i've been vegetarian for ten years, and even before then i ate meat very rarely. i've never cared for the flavor and texture of any meat, and i would never support a factory farm by buying their product. i get my nutrients from soy-based foods and vegetarian vitamin/mineral supplements, and i am healthier than a lot of omnivores i know.

i'm cool with people who eat meat, so long as they're not feeding me their redneck "humans are supposed to eat meat because god said so" rhetoric. i never try to push my beliefs on anyone (diet, religion, or otherwise), so i hate when people do it to me.

I DO eat meat

I tried to be vegan once or twice

I don't understand, "deal" with them? It's only a difference in food choice it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.

I personally don't care if you eat meat or not, that's you're own personal decision. I think it's your own choice and nobody else's business. I think people should respect other's beliefs and choices though.

I knew a girl in middle school who didn't eat meat and hadn't eaten meat for her entire life basically, and some girls, as a joke, put some meat in her food and she got really sick and they just laughed. I don't think that's cool..

I say kudos to all you vegans out there. I wish I could be one I just don't have the discipline, yet.

I eat meat, a lot of it. >.<
I have a lot of respect for someone who doesn't eat meat, like my niece.
I know I wouldn't have the restraint to not do it.

I eat meat, along with most everything else that is considered edible. I've been having something of a meat splurge lately that I need to pull out of though.

I used to be upset by the fact that meat comes from living creatures that have to die, but I've learned how to be okay with that. These days my main protest against meat has to do with the treatment of the animals, and the environmental and social consequences of mass production. We really don't need nearly as much protein as we consume - I remember reading in National Geographic that a healthy daily serving of protein (meat and beans) is only about the size of a pack of cards. Then again, the so-called developed countries of the world, and America in particular, consume far too much food in general, but that is a whole other topic.

In any case, I have no problem with vegetarians, vegans, or meat eaters. I don't really care what people eat, so long as they do it with conscientiousness.

"Mwell, also, there are vegetarians who are just anti-meat and pro-everything else, then there's the ones who are pro-organic. x.x"

"Actually, the animals aren't brutally treated. They're pretty much pampered and well-fed so that they can produce good, healthy meat.
And the caretakers kill them in a short way so it's not as barbaric. x.x Plus, I'd say that when an animal dies, it's kinda fairer for it to be less painful than how other animals kill them. (pouncing them, weakening them, then tearing them apart limb-from-limb while their heart is still beating) x.x"

Im a vegetarian. Its mainly because I dont agree with factory farms and bad treatment of animals. I tried to go vegan but I got really sick from lack of nourishment so you have to be careful I guess. I still dont eat meat or drink milk but I do eat eggs, but my family has chickens so I know they're treated well.

I eat meat, if I don't have some good form of protien like meat I'll start to break down. Seriously. I'll get all jittery and hyper and moany and tired. I eat alot of fish though. I feel sorry about eating cows and other mammals, but I don't really feel any sympathy for eating chicken. I mean I feel sorry for the chicken, but its like I was maybe supposed to eat it. I will not eat rabit though. I've had some rabits that are very close to me and that would be horrible.

How I deal with vegitarians/vegans?
My friend was on a no grease vegan diet for a while, meaning carrots and celery for breakfast lubch and dinner. Weirdest thing ever, I continued to tell her that it was unhealthy... Thats the closest thing to vegan I know.

How I deal with vegatarians? I make sure they have enough of a balanced diet when I'm around them. A few vegitarians have nearly passed out on me. Though I do think its strange, I try to deal with it.

I eat meat. I like all kinds of meat. Some better than others of course. Not a huge fan of ham, because it is too salty. But yeah I like meat. I don't see why people who don't eat meat can't get along with people who do. Eat what you like, don't eat what you don't like, or don't want to eat. It's not a hard concept.

i dont like meat but i have low blood iron so evere month i have to eat a small pice i hate it big time because it mean i have to saport the killing of an naimle

I do eat meat, but not every day. It's good protein, in any case, and I have low levels of iron, so I sort of need something.

I don't think there's anything wrong with vegetarians or vegans. They can eat what they decide to eat; there's really no reason for any sort of fuss. :D

But, killing things for food is apart of nature, isn't it?
I mean, I have nothing against vegetarians, but do all vegetarians think that way ("I dont want to support the killing of animals") ?

Humans are by nature omnivores. Some people become vegans because of their conscience screwing with themselves. Or, they don't like meat. I for one am a meat eater. However, I guess vegetarians and vegans might be a bit healthier.

Also strange to me is the fact that people seem to be okay with eating beef and pork but not meat from other animals. I mean, in some places, frogs and snakes are considered a delicacy. XD jk. Although I've never tried those before, I did have deer meat and donkey meat on different occasions....

I'm a vegatarien too, but like Emira I could NEVER go vegan, I get too much of my protien from milk, and cheese and such (though not eggs, technically that eggy couldve been a chick if it wasn't boxed up and shipped away from its mom)

I've recently become a pescetarian, meaning I eat seafood, but no other form of meat. I've decided to change because it is healthier to eat fish products than no meat at all, but it's hard to phase it back into my diet. I keep forgetting to buy it.:sweat:
Before then I was a vegetarian, not so much because I felt bad about where my meat was coming from (though I did, just not enough to stop eating it), but because it slowly had started making me very, very ill. I still don't know what, exactly, my body had the reaction to, but I know it's not in seafood, there's a chance it might not be in poultry, but I never liked that anyway, and it is definitely in red meat and lard. I accidentally ate corn chips and a burrito fried in lard at a Mexican restaurant a few years ago and was nearly put out for a week.
I have always eaten milk and egg products, though, as well as nuts, beans, and the fake meats made from them, and have never had a problem with protein. Granted, I have been borderline anemic, but that's more to do with my body type than any diet choices I've made.
Actually, eggs happen even if the mother hen had never even seen a rooster, much less do anything to make a baby with him. To be honest, an egg is kind of like a chicken's period, gross as that may be to think about eating. Except for a certain "delicacy" type, the eggs that end up in grocery stores would have never hatched into chicks, so you can feel better about eating them.^^