dreads= veggie

Who here has dreads and is a veggie/vegan?

My chap has dreads and everyone assumes hes a veggie but then they see him eating a fat steak and are horrified!
Im a vegan though but I dont push my views on others so yeah anyway......

I think alot of ppl have the idea if you have dreads you are a meat free hippy is this true???

 

nah, I reckon I could survive on a veggie diet, but my first choice is to be an omnivore

 

Nope not I.....I love meat...all kinds of meat...could live strictly on meat. I do try to balance it out with french fries...

 

ha ha you carnivore you

 

Yeah my boyf could live like you!
He likes cured meats though like chorizo and stuff He'll demolish a whole one in a day! And bacon and sausage on a weekend..as a treat lol
Maybe its cuz he gets sick of tofu though as he eats what I want most of the time.

 

Me, Me, Me!
Veggie all the way.
Best decision of my life
Not like those fake veggies who eat fish! Yeh like fish isn't a meat! It suffers the most! GRRR
Breathe*

 

Ive always though it strange to eat fish but be a veggie............I mean its a animal with a brain and a little tail and it has little fishy friends.......why would you want to eat one?

 

It's horrible
Oh btw
Im up for sending you lots of wool in return for a little scarf for my gran?
x

 

Omnivore here too. Hey do you eat dairy Pmiester?

 

OMG Im hounered!!!!!!!!!!!
Really thats really cool yippee...
Ill make your gran a scarf no problem it would be really amazing for her to have something made from her own sheep.How cool! I know if my gran was still alive she would love something like that.Thanks for letting me play with it!
Im so excited
Ill pm you my address.

 

EVERYBODY asks me am I a vegan. Most restaurants I visit usually say "ummm miss that has meat product in it"

I get that EXACT reaction. My husband's family thought I was veggie, some still do and feel it's their duty to "inform me which are meat free." I'm about to eat a very meaty sunday lunch right now

 

Fish eating 'vegie' here with dreads

Everybody has their reasons, my main *ehm*..beef is with farming practices. Wild fish poses no dilema for me, just as I'd eat anything else wild.

 

veggie about 23-25 years or so
would never ever go back
meat dsisgusts me

alot of it has to do with the spiritual connection with dreads
wether its the hindo who are strict vegatarians or rastas who follow the ital diet
the only religion based dread cultures that dont follow a veggie diet would be christian and jewish
also dreads being a natural lifestyle it only stands to reason that most dreads wether they dread for spiritual/religios reasonsd or not would try to follow a vnatural diet as well

then again theres also the path of peace which most dreads walk, and peacefullness begins with brewakfast as the saying goes
you cant really be a peaceful person when you feed on violence..thats not to say all meat eatters are violent or all vegghies peaceful, but it does affect you and on a karmic level too

 

Yeah thats what I mean its soooooooooo 'stereo-typical' is'nt it?

My boys family make me laugh they go mad on veggie shopping wen I go stay there and and they know Im vegan but they always get me stuff with cheese in?
I end up buying my own or if Im good I plan in advance and take stuff out of the freezer at home.

 

But most fish today is farmed...*Shrug* Never understood veggies

 

LMAO Chemigals they seem clueless

 

Yeah but Im one of those ppl that just say ...'Aw thanks' and then after say WTF should I do now?And panic Im a plank really cuz if I was honest and told them it was wrong things would be ok.

I mean Im really gratefull they went and bought me food so I dont wanna seem ungrateful by saying I cant eat it.

Ive started to say DONT get stuff Ill bring my own

 

I hesitate to call myself a vegetarian, though I eat very little meat. I eat very little animal products in general. I don't buy meat, cheese, milk, etc. (I do buy soy cheese and soy milk ...mmmm and quorn) but I will eat it under two circumstances:

It's about to go bad. For example, my dad made steak and couldn't finish it. He won't eat leftovers. I'd rather eat flesh than have it thrown away. I find throwing it away a form of adding insult to injury. If I dumpster something with animal products in it (not spoiled of course) I will eat it.

If someone makes me food out of the goodness of their heart, and it contains pork or egg or whatever, I will eat it. My friend made me egg laden chocolate brownies for valentine's day, and I ate them. That kind of food, no matter what kind of torture the egg laying hens endured, is positive energy in my mind.

In short, I don't believe in supporting factory farming by buying their "products". It's scary as hell anyway, with all the hormones and antibiotics and cloning and who knows what else. I also feel it's emotionally poisonous, as the animals live their lives knowing nothing but suffering and fear. The most power we have in the states is our power as consumers. I exercise this power as I see fit.

When I lived on a farm though, I did eat a heck of a lot of eggs! Those fresh eggs from happy chickens...I miss them so much!

 

Aw Chemigals you should just tell them. If my *future* sons got girlfriends I always want one of them to date a veggie then I can wow her with my veggie food.

I'm similar to Annie Anxiety. Whilst I eat meat I'm very picky with what kind of meat I eat.

I do not eat sausages or mince meat they're full of shit and water so I replace these with quorn. I only eat free range chickens and eggs. I just feel like whatever your life's purpose is, it should be a happy one. I'm also becoming more concerned towards the welfare of dairy cows so I'm very slowly introducing chocolate soya milk in to my diet.

I can't abide people throwing away food. Food world over will be running out in 2020 so If I have to throw any food away I feel so guilty and can and have cried over it. For example, there was no space in my freezer for new food, so we had to throw a big bag of chips away. I nearly died. I feel guilty right now because there's two roast potatoes on my plate I can't finish. My husband thinks I'm a loser.

 

I have strong objections to animal suffering. However, I don't think killing an animal for food is wrong; Nature shows us that's natural. In the future I would like to have a smallholding, which would be the source of all or most of my animal-derived food products. Giving an animal a secure home with no competition for food or territory, and when the time comes only the barest minimum of an inkling that something untoward is about to happen is, in my opinion, actually better than what a natural environment may offer.
In the meantime...sometimes it troubles me that I'm not upholding my views by being vegan until I can ensure the standards of my food's life...
Back in the U.K. where it is very easy, realistic and affordable to choose alternative products for every single household item or foodstuff, I bought only organic animal products.

When I moved to Norway I had to make quite an uncomfortable backwards adjustment. Here, for a low-income household, it's realistic to buy organic milk and eggs. Just in the two years I've been here, organic ranges have expanded slightly. The meat is very expensive though. Norwegians are pretty tight-fisted too...I wouldn't be surprised if half the organic meat in the supermarket just gets thrown away...I really cannot imagine there being many Norwegians (even though this country is filthy rich and has no national debt) who are of the "ethics before cost" mindset.

I'm not really happy with my current food situation though. I don't want to stop eating animal products. I'm too crap and disorganised about food as it is without the upheaval of changing to a vegan or even vegetarian diet, plus I don't want to be making two lots of dinner for my husband and I.

Our income is going up bit by bit now...If we could maybe find money for two organic meat purchases a week, and if I could get a bit more organised with vegetarian cooking (although veggie meals can also be expensive to compile here too, because things are expensive, grr - I do grow veg, but it's not the longest growing season here and our garden is tiny) maybe I could make it work.

A lot of it pivots on me being crap lol. I don't want to cut out meat, but I am not really happy with eating meat that's come from an animal whose life has been torturous. Dairy cattle fare no better, which is why, Pmiester, I asked if you ate dairy. At least the death at the end of a meat animal's life is some sort of release...
Norway has a tiny population though, which means everything is smaller, and intensive farming might be slightly less intense. Still poo tho. Vegetarianism is not really normal here. Where I used to live, my tiny tiny town had an alternative healthfood shop, and the city (Norwich) had several vegetarian cafes and restaurants, alternative shops, an organic market stall every day, an organic butcher. There might be one or two of those things in a big city in Norway, and at stupid prices. It's really not very possible to make the good choices here, unless you are making practically all your household cleaning items, and are a very well organised planner in the kitchen in order to eat vegan but varied without it costing a shitload.

*sigh*

On the plus side...properties such as small farms are pretty cheap here, so at least there is hope of me having happy pigs and churning happy butter in the almost-forseeable future.

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