I want to become a vegeterian! 101?

Question

I love animals and i love good food too, but i also think that it is very wrong what happend to animals that we eat. It never really bodered me when i would eat meat or wear make up and maybe its because i never saw how they actually do to this animals. I know that by me not eating meat or anything related to animals is going to make a difference but i dont want take part this action. Ok so my question to all those vegetarian is any recepits or how can i find out what products are animal friendly :)

sorry if i didnt check my spelling or really explained how i feel about this. I guess the main reason why i wouldt like to become a vegeterian is 1st i beleive is healthier for my body and 2nd i do think is wrong to that to animals. i know that it is inevatable to live in this age with using any product that contain or just has something to do with cruelty to humans or animals, but i dont want to educate my self on what i consume and how can i improve it.

Answer 1

Listen to halle and max marie and sandra cuz their all correct about what they say.

Ignore andyb cuz he's just a 16 year old meat troll according to what he says in his questions and answers! I think he gets paid by the meat industry to come here to talk lies about vegetarians! He is even dumb enough to list people like mercola as a source and that guy's been sued lots of times for malpractise.

Meat demand is down all over the world. I know this because my family has a cattle ranch and prices are way down because people aren't eating enough meat any more. He ain't been to a slaughterhouse either or he wouldn't say that animals are treated nice! I have been in one and their gross disgusting places. The animals are scared becuase they know they are gonna get killed.

I became a vegetarian to help me get well after my head got hurt. The doctors researched it after my dads friend suggested it. They agreed that being veggie wouldn't hurt and might help and it has! SInce I stopped eating animals last year my brain has been healing much faster than when I was a meat eater. Veggie is healthier for everyone and thats why punks have to come here to pick on us.

Answer 2

I have been a vegetarian since 1984, it's not really so hard. Just follow your heart. All that stuff about "vegetarians can't get enough protein or vitamins" is based more on cultural bias than scientific fact. Some folks think animal rights people are totally misguided, but they said the same thing about anti-slavery and womens rights 100 years ago. I agree with them for the most part but I can't support it when somebody does something illegal. I try to avoid products that are animal tested but I have to admit I'm so busy working I don't research it like I used to.

See if you can subscribe to the magazine Vegetarian Times, it's a pretty good resource.

Answer 3

Congratulations on making an excellent choice! Don't listen to the nutters. Just laugh at their nuttiness.

There are TONS of veggie websites with excellent recipes.

Here are all these people telling you you need to eat a well balanced diet then also telling you you don't need special recipes. How contradictory is that?

While so many here want to tell you how to be veg, the level of your vegetarianism is up to you. Do you want to be a healthy vegetarian? Then stay away from prepackaged veggie meat stuffs. Buy some good veggie cook books.

If anyone is going to be healthy they have to think about every little thing that goes in their mouths. How it was grown. How it was processed. How long it's been on a truck and how many miles that truck went cross country.

For instance C&H sugar. No one thinks twice about C&H - except Vegans because it's processed with animal bone char so vegans don't eat C&H. The sugar cane is harvested in Hawaii. That's where the H comes from. Then it's shipped to California for processing. That's where the C comes from. Then it's trucked cross country to New York for packaging.

No one thinks about the environmental damage done by such a company. We just want our cookies, cake and ice cream. No one thinks about the toxins that sugar has picked up in the many miles it's traversed and in the many containers it's been through.

Sorry. Tangent.

Here are some great sites with How To info and Recipes.

http://www.vrg.org/recipes/index.htm
http://vegweb.com/index.php?action=recipes
http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Vegetarian/Main.aspx
http://vegkitchen.com/

My fave cook books are Sarah Kramer's
http://govegan.net/

While you're not planning on going vegan, I think you'll find her recipes fun and easy. Her books are very informative.

Answer 4

I understand your subject. I nevertheless experience undesirable asking my mum to make me vegi nutrition while i flow residing house and that i'm 34 and characteristic been vegi for 10 years. even nonetheless what I advise you do is this: check together with her approximately this, now her reaction rather relies upon at this variety of individual she is and that i do no longer understand this, yet you do no longer understand she might say 'ok i will prepare dinner you some thing else'. If she would not you should furnish to keep and prepare dinner for your self. in the adventure that your human beings are against it and nevertheless choose you to consume meat then i might admire their desires and consume meat with them, yet i might sidestep it for all nutrition you have administration over. In some years you will flow away residing house and you will have the means to prepare dinner all your individual nutrition and as a result grow to be a vegetarian! I grew to become a vege as an person and it became ordinary for me to easily provide up ingesting meat, some human beings seem to forget approximately that that is no longer that east once you're a baby. Oh and if every physique says being vegi isn't healthful factor out to them that each physique sherpas are vegis. They climb Everest for a job!

Answer 5

You're wrong if you think going veggie will save any animals. If enough people went veggie to actually affect the industry at all, and the demand for meat decreased, it would mean animals which were surplus to requirement. You're kidding yourself if you think that would mean they'd live happily ever after, as they couldn't be sold no one would want to keep them, and they'd still be slaughtered.
Think about it, the second farmers couldn't sell their livestock, the second they couldn't make a profit, they wouldn't keep them any more. Keeping animals isn't cheap, and to keep them, without profit, would be hugely expensive to any farmer. How many do you reckon would be prepared to make that kind of loss?
Now, what'd happen then? Maybe a few wild pigs or goats would stay alive, but for the most part it would be impossible to release them into the wild. The vast majority would have to be slaughtered.

I quote "If no one were allowed to farm animals, farms would grow crops instead. The first thing to go would be all the animals. Once the rural landscape were rid of cattle, sheep, and the like, fields would get larger, for the convenience of the combine harvesters, and hedgerows would go. Wild animals like rabbits would now be a more major pest. No farmer would want animals eating the plants, and so the war on such animals would intensify. Grown in the fields would be domesticate species of food crops, and so the number of plant species would decline."

Domestication is one of the best things that can happen to animals. If the golden eagle tasted any good you can bet your life it wouldn't be nearly extinct.

I quote "In the wild, a sheep would have to look for food, compete for it, jockey for position in the herd, look out for predators, guard its offspring, and it one day would die because of some accident, perhaps a fall, some nasty illness, or it would become weak and have its throat ripped out by the local predators. By striking contrast, the life of a farmed sheep is rather different. A farmed sheep has complete protection from predators; all the food of exactly its favourite kind at its feet all day every day, for which it does not have to compete; no competition for mates; no need to guard offspring; free health care; free haircuts; it is very unlikely to die in childbirth, and unlikely to die a nasty death. True, half a ewe’s offspring are taken away and killed. However, in the wild, a ewe would lose most of its offspring anyway, and in nastier circumstances. By the standards of the natural wild, a sheep’s life is about as cushy as a life could possibly be."

This is true, animals in the wild invariably die violent deaths. the closest an animal will get to dying of old age is being picked by a predator because it it old and therefore an easier to target. Farmed animals invariably lead happier, healthier, less stressful lives than those in the wild.

Also, it's worth noting the vast majority of animals aren't treated in the way Peta tell you. They're job is to sell propaganda and that all meat is got this way is a lie. In fact, as I think they said in the video, the majority of those practises are illegal and if they found a few which do them anyway it doesn't mean you can tar the rest of the industry.

Answer 6

it's not too hard to be a vegetarian. just check labels and make sure that it doesn't contain any meat substances. (chicken and beef stock are not vegetarian) when eating out, many restaurants have vegetarian options where they subsititute the meat for tofu.
cheese and any other dairy products are allowed.

vegetarians do not eat any form of MEAT.

Answer 7

Its really simple to become a vegetarian. You simply give up meat and poultry, and/or fish. I am pescatarian, which means I do eat fish and seafood, on holiday ocasions only, but I do not eat other animals. Continue enjoying the foods you love that do not contain meat, and find a decent meat replacement, like portabello mushrooms or beans. You can easily grill these up, I make bean cakes, and eat just like you would a burger-I dont miss meat at all, nor does my 12 year old. Keep it simple, and there is nothing to it. Good luck

Answer 8

yeaya! I'd give you liek a high five, but i'm not over there

But anyways
there are alot of ways of going about being a vegitarian

1. You need lots and LOTS of Greens.
2. Carrots are verry good to
3. Half whole protiens, meaning put two protiens together [ex: peanut butter & whole weat bread]
4. Get a vitamin, [I use GNC Mega Multi Vitamin]
5. Go to Peta2.com they have lists of VEGAN FRIENDLY products

O, and their are lots of vegitarian and Vegan cook books =]
Martha Stewart has one I'm pretty sure.
and Manyu other not-so-known chefs do too <3

Answer 9

I've been a vegeatrian for 20+ years now! I don't really bother with "special recipes" - I eat lots of vegetarian products - especially Quorn (my family all eat it too and they are not vegetarians!)
I don't need to check labels now, but at first when you're buying things - just read the labels to see what things are in them.

If you do want to make special recipes there are lots of vegetarian books available.

Cheese......cheese is NOT vegetarian....you have to buy "vegetarian cheese" (a lot of people don't know that)

If you reasons for being a veggie are for what you say, another important thing you should remember is to not buy products which are tested on animals! There are many websites listing brands which do not test on animals.

hope that helps

Answer 10

You CAN eat and drink dairy when you are a vegetarian, but not if you are vegan. They do NOT kill the animals to retrieve the milk that they make cheese out of!