Vegetarian v Carnivore...

[Viv]

Do you eat meat?

Is this a matter of conscience or is it natural for humans to be carnivorous?

Are vegetarians unrealistic bleeding heart liberals with no common sense?

Or are there valid health-based reasons for not eating meat, regardless of the moral issues?

[An Céachta Dearg]

Do you eat meat?

Is this a matter of conscience or is it natural for humans to be carnivorous?

Are vegetarians unrealistic bleeding heart liberals with no common sense?

Or are there valid health-based reasons for not eating meat, regardless of the moral issues?

Humans have the digestive system of a an omnivore. Meat is our key source of protein which we require for cell rebuilding and of course for the growth of muscle tissue and regeneration.

Vegatarians are just nut-cases to be honest, it has been proven that a vegatrian diet is far less nutritious than a proper diet. Also lets not forget that we humans are still animals and are a part of the food chain and hence nature and our primitive ancestors hunted meat and ate it, therefore there is nothing wrong with consuming meat.

[Phædrus]

Is anyone here a vegetarian? If so, for every animal you don't eat, I'll eat three.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Is anyone here a vegetarian? If so, for every animal you don't eat, I'll eat three.

Well said mate!!

I mean imagine life without sirloin steak, :(:(

Or without Chicken fillets:mad::mad:

[Gareth]

originally we didn't but eventually we did, that's what I think anyway.

[Don melQuiades]

I eat meat, yeah. I think it's important to have animal protein, even if that just means eggs and dairy, or whey at least.

We have to remember, of course, that some ethnicities have bodies developed to handle different kinds of foods. My not-girlfriend is half Samoan and can't eat meat or dairy. It's very different, so I wouldn't say that "vegetarians are nuts."

Then there is the whole humane aspect. I am of the "one bad day" school of thought, and while it's impossible to implement that all of the time, like at my school cafeteria, that's what we try to do on our farm.

[miriya]

Life without bacon isnt worth living, but the again bacon is a vegiable

http://b.imagehost.org/0354/Vegetarianism.jpg

[Viv]

No vegetarians at all then?? I am appalled.

I did try it for about a year. As an animal lover, it was for those reasons, but I just could not maintain it.

I caved in to a bacon roll and then a steak pie after playing in a three-day-long basketball tournament... when my body was crying out for protein...then there was no going back.

[miriya]

hehe, my point is, I was given fangs might as well use them ^^

[Viv]

hehe, my point is, I was given fangs might as well use them ^^

Yeah, on the men...don't waste the animals....lol...

[ciaranxavier]

food chain thats all it is.

[donquixote99]

Success is attaining the top of the food chain. --Heinlein

Omnivorism was key to the world-wide dispersal of homo sap. An omnivore can exist in any environment--wherever there are any other creatures, we have a food source. Conversely, if the hunting gets bad, we can live on nuts and roots. Versitility!

[Don melQuiades]

Success is attaining the top of the food chain. --Heinlein

Omnivorism was key to the world-wide dispersal of homo sap. An omnivore can exist in any environment--wherever there are any other creatures, we have a food source. Conversely, if the hunting gets bad, we can live on nuts and roots. Versitility!

Ironically, it was following big game animals that probably brought people across the Bering land bridge. :D

[Viv]

Success is attaining the top of the food chain. --Heinlein

Omnivorism was key to the world-wide dispersal of homo sap. An omnivore can exist in any environment--wherever there are any other creatures, we have a food source. Conversely, if the hunting gets bad, we can live on nuts and roots. Versitility!

Good answer and omnivorism is the sensible option.
It would have to be very scarce indeed for me to live on nuts and roots...when I did the vegetarian thing, I was going mad with it, the lust for real food...prolly would be one of those who would eat my companions in a stranded situation.
Well...if they were already dead...wouldn't be killing anybody...:eek: