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How to find a good vegetarian

You're on a roll today.

Hey wait, can veggie-people eat bread? Aren't grains alive at some point?

stand in the middle of Seattle and point?

South India. 30-40% of the population is strictly vegetarian; the rest is 'mostly-vegetarian'.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 643037)

You're on a roll today.

Hey wait, can veggie-people eat bread? Aren't grains alive at some point?

All food was alive at some point it just depends on what value you give that life

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Originally Posted by toranokaze (Post 643620)

All food was alive at some point it just depends on what value you give that life

Nice one!
I remember hearing Gary Snyder read some of his poems in the late 70s and he told a story about living with the Inuit, one of the said something like "You white people are lucky, you can eat whatever you want." Snyder asked him what he meant by that and he explained, "Our food has a soul and we have to consider the quality of that soul before we eat it."

cf:vegans-are-people-too

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But killing is killing, whether it is a carrot or a pig. When you feel like eating, something has to give up its life to feed you. Our ideas about the hierarchy of life allow us to take certain lives for granted. There is some comfort in this P.O.V. It absolves us of some responsibility and it gives us a nice moral high ground to survey everyone who thinks differently than we do. No matter how you look at it, if you want to live, something else has to die.

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 643625)

I love that. I want a big ass poster of that.

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No matter how you look at it, if you want to live, something else has to die.

The circle of liiiiiiiiife...

So, do we have any fellow Cellar who's a vegetarian?

You're vegetarian? You heartless bitch! Eating all those young plants before they get a chance to blossom, and not content with that, sometimes you eat the roots, bulb and even the seeds. Every time you pluck a peas from the pod, you are plucking a baby from the womb...

:lol:
:p:

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Originally Posted by Tulip (Post 643982)

So, do we have any fellow Cellar who's a vegetarian?

I was vegetarian for three years. And I grew up in a vegetarian household, with a strictly vegetarian mother and grandmother.

Does that count?

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Originally Posted by Pie (Post 643054)

South India. 30-40% of the population is strictly vegetarian; the rest is 'mostly-vegetarian'.

How can you be "mostly vegetarian"? Isn't that like being mostly virgin?

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 643987)

Damn straight I'm heartless! :evil2: But I'm not a vegetarian. :p: I was for 5 years. :D

hee hee, My mother forced vegetarianism on us for nearly a year. When her veggie boyfriend bailed out, she fed all the TVP to the neighbor's dogs and they farted so badly he had to leave them in the house and sleep on our living room floor.