Comments on: I’m going vegetarian http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2008/04/24/im-going-vegetarian/ World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Alexia http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2008/04/24/im-going-vegetarian/comment-page-1/#comment-131149 Alexia Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:03:06 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=663#comment-131149 Well done, Jon! You made a great choice... It's cool that you realised after 3 years of not eating meat to go the full hog (ok, not a good pun) and go vegetarian, giving up fish too. This is the best lifestyle anyone can adopt, other than going vegan of course, and the animals will thank you! It's World Vegetarian Week coming up soon and I'm looking to recruit some non-vegetarians to ditch the meat and fish for a week, so if you know of anyone get in touch! Well done, Jon! You made a great choice… It’s cool that you realised after 3 years of not eating meat to go the full hog (ok, not a good pun) and go vegetarian, giving up fish too. This is the best lifestyle anyone can adopt, other than going vegan of course, and the animals will thank you! It’s World Vegetarian Week coming up soon and I’m looking to recruit some non-vegetarians to ditch the meat and fish for a week, so if you know of anyone get in touch!

]]> By: dan white http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2008/04/24/im-going-vegetarian/comment-page-1/#comment-131148 dan white Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:38:39 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=663#comment-131148 Yes, concern about animals is a good reason. I am vegetarian for health reasons and the simplicity of it. I also use nonfat milk and egg whites. What I found was that food preferences are learned and after about 2 weeks without meat, I started noticing a gamey odor to meat that I hadn't noticed before except in deer, elk, etc. Now it all smells that way to me. I have unlearned the taste for meat I suppose. I also learned to like tomatoes which I figured were good for me, but never liked before. Food preferences have to be learned. Otherwise there is no rational for why some cultures eat whale blubber, seal eyes, and raw fish, among many other foods. It will take some time, but you can do it. I use milk cause I haven't found a good substitute for liquid on my puffed wheat cereal. Soy just isn't tasty. The 8th Continent Light Chocolate is really good stuff, but not on cereal. I get a good supply of cheap eggs and feed the yolks to my dog, so that explains the eggs, but really there is no need for eggs or milk either. Lentils, for example are 50% protein. Oats are 13% protein. Protein is easy to get on a vegetarian diet, even without soy. Being vegetarian is easy for me, since I really don't like meat and especially fish to begin with. I also have never tried any of the meat look-alike products like Veggieburgers. I figure if I don't like meat, I sure don't want to try something that tries to taste and look like it. An added benefit to vegetarinaism if you want to go that way is the low cost. If you were to make lentils, brown rice, oats your staples, those are about 6 cents a serving. I like simplicity and strive for it. I drive a simple, Spartan, no frills car, lead a simple life and eat simple food. Vegetarianism lends itself to this idea, making a lighter ecological footprint. Good luck, Dan. Yes, concern about animals is a good reason. I am vegetarian for health reasons and the simplicity of it. I also use nonfat milk and egg whites. What I found was that food preferences are learned and after about 2 weeks without meat, I started noticing a gamey odor to meat that I hadn’t noticed before except in deer, elk, etc. Now it all smells that way to me. I have unlearned the taste for meat I suppose. I also learned to like tomatoes which I figured were good for me, but never liked before. Food preferences have to be learned. Otherwise there is no rational for why some cultures eat whale blubber, seal eyes, and raw fish, among many other foods. It will take some time, but you can do it.

I use milk cause I haven’t found a good substitute for liquid on my puffed wheat cereal. Soy just isn’t tasty. The 8th Continent Light Chocolate is really good stuff, but not on cereal. I get a good supply of cheap eggs and feed the yolks to my dog, so that explains the eggs, but really there is no need for eggs or milk either. Lentils, for example are 50% protein. Oats are 13% protein. Protein is easy to get on a vegetarian diet, even without soy.

Being vegetarian is easy for me, since I really don’t like meat and especially fish to begin with. I also have never tried any of the meat look-alike products like Veggieburgers. I figure if I don’t like meat, I sure don’t want to try something that tries to taste and look like it. An added benefit to vegetarinaism if you want to go that way is the low cost. If you were to make lentils, brown rice, oats your staples, those are about 6 cents a serving.

I like simplicity and strive for it. I drive a simple, Spartan, no frills car, lead a simple life and eat simple food. Vegetarianism lends itself to this idea, making a lighter ecological footprint. Good luck, Dan.

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