All answers. Rate being a vegetarian/ vegan from 1-10. Give me your reasons why?Do you love or hate the idea?

Question

I love being vegan !! It is wonderful, so I give it a 10/10. How about you?

Whoosher we have a tiny pub in Newcastle called Bob Trollops. (But I plan to go to Bath for my holidays too!!!) All it serves is vegetarian and vegan dishes . There is a lot of choice for vegans like myself. The food is amazing and reasonably priced. It gets rave reviews even from meaties who go there for something a bit different!!!

Answer 1

Nonvegetarian 0/10
pesco or poulo pseudo vegetarian 0/10
ovo-lacto vegetarian 5/10
vegan 10/10

I love being vegan too.

Answer 2

For the principle: 10/10 definitely!

For the practice: 8/10 :-(

It can be really hard sometimes when you try to have a social life AND abide by your principles. I've got to the stage where I'm really unwilling to go out to eat because you can never be sure that the restaurateur's idea of vegetarian food is the same as yours(*). I can't count the number of times I've been offered fish or chicken as the vegetarian option - what's so difficult to understand about "I don't eat meat"?!

And don't get me started on the hidden 'extras' - the vegetable soup made with meat stock, the anchovies in the vegetarian Caesar salad, the meatballs that were cooked in and then lifted out of the tomato sauce that was then served on my pasta (yes, my ex-mother-in-law did this to me!). I could go on but we'd be here all day.

* - Michael H, I'm sure your place is not in this category!!

Answer 3

not eating meat is a 10 for me too. Being able to sleep at night is a huge plus. I have had my eyes opened to the slaughterhouse industry and will never eat another cow or pig again. Peta's MEET YOUR MEAT campaign is wonderful - sickening, but it really let's people see what is happening to our animals. I think that if more people were made to watch this, there would be a whole lot less meat eating going on. I really wish I could get my children to watch this - only without the horror part, ya know? I think that if they knew how a whopper went from a cute farm animal to a patty, they might choose a non breathing food instead.

Answer 4

I'm an omnivore, but I'm adaptable. When my daughters were both vegetarians I had planned to make a broccoli and cream sauce with pasta. A friend of their's came round - he was a vegan, so I changed to broccoli, chili and olive oil sauce with eggless pasta. I was just about to serve it when he said, 'Don't cook for me, I'm going home.'
I can assemble a very good vegetarian dinner if I'm forewarned, but one Monday morning at about 11.00 am some vegetarian friends turned up. I made coffee, but at about 12.15 I realised that they expected lunch. I'd been away for the weekend and hadn't done my normal shopping. I sent my son out for bread and stared into my fridge and store cupboard. Pasta, bulgur, OK. Only one tin of tomatoes - and these two were big eaters. Ricotta and spinach (out of the deep freeze), a napoli sauce, and frozen broccoli with chilis (see above), a rather sad cucumber and natural yogurt made one salad, and tomatoes and mozzarella with feta cheese, a hard boiled egg and some black olives made another. Sorted. I was preparing this in the kitchen when the female of the species came into the kitchen.'You have a lot of imagination,' she said. I could have killed her with my bare hands.
No objection to vegetarians, just don't take me by surprise.

Answer 5

a veggie 10

There is simply no other choice for me.

I feel so guilt free and honest with myself about my morals.

animals are my equal. I can't see any rationalisation for keeping dogs as pets and saying cows, sheep, and pigs are "different". Whats all that about ?

And the comment about "its more important to buy meat that has been treated well".....what aspect of killing an animal is treating it well. Go on, ask it. Sometimes i wonder if meat-eaters ever stop to listen to themselves.

Those ignorant meat-eater comments would drag it down to 9.98 but its a small price to pay.

and the FOOD, fantastic ! We've got a bunch of kids staying at ours this week and we've had Indian, chinese, mexican food, all made from scratch by the kids - great stuff.

I notice all those meat-eater downrated comments came in at the same time. I guess school finished somewhere did it ? Such daft comments.

Answer 6

I'm vegetarian 10/10. I'm planning to go vegan.

Answer 7

10/10 I love being a vegetarian. It has its benefits. I feel asa though being free from eating animals is so nice. I haven't eaten animals since I was 5 and I will stay as a vegetarian. It is definelty wonderful. I could wrote an essay on it but unfortunelty I lost it, or else I would have shown it but ya defiently 10/10

Answer 8

9 (I'm veggie). I was never a big meat eater anyway and don't miss anything. I get less colds than I used to and generally feel healthier. I live in the UK and we have a good selection of veggie foods available. I am easier in my conscience - I don't think I could kill something to eat it in the normal scheme of things so I don't think it's right to kid myself about where food comes from.
I dropped a point because eating out can sometimes be problematic.

Answer 9

Vegan -10/10
Vegetarian 10/10

Answer 10

Vegan 10/10 and wouldn't change it! Even though I used to love meat, but I had to be coherent with my own beliefs, and I feel so much better now anyways.

Answer 11

10/10 because I'm a vegetarian and since I stopped eating meat and taking care of what I'm eating, which was about five years ago, I almost never got ill, everybody in my family can get a flu or something in the winter, but not me... before that, every winter I was like subscribed to some illness... I'm sure vegetarian food is the reason!
Being a vegetarian is a luxurious advantage available in our advanced civilization, why shouldn't we take it, it's free... it is the future!