# Would you go vegan for one year for a hundred grand? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189 "2011-09-30T18:58:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/61 "2011-09-30T20:48:46Z")
Just for paying me a Chief to cook my meals, would I become vegan for a year. ETA: actually the Chief’s salary for a year is probably gonna be more than a hundred grand. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/62 "2011-09-30T20:51:11Z")
I’d do it for half that! Heck I’d do it for 10k! Okay who’s willing to fund my adventure? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/63 "2011-09-30T20:54:59Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Cats are obligate carnivores; that diet would kill them. I don’t know how healthy it would be for dogs. Anyway, the chef’s only making food for you, so it’s just a matter of you not sneaking Kibbles & Bits. Phew! 🙂 My dogs and cats eat almost exclusively a raw meat diet. In fact I have a big chest freezer usually filled with meat for them (and Morningstar black bean burgers for me, heh.) OK, good. My vote stands and I am with the majority here. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/64 "2011-09-30T20:57:34Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > In a New York second. Granted I’m probably ordering a 32oz steak at 12:00:01 as soon as the bet’s over, If you did you’d be very sad after. Not for the dead cow, but for your poor, poor digestive system. If you go off meat for an extended period of time and then jump back on the meat bandwagon, really unfortunate things happen in your tummy. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/65 "2011-09-30T21:01:14Z")
$100 grand and the only requirements is to not eat meat. I could do it for a year easily. It would just be pure profit, and after a year I can resume eating animals again. No brainer. I’m wondering what the minimum would be. $10,000 would be too low for me. $50,000, sure. $25,000? I don’t know. But I don’t have a great need for money now, when I had less, I’d do it for less. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/66 "2011-09-30T21:08:28Z")
In a heartbeat. And I’d do it for a lot less than $100,000. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/67 "2011-09-30T21:11:02Z")
Ditto to **panache** – what’s the big deal? I don’t eat a lot of meat anyway, partly for financial reasons, although I find “Indian” vegetarian dishes don’t taste quite right without butter. But I can deal with that. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/68 "2011-09-30T21:20:18Z")
Yes. I really like money. And with a vegan chef cooking for me every single day, I wouldn’t really have to work hard to stick to the diet. It would be delicious, and probably help me lose weight. Plus, he’d be really good at doing interesting stuff with tofu. I really like most vegetables, anyway. And I won’t die if I don’t have meat for a year. I could do a whole lot of good stuff in my life with that money! My only concern is whether ingesting the protein emissions of a male human could mess up the test result. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/69 "2011-09-30T21:29:19Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > > [@Enderw24](#): > > > > By the way, according to your rules, June bugs, lobsters and squid ink are all still a-ok. > > yeah, but you can’t _milk_ those. For a hundred grand, I’d be willing to give it a shot. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/70 "2011-09-30T21:29:49Z")
Considering last week I had 4 dinners that were nothing but meat this would be a challenging diet for me and 100K wouldn’t do much to change my life I had to think about it a fair bit. the chef puts it over the top if all I have to do is eat the food he prepares when I’m hungry it will be hard to stray so if there is no work besides giving up something I love then I’ll take the money. Without the chef it would have to be over 3 mil to get me to sign up. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/71 "2011-09-30T21:34:55Z")
I’m about as anti-vegan as it can get diet wise, but I’d be in on this a second, trampling the other applicants if necessary. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/72 "2011-09-30T21:45:04Z")
I’m not vegan, nor even vegetarian, but I’d take the expert chef without the money! Or better, the money without the chef! But both? I’d hurt people for the chance! ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/73 "2011-09-30T22:01:04Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > My only concern is whether ingesting the protein emissions of a male human could mess up the test result. Ewww. You know the whole “swallow or it’s going in your beehive hairdo” thing is a myth, just like blueballs, don’t you? And why did you have to specify humans? Do you do a donkey show on your (going) “downtime”? I’d do it for a couple hundred, easy. More vegan beer for me. Plus those hippy chicks can be pretty wild (I hear ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/74 "2011-09-30T22:06:51Z")
Sure, but the cost of replacing all of my leather and animal goods would eat into that 100k. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/75 "2011-09-30T22:07:40Z")
If I combine this with the 100k for no human contact for a year offer, do I get a bonus? Say make it 250k total? ---
**Author:** ![cuberdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cuberdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuberdon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/76 "2011-09-30T22:21:22Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Cats are obligate carnivores; that diet would kill them. I don’t know how healthy it would be for dogs. Not strictly true, supposedly there are supplements that you can give cats although the jury is out on whether it’s a good idea. And dogs are _not_ obligate carnivores. That said, yes, I’d do it, though would prefer more $$$. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/77 "2011-09-30T22:30:18Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I’d do it for the money without the chef. Hell, I’d do it for the chef without the money. This. Even if the chef doesn’t wash his/her own dishes. This is a major chore gone, a major expense gone, and the chef balances the meals nutritionally. Also, chocolate is vegan, right? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/78 "2011-09-30T22:32:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Oredigger77** : > the chef puts it over the top if all I have to do is eat the food he prepares when I’m hungry it will be hard to stray so if there is no work besides giving up something I love then I’ll take the money. Without the chef it would have to be over 3 mil to get me to sign up. Interesting numbers, there… You _would_ take 100 grand plus a chef, but you _would not_ take, say, a megabuck without the chef. Yet, with a million dollars, you could easily hire a top-notch chef yourself, and still have significantly more than 100 grand left over. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/79 "2011-09-30T22:36:21Z")
Hell yes I’d do it, and I’d do it for way less. 1k month and I’d be the veganest damn thing you ever saw. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189/80 "2011-09-30T22:39:33Z")
I’m an omnivore by choice. But $100,000 plus free meals and cooking to live vegan for a year? No problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-vegan-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598189.md?page=5)