Opinion of Vegetarians/Vegans

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For some reason, a lot of people are biased against them.

http://bites.today.com/_news/2012/07/06/12598333-survey-30-of-meat-eaters-wont-date-a-vegetarian?d=1

[Goldwater]

Basically the same as my view of religious people. I have no problem with them, as long as they don't try to force me to live the same way as they do.

[Murica!]

They can kindly fyck off

[Mr. Illini]

FF if they are doing it for environmental reasons. One of the most ignored environmental phenomena is the incredible energy use that meat production uses.

HP if they are doing it for humane reasons. As long as you are buying from Certified Humane sources, I see no problem with meat consumption.

[Mr. Smith]

FF if they are doing it for environmental reasons. One of the most ignored environmental phenomena is the incredible energy use that meat production uses.

HP if they are doing it for humane reasons. As long as you are buying from Certified Humane sources, I see no problem with meat consumption.

This, but given how critical environmental protection really is...FF overall.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Basically the same as my view of religious people. I have no problem with them, as long as they don't try to force me to live the same way as they do.

This.

[DemPGH]

Massive FFs - I'm one (well, I do eat fish), but if you want to eat your sausages, hamburgers, hotdogs, beef, and have high cholesterol and high saturated fat, go ahead! Count me out.

[Classic Conservative]

Most of my teachers are either one of those but they are all crazy but still FF's.

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I'm surprised by the mainly positive reviews - from my experience, it seems like a lot of people are unfairly biased against vegetarians/vegans for some reason...

Voted FF, of course.

[NeverAgain]

Massive FFs. I am one as well.

[Badger]

They can take my cheeseburger when the pry it from my cold dead greasy fingers.

[dead0man]

I'm surprised by the mainly positive reviews - from my experience, it seems like a lot of people are unfairly biased against vegetarians/vegans for some reason...

Voted FF, of course.

The reason was stated by Goldwater and quoted by Antonio.  Us omnivores don't care what you eat, just stop preaching to us about it and we'll get along just fine.


A lot of proselytizing groups have this problem, you do things that annoy people, then you find out some people don't like your group and everybody in your group is like "what? Us?  Why do you hate us?  We just want to ......., what's so wrong about that?"  Well, nothing is wrong with that, just SHUT THE FUNK UP ABOUT IT!

(a shrill voice replying to the above with a "but why do you hate the.......?" or "if you had any morals....." or "RACIST!" or whatever doesn't help sh**t)

[Intell]

Basically the same as my view of religious people. I have no problem with them, as long as they don't try to force me to live the same way as they do.

Huh, in Hinduism and other Eastern Religions, the older people, people in villages and more religious people tend to be vegetarian, while younger people are the one's eating meat. My experience with my family anyway, and other Indian and Nepalese families.

Anyway FF of couurse, even though I'm not one.

[bagelman]

Veggies have the right to eat whatever they want without loud jerks standing in their way. In turn, they should not take the role of said loud jerks.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I am a vegetarian so FF

[Bigby]

HP for the most part. I don't care what vegetarians/vegans eat, so why the Hell do they care about what I eat?

[°Leprechaun]

I find that either diet would be too limited for me.
I am much more against high carb/sugar than eating meat.
I have lost weight on Atkins.
How difficult is a low carb Vegan/Vegetarian diet?
Is Vegan/Vegetarian healthy?
Is it better just to cut out calories, fat etc?
Meat can be eaten in moderation.
I tend to eat a lot of chicken and eggs.

Soda isn't good.
People tend to much more anti-smokers than anti-unhealthy food.

[TNF]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TqyKsnQD38

But in all seriousness, I don't have an opinion either way. The only types I can't stand are the ones that paint themselves as better than you for not eating meat or whatever, ignoring the fact that veganism/vegetarianism (moreso the former than the latter) is certainly not a thing that a lot of people can actually afford to do.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is an utterly bizarre thread. Are we going to ask for opinions of people who prefer brown shoes to black next?

Its true that there are preachy vegetarians and so on, but then it is also true that there are preachy omnivores... as oh dear this thread neatly demonstrates. Of course a preachy vegetarian is ultimately preferable because they are at least not entirely wrong: eating a lot of meat is really not very good for most people.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

ignoring the fact that veganism/vegetarianism (moreso the former than the latter) is certainly not a thing that a lot of people can actually afford to do.

lmao whut

Meat is expensive, pulses are almost as cheap as the dirt they grow in. Like the only way you would spend more money as a vegetarian is if you bought a lot of very expensive meat substitute products. Otherwise...

[Oakvale]

FFs (against murdering animals)

[Goldwater]

This is an utterly bizarre thread. Are we going to ask for opinions of people who prefer brown shoes to black next?

Its true that there are preachy vegetarians and so on, but then it is also true that there are preachy omnivores... as oh dear this thread neatly demonstrates. Of course a preachy vegetarian is ultimately preferable because they are at least not entirely wrong: eating a lot of meat is really not very good for most people.

How does this thread demonstrate preachy omnivores?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Not sure why I should have an opinion of that. I don't have an opinion of people who don't like pasta either.

The thing that people consider annoying about vegetarians is often not the lifestyle itself but the fact that many of them want to tell everybody how they are happy vegetarians.

The joke about the dilemma that a vegetarian who does Crossfit has - which one should he talk about first? - tends to be pretty accurate.

It is always the omnivores who make a bigger deal out of me being a vegetarian than I do, like they are scientists studying a rare species, or else immediately getting defensive about how if God hadn't meant us to eat meat he wouldn't have given us teeth.

[NeverAgain]

Not sure why I should have an opinion of that. I don't have an opinion of people who don't like pasta either.

The thing that people consider annoying about vegetarians is often not the lifestyle itself but the fact that many of them want to tell everybody how they are happy vegetarians.

The joke about the dilemma that a vegetarian who does Crossfit has - which one should he talk about first? - tends to be pretty accurate.

It is always the omnivores who make a bigger deal out of me being a vegetarian than I do, like they are scientists studying a rare species, or else immediately getting defensive about how if God hadn't meant us to eat meat he wouldn't have given us teeth.

lol.

[DemPGH]

I agree that it's inexpensive to be an herbivore, which is actually really cool. Even my non GMO almond milk at Aldi is inexpensive. There was a time when that stuff just wasn't around and was some sort of specialty thing. But fresh vegetables, salad, beans, whole grains, tomato sauce, etc. are quite budget friendly.