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Hey guys,

There aren't many vegetarian threads on this forum. I was surprised about this in my recent search. I'm wondering how many of you are vegetarian and how your choice to be a vegetarian influences your belief or how your belief influences your choice to be a vegetarian.

Also, do you have any good online resources for potential vegans like myself?

Thanks in advance!
 
Namaste Ahanu,

i had been a vegetarian for more than a decade until recently (a story for another time perhaps). in my case my view was informed by my religious practice even though my religious practice doesn't require it of me, if that makes sense. i was never a vegan in any case since a lot of my daily food intake was and still is yogurt. i don't have a good online resource though i'm sure there are several and i'd be interested to see what others recommend on that front.

metta,

~v
 
Vajradhara said:
in my case my view was informed by my religious practice even though my religious practice doesn't require it of me, if that makes sense.
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Vegetarianism isn't required in the Baha'i Faith either - yet some Baha'is still choose to be vegans. Abdu'l-Baha indicated we will not eat meat in the future. As a result the health quality of the human population will increase dramatically. The preference is clear; it's just not obligatory.

Right now I'm concerned about my health and the suffering of animals.
 
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Vajradhara said:
i was never a vegan in any case since a lot of my daily food intake was and still is yogurt.
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Have you tried vegan yogurts? It appears So Delicious is one of the top yogurts for vegans.


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I cut out most farm raised meat over 30 years ago... Was still a hunter... Still eat meat occasionally...something I knew how if was raised...or killed wild... Still eat fish (sushi occasionally...

Over the years I have been raw/live and vegan...now I can loosely be called a vegetarian.... A lacto ovo pesci one...

Our continued consumption of meat will lead to the 6th extinction. Agricultural meat production is the leading cause of clean water depletion as well as dead sea and river zones, water pollution, climate change...many multiples of anything fossil fuel extraction and burning will ever cause...

Eating meat is simply unsustainable at our current population level. It is said you cannot. Insider yourself environmentally conscious unless you are vegan.
 
When I tell Chinese people I am Buddhist, the first question they usually ask me is, "Are you a vegetarian?" They are shocked when I tell them there are millions of non-vegetarian Buddhists.
 
Ahanu said:
There aren't many vegetarian threads on this forum. I was surprised about this in my recent search. I'm wondering how many of you are vegetarian and how your choice to be a vegetarian influences your belief or how your belief influences your choice to be a vegetarian.
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I'm not exactly vegetarian, but I don't eat mammal flesh of any kind. That all started when I married a Hindu. I'm Christian. Wasn't a requirement or anything, but as a courtesy to her I gave up beef. It is also my wife's religious tradition to give up all meat, fish, poultry and eggs two days a week and during certain religious observances, so I do likewise. Eventually, we just stopped eating mammals altogether.
 
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no vegetarianism for me... never quite understood the idea of refusing to eat what Allah gave us... yes we could probably back off on the amount of meat we eat, but as long as I have it, I will be eating it. I have recently began eating all Halal only. So at restaurants I'll usually try to get seafood of vegetarian plates. But all in all if the animals have been cared for and not killed in painful manners I have no issue with eating meat.
 
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Domestic vegetarian, as my partner has been a veggie all her life. We raised out kids as veggies, but they've all fallen off the wagon since, although meat is a minimal part of their diet and they tend to avoid red meat.

Curious they'll eat sashimi but not raw red meat ... whereas I have no problem with blood on the plate.

I still observe the fish on Friday rule, but largely because that way I make sure I eat some fish each week. I do a Friday run to the local 'chippie' so that gets me out of cooking, too!
 
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..reminds me of Vishnu, this Hindu I knew...he'd eat pastrami and roast beef and corned beef...and I'd ask him about it?

"We are not in India..in India i am a vegetarian... When in Rome....besides this is American cow.,.the American cow is not the sacred cow...the sacred cows stay in India where it is safe.
 
Namaste Jesus said:
Do you guys raise sheep?
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We don't raise them ourselves, but a portion of our land is hired out for that purpose. Thanks to my wife, sister-in-law and aunties, the animals we keep are more or less pets. 4 horses, 3 sheep, 2 goats, a dozen or so chickens and a pair of llamas. We did have a cow, but it died... of old age. I'm not vegetarian, but truly if the slaughter were up to me, I would be.
 
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