Any Vegans or Vegetarians Out There

[koosie]

Is there nobody on the forum who's vegetarian through culture rather than personal choice? There's a lot of them of them out there you know. I hope you're all taking your B12 supplements as that's the only thing humans need that mostly enters the diet through animal sources.

I've been vegetarian through choice but I've also been very poor and in those circumstances you tend eat whatever you get your hands on. One of the best arguments for vegetarianism is that meat production produces the lowest energy output for land used (except for in the forest enviroment) which becomes increasingly significant as the global population rockets toward 7 Billion. Better get used to liking Soya! And algae.

For me to be vegetarian now would be completely hypocritical as I regularly kill large numbers animals to keep them from eating the damn plants I depend on for my continued survival. Admittedly these are almost exclusively insects and molluscs but at what point would I draw the line between worthy or unworthy animals? Besides I love eating poor old Trout and in the end, something's going to eat me even if it's only worms, bacteria or fire. Not too late for the tigers though. Nice pussy.