Just wanted to make a poll about this topic. Feel free to post your reasons for your choice, but please be respectful of other people's individual choices.

Omnivore here.

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As above.

i eat mostly candy and snacks.

I am omnivorous, but a little over half of my meals are vegetarian, and many of those meals could also be classified as vegan. I'm not a huge fan of meat, I just eat it because it's available. I have to eat what the dinning hall at my university offers, and I'd have no variety, or proper nutrients, if I only ate the veggie meals xD.

Technically omnivore. But as time has gone on, meat has become a smaller and smaller part of my diet. I think it's healthier that way. But also that a diet light in meat is healthier than not eating it at all. Trendy vegetarians annoy me, thankfully we probably have none of those people on this forum.

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INFP, 4w5 sx/sp

Well, I'm the lone vegetarian so far. Haven't eaten meat for about a year now. I don't miss it, to be honest. I do have a couple of vegan cookbooks and make vegan meals too, but I'm not strict about it, and eat dairy items.

The best thing that I enjoy about being vegitarian is that it allows me to sit high on my moral horse and judge meat eaters as lacking in ethical fortitude.

ps. for those unsure, that last statement was a joke.

pps. I will still judge you though. (oh my God, was this a joke too? I can't tell anymore...)

How dare you sit on a moral horse! Moral horses have feelings too, you know!

You're very lucky to have lasted so long as a vegan. It must be the dairy.

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Naw, stick with it man, that way you can have cool telekinetic powers like Todd!

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

To be blunt, this is bunk. My sister has been vegan for years, and vegitarian before that. She's had no issues at all, has been very healthy and lives an active lifestyle. If you eat properly there should be no problems.

Definately a meat eater....live on a farm, raise chickens and piggies and grow our own veg. Couldn't be a vegetarian - think it is cruel to animals to just 'opt out'. Think supporting welfare friendly farms is a better option.

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If you eat well and have a normal metabolism, that is. Some of us can't even process simple healthy foods because of underlying medical disorders.

But I guess what you were saying in the first place is that your having dairy in your diet is not the deciding factor in the general maintenance of your good health despite being almost completely vegetarian. And given that your sister has the physical constitution to stay vegan, so can you, even without dairy.

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It's really just a matter of definitions. Some people don't eat any animal products at all. People call them vegan. I choose not to eat meat, but I do sometimes eat other non-meat animal products. So by definitions that means I have a vegetarian diet.

And no, I don't think that the addition of dairy in my diet is necessarily what is maintaining my health. Supposedly dairy is very bad for a persons nutrition. I suppose it depends on what and whose reports/studies you read.

Anyway, I'm sorry you have extenuating circumstances that doesn't allow you to participate in a diet of your choice. That is unfortunate.

I was a strict vegan for 2 years, a vegetarian now, though I don't consume much dairy (mainly because it tears up my system). The rest of my family, besides my oldest sister, are just about carnivorous, though, so I'm pretty chill with whatevs. After a steady barrage of hunks of dripping flesh brought to my mouth coupled with "doesn't this look tasty!?" over the years, I've become desensitized.

Based on my readings, dairy can contribute to an acid-alkaline imbalance in the body. Still, dairy milk is the only preparation that can be consumed by some as a source of aminos.

I was lacto-ovo-vegan for two years, then strict vegetarian for about half a year. I cannot source my amino acids from legumes and most especially not soya, and I have a vitamin B absorption problem from greens and fruits. My only hope for green-sourced aminos seemed to come in the form of spirulina, but that too, has to be taken in moderation because my system rejects iodine from foods from the sea. It's such a bother, for sure.

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Try chasing your neighbours cows out your own field standing in the mud up to your knees....you will love beef after that ;-)

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Just... imagining ...that ...makes ...me ...pant ...vicariously :-O

Also, this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/972951/posts

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I voted for Other, because ghosts dont really eat anything.

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