Vegetarians who eat potatoes

[surel]

I just finished reading through vegetarians who eat dairy and as an ovo-lacto vegetarian for aesthetic reasons (I find it disgusting to eat chunks of flesh taken out of animals, so I don't)I always wonder about those who have ethical reasons for avoiding various foods. I can understand eating fruits, most of them are designed to be eaten. But how can you take a poor potato - a plant's hope of growth and life stored away and hidden - tear it out of the ground, expose it to the world, and eat it! Oh, well, I can, I need to eat something. But do any vegans out there feel any differences between fruits and nuts? Or other categories?

[Smart Bob]

The one I hear is "I won't eat anything with a face. Or worms."

So, put a Mr. Potato face on your spuds, and they will die of old age in a vegetarian's cupboard.

[tracer]

If it's immoral to eat a potato, it should be immoral to eat a carrot too.

Which I don't mind, because I hate carrots. Bleah.

[Satan]

No root beer either!

[sailor]

And what did a poor tomato do to deserve being picked from the plant and shipped to a supermarket? I'm telling you, life ain't fair.

[Show_Biz]

When I found out that they are 2-year plants, and the root is for the winter between, it seems unfair to eat them.

I do however, and baby corn. Very tasty.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Let's start an organization to stage gimicky stunts to protest potato-eating.

What will we call it?????


AH! I KNOW!!

People for the

Ethical

Treatment of

Potatos !!

[Rilchiam]

Have any of you ever heard of these people?

www.fruitarian.com

[TheThill]

People who eat macrobiotically avoid potatoes. One explained it to me thus: they are all mushy and have no spiral form and therefore make you complacent.

Now avoiding potato chips/crisps is another matter. Especially those "pork flavor" kinds, not very appealing to a vegetarian.

[Johanna]

People who eat macrobiotically avoid potatoes.

The explanation I heard from a macro guru was that they are of the family Solanaceae. This is the same family that includes deadly nightshades as well as peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants. All frowned on by macros.

Once was in the vicinity when a cook was adding potatoes to a pot of vegetarian stew and overheard, "So you're using those deadly nightshades, eh?"

[Max Torque]

At least we carnivores have the decency to kill our food before we eat it.....you're eating those fruits and vegetables ALIVE!!

[surel]

Max Torque: At least we carnivores have the decency to kill our food before we eat it.....you're eating those fruits and vegetables ALIVE!!
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Yes, and I torture them first too! I may be a vegetarian, but that doesn't mean I don't want what I eat to suffer first. I hunt those vegetables down, rip them up, and mutilate them. mwahahaha I also wear leather under the theory that, hey, I don't eat them so I'm killing less than my share and deserve a little bit of dead animal clothing if I want it. Were you under the impression that vegetarian meant nice?

[Shirley Ujest]

This is not to be funny, really, but do serious vegans eat yogurt? It has live active cultures in it, so does that count as something they don't eat?

[tripoverbiff]

As far as meat vs. veggies as food, at least meat (theoretically) has a chance to defend itself or run/swim/fly away. Should life forms be discriminated against just because they lack locomotive power? I'm reminded of a quote by Jack Handy (paraphrased as best as I can remember it):

"I wonder if we would be so gung-ho on cutting down trees if they could scream. We might, if they screamed all the time, for no reason."

I propose that humans, out of respect for life, the environment, Mother Earth, river nypmhs, etc, stop eating. Period.

[Danielinthewolvesden]

Umm, shirley, VEGANS do not consume dairy. VEGETARIANS do consume diary, and yogurt. Micro-organisms(non-dangerous) are not something either worry about, food-wise.