Vegetarianism

[BlitzRogue]

[quote="WildSimba"]There's no dangers usually unless you don't cook it enough. You know you actually need meat for certain things in your diet? Why do you think vegetarians are always taking about 50 different types of Supplements?[/quote]
^ This.

That's my understanding of the matter, anyhow.

[Woeler]

Dangers? Mankind has been eating meat since it discovered hunting, and we still exist. So I don't think there are any major dangers to eating meat. If you cook it right you should not have any trouble at all.

[Saffyminty]

I will be a vegetarian. My goal is next year when I turn 16 I will stop eating meat for good. I've always wanted to be one and yeah!!!
Basically I hate the way most meat industries go about their buisness and how they treat the animals. Because seriously, most of them keep their animals in the worst conditions and make a horrible life for them. It makes me really depressed when I think about it
( I feel bad when I kill an ant!!!) So I do not want to eat meat and support these industries. Also just don't want to eat meat because I just love animals and respect them!
But for now I need this protein.

[WildSimba]

[quote="Saffyminty"]I will be a vegetarian. My goal is next year when I turn 16 I will stop eating meat for good. I've always wanted to be one and yeah!!!
Basically I hate the way most meat industries go about their buisness and how they treat the animals. Because seriously, most of them keep their animals in the worst conditions and make a horrible life for them. It makes me really depressed when I think about it
( I feel bad when I kill an ant!!!) So I do not want to eat meat and support these industries. Also just don't want to eat meat because I just love animals and respect them!
But for now I need this protein.[/quote]

You'll need that protein just as much a year from now. If your really seriously planning on being a Vegetarian, you need to search into first, because there's a lot of deficiencies that come with not eating any sort of meat.

[Saffyminty]

[quote="WildSimba"]You'll need that protein just as much a year from now. If your really seriously planning on being a Vegetarian, you need to search into first, because there's a lot of deficiencies that come with not eating any sort of meat.[/quote]

I know that But I'll be basically fully grown then so will be able to get proteins from other food sources. Yes don't worry I've searched into it and will continue to search into it!! Yay!

[Kaidenbear2011]

I have tried vegetarianism a number of times. It gets expensive but when I get the right job, I am most certainly pursuing it again. I find it to be healthier overall.

[Woeler]

[quote="Saffyminty"][quote="WildSimba"]You'll need that protein just as much a year from now. If your really seriously planning on being a Vegetarian, you need to search into first, because there's a lot of deficiencies that come with not eating any sort of meat.[/quote]

I know that But I'll be basically fully grown then so will be able to get proteins from other food sources. Yes don't worry I've searched into it and will continue to search into it!! Yay! [/quote]

An individual of the human species is not fully grown until it's 21 years old. 16 is barely the start. Be really carefull. I don't know where you got that info, but it is not correct.

i made that sentence sound nerdy because i like it xd

[WildSimba]

[quote="Woeler1"][quote="Saffyminty"][quote="WildSimba"]You'll need that protein just as much a year from now. If your really seriously planning on being a Vegetarian, you need to search into first, because there's a lot of deficiencies that come with not eating any sort of meat.[/quote]

I know that But I'll be basically fully grown then so will be able to get proteins from other food sources. Yes don't worry I've searched into it and will continue to search into it!! Yay! [/quote]

An individual of the human species is not fully grown until it's 21 years old. 16 is barely the start. Be really carefull. I don't know where you got that info, but it is not correct.

i made that sentence sound nerdy because i like it xd[/quote]

^ This. Some people are still in puberty well into their 20's. A lot of people don't even start puberty in general until their 16.

[FlipMode]

You don't get "deficiencies" by not eating meat, what kind of foolishness is that?
If you are coming from the "Meat gives you protein" angle, well so do nuts, tofu and peas... And a few others I forget off my head because I am super tired right now.
Not to mention things like antioxidants and stuff.

I mean there might be some stuff you miss from not eating meat, just as there is stuff you miss out from not drinking water (I.E you miss out on water, which really if medical research is to be trusted, should be the only thing we really drink) but at the end of the day it comes down to choice and personal taste, or in some cases personal beliefs. I myself just like the taste of fruit and veg every now and then, too much eating junk just gets boring if you ask me lol

And hey, not to bring up a slightly touchy subject, but there is a certain extremist cult in India that partake in cannibalism and remain pretty healthy so I mean diets these days can be whatever, its just like smoking, you can go your whole life without smoking, and still get cancer, have a heart attack or whatever and yet one who smokes 20 a day will go by untouched. I think people just need to forget about all this medical science and research bull and just do what they like tbh.
I mean who is to say its not just propaganda? Think about it, if companies can advertise coke as a delicious drink for kids, why can these supposedly "health foods" not advertise as the healthier option, someone has to buy and eat them after all, else they all go out of business which is how 99% of the World works any way.

[Saffyminty]

[quote="WildSimba"][quote="Woeler1"]

An individual of the human species is not fully grown until it's 21 years old. 16 is barely the start. Be really carefull. I don't know where you got that info, but it is not correct.

i made that sentence sound nerdy because i like it xd[/quote]

^ This. Some people are still in puberty well into their 20's. A lot of people don't even start puberty in general until their 16.[/quote]


I have done some research (even though this is quite common knowledge), from a number of reputable sites which say that most girls begin puberty at 10 or 11 and complete puberty at 15-17 where as boys start around 12 yrs and finish at around 16-18. But I am a girl!! So obviously I have almost completed growing since I will be 15 in a few months. But I do still not plan to start vegetarianism until I'm 16.