to certain foods?).

FOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES, Jax, on a site called The Smoking Gun, the death certificate was published on there stating "the 'immediate cause' of Atkins's death last April was 'blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma'. He was critically injured when he struck his head in a fall on an icy Manhattan street."

Evidently, he was obese, and with the probability of his being overweight, having hypertension, he could (but didnt) have died of a heart attack in a matter of time. (Wasn't this thread focusing on eating red meat? I didn't realize I had to actually do research and enter a realm of specificity).

Again, sincerest apologies to anyone I have offended. Peace.

I dnt know, I just couldnt say with certainty that someone died because of a diet they publicized. Maybe he didnt follow his own diet? Who knows. It wasnt an offense, It just bothers me when all the facts are not known and conclusions are jumped to.

I do know about being allergic to food. Red meat can and will make you sick if you do not eat it for awhile, because you lose the enzyms that break that food down. Just like dairy. I can drink a gallon of milk a day and feel great, alot of people can barely drink a glass before getting sick to their stomach. I on the other hand feel sick after eating pretty much all veggies.

[LrdSatanas]

A whole cow only last me 3 days.

[Amelia G]

I love meat. I rarely eat anything else. Its good for you.

If its an issue with additives and cruelty, there is always the places you can buy from that only carry organic meats. The animals are raised and loved on a small farm, and are killed humanely and quickly...no suffering. They do not feed additives or add it in the meat. Of course you pay a pretty penny for it, but you can REALLY tell the difference in quality.

Totally with Jax on this. I get really moody in a bad way if I do not eat a high protein diet. But I will totally pay extra and go out of my way to get meat where the animals have been treated well i.e. free range, organic, that sort of thing.

[Kidthorazine]

yeah i try to only eat free range beef eggs chicken and lamb

[Kidthorazine]

Kosher stuff is done the same way but i only like Kosher hotdogs and deli meat because Kosher beef is too dry

[kellie]

I go back and forth all the time eating meat and staying away from it. After I stay away from it for a while, then eat a nice big steak, I feel great.

[Nightingale]

I don't miss meat at all. I find it amusing listening to people who tell me that no one can live without meat in their diet, and meat is safe and has the highest standards and so on. I tell them I must be dead because I've been a vegetarian for 31 years, and meat production doesn't have the safest record nor is it necessarily clean. McDonalds, for example, feed their still living burgers on genetically modified grains - and have been forced to admit it - which have been linked to the problems the Brits had with BSE (Mad Cow Disease). Millions of pigs and chickens were slaughtered last year because of infections caused by the *clean* food they were being fed, which had been contaminated - in one case where several hundred thousand chickens had to be destroyed - by machine oil.

But if someone wishes to eat meat, I see no problem with it; just don't trot out the tired old arguments about what is good for you and what isn't.

[Huntsab]

vegan all the way. was vegetarian from the age of 12. then became vegan at 16.
and i feel healthier and my energized than ever :-)
however my boyfriend is a meat eater...so as i always say each to their own

xxx

Me too i am strict Vegan. I am laughing my tits off at the people here on about how meat is good for you and you need protein from it.......how fucking ignorant!!!!!!! I don't want a flame war i'm just cidered up and listening to some punk rock so admin don't ban me!

It's an old argument and it's really boring. Vegetarians/Vegans it's a way of life that respects other life. I'm fed up with people saying about the mentality of a veggie. Most Vegans I know are healthy and look alot younger then they really are. I am 30 and people always say to me I look early 20's.

The skinny and pale argument is fucking bullshit too. Why is it everyone knows a vegan who is skinny and pale? i know plenty of meat munchers who are skinny and pale.

It's the nature of people. some Vegans don't eat right especially the vegans who convert because they suffer from anorexia. Just like some meat eaters don't eat right.

When I was a meat eater 10 years ago I never met a Vegan before, unitl I got into sabotaging fox hunts. I went to a Conflict gig in Bristol uk in 95 and met up with some animal rights people. swapped numbers and kept in touch. eventually one guy moved into my area and set up a Hunt Sab group and i joined and wow I never looked back since.

[Nightingale]

... I'm fed up with people saying about the mentality of a veggie. ....The skinny and pale argument is fucking bullshit too.

I've had that too, the *information* that if I give up on my meat it will affect my ability to think and my intelligence quota will go down. I'm still in the top half a percent when it comes to intelligence tests (whether I trust them or not is another matter) and my school work never suffered from a lack of meat.

I know many vegetarians and vegans who are thinner than most, some have a paler complexion too. I know many who are completely the opposite - including myself, of course. It may be that some do not know exactly what they can eat, or allow others who have no idea whatsoever to cook for them. One 18 year old girl I know is thin because she still lives at home and her parent own a restaurant which specialises in meat products (German Schnellimbiss with Bratwurst, Bockwurst, Pommes and so on; no vegetarian alternative, and salad is a piece of lettuce on a burger). When she starts to cook for herself she'll have a much healthier diet.

And all these massive problems in the US, the UK and Europe with obesity; how many of these overweight-through-eating people are unhealthy through a vegetarian diet? They stuff themselves with meat products saturated in fats and then blame the restaurants where they bought the stuff!

But, each to their own.