Vegetarian?

I was thinking about becoming a vegetarian, and I was wondering how many people here are vegetarians.

 

20+ years now

 

we have a vegetarian forum...

i would be a vegetarian cuz lots of hippies are vegetarians but i'm also an avant guard besides being a hippies and avant guardians aren't vegetarians

 

wow.

 

Ive been a veg for 4 years !!! woot woot !!!!!

 

i've been a vegetarian for awhile now...

 

Vegan.

 

so far twice as many veg as not...wow thats encouraging huh?

 

I've been one for a few years now. No plans to go back to meat eating, either...

 

i was raised vegetarian so my family isnt a vegetarian fam.

 

been veg for almost a year now. I love it.

but damn molly, your post hurt my head. what the fuck is an avant guarde? I know what the word means but I have no idea how that determines a person's eating habits.

which brings up a question that's been on my mind off and on. Can you choose to be a hippy? Or do you make decisions in your life that push you in that direction. I mean sure, you can choose to dress and talk like a hippy, but we all know that just because you wear leather jackets with safety pins in them doesn't mean you're punk. I know for me people kept calling me hippy and I would deny it and then one day I woke up and realized, goddamn, I'm a fucking hippy. and then I realized the hippies have more fun anyway.

sorry for that rant, not trying to get off-topic. but it happens.

 

Being an avant gardiest means you want to create things that would be considered avant garde but you can't so you read up on it and do stuff that people who have created avant-garde work has done so it makes it sound like you can be that cool.

 

so in other words, if an avant-guardest ate meat, then to be cool and avant-guarde, then I would have to eat meat too?

I finally get it. if you pretend to be something you want to be, then you might get cool points by hanging on the fringe of other people's success?

damn. I wish i would have figured that out before I spent all this time becoming my own person.

 

I didn't vote because at the moment I'm not but I'm planning to become one within the next year or so. I'm gonna try cutting out the meat one step at a time...

 

I plan on going Vegan soon !! I cant wait !!

 

i was vegan for awhile but it made me really sick and i just couldnt handle it because you really have to cook alot and iam really busy.. sonow iam veggie !!

 

wow this is surprising, i expected closer to 50%

 

I did the veggie thing for 4 years. But there were a couple problems. If I happened to be at someones home for dinner, sometimes they would freak because they didn't know what to feed me. I hate putting people out.

And I've been a farmer for a long time. I raise chickens for eggs and cows for milk and yogurt and such, but I always ended up with extra roosters and bull calves. Not practical.

So I realized that I was a survivalist, and I eat whatever there is. About 85% vegetarian...

 

I'm thinking that when I move out to no. cal. and start working on some organic farms I'll go veg. It'll be easier that way... when you have a meal plan at your school they don't give you many options.

-Mike

 

avant guardians are different from the guardian angels. the guardian angles protect your mind by giving it a false sense of physical security whereas the avant guardians protect your mind by juxtaposing cultural and symbolic metaphors out of context.

how this determines a person's eating habits is an avant guardian will say they are a vegetarian as they sit across from you eating a t-bone steak.