V&V "Regulars"?

Question

So... the V&V section has become a bit of a hobby for me... I work all the time, and when I'm done, I enjoy coming here. I am curious about all the "regulars" here.

Soooooo...... (answer anything you feel appropriate)

How old(ish) are you?
What do you do for a living?
What do you do for fun or as hobbies.

What are your loves/hates?
Anything else you would like to say about yourself?

Anyway, if you think I am just being lame, just ignore me; otherwise, share a bit about yourself.

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And (as I cannot choose a best answer based on that stuff) what are your thoughts on "vegetarians" who eat fish?

:D

Answer 1

Hi. This is one of the better questions.

I'm 33. I work for the Hospital Products
Division of a company called Hospira.


My hobbies include:
chess, reading nonfiction, vegetarian outreach
and fundraising, guitar, wieght training, jogging,
chatting on VEGGIE CONNECTION.

Things I love: cats, cows, deer, horses
veggie women, my family, foreign films,
indie films, Thai Food, Korean Food, Ethiopean
food, Indian Food, Buddhism and his Holiness
the Dali Lama's teachings.

Favorite animal rights activist:
Miyun Park, Dr. Jane Goodall, Erik Marcus

favorite actors: Joseph Fiennes, Ewen McGregor,
Morgan Freeman, Collin Firth, Denzel Washington

favorite actresses: Judy Dench, Gwenneth Paltrow,
Joan Allen, Hillary Swank, Zhang Ziyi

favorite sex symbols (unfornately non of them are
veg yet): Zhang Zi Yi, Jessica Alba, Eliza Dusku,
Scarlett Johansen

favorite artists- The Cure, Nickelback, Bob Dylan,
Aretha Franklin, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Pucchini,
Default, Sam Cook, Nina Simone, Patsy Cline,
Live, Incubus

All time favorite films - Amele, A Very Long Engagement,
Jules and Jim, Life is Beautiful, The Seventh Seal

Things I hate: People who abuse animals, sexists
bastards, the holocaust, intolerant religious zealots,
materialism and overconsumption, people who
insists that male vegans are gay.

Vegetarians don't eat fish. I don't hold vehemenenant
wrath on those who call themselves fish-eating
vegetarians though. My reason is this; Society
will often label these people vegetarians and
thus confuse them into thinking that that's what
they are.
For example, People around me at work started
calling me that 5 years ago when I weened
myself away from all flesh except shrimp.
However when people ask how long I've been
veg I tell them 4 years. I stopped eating fish
altogether in 2002. I don't round up years as
a veg or vegan. This helps me arrive at an
honest answer.

So then ,I can understand why strict vegetarians
get upset when they see people make this error,
but also understand how this can be confusing.

Most of the public is somehow unenlightened
to the fact that fish are indeed animals. It didn;t
really dawn on me until I saw pictures of bass,
blue marlins, and sharks hanging from hooks
and spears. It took something that extreme
and unpleasant to give me a wake up call.

I am probably a possesser of the one of the
world's most extreme opinions;

I think that the word moderation should be
taken out of the dictionary for the
sake of people's lives. People use this
word in order to defend bad dietery habits.
What is moderation? Who can measure it?
Is it a scoop of a ice cream or a bowl?
1 cup of cereal or 1 bowl full equal to two?
60% of the country is obese and it still thinks
it can lose weight by using moderation.
The word ration is far too extreme (,so people
say) but isn't it the more effective one?

Answer 2

Oh, hi, I'm a regular here, too.

I'm 40.

I'm a lawyer.

I read, do step aerobics, try to help new vegetarians adjust to their chosen lifestyles.

I love spinach, I hate red, green bell peppers.

I also love being vegetarian.

I used to call myself a pesco-vegetarian when I still ate fish (did for 3 years before I gave up all meat), because I didn't know any better. So we should all be tolerant of people like this, because maybe it's only because they think this is as "vegetarian" as they can get. But it's a good start. At least they leave the other animals in peace! :)

Answer 3

Hello, I am 24, I work as a labourer, I do mountain climbing, bushwalking, swimming and answering questions as hobbies, I love the view, I hate ... well I can't say I hate nothing because being with the silence and space that nothing offers is quite peaceful, so I will say "I hate ..." (and I don't have anything against 3 sequential dots either), Oh and I've been vegan for over 6 years, relatively strict but I'm far from an absolutist or purist.

I'm temporarily staying with my father, and he calls himself vegetarian even though he still eats anything except mammals, including battery chickens, fish that have died from decompression, etc, etc, and I tolerate his hipocracy because ...

I became vegan for 2 clear reasons:
1) because it is my right as a human to do so.
2) because I'm not going to be a hipocrite and impose different rights on others, including animals, than I give myself.
For these reasons, I cannot justify attempting to convert or impose my views on others.
I totally agree with the 4 main motivating reasons people become veg*n: Animal rights, animal welfare, human health and the environment, being the ones that create activist groups, but they are secondary for me to my rights as a human being, and my choice to give all life forms the opportunity to write their own future as they choose, even if that means a path of enslaving other life forms. As Mahatma Gandhi said "non-violent civil disobedience can dissolve any oppression." The consumer has the power!

Answer 4

Female with "Blue Hair"
56 years old Married since 1972 to Nice guy. with 2 grown children. They are married & I have 4 grand-lasses.3} by my daughter, 20, 12, 10, 1} by my son, 16 months. I have a super campanion dog Boxer-Lab mix 8 years old, Jade the Wonder Dog.
I live in TEXAS, I moved back a year ago, because all the family is here.
I am a Glass Alchemist (glass artist) I have been a professional glass artist since 1978. I no longer teach the craft but did for 26 years. I do allot of my work in the Celtic Design.
Hobbies: Reading, Cooking, Gardening, SciFi & Mystery Movies
I found out a year ago I have Celiac Disease & it has changed my view on food & health. Though always abit of a "Health Nut" I have through study come to the Belief Food is Medicine. Buy good food & eat right or spend that money paying doctors.
I believe people need to choose their diets for what makes them the healthiest. ~ Raw Vegan to Carnivore. I do not think there is a 1 size fits all. My personally belief is we were meant to be Vegans. But I KNOW all the modern pre-fab foods will never be healthy in any diet. Any one making those their mainstays is asking for all the health problems one can imagine.
This was fun Thanks.
Celtic Tejas

Answer 5

I'm in my early 30s, I work in a cubicle ('nuff said), and my hobbies are knitting, writing and photography.

For fun I watch baseball (it's not a good day if my Twins aren't playing), bike or walk around my neighborhood (weather permitting), read books, cook and get tattoos.

I love the hobbies and activities above, and I hate olives, neo-cons, and people who don't check for pedestrians in the crosswalks before whipping into a turn. Double that if they're on a cellphone.

I think people who eat fish aren't vegetarians, but they're eating a lot less meat than most people, so kudos to 'em anyway. Every little bit helps, right?

Answer 6

20

I work at a Yoga Studio and am currently awaiting my license to practice Massage Therapy.

Read, listen to podcasts, go to rock shows, hang out with the G/F, sit on Y!A and try and think of ways to help animals, go to the gym.

Loves: AFI, animals, being Vegan, music, learning, abolitionist theory (www.animal-law.org).

Hates: Uneducated people trying to talk about a topic, my current boss, pointless welfareist regulation (seriously, does it really matter if the chickens have 10 square inches instead of 8 square inches?), Temple Granden, Peta (most of the time)

hmmm share about myself? I use to work at PetsMart, it's at once way better then you ever heard, and much worse at the same time. I play bass, I tried making Tofu scramble the other day and it was pretty good, I do the cooking for the most part, I started a Yahoo group called Vegetarians and Vegans of Yahoo! Answers many of the regulars in this section are members there (www.groups.yahoo.com/group/veggiefacts), It seems I'm one of the more "extreme" people here, I find that kind of funny.

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I think that they are either misinformed, or really just that dumb. I think my answer to a question about a month ago pretty much sums up my thoughts on this: "Please point me to fish plant that has you so confused."

- This was fun, thanks!

Answer 7

Hey, I also like to check out this section. I'd like to see some new and interesting and more specific questions though, maybe I'll just have to ask them myself.

Hobbies, well, I have so many interests that I couldn't list them here, but, interestes: anything athletic and outdoors, sunshine and warm days, great food, bicycle racing, Shorinji Kenpo, anything artistic in nature, self education,....

Specifc key words/links you could web search about: World Shorinji Kempo Organization, shorinjikempo.or.jp/wsko, bechamp.org, squash.ca, veganbodybuilding.org, mikemahler.com, earthsave.bc.ca, veganfitness.net, geocities.com/scocasso, letour.fr, cobworks.com, spontaneouscreation.org, getdemocracy.com, home schooling, eco-cuisine.com, homegrownfoods.com, basiloliveoil.com, yvesveggie.com, Lipa Enterprise Ltd., vaclib.org, vran.org

Books/authors: The Heretic's Feast, Masanobu Fukuoka, octavo.com, awb.com, etymonline.com, abebooks.com, maryln diamond, harvey diamond, John H. Tobe, Back To Eden (unabridged), William Shurtleff, Jeanne Marie Martin, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, Walene James.

Answer 8

I'm 17
I go to high school and also take a course that our high school provides through another school called animal care.
I love to go to animal care every school day and see all the cute animals there, I also love wrestling I watch RAW every monday night and hope to be a wrestler or a vet tech one day (haha big difference)
I love: Animals(shock shock ehehe), my sis Deb, my animals I have here.
I hate: People who are rude to veggies and vegans, fakes, and people who say they are the number one fan of something.
Hm what else about me, I have 6 guinea pigs a betta fish and a mix dog we rescued 8 years ago (his birthday is coming up soon!) I have a twin named Deb(She was the first one to post on this). That's about it :).
Oh my thoughts on "vegetarians" who eat fish, there not vegetarians then. That's like me going over to Jaws' tank taking him out and frying him up, sorry fish are animals so if you say you're a veggie who eats fish you're not.

Answer 9

Hi!

I'm in my late twenties and I teach ESL.
I work full-time and study part-time so I really don't have a lot of spare time but I do enjoy coming to this section of Yahoo Answers.
I love my job, cats, Mary J Blige and yoga.
My biggest ambition at the moment is to go vegan by my b-day later this year so I'm currently trying to eliminate dairy.
I dislike people who dish out unsolicited advice (especially of the "you're lacking in protein" kind! LOL) and V&V trolls.

"Vegetarians" who eat fish are probably just misguided people with good intentions but they do cause harm to bona fide veggies - because of them, a lot of "omnivores" are led to believe that "vegetarians eat fish". As a result, I have upset people who invited me to dinner and made baked salmon quite a few times by now!

Answer 10

I'm 17
Senior in High School right now
I LOVE to make music videos for X-Men and write fan fiction

I hate well haters, racists, just plain nasty people
I love animals,kids, learning new things, SCIENCE, and English.
Erm I play the violin (have for 8 years now)

My feelings about "vegetarians" who eat fish? Well either they didn't do research. I think it's funny how they say well fish isn't meat...neither is a cow or pig we turn it INTO meat fyi. I like to call them picky meat-eaters :D