4 Types of Vegetarians: Which type are you?

Please see point above. You are an omnivore, not some "type of vegetarian".

Give me a break guys, what planet do you all come from?

 

I'm a type 3. Thinking about becoming a vegan soon though. I need to explore the alternatives first though.

 

id be classed as type 3

 

type 3... but i havent had a single egg in 6 months. Am i a type 2 now?

 

I'm type 3 at the moment. will try going vegan at some point i'm sure.

 

Just became a vegetarian! ((type 2 at the moment.))

I'd like to give up dairy but I love cheese, smoothies and ICECREAM!!

 

This is to tnerb and kiz..... neither of you seem to have the right attitude about encouraging others about giving up meat. I find it in rather black and white, and rather hasty, to discredit the vegetarianism of someone who never eats red meat or chicken but occaisonally eats fish. It sounds more like you guys are trying to create a country club than encourage compassion for animals.

Why bother trying to make life better for animals if you can't even show kindness toward your own race ?

 

I think there should be a 5th kind --raw vegan, and that is what I am. The reasons it should be considered different from the last, vegan, is that it is so far more superior than cooking. All the carbohydrates you consume are fresh and the body makes a further adjustment that makes you feel SO much more alive. The benefits are so obvious, it's alot like when you dropped the meat, but better. Upon having no time to cook my soy bean milk awhile back when I was still cooking, I got up hungry in the morn and used my raw bean milk on some granola. Great discovery. Later, when I was homeless, I sprouted my soybeans. Another great discovery. I'm convinced that my stomach can synthesize b12 from my raw soys. Eating becomes as natural as walking ormrunning, when everything you eat is in it's natural form and it's lifemcarries over inmto you. It's hard to explain, something you just have to do for yourself, but that eating becomes out of necessity, not a social thing, but the enjoyment comes with the extraordinary health benefits/ I'm convinced, like any other vegetarian who has developed this far on their evolutionary journey, that humans are the prime candidates, like meant to be, vegetarian, where as a lion is meant to be a carnivore. Then you look at the shape of the world and it makes you want to bust through and force it in using laws/government, because those omnivours downtown make alot of rude mistakes, like taking our children away for having low iron and protien counts on their tests....Do you think they'll ever stop to scientifically prove that their red blood cells have been affected by the food they consume, and, that they can't expect a vegetarian to get a high reading of "albumin", which is what they look for when testing for protien? It is absurd and then they'll refuse to discuss it with you. They can't face when they've errored, and they'd rather bury it and take your kids permenantely than to risk being sued. They';ll find anything in your past and pick at it for a case once they sense they didn't have one on you and from there it's all a big conspiracy to hide the omnivour's mistakes/ It's all a big mess and getting difficult to think that anything will ever change, especially with Bush winning this election now. What a major letdown. Shows how far behind everybody (too much else, rather) is. So, even though you could be living a superior lifestyle, it is way ahead of any u.s.social services, mental health organizations, and the doctor's office, and it shows in their behavior when forced to confront these situations, like nutrition, in children in particular! They can take them from you BECAUSE vegetarians weigh less, or possibly grow slower, don't show up the same on blood tests, etc. Meanwhile their kids are getting fatter and fatter and causing the average weights for the varies children's ages to climb, adapting to the results of their bad eating habits, and causing healthy vegetarian children to APPEAR abnormally small.

 

Also, if anyone has a web site to refer me to for support, I'd greatly appretiate it.

 

A fairly recent discovery regarding plant sources of iron is that if eaten with vitimain c foods it metabolizes more efficientely. Plant iron is larger and doesn't break down the same as meat/animal sources, so will possibly cause a mis-reading on a blood test. It's not that it's not in there, but that it's not behaving like the blood cells like those they used to create those tests. But take heart, veggie, you could try adding vitamin c foods more when consuming high iron plant foods and see if you can get your blood test readings to increase. Another reason we don't show so well on the iron tests is that because of generations of meat eating and then suddenely it's all vegan sourses of iron, the body needs to adapt to these changes. And so maybe the adding of vitamin c foods when consuming high iron foods need only to be a transition enhanser, that will eventually cause your body to learn better ways to assimilate the plant based irons on it's own.

 

As far as the osteo thing--One needs to keep in mind that cows grow very quickly and do grow to be the size of cows. And it's also known that the body adapts to needing more calcium when using more, so it's possible a lacto diet does more harm than good by trying to supplement with the use of dairy. There are many wonderful plant sources of calcium to choose from, go to a health food store or coop, possibly a public library and find a book on nutrition with some food value charts in them. You may want to think about buying one, it's very interesting reading, and you'll want to keep it on hand for easy reference.

 

One last thing about the osteo thing==If you can make your way to the raw vegen diet, eventually including raw bean milk, you may find your strength at it's optimum. This is a new discovery I've made and I swear by it.

 

You might like this place.

And you can find a lot of links here.

 

I love the idea of a peacefull way of life, as a matter of fact I'd like to see it put into law. See other posts in this section of mine to find out why, esp. page 11.

 

Shouldn't the type 5, or raw vegan be called an herbivore, rather than fruititarian. That implies we eat only fruit! Isn't it true that in zoology, primates are listed as herbivores? Type 5 raw vegan sounds great, but if herbivore could grow to mean the same....

 

I am a type three. I refrain from drinking pure milk, but I do consume dairy in baked foods, icecream etc. I eat eggs because my mom still cooks me eggs.

 

I'm a raw vegan, well mostly raw. about 90% these days and it really does make a huge difference to your lifestyle! I eat mostly fresh fruit, seeds and nuts and salad vegies. although I will cook vegies occassionally. And it's really not boring at all! Am goin through a bag of pepitas as we speak... hmm.. pepitas. Being raw, you get to know your local fruit and vegie market pretty well and learn to experiment with whatever is in season. My favourite food in the world - Mangoes! - have just come out down here and I'm soooooo excited!!! yay!!!

But I don't know about being called a herbivore... that sounds a bit too much like referring to yourself as a rabbit, and I think that's just baiting cynical omnivores a little too much

actually, don't most primates eat bugs and stuff? what about when you watch them cleaning each others backs and eating the fleas and nits off them?? ew.. suddenly i've gone off my pepitas.

 

I am vegan.

i am not sure of the point of these other 'semi-vegetarian' things, other than half-way points towards actually being vegetarian or vegan.

If the reason for being 'semi-vegetarian' is because you don't like animal cruelty, then I find it a strange distinction between pigs and chickens, or cows and fish. Why rule out one but not the other? Like I say, I do understand that if you are on your way to becoming vegetarian, then you might eliminate different species at a time from your diet. but to remain a moral-orientated semi-vegetarian seems kind of illogical.

I think tnerb is correct. Basically everything that is alive, apart from plants and bacteria, is an animal: even insects are animals, as far as the dictionary dictates.

 

VEGAN FOR LIFE!

*annoying hollering*


and as far as semi veggies are concerned, i think its cool. eating chicken over cows and pigs is cool cause cows and pigs are an inefficient way of getting food. it takes roughly 20pounds of grain and ALOT of water to get one pound of beef. chicken on the other hand is the most efficient meat available, so gooooo semi veggies! you ARE making a difference and i appreciate it! thanks!

 

i dont eat any meat and eggs
i drink milk (its not that bad)