Vegetarian & Vegan - July 2007

I recently saw the way that egg laying chickens get treated and want to become vegetarian. I saw alot of vegetarian recipes that included noodles or bread but those products include eggs. Why do vegetarians eat these things if they're not supposed to eat eggs? or are there noodles you can get without eggs in them?

2007-07-12 19:20:57 · 12 answers · asked by Jose D 2

2007-07-12 19:07:03 · 13 answers · asked by Ashley 2

Cause last time I was reading a bean salad recipe and there was a side note that it was best to use pinto& black beans and it said the red or kidney bean[not sure if it was red or kidney] was bad and it said the name of something that was in it. Gah, I know this sounds confusing..

but the thing I'm trying to find out is there a "healthiest" bean and a "dangerous" less health-benefits, if so..what are they? =]

Also for nuts, is there a healthier nut or are they all equal?
Which has less fat/calories?

2007-07-12 18:58:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I noticed in another question that everyone else had a positive response to boca burgers. And do they really taste like meat? I'm curious because I've never tasted meat.

2007-07-12 18:36:07 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

to all vegetarians/vegans...do you also find it annoying when people continuously say to you "awww. ur a vegetarian? how do you ever get enough protein?"

i find it unbelievably ignorant for people to say that. and when they ask that question...what kind of answer are they expecting? like "ohh. i don't know" or "i'm malnourished" or WHAT?

when some people ask that...i think they are just trying to sound smarter than they are. but whatever.

what do you think?

2007-07-12 16:23:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean when i was a kid i thought that my McNuggets were raised with their moms in a chicken coop on a farm with a barn, hay stacks, cornfeilds, and trees with tweeting birds in the background. And finally when they could no longer lay eggs they were killed and turned in to my McNuggets.

and as 4 my buger i thought they were raised as cows on big green feilds until they got old and then where killed.

if u dont already know how they are killed go to www.goveg.com

2007-07-12 14:10:04 · 20 answers · asked by The Angry Vegetable 3

2007-07-12 13:34:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-12 13:06:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Any food ideas?

I think she said glucose; something starting with a 'g' anyway. She doesn't eat white bread.

or just an easy vegan dish would be good, she's not actually allergic to anything, so i guess she might just have to deal.

2007-07-12 12:01:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

and those who are vegetarians, how do you think it changes you, or does it make you feel like you have more energy or anything?
i was thinkin about trying it for atleast a couple weeks to see, or maybe my whole life

2007-07-12 11:59:02 · 14 answers · asked by blahhblahhhblahahh 4

She will be 1 soon and doctors say we should switch her to whole milk. Well, we don't believe in cows milk or soy milk anymore. Supposedly they need the fat...what can I give her once she is off of formula?

2007-07-12 10:42:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Thoughtful and personal answers
Health Benefits

2007-07-12 10:22:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

What should I eat? Either...

A greek veggie wrap

OR

Macaroni and cheese with whole wheat noodles and sauteed onion, mushrooms and brocolli.

I can't decide! They both sound wonderful right now.

2007-07-12 07:30:33 · 10 answers · asked by . 4

I don't like squash, broccoli, beets, or asparagus, but I would be open to trying others. I would like some ideas that would help me incorporate more fruits and veggies in my fast-paced life. An easy to prepare recipe would be great. Any suggestions would be helpful.

2007-07-12 06:21:20 · 28 answers · asked by 24th Princess 3

Can anybody give me some website or give me names of products that are vegan. Also some food items too. Although I'm not a vegan.....yet, I want to use vegan products. Thaks for the help.

2007-07-12 05:21:33 · 5 answers · asked by Who Knew? 4

How do they differ ?
Why do people use gelatin instead of pectin in sweets ?
answers are very much appreciated (=

2007-07-12 04:58:47 · 9 answers · asked by elzyXx 1

Okay, I'm a vegitarian, and I don't eat meat, I never really have eaten meat, and I find it rather descusting. What food would substitute the meat protine problem I have?

2007-07-12 04:54:36 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok well i was a vegan for about three months it was hard. And most of my friends think im crazy because i am a vegetarian. They say they can't live without meat. But my real question here is have you ever tried becoming one.

2007-07-12 04:14:33 · 22 answers · asked by Betsy 1

2007-07-12 03:42:04 · 20 answers · asked by x_manda_cx 1

ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS
TO GO VEGETARIAN
People Land Air Water Efficiency Animals Health


PEOPLE
Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world
If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain - enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain)
If all Americans became vegetarian, it would free enough grain to feed 600,000,000 people (the population of India)
Intensification in animal farming has displaced 1,000,000's of people from their traditional lands - eg. indigenous people in south & central america, native americans in north america & crofters in Great Britain - this is continuing today
People displaced from their lands into cities succumb to dietary deficiency, diseases, parasites & opportunistic diseases
In third world countries 1 in 10 babies die before their first birthday
The UK imports £46,000,000 worth of grain from third world countries to feed our livestock
Due to overgrazing 850,000,000 people live on land threatened by desertification & over 230,000,000 already live on land so severely desertified that they are unable to sustain their existence & face imminent starvation
1,000,000,000 people in the west gorging on meat & dairy leave 1,000,000,000 to waste away & 3,500,000,000 teeter on the brink

LAND
If they continue to clear American forests to raise cattle at the present rate, in 50 years there will be none left
1 acre yields 165 lbs of beef or 20,000 lbs of potatoes
8/10 of cultivated land in the UK is used to grow food for animals (14,732,000 hectares)
It takes 16lbs of high protein soya to produce 1 lb of beef
Since 1945 in the UK we have lost 95% of flower meadows, 50% of ancient woodlands, 40% of heathlands, 50% of wet lands & 224,000 km of hedgerows all due to animal farming
Pressure on land due to meat farming leads to soil erosion 6billion tons/year in the USA
If everyone went vegetarian upto 90% of land used for animal farming could be taken out of production & used to replant woodlands, leisure activities etc.
25% of Central america's forests have been destroyed for cattle grazing since 1960
Between 1966-1983 38% of the Amazon rain forest was destroyed for cattle grazing
90% of cattle ranches established on cleared forest land go bankrupt in less than 8 years as the land becomes barren due to nutrient loss & overgrazing
Overgrazing by cattle is destroying the land & increasing desertification, nearly 430 million acres in the USA alone has suffered a 25-50% reduction in yield since first grazed
An inch of topsoil takes 200-1000 years to develop - yet in the USA they have lost around 1/3 of their prime topsoil in 200 years (around 7 inches) due to animal farming
Land will be lost due to rises in sea level due to global warming due to animal farming

AIR
The destruction of the rainforest by cattle farmers is destroying the lungs of the planet & reducing the worlds capacity to replenish our oxygen supply
The 1,300,000,000 cattle in the world emit 60,000,000 tons of methane per year (methane is a greenhouse gas & leads to global warming)
Burning of forests, grasslands & agricultural waste associated with animal farming releases 50-100,000,000 tons of methane per year
Combining these figures, 25% of methane emissions are due to animal farming (not including the billions of sheep, pigs & poultry so the real figure is much higher)
Fertilizer used to grow crops to feed to animals releases nitrous oxide - thought to account for 6% of the greenhouse effect
Fertilizer, weedkiller & pesticides sprayed on crops enter the atmosphere creating a noxious carcinogenic cocktail
CFCs are released into the air from refrigeration units used to store decomposing flesh (meat), milk & butter - CFCs are destroy the ozone layer
Ammonia from animal urine also pollutes the atmosphere
CO2 is released by burning oil & petrol in lorries, ships, abattoirs, dairies, factories etc. associated with meat & dairy production
Emissions from large chemical plants which produce fertilizer, weedkiller & other agricultural chemicals are also poisoning our air

WATER
25 gallons of water to produce 1lb of wheat & 2500 gallons to produce 1lb of meat
UK farm animals produce 200,000,000 tonnes of slurry (liquid excrement) every year, the majority of which ends up in our rivers
Bloody waste water from abattoirs ends up in our rivers
In the USA every second humans produce 12,000 lbs of effluent while farmed animals produce 250,000 lbs
Nitrates & pesticides used on crops grown to feed livestock end up in our rivers
Meat & dairy farming uses 70 litres of water per day per animal in the UK or 159,250,000,000 litres per year in total
The water used to produce 10 lbs of steak is equivalent to the average consumption of water for an entire household for an entire year
Depletion of groundwater reserves to grow crops for animals & to supply abattoirs will lead to greater water shortages
Aquafers (stores of underground water) in the San Joaquin valley in the USA are being drained at the rate of 500,000,000,000 gallons/year to produce meat
18% of all agricultural land in the world is irrigated & as global warming increases (partly due to animal farming) it will cost $200,000,000 to keep these systems going
The water used to produce a 1000 lb beef steer is enough to float a Destroyer battleship
The liquid waste from the various parts of the meat & dairy industry flow into the rivers & from there into the seas polluting them & encouraging huge algal blooms to grow

EFFICIENCY
To produce 1calorie of energy from meat takes 60 calories of petrol, whereas growing grains & legumes to directly feed people produces 20 calories for each calorie of fuel used ( thats 1200 times more efficient)
Meat & dairy farming uses billions of gallons of oil to run tractors, fuel ships & lorries (to move animal feed & animals), pump billions of gallons of water to irrigate fields & run slaughterhouses, power refrigeration units to prevent the corpses from decomposing & to power sewage plants to clean up some of the pollution produced
Cattle convert only 6% of their energy intake (mainly grains & soya) into flesh, the remaining 94% is wasted as heat, movement (which is why they keep many animals in very close confinement), hair, bones, faeces etc
1lb of beef takes 1 gallon of petrol to produce
A family of four eating beef for a year uses enough petrol to run a car for 6 months (obviously depending on how far you drive!)
If the full ecological cost of meat was passed onto the consumer - the price would be quadrupled (at least)
The EC spends œ100,000,000's to subsidise animal production resulting in lakes of unwanted milk & mountains of unwanted meat & butter. This money could be better spent encouraging organic fruit, vegetable & grain production
In the USA in 1979 145,000,000 tons of crops were fed to cattle resulting in only 21million tons of animal bodies - the cost of the wasted crops was $20,000,000,000
Between 1950 & 1985 grain production in Europe & the USA increased massively but 2/3 was fed to animals
70% of all grain is fed to animals
Eating vast quantities of animal flesh, eggs, milk & butter is a luxury that most of the planet can not afford

ANIMALS
Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed
Fishermen's nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch
Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation
Each year 15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered for food & an unknown but much larger number of sea creatures (including 1000's of dolphins caught accidentally)
Chickens are crammed into battery cages with upto 3 other birds, they are unable to even spread their wings & many can not even stand up
Unwanted male chicks (because they can't lay eggs) are gassed or pulped while their sisters go to the battery sheds
Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic to prevent them injuring each other in the unnaturally confined conditions they are kept in - this is equivalent to having your fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic
Modern farming methods using growth hormones & artificial lighting mean that many chickens out grow their bones, resulting in fractured & broken legs
Sows are kept tethered in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors - they can not even turn around
Poultry raised for meat are kept in windowless broiler sheds, with around 20-30,000 in each shed, they live in an area of 10-20 cm square - fighting due to overcrowding is common & like battery hens they commonly suffer from supperating bed sores
Broilersheds are artificially lit 23 hours a day to produce rapid growth
Animals travel between farms & to slaughter in overcrowded transporters with no food or water - resulting in stress, injuries & deaths - legal requirements are widely ignored
95% of poultry suffer injuries before being killed & 30% suffer broken bones
Problems with stunning practices mean that many animals have their throats slit while still conscious (around 6% of cattle or 200,000 per year) & are then dipped in tanks of scalding water (to loosen feathers, bristles etc.) again while fully conscious
4000 animals die spurting their blood out every minute in a British slaughterhouse
Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old
Cows were fed on the ground up remains of other cows & sheep - the result is thought to be BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA cattle are fed partly on recycled plastic pellets
Cows only give milk for 10 months after they have a calf - so they are routinely artificially inseminated (ie. mechanically raped) to keep them pregnant & milking - their calves are taken away (usually at 12 hours old) for meat or export to veal crates
Cows would naturally live upto 20 years but are slaughtered after 5-7 years when their milk production begins to fall
In the UK animals are killed by first being stunned with electricity or a captive bolt gun (ie. a bolt is fired into their heads) before having their throats slit & being plunged into boiling water - all this happens on a production line with the animals being hung upside down from a moving conveyor belt - this is factory farming
"Animals are those unfortunate slaves & victims of the most brutal part of mankind" - John Stewart Mill (philosopher)
Veal calves are confined in stalls in the dark, unable to move & are fed on pigs blood , chocolate & dried milk (we are drinking the rich fresh milk of their mothers)
Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves - under the intensified systems of modern farming they produce 25-40 litres per day - resulting in swollen & inflamed udders - at this rate they are soon worn out
Large areas of land are under monoculture to grow crops to feed to animals - these areas are wildlife deserts supporting fewer & fewer species.

HEALTH
Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don't get sick as often)
Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms
The world health organisation recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre - exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet
Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases
Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels - high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh - most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine - the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians - some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)

AND I COULD GO ON !
If you've read this far, I hope that you are beginning to see that the Meat & Dairy industry is a major contributor to misery on this planet. It is destroying the health of people in rich countries, starving those in poor countries, it is torturing & killing billions of animals every year and in the meantime it is one of the major factors in the destruction of the environment - so what does the meat & dairy industry have to say in it's defence?
Well their only real point is usually "Meat is tasty" - fair enough a lot of people enjoy the taste of meat - but there are plenty of delicious alternatives (just consider the huge range of vegetarian dishes in Indian cooking - one of the oldest & most sophisticated cuisines in the world) and if you really crave meat & dairy, nowadays there are plenty of healthy non animal alternatives - just look in the supermarket & health food shop. So I hope you will agree it's pretty pathetic to consider all the evidence & then say "well I know you're right about the environment & health & the animals - but I just love my meat"



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2007-07-12 02:56:47 · 18 answers · asked by DrPepper 6

Although it was hilarious, it certainly had a bit of reality to it. He went from being a happy go lucky blue collar fun loving slob to a pompous self riteous as*hole as soon as he became a vegan, looking down with contempt at anyone who did not see things as he did. Golly gee guys, he was a lot like some of the arrogant vegans that troll about within this forum. Perhaps if MOST of you were not so full of yourselves and accepted the fact that the lifestyle choices of others also have validity, maybe normal people from mainstream society would not be so quick to dismiss you and your ideals as merely the rants of a nutritionally deficient mind.

What do you think folks?


NOTE: And although you will still accuse me of being a meat eater, I have actually been a vegetarian for quite some time.....

2007-07-12 02:20:03 · 12 answers · asked by nice guy 2

Just curious To know !! One of my girlfriend was non- vegetarian before, but now she is vegetarian .And she told me to be vegetarian ! but what's wrong with meat &chicken?? So What's yours mind for being vegetarian???

2007-07-12 01:36:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

That's it really. Are there any kinds of Parmesan that can be veggie? I've had a few meals recently which claim to be suitable for veggie but then have parmesan shavings on top and I didn't think it was suitable.

2007-07-12 00:21:43 · 21 answers · asked by Cath F 2

I decided to become a vegitarien last friday but im worried about what im eating is a meat product and am scared to venture out of fruits a veggys. What are some things i need to know so i dont eat the wrong thing and "Lose my Vegany"

2007-07-11 21:03:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 19:05:08 · 33 answers · asked by sparrow 4

I have decided to cut out alot of meat. But everytime I bring up the idea my family sorta gives me a weird look like im kidding. So I was wondering if anyone had any ideas like on how I could cut out some meat, but not all of it. And keep my family happy with the issue.

2007-07-11 17:49:14 · 8 answers · asked by Daffy 1

2007-07-11 16:40:00 · 16 answers · asked by DustMonkey 3

like you know soy "meats", "chicken" patties, soy "milk", etccc almost alll the brands do that and it makes me mad why can't they just make NEW names instead of mocking carnivore's foods?..is there a reason behind why they do this? cause the word "meat" alone makes me think of dead furry animals :[

2007-07-11 16:36:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I suppose this has been asked before but I missed it.
I really want a real answer.
Why do you not want to eat meat?
I realize some people can't eat certain things because they are allergic to it, is that it?
I was wondering what is most people's reason, that's all.

2007-07-11 16:09:56 · 38 answers · asked by Tigger 7

2007-07-11 15:02:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous