Is anyone vegetarian. Please talk to me.

[MilliPanda]

"if you don't eat meat, what do you eat?" is the classic question you get when telling people that you're a vegetarian/vegan.
I've been a vegetarian for 10 years and every time I sit down with my family for dinner I still get the same crap about my lifestyle.
In the beginning you just don't care, but when you hear the same thing over and over again every time you sit down to eat with someone you get pretty tired.
Why is it so difficult for some people to just accept that not everyone makes the same choices, be it eating habits, religion, sexual orientation, clothing style etc.?
F*** social norms!

[pumpum]

ill be honest veggies just piss me off - not just randomly but when your with a group of friends and u go to the local takeaway or something and everyone has the same thing and then ONE person asks for something vegetarian and BLAM everyone else's food goes cold while waiting for the vegetarian shit to be cooked. I hate that. i reckon being vegetarian and attention seeking are quite closely aligned.

[Mikachii2202]

alright ima " veg head" as my friends would call me. i absolutley hate meat its gross. well i hated eating meat and once i grew up i never ate it after going to a chicken factory in china. i feel you pain my friends think im anorexic too . im just like dont hate me cause im skinny . im not like a hippy just cause i dont eat meat.. trust me far from it.

[ThirdSight]

I don't know why I find the first few posts humorous, but I do.

My best buddy is a vegitarian. His reason is because he simply doesn't like the taste of most meats; he'll eat a bit, but not most. Good, healthy, life-preserving decision with a good enough explanation for me to discern that he's not being an idiot.

But perhaps the main reason why others give vegitarians a hard time is because a lot, not all or most, but a lot, of vegitarians are vegitarians because it's a popular thing to do, or rather popular because it's "different". Instead of eating what they like and being happy about it, they label themselves in order to stand out and seek attention. For the most part, some people are just turned off to meat, to which there is absolutly no problem so long as you state it as such; making your personal dieting habits a main source of drama in your life is only asking for those around you to agree to the fact that you're either a moron or have very little else of importance to concern yourself with.

That, and most vegitarians who can't give a good enough answer to their life choices can't give a good enough answer to some questions "meat-eaters" have for them:
- Incizers. Why else do we have them?
- Is looking slightly pale, due to the fact that you eat nothing but veggies, a healthy life-perserving decision?
- Evolutionary theory shows that most herbavores aren't high up on the evolutionary food chain; humans seem to be pretty near the top of it. Explain this contingency.

[zed]

If you are a healthy vegetarian then good for you, I have vegetarian friends, and all is good, we sit, eat ,sometimes I pic from their plates but the conversation is almost never about the food or eating habits, I know, they know, so there is no need to make a big deal about it.
but when we talk about it i just dont get it,
I understand a person that eats mostly vegetables for the variety of flavors, I don't undestand vegetarians,
humans are omnivorous and we should take advantage of it to keep ourselves healty,if you don't like meat from a big slaughter house for the way they treat the animals, eat animals grown naturaly,
it's the same with the veggies and the fertilizers and all the other stuff that they put into them.
those are some of the things i like to point out, but is their decition.
so dont make a big deal about it and some day try a realy good seasoned salmon. it's delitious.

[Niknaizorai]

I have been vegetarian all my life and it has been always like that not only in your country but everywhere.
There is one difference. Now, this is a multi-billion dollar industry and for good. People now is so much more open minded than when I became vegetarian. Back then, it was like you belonged to some kind of weird sect or something. Now, it is getting more and more into the society. It is an explosion. So many young people want to be vegetarian. If you want famous people who are vegetarians, you can find many of them like Leonardo Di Caprio, Madonna, Clint Eastwood, Prince Charles of England, John Denver, John Lennon, etc. President Obama is pretty vegetarian friendly as well. You can find natural food stores on every corner. There is a green revolution taking place now in the US and that will define the future of the United States for generations (organic farming, natural health, alternative energies, etc). When the establishment in Washington DC gets interested, you can bet it will be a big impact worldwide.

Japanese natural traditional cooking is very vegetarian friendly. They are not vegetarians but pretty close.

Once, when I was younger, I dated a Japanese lady for the first time. I told her I was vegetarian. Then, she asked me if I was vegetarian because I didnt have money to buy meat.


A lot have changed since those times. People still make fun but so much less. Now is mainstream.

If you have questions, you can ask me anything.