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Originally posted by Mango
I'm an ex vegetarian. I did not eat meat, chicken or fish for 8 years. Now I have a farm and raise my own organic beef, chicken, duck, turkey & pork. ... I slaughter my own animals and have no problem with getting covered in the blood of the animals that will feed me and my family.
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vegetarian here, for lil over 10 years..is likely a life-long thing for me, unless survival issues require a change...
i'm veggie for health and ethics and just not a taste for meat really.
i do eat fish on occasion, because i like it, and my body tends to have high protein requirements, esp. the fitter i get, need to feed my muscles...
which i kno i can do just fine with soy and legume products...
i eat dairy, but i avoid the high-fat stuff. no butter, or ice cream, or cream or whatever..just some lowfat cheese and yogurt and lowfat milk.. i dont really eat eggs because of the taste and cholestorol/fat, but i don't explicitly avoid things containing egg either.
and i do believe there are health benefits in it for me..my body generally feels 'clean' and more importantly, in my family history there's heart disease and high blood pressure. so i'm just trying to prevent such problems in the future.
regarding the ethical stuff tho, and just in general, is something i view as a very personal choice, i don't impose my views on others and expect that they treat me with the same respect.
so far, so good.