Re: This is a PRO-VEGETARIAN Forum
I've debated becoming a vegetarian (not vegan) too, not only because I cried watching Bambi *LOL* but because I just don't feel my body digests meat very well being an ostomate.
Hubby though just has to have meat in his diet, and he's diabetic so I haven't pressed the issue that hard. When we've discussed it he always raises the issue of population control, that if hunters didn't shoot deer, rabbits, squirrels and such that the population would just get overrun....and I guess I can kinda see his point, but even though I eat meat I could never see myself hunting. I could never eat a specific animal that I saw alive, like raising chickens to eat, or hunting an animal and eating it......heck I don't even fish LOL. Trying to eat eggs even turns my stomach since hearing of a friend who cracked open a fresh egg to find a partially developed chick inside :yuck: :weepy:.
Out of curiosity are those of you that are vegan view it as a religious preference? I first heard of Veganism only as it related to Wicca, for a long time I thought the two were synonymous. I now no that not all vegans are Wiccan, but that usually people who are Wiccan are also vegan.
I've debated becoming a vegetarian (not vegan) too, not only because I cried watching Bambi *LOL* but because I just don't feel my body digests meat very well being an ostomate.
Hubby though just has to have meat in his diet, and he's diabetic so I haven't pressed the issue that hard. When we've discussed it he always raises the issue of population control, that if hunters didn't shoot deer, rabbits, squirrels and such that the population would just get overrun....and I guess I can kinda see his point, but even though I eat meat I could never see myself hunting. I could never eat a specific animal that I saw alive, like raising chickens to eat, or hunting an animal and eating it......heck I don't even fish LOL. Trying to eat eggs even turns my stomach since hearing of a friend who cracked open a fresh egg to find a partially developed chick inside :yuck: :weepy:.
Out of curiosity are those of you that are vegan view it as a religious preference? I first heard of Veganism only as it related to Wicca, for a long time I thought the two were synonymous. I now no that not all vegans are Wiccan, but that usually people who are Wiccan are also vegan.