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There's a thread about vegetarianism, but no one ever talks about the meat industry. Isn't it the most revolting thing you've ever heard of??? All vegetarians: Do you eat eggs, milk, fish, or seafood? Sea animals, actually.
Anyone...?
submitted by BellaTrix
(December 24, 2008 - 9:22 am)
(December 24, 2008 - 9:22 am)
Gelatin? What's in gelatin? Oh, no...
But you've really been vegetarian all of your life? Wow. I'm the only one in my family, so I had to wait until I was olde enough to form an opinion on my own - 2nd grade. But I didn't have enough willpower and had to stop. I started again the summer before 4th grade, however, and have been vegan ever since.
(July 1, 2009 - 2:04 pm)
Oh not much, just hooves and bones.
(July 1, 2009 - 7:04 pm)
But they KILL the animals to get gelatin, it's not like they die on their own FOR the humans.
(July 2, 2009 - 11:18 pm)
Gelatin is ligaments of an animal, like horse or pig or cow. It's in jello, marsh mellows, and other stuff, I don't know what. My mom won't eat the Amish friendship bread because it calls for instant pudding, which normally has gelatin in it.
And yes, I have been vegetarian all my life. My mom is a vegetarian, my grandma is avegatarian and my sisters are too. Dad-- not so much. We don't like the idea of eating somethig out of a thing that touched a dead thing. Why eat an animal if you don't need to? My mom had been a vegan for a while. That was when dad worked at a pizza place and made special pizza's for mom. He din't like grocerie shopping.
Okay, I'm trying to bea vegan fo ra week. I don't eat that much dairy so I think I can do it. Except it might be hard on the fourth of july. There might be cupcakes at uncle Billy's. And maybe Mason (one of my vegetarian friends).
(July 1, 2009 - 7:21 pm)
OH NO!! I didn't even know that stuff was in gelatin! And I've been eating it *shudders*! I thought I was a vegan, but I wasn't, and now I can't even eat marshmallows any more
! Hey - if I don't eat gelatin, and it's in marshmallows, do you mean the regular white ones, or the ones in cereal? Or both?!! Oh no! I just can't believe I was actually eating that stuff. I can't belive I never thought about what was in it - I figured it was mainly just artificial ingredients and sugar and stuff like that.
(July 3, 2009 - 10:54 am)
It's in both.
(July 3, 2009 - 6:33 pm)
Hi, I'm new here! I've never really considered being a vegetarian before, but lately, I've found myself thinking that hey, why not give it a try? (Of course, whenever I think that, my brain starts listing meat products I love. AAAA!) Anyway, I guess I'll start small. I'll try passing up meat (not seafood or dairy yet) for my next few meals, and see how I do. (Telepathic message to Mom: Please, please don't cook bacon.)
Off to dinner!
(July 6, 2009 - 4:28 pm)
Welcome, Katy!!!!!! I fully support you about going vegetarian!!!!!! :D It helps the enviroment!!!!! :D Even having ONE vegtarian meal a week helps!!!!! SMILEYS!!!!!!! :D :D ;D :D :D
(July 6, 2009 - 9:19 pm)
Thanks! There wasn't any meat for dinner except a chicken salad, so I survived dinner, and I had oatmeal for breakfast. Now let's see about lunch...
(July 7, 2009 - 7:11 am)
Welcome, Katy! My real name is Katie! Good thing that's not what I call myself here... And here's my advice to you: not eating meat for a week first. If you can bear it, do it for a month, and when the month is over, maybe then you can try not eating seafood (although, as Trixy cleverly put it, sea animals is a better name). If you can't bear being vegetarian full time, try only eating meat once a week. Then, maybe once you're really used to that, try again. Oh, and I hope you like peanut butter (or some other non-meat food with lots of protein), because you're going to be having a lot of it. I do, anyway.
(July 6, 2009 - 10:49 pm)
Katy, next time you feel like eating meat, just think about factory farms and the poor animals in them.
(July 7, 2009 - 1:03 pm)
Not all meat comes from there! You guys are making me feel bad about the food I eat, and I'd appreciate it if this discussion stopped.
(July 7, 2009 - 5:10 pm)
Sorry Lena. Most meat at the store does come from factory farms. We weren't trying to make you feel bad. The main reason that I'm vegetarian is because the idea of eating dead animals is gross. I didn't even know about factory farms a year ago. Free range meat doesn't come from factory farms, but its still gross.
(July 8, 2009 - 10:28 am)
Sorry, and it's true that not all meat comes from there, it's just - there's no sure way of knowing. If you don't want to hear/talk about it though, you don't have to read this thread - or is it one of those things you don't want to look at, but your fingers click on it anyway? Believe it or not, that happens to me quite often... I'm sorry though. If you really can't just refuse to look at this thread, I can try to stop.
(July 8, 2009 - 11:12 am)
Um, that was really, really harsh (what I just said). I was in a kind of bad mood when I wrote it, I guess, and... I'm really sorry. Go ahead and talk about it all you like. I was kind of just going down the list of the threads here, and I clicked on that, and I saw that, and I was probably in an already bad mood and, you see the result. That was pretty stupid of me. Never mind what I said and keep on. I just won't read this thread anymore I guess (not until you respond, at least!) :) forgiveness smiley.
(July 8, 2009 - 5:17 pm)