Do you eat meat?

Do you eat meat?

  • Yes

    Votes: 391 82.0%

  • Yes, but I try to minimise it

    Votes: 60 12.6%

  • No, I am a vegan/vegetarian

    Votes: 20 4.2%

  • No, I just don't enjoy it

    Votes: 3 0.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 0.6%
  • Total voters
    477
purple face said:
I bet a handful of Biltong could turn a vegetarian around quickly its like Pringles once you start you cant stop eating
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So, you can't stop popping that meat into your mouth.

And I don't think @Pineapple Smurf will appreciate you calling his meat biltong but at least he can be proud still being a handful at his age
 
Polymathic said:
Pleb, everybody knows the Beans Bunny is the OG.
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I love a mutton curry, but, a good veg / bean can be fantastic.
 
charlieharper said:
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I love a mutton curry, but, a good veg / bean can be fantastic.
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I've never tried a vegetable curry. Must give it a bash some day. Fortunately I believe in reincarnation, so next time around then.
 
ghaye said:
I've never tried a vegetable curry. Must give it a bash some day. Fortunately I believe in reincarnation, so next time around then.
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I would probably be vegetarian again if I got a chance to live in the sub-continent. The veg food in SA generally is not good (exceptions exist) but is very good in places like India. Surprisingly, SA is more veg friendly than a number of countries, some even first world.
 
Some people probably just don't do that well trying to live exclusively off vegetable protein. I doubt it would make any difference where you live. The products available in South Africa are undoubtedly genuine vegetable protein sources and contain the nutrient profile you'd expect from such sources. So while they might sometimes have been a bit bland there was nothing wrong with the nutrient content. Even three decades ago this would have been true of the products on the shelves.

Living in India wouldn't necessarily help you with finding good vegetarian food either. Some areas are more vegetarian than others, but India overall is not a majority vegetarian country. A significant minority even eat beef regularly.

From an environmental point of view an omnivorous diet makes the most sense too for those who want to base their diet on that. A diet that contains some animal products makes the most efficient use of land and feeds the most people for a given amount of land.

Brian_G said:
I'm A+ , no prob eating meat like a horse most of my life. It's the starch that does me in.
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That's because the blood type diet is pure quackery. Just like food combining or food pH changing blood pH.

Pineapple Smurf said:
Meat is meat and a man must eat
Duck is duck and a woman must ....
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uck?

Prawnapple said:
Unfortunately, I eat more meat that I should be. Look, red meat is unhealthy in large quantities. Learn red meat > non-lean. Red meat is a type 2 carcinogen. Luckily, because processed meat (salami, Bacon, vienna, droëwors, ham, deli meats) are type 1 carcinogen. There is a direct link to cancer between processed meats.
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Even in the case of processed meats the effect is fairly small overall. If you're not living on them it can pretty much be ignored.

lifeboy said:
If going vegetarian affected your health, eating frankenmeats from a lab is probably going to kill you, if for no other reason than that it probably lacks every essential aminoacid and more than humans needs for healthy survival.
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That's silly. The whole point of developing a method of growing meat artificially is to mimic the nutrient profile and texture of meat.

lifeboy said:
You know, almost as bad or worse than glyphosate saturated plants that lack practically everything except the cardboard that hold the shape together...
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Sure, show me all these foods that completely lack nutrients due to glyphosate use. Seriously I'm interested in see examples of vegetables and fruits that literally contain no nutrients of any kind other than thick cellulose.
 
naughty001 said:
i know someone who encountered the opposite effect - i had a friend who was at Varsity with me and who was omnivorous all his life - but he was mostly sick and ill all the time - on his doctors advice he decided to go vegetarian for a while - and he basically stopped being sick and ill- and has been advising everyone that he knows who is ill to give up eating meat altogether
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Everyone is different.

This oke sounds like a real **** for advocating for everyone to follow what worked for him.

I feel the same way about the carnivore bro's.

Experiment with your own body and do what works for you.

FFS. This isn't rocket science.
 
naughty001 said:
there are thousands of people in South Africa that are vegetarian/vegan for religious reasons - loads of Indian people are vegetatarian/vegan and saying thats its due to woke reasons makes you an utter ar5e ..... actually nay anyone saying that someone else's religion is woke is an absolute (unt
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From my own experience, most of these people are vegetarian during religious days. They do eat meat occasionally throughout year. @Polymathic @ShaunSA @JuliusSeizure would probably know more than me.

Having said that, most Indians in India (new generation) are having non-veg diet these days which generally bodes well for their sports in future. Heck, even banyana banyana team could have defeated India's men's football team not too long ago but it seems they are winning something these days. That doesn't happen if you eat spinach & beans only.

p.s. I am vegetarian by childhood indoctrination (not forced, just environment). Too late to change.
 
surface said:
From my own experience, most of these people are vegetarian during religious days. They do eat meat occasionally throughout year. @Polymathic @ShaunSA @JuliusSeizure would probably know more than me.

Having said that, most Indians in India (new generation) are having non-veg diet these days which generally bodes well for their sports in future. Heck, even banyana banyana team could have defeated India's men's football team not too long ago but it seems they are winning something these days. That doesn't happen if you eat spinach & beans only.

p.s. I am vegetarian by childhood indoctrination (not forced, just environment). Too late to change.
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Yeah the bulk abstain on certain days. I'm lucky enough that there's plenty of vegetarians in my immediate and extended family. The rest consume moderately with the exception of a few who require meat with just about every meal or they will die
 
surface said:
From my own experience, most of these people are vegetarian during religious days. They do eat meat occasionally throughout year. @Polymathic @ShaunSA @JuliusSeizure would probably know more than me.

Having said that, most Indians in India (new generation) are having non-veg diet these days which generally bodes well for their sports in future. Heck, even banyana banyana team could have defeated India's men's football team not too long ago but it seems they are winning something these days. That doesn't happen if you eat spinach & beans only.

p.s. I am vegetarian by childhood indoctrination (not forced, just environment). Too late to change.
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From what Ive seen from my experience in India, vegetarianism is declining but most people in India even non veg eaters still mainly eat veg and do not crave meat the way Mybbers do.
 
I must say with the exception of one d00s cousin who stopped eating meat late in life, none of the life-long vegetarians have ever felt the need to convert anyone else :cool:

These born again ones are all the same
 
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