You object to earning your white-and-yellow wings?
I am not a vegetarian but I am the child of one. Statements like this drive me crazy!
It is NOT DIFFICULT to have a healthy and balanced diet without eating meat (which includes fish. It is the flesh of an animal!). It’s only slightly more complicated for vegans, by which I mean “might spare a thought about getting some extra calcium once in awhile”. The only way you’re going to become malnourished from lack of some random mineral is if you only eat leaf-and-tomato-and-crouton salads three meals a day.
An equally aggravating question is “what do vegetarians eat?” You eat FOOD. Surely your diet includes the occasional meal of spaghetti or pizza or spinach crepes?
People talk about vegetarianism like it’s some sort of ritual sacrifice that people are putting themselves through. Where it’s really no more complicated or thoughtful than you picking pizza toppings that you like. It’s not something that you have to spend your days naval gazing about.
Omega 3. Flaxseed vs. Fish. Fish wins. Sorry.
Or bacon bits ?
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Are you trying to say that vegetarians all need to eat flaxseed in order to get enough omega 3 in their diet? That’s ridiculous. 
Definitely. There are a lot of dietary sources, including kiwifruit, walnuts, purslane, even some algae. Eggs if you’re counting that as acceptable in your diet.
sorry i didn’t realise i was quoted.
i think Left Hand of Dorkness had already answered for me. and as others have pointed out, there are many different types of vegetarians for many different reasons. my minirant towards vegetarians are mostly directed towards those in my country, those pseudo-buddhists who (obviously not all buddhists, just the minor few that are nevertheless enough to) have given rise to entire businesses making fake meat non-green vegetarian food that almost precludes anything actually, well, green on their menu.
afaik, the entire reason for being vegetarian as a Buddhist in the first place is to avoid cruelty to animals. lusting over fake meat, pretending it’s ok to eat eggs, or even caging chickens to mass produce non-fertilised eggs spells cruelty to me (under their definition). hey, your choice of food is your own business, but don’t pretend that your morals aren’t on a sliding scale just like everyone else. (generic ‘your’ *) and most importantly, please bring back genuine vegetarian food back to menus outside of temples.
so of course fish is meat, unless your priest says otherwise.
- is there a better way to phrase this without having to insert this disclaimer? replacing ‘your’ with ‘their’ just doesn’t sound right.
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