Vegetarian or Vegan? - Which would you rather be?

[Ntwadumela]

I personally love meat dishes, but I also don't mind vegetarian dishes either, and am open to a wide variety of different foods. I personally however cannot imagine myself forgoing both meat and dairy products, for health and taste reasons. Therefore I'd rather be vegetarian than vegan.

How about you?

 

[Argonian Scum]

Spoiler: Spoiler

I went vegetarian last summer and started phasing out other animal products in the fall. It makes me happy but I don't like to talk about it.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Vegitarian

 

[AnimuGinger]

I'd rather kill myself than be either of those.

 

[c-no]

Vegetarian. Mostly because 1) I'm too lazy to read what's in our foods (which can be unfortunate when considering what is in our foods) and 2) I can't completely forgo animal products. Milk maybe if I turned out lactose intolerant but things like eggs, Worcestershire sauce, and such I may not really be able to cut out my diet.

 

[Bassomatic]

Forced raised as a Vegetarian

I'm not a manlet, but rest of my family is 6ft+ I seriously feel lack of protein was a factor. I didn't even like veggies as a kid so my diet was pretty damn repetitive and lacking.

Now I will say My Mom has been one for almost 50 years now, she touches cooks, shares pans (cleaned) with meat. She's a really fucking good cook too. (her only rule is no "dismemberment" at a table she's at ie: lobster) She even thought it was kinda fun to pull shot from a grouse I shot.

I couldn't live vegan, as I love cheese to near Phil levels, and use bee products medically. Plus, I won't deny I kinda got a soft spot for fruit ice creams. Plus if anything needs a bit more, just throw an egg at it.

I enjoy indian food, and some happen to be vegan but that's luck of draw.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Vegetarian if I was forced to choose one at gunpoint. At least that way I could eat eggs, milk and cheese.

I can understand and sympathize with people who choose the vegan way of life, but fuck me, man, it pretty much forces you into a life of eating nothing but grass and beans. I'd rather not.

 

[Bagronkleton]

Is dead an option?

 

[Army Burger]

I've been a vegetarian my whole life. My parents were vegetarians by the time I was born for health reasons, and it's something I've stuck with since.

 

[FemalePresident]

I'd rather be vegetarian.

 

[Sperglord Dante]

There's a pretty good vegetarian restaurant close to my house. Their pasta (spaghetti, canelloni, several kinds of lasagna) is God-like. Assuming money and distance wasn't an issue, I could eat there three meals a day for the rest of my life.

 

[Sperglord Dante]

A bit off topic but not really. Have any of you ever heard of those vegetarians that still eat seafood? That doesn't make any sense to me, you are still eating meat, its just coming from an animal of the sea. If I could be a vegetarian that still got to eat seafood though, I would do that in a heartbeat. I live in N.O. and can get the best seafood the world has to offer all day every day, for the most part. Some things are seasonal, naturally, but there is always something good to eat that's in season.

The rationale behind it is that fish don't feel pain, so killing them doesn't "hurt" them, or alternatively killing them isn't as "immoral" as killing birds birds and mammals.

 

[Bassomatic]

A bit off topic but not really. Have any of you ever heard of those vegetarians that still eat seafood?

There's a term for that pescetarianism. I dated one... her whole family bended/broke rules like that. Chicken soup was ok if sick because that's medical. For some reason her father felt in Chinese cooking, pork was ok (practicing Jew to boot).

I should start demanding any woman I date eat something that died before I ask her out a second time

 

[Dr.Research]

I'd cheat and be a pescetarian. Fish don't have feelings, mang.

 

[pozilei]

Vegetarian.

Was a vegetarian for a few years and it's pretty easy and tasty if you know how to cook. I still love vegetarian meals and eat very little meat. And I think reducing your intake of meat and animal products generally is a good thing. But, as with all things, you have to be reasonable: people like their turkey at Thanksgiving, their ham at Christmas etc.

Veganism is just weird. I get the idea behind it but the actual, lived veganism is almost always a bunch of extremist idiots sperging on and on about it

 

[bacterium]

Vegetarian. Been one for 11 years.

Though I do like vegan meals occasionally, too. But I do love eggs. And cheese, though cheese is kind of cheating. And recently I have come to love milk.

 

[DatBepisTho]

Vegetarian. I like cow and bee slavery, as well as seafood, far too much to give it all up.

 

[DangerousGas]

Vegans are just being difficult for the sake of it. I could forgo meat if I had to, but I don't really see the point in artificially limiting my diet. I'm happy to eat vegetarian foodstuffs if they're on offer, though.

 

[Hydroxylic Acid]

I practically live on meat, so neither choice is preferable for me, but if I had to pick one I'll go with vegetarian. At least I still get to eat eggs and dairy products to make up for the large amounts of meat that I'm not eating, so I'll probably be able to do it. Veganism is a definite no though; I wouldn't be able to last a week on a vegan diet. I can't even imagine not eating any animal products, ever.

Ethically veganism doesn't make much sense either. I mean, you're not abusing bees by taking their honey; they're just insects, and their instinct is to make and store as much honey as possible (more than what they can consume). I don't see how free-range chicken would be harmed from taking their non-fertilized eggs either, especially if you raise the chicken yourself, which is fairly easy to do.

 

[Argonian Scum]

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Ethical veganism isn't necessarily about pain and suffering, it's about eliminating the use of animal products period. Even if the bee doesn't suffer (which isn't true, the queen bee is often de-winged or clipped to prevent migration) the idea is that the honey belongs to the bees, not people.

Personally, I came into it from an environmental perspective and I'm not sure what the right thing to do is. Yes, bee farms take up some space and honey simply isn't necessary for human life but the bee situation (re: the ecosystem) seems to be getting worse all the time.