vegetarians

the retard diet. that's why they're all pale and sickly looking. why not go on a pointless bug diet its about as smart as a vegetarian diet.

let me guess the context...

...your ex-girlfriend is a vegie and she dumped you because you don't stimulate her physically or intellectually.

carl lewis is not sickly or pale.

Let me hit you with some knowledge:

A vegan diet has been shown to reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, adult onset diabetes, and osteoporosis.

The journal of the American Medical Association has reported that a vegetarian diet can prevent 97 percent of coronary obstructions.

Osteoporosis is a disease of protein excess. The Protein in milk actually inhibits the body's ability to absorb the calcium from milk. Many plant based sources of calciun are easily assimilated into the body.

Dairy consumption has been linked to heart disease, cancer (especially breast), allergies, sinus troubles, migraines and psoriasis.

Dairy foods can create excess mucus in the body, which can host cold and virus germs in the repiratory tract.

Vegans and vegetarians tend to be slimmer than meat eaters

Studies show that a plant based diet can increase your life expectancy by 7 to 15 years.

The feed given to livestock is sprayed with pesticides. More than 90 percent of toxic chemical residues found in foods consumed by Americans come from animal products.

A vegan diet can reduce the risk of food poisoning. According to the center for disease control, campylobacter infects up to 90 percent of all chickens. In addition, each year up to 20,000 Americans become ill from E. Coli found in meat.

Cornell University's long term study of diet and health, called the China Project, showed that 80 to 90 percent of all cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented by adopting a plant based diet.

Yes I am vegan. Yes I get enough protein. No I don't need tons of supplements.

Why are vegans like some kind of freakish religious fanatics? Not a week passes that I don't have to see one of these fanatics spouting off some new age guru's tabloid trash about how we evolved from apes and therefore should eat like monkeys. Well, the bad news is the only people who look like monkeys are the 'hardcore' vegans. Get over yourselves you are going to croak just like the fatties. But I'm sure the 7-15 extra years you are supposedly going to earn will be real fun in the nursing home. Over the course of your lives you'll probably waste 7-15 years making your special vegan meals.

Myths of Vegetarianism (see: Myth #5: Meat-eating causes osteoporosis, kidney disease, heart disease, and cancer):

High Protein Diet Found Beneficial:

Why Soy Can Damage Your Health:

Strict Vegetarians Can Develop Blindness and Brain Damage:

Strict Vegan Diets May Be Dangerous, Especially For Expectant Mothers and Children:

Can Vegan Diets Hurt Kids?:

Vegetarians and Vegans Have Elevated Homocysteine Levels:

Vegetarianism is Not as Healthy as You Think It Might Be:

Dangers of a Vegetarian Diet in Teens:

Vitamin B12: Are You Getting It?:

M.C. Boozetron wrote:

Why are vegans like some kind of freakish religious fanatics?

The Naive Vegetarian:

The Naive Vegetarian, Part 2:

The Naive Vegetarian, Part 3:

The Naive Vegetarian, Part 4:

Why are runners like some kind of freakish religious fanatics?! ;)

there are more reasons to go vegan than just your health.

www.goveg.com

i've been vegan/vegetarian for 15 years. i haven't been sick in 8 years. i've run marathons (not fast, but who cares). i get plenty of b12, calcium, protein and all that crap.

but i also don't participate in the cruelest, most inefficient, environmentally damaging practice that the human race has ever come up with. the meat/factory farm industry is not sustainable from an environmental standpoint, and the animals used for meat/dairy on these farms (animals who have been proven to be physiologically similar to dogs and cats in terms of being able to feel pain, have emotions, family bonds, etc), live horribly deprived, tortured lives.

if that's "forcing veganism down your throat", than so be it. if the truth makes you uncomfortable, maybe it's because the truth IS uncomfortable.

If God didn't want us to eat animals why did He make them out of Meat?

We could feed the world on a plant based diet. All the wheat and whatnot that goes into fatting animals for slaughter could feed all of Africa easily. Think of starving children next time you eat meat. I'm only one person yes, but that's one less meat eater. It's a thought.

What I would Really like to Know if one of you vegetarians could tell me is What do you feed you dog?

Sorry I referred to God as He.

That should have been She.

There is the otherside of course.

Example

New Zealand has a huge problem with Introduced Australian O'pposums.

At one stage There were a reported 80 million of them.

They do a huge amount of enviromental damage in that country.

To keep them under control the N.Z. government has a program

Of 'seeding' forests with 1080 in the form of mass droppings

of Poisoned carrots.

This indiscriminately kills Deer,Wild pigs,birds and other animals.

Why do they do such a thing?

Simple Because so CALLED GREENIES have stuffed the fur trade(possum fur is Good fur).

How many hungry moUths would these pests feed if the Greenies would Back off and allow them to be used commercially.

Vegetarian is the retard diet? Your post is the retard post. Why do you care how others eat? How do you know what all vegetarians look like?

Take a look around...MOST people everywhere you look are pretty unhealthy looking. I'm not sure how you know what each of them is eating, but I'm pretty sure most of them are dining on a standard, American, meat-and-processed-food diet.

i hope you were joking with the whole God is a she thing...

"vegetarian" is an old indian word for "Bad Hunter"

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the retard diet. that's why they're all pale and sickly looking. why not go on a pointless bug diet its about as smart as a vegetarian diet.

Shouldn't you be in home room right now? Don't forget to bring a sharp pencil to class, junior.

Not a vegan,

Rather than posting stupid propaganda websites, if you would provide links to actual data from research you might have a better argument. As it stands now, the easiest way to counter your argument is by providing links to the propaganda that claims the opposite. I can create a website that makes any claim I want. I can even provide misinterpreted data. In fact I can just make shit up. What makes you think the sites you posted are created by anyone better?

Provide some links from some respectable sources and you might have an argument. Until then, you aren't convincing anyone except those who look for any evidence to support their unsubstantiated claims.

E,

try this website. It is well researched by a research MD.

www.drgreger.org

Glenn

This is obviously biased reporting. These people are picking people who didn't do the diet right. I know of many people who have had large amounts of success on a vegan diet, and they get all the vitamins they need. Besides, most of these "symptoms" are from a healing crisis, in which the patient is rapidly cleaning toxins from the body and experiences extreme symptoms from removal of toxic wastes in their blood stream. The guy who didn't have enough vitamins clearly wasn't careful enough about what he ate. We are not religious freaks, but we like truth. Many do it to be closer to God, and by the way, I don't believe we evolved from monkeys. We also do it because it is healthier. As I have explained before, meat is nothing but dead muscle and blood cells, and it does not give you any health benefits, the protein argument is just a myth.