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Originally Posted by cj_purve
Can I ask why you are vegetarian Fletch?
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Sorry I took so long to reply, if my "online" icon indicated I was on, it was because i left the window open while i was AFK.
I can't address all the Vitamin B stuff, I don't claim to know all about the topic.
As far as why I am veg now:
All my life I was grossed out by cow milk (mucos), eating chicken eggs, eating steak - it always grossed me out. I come from a long line of Southern Hunters and butchers, i grew up skinning deers, eating them - killing everything, and eating it.
Just last year before my grandfather died, I had the pleasure of grinding up 200 lbs of deer and making old fashioned cajun deer sausage one last time before he passed, that was about the end of it for me. I had already given up red meat, but had finally been grossed out enough to say "isnt there something else i can put on my plate and eat?"
So, as Cherry mentioned I ordered the book (or she did) YOU DONT NEED MEAT, and the author and I share a very similar story.
All my life growing up, my mom would cook big bloody steaks, with sausage on the side etc... and i would literally just sit back and eat the entire head of Iceberg lettuce, she would joke and ask me "are you a rabbit, don't you want to eat your steak. and drink your milk?"
So, at age 30 I decided enough was enough, as an adult now, i buy what I eat, and I chose what I put in my body, so... now I eat things that don't bleed. And with the clone cow milk and meat coming soon to a grocery to you (FDA already approved clone milk, and all products from cloned animals) - i really got out in time.
I quit red meat long before I gave up chicken and turkey, fish etc...
but like everything else a human can quit, once you make the decision, and once you feel and see the results, it becomes a lot easier to stick with it.
When I was eating like shit, and destroying myself with alcohol and drugs daily, I wasnt getting vitamin B either! I was barely eating! Whats worst, not eating and drinking beer all day, or being eg and have people ask me "where you get your protein from?"
This is what makes me laugh at folks with this argument,.. you want to see someone eating like shit? Look at how I used to eat... i wasnt a bit worried about protein, or any vitamins, now I know I at least get as much of them as I can.