This is fairly simple. The dividing line is between eating animals (including fish, chickens, sea-bugges) and not eating them. Just eating plants and mushrooms, or, in the case of lacto-ovo vegetarians, including animal products like milk, honey, and eggs.
If you’re vegetarian, vegan, or any other type that just plain doesn’t eat animals, count yourself as vegetarian (just for the purpose of this poll, aside from any other designations you may actually prefer).
If you eat animals, count yourself as not vegetarian.
I’m a vegetarian. Being a vegetarian nowadays is a lot easier than it used to be. With good products like Amy’s line of frozen food and good quality imitation meats such as Trader Joe’s soy chorizo, I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.
I’ve been a vegetarian since I was a child and haven’t ever tried some common kinds of meat like a steak or a pork chop. I would still eat chicken and turkey till I was 12 or so and then slowly stopped eating any meat at all.
I have a vague memory of eating a pork sausage when I was really young and I remember it being sort of sweet.
not. I refrain from the reactionary BS like “People Eating Tasty Animals” or the like, though. My philosophy is twofold- 1) we are physiologically equipped to derive nourishment/nutrition from meat, and 2) many animals have no problem eating other animals, so neither do I.
now, modern “factory” methods of raising and dispatching livestock is another discussion entirely.
We are physiologically equipped to derive nourishment/nutrition from human flesh, it doesn’t mean we should do it. I’m a meat eater too, I just don’t think that’s a very good rationalization for doing it.
Animals gotta die eventually, right? Why shouldn’t I eat them? What’s the difference between a cow dying of drought/starvation/wolf attack, and a quick death for the purpose of becoming yummy hamburger?
Now, I am very against modern factory farming, and I’d love to see changes there. I would feel better about eating meat if I knew for a fact that the animal I am eating did have a nice, if brief, life.
I haven’t found any figures for the world population of vegetarians, but the count of vegetarians in the United States ranges from 0.5% of the population to as high as 7%. The figure for Canadian vegetarians is 4%, while in the UK the vegetarian population may go as high as 11%. So it’s interesting to find 22% in this poll (even though given a little inflation courtesy of April).
I was vegatarian for a year as a late teen, otherwise no.
My meat eating is seasonal though. I start eating meat in autumn, when the wheather becomes colder and days shorter, and stop all meat when you can find again plenty of green stuff to eat.
Some days I have no meat; other days I do. I pretty much eat anything and would have no problem converting to a vegetarian diet if I had to. I don’t see any point in doing that however.
Pretty much sums it up for me too. My parents (hippie-era) were vegetarian but it never really “took” with any of us four kids except for my sister.
I don’t eat much meat, really. Rarely cook meat dishes for myself, often order vegetarian in restaurants. I quite often go a week or more without meat or fish.
Although there’s a few things I’d miss, it wouldn’t be a big deal at all if I had to stop eating meat forever.
