Any other vegans here?:)

Vegetables are friends, not food

Today I went with two friends to pay a visit to a 67-year-old man in his mountain cabin. We ate, drank, played cards and spoke (and loughed a lot).
Speaking of the vegetarian girlfriend of one of my friends, this man said that this vegetarianism/veganism is only a trend, and is only given by the wealth of the countries we live in (not related to personal wealth). He said that when he was young, he only ate local products, because there was nothing else, and everybody ate everything they had in the dish. For example, he told he ate his first banana when he was in the army, at about the age of 20. Then he told us an anecdote.

In 1994 he took part as cook in an expedition to climb Mount K2. It was a 90-day journey, so they gathered several times during the previous year, to know each other well and be sure to bring all things (especially medicines) each member would need. They brought several assorted food and K-Rations, then bought vegetables and goats in the villages on the road.
After starting the expedition, when they set up camp and started to eat, a man and a woman said they were vegetarians and didn't want to eat meat. The cook then got angry, shouted and swore, and the priest who was with them agreed with him XD. He told he wasn't going to give less vegetables to the others and more to them, because rations were calculated and the others had to eat their own full meal.
After ten days, one of the two vegetarians went to the cook and asked for meat. After five days more, the other one asked for it too.
He told that, one year later, they all met and ate together... and he said to me: "Woe betide you if you tried to steal their steak!".

This little story supports this man's position about vegetarians/vegans, because (most of) these people haven't seen (or better, haven't lived) hunger and misery, and they don't appreciate all what nature offers. And they often claim to be better than you. You filthy killer!
I know, some don't eat meat because eating meat isn't healthy, some don't because they don't want animals to be killed.
To the first ones I say: I know, eating too much meat is not healthy at all. But what is healthy nowadays? You can be sure only about what you produce yourself, but not everybody can do that. I think it's more healthy to eat (only a couple) slices of lard or salame that my friend produces with his pigs, than eating some "healthy" salad coming from who-knows-where and grown who-knows-how.
To the second ones I say: there are plenty of predators among animals. They kill other animals to live. Aren't they murderers just as we are? Oh, well, maybe because tigers and lions, hawks and eagles, whales and dolphins are sooo cute. They kill just as we do. It's not right or wrong. It's just fine as it is, as long as we (all "predators") don't kill and eat our own species, and as long as we treat animals well and don't make them suffer when we kill them.

I believe everybody has the right to eat whatever he wants. I don't have a problem with vegetarians, as long as they don't come and teach me what I should and should not eat.

Sorry for the wall of text :P

I am a fulltime carnivore to make up for all these people that eat plants.

You know, to bring balance to the force.

90% vegan whatever you want to call it, but would never eat meat again yuck

...To some people's replies in here.

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I respect your life choices, but there is no way I could live without bacon! >_<

Glances up with mouth full of tofu

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Holy fuck, this thread sure grew fast.

Grilled steak, grilled chicken, grilled hotdogs; cold drinks, and some sport on TV on a Saturday summer afternoon is the dream baby! (No winter sports though, it's a contradiction to the summer feel.)

No but vegetarian for almost 5 years

I'm not - I like to cook and eat everything. I find "not eating meat because animals are being killed for that" a poor reason, but I don't care about what others do. I had a vegetarian friend - once, after playing football, he invited us over and fed us with some crappy soup and salad of different and un-tasty leaves praising them how they are better than meat. A few weeks later he did the same, and after that I pretty much avoided him...

Genuine question here, most people who go without meat or meat and fish seem to do just fine. But what about the other way round? Is there a name for people that just eat meat and no vegetables? How do they do? The ones not murdered by the vegans and vegetarians

See. You always see people questioning the moral choice of eating meat, and complaining about how the animals are kept and such, but what about the plants?! NO ONE cares for them... /s

I've been vegan for about 20 years now: "I remember when this was all tofu and lentils."

I'm not a Vegan...but I think Las Vegas is kinda cool.

im a las vegan if that conts x'D

i love burguers and meat :3

Vegan? No, I'm from the Sol system.

I'm not vegan, but I'm thinking about going vegan when I move out, since it's easy and cheap if you prepare the food yourselves and I also like it a lot. (I slowly eat less meat and I'm one of those guys that didn't enjoy vegetables and stuff and never wanted to eat anything without meat)

Also reading pathetic "anti-vegan" comments makes me want to be not be as stupid as them.

I would never go vegan but I'm not a hater, I respect those who are. I think I could give up meat some day, but not animal products completely, I like eggs a little too much heh heh.

We have to keep eating meat. If we don't, cows will take over!
Don't believe me? Watch this then!

I'm a vegetarian. What keeps me from being vegan is that I occasionally eat foods that contain dairy and/or eggs, but I aim to minimize that as much as possible.

Medical Doctor (2nd year Family Medicine residence) Vegan here! :D