Considering becoming vegetarian?!

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1. You should eat meat. Meat is very healthy as it is loaded with many nutrients that your body needs. There's no loss if you don't become a vegetarian.
2. No, once you're a vegetarian, you don't eat any meat. The point of going vegetarian is to cut all dead animals out of your diet. Look on the back for gelatin, animal lard, beef/chicken fat, oyster sauce, fish sauce, etc. All these are from slaughtered animals.
3. Don't worry about what others think about your decision. It's your life and your real friends shouldn't make fun of you. You should just be able to be yourself!
4. Meat is essentially irreplaceable, but you can come close to matching the nutrition in meat if you eat a LARGE variety of different grains and legumes as well as eggs or dairy.
5. Possibly, but here's the thing: The world already is making enough grain to feed everyone, yet many people still go hungry. This is because of poor distribution of the food. Some people have no access to it, while others have too much and it goes to waste.

1 you should become vegetarian. Try a week with no meat and see how you like it. Try two weeks if you do like it and than three, four untell it's obvious that you will like this life style.
2 no. I really do appreciate people who try to avoid factory meat but if you eat meat your not a vegetarian. Try no meat at all.
3 just tell then your trying it out than after you haven't eaten meat for a while tell them you just feel really good and are really liking it so you want to keep it up.
4 eat eggs, tofu, tempeh and veggie meat from yves, gimmelean, tofurkey, boca, smart brand and morning star.
5 factory farming takes 95% of grains (along with 80% of corn and 80% of oats) to feed animals to get them fatter for better meat. The amount of grain could feed 800million people.
Hope this helps!

Vegetarian

1. You should become a vegetarian. There's no loss if you do become a vegetarian. You just have to keep up with getting proper nutrients.
2. No, once you're a vegetarian, you don't eat any meat. The point of going vegetarian is to cut all dead animals out of your diet. Look on the back for gelatin, animal lard, beef/chicken fat, oyster sauce, fish sauce, etc. All these are from slaughtered animals.
3. Don't worry about what others think about your decision. It's your life and your real friends shouldn't make fun of you. You should just be able to be yourself!
4. You can eat tofu, soy-textured meats, quorn, and more veggies.
5. I can't answer this question.

I hope I helped.

Vegetarian 5 years.

I live in a meat-based area too.. Greeley, CO. lots of CAFOs (google if you dont know what that is) and slaughterhouses.
1. start by reducing meat then go vegetarian
2. killed humanely? Thats near impossible in today's society. If you're buying directly from a farmer who did it themselves thats the only way you know. Even then, you should stop by and watch the process.
3. friends aren't really friends unless they accept you for who you are. If they have a problem with it then they have a problem with you as a person and they can either get over it (its not your problem, its your lifestyle) or not be your friend
4. So much! Tofu, tempeh, sietan, veggies, garden-burgers/chicken/hotdogs/sausage/g… breast EXCEPT they're all fake!
5. Yes.

try reading "Skinny *****"

I'm irish we're pretty much known for agriculture worldwide so i completely know yer story.

1) I cannot make you do anything, i can advise it & most certainly will but in the end it is your decision & i'm just an answerer on a forum. I recommend firstly the film Earthlings you can watch it on youtube/google-videos for free, its graphic, its truthful it also has its own degree of propoganda so don't take it 100% to heart.
2) No vegetarians will not consume basically anything capable of feeling pain or that is sentient (ie aware of its own life) or potentially sentient. You're an ethical eater if you consume humane meat, but a more ethical approach is to once again stop eating the meat.
3) This is the tricky one, i was very secretive & hid it from my parents who thought i was dieting (though i'm a guy). Only advice i can tell you is to be straight up with them, tell them you want to try it & explain why. Its going to be a shock to them regardless, my da gave out to me & now is wanting to try a temporary vegetarian diet himself.
As for friends you don't have to tell them straight out, that isn't their direct business but merely your choice to tell them & it should in no way affect them unless you start ranting at them eating meat (please dont it stereotypes vegetarians)
5) google vegetarian dishes etc basically being vegetarian at the least allows you to try new foods
5) I cannot say directly with any sources, but it seems very likely as apparently figures of 33% of grain to 8/10 pounds of grain are given to animals to feed them.

*on a sidenote if you have podcast room on your ipod i recommend ''vegetarian food for thought-colleen godreau'' its pretty much the only decent vegetarian podcast & most certainly is brilliant in its relation to ethics & such (shes an american vegan & has her own site ''compassionate cooks'')

In relation to the meat in your area being treated horribly, unless you are visiting every farm & have viewed it over a period of time you cannot suggest that, even me in ireland though its unlikely as farming is done by sole traders, i still canot definitely say that our animals are ALL treated ''humanely''. Its an oxymoron as an even more humane approach would to not rule the animals life & choose when its not fit to live based on its production output

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