Victor Sullivan wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Victor Sullivan wrote:In addition, our bodies are structured so that our needs can be met by the foods we, as omnivorous mammals, eat (meat, fruit, vegetables, etc.). Granted, there is some adaptation to speak of, if your diet is consistent, but your body's make-up can't be that dramatically altered. There are nutrients in meat and poultry that our bodies still need, regardless of whether you eat it or not.
-Sully
Those same nutrients can be found in other food sources, to varying degrees of concentration.
Which is why vegetarianism continues, isn't it?
I'm still not convinced it's not the best for your body. But then I like meat.
-Sully
I'm not speaking for Mets (or all vegetarians for that matter), but I'll think you'll find a large part of the 'meat-boycott' that vegetarians undertake is based on protesting the meat industry, and how meat is produced. Feed lots - Slaughterhouses - wrapped in plastic - displayed in supermarkets - If you are going to eat meat you should have to know where it came from, and how it was killed, and how the animal lived (to a certain extent)
Obviously there are plenty of posters that have demonstrated that they are often involved with the slaughter process - This is the correct way to consume flesh. However, many who live in cities will never see a farm, never see how the animal dies, and will often be to 'squeemish' to watch a video of a slaughtering. These people are hypocrites when they eat flesh, and that is my biggest problem with the meat industry.
I was a strict vegetarian (and for a while vegan) for over 7 years, mainly because I didn't think I could stomach watching a cow/sheep/pig etc been slaughtered, not because I didn't like the taste of meat. Lately I have consumed meat in cases such as going fishing with my dad & grandpa (and catching the fish myself) or 'rescuing' meat from waste. (The other day at a supermarket food court someone left an entire plate of lemon chicken practically untouched. I ate it because the cleaner would have thrown it in the bin if I hadn't eaten it)
Mets seems to be one of those who straight out doesn't like the taste of meat, and that's cool. I know lots of people who don't like various foods such as mushrooms, olives, chillis - etc. No one would really cop shit if they said they chose not to eat these foods. For some reason though, meat is so ingrained into most people's diets that when mentioning vegetarianism, alot of people react oddly and sometimes aggressively - It gets hard to constantly having to defend something as arbritary as diet.
