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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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My chili lacked the specific flavor it got from dead pigs and cows, but the people I fed it to didnt notice. 

Daddy, I noticed, I was just being supportive of your attempt to try to lower your bad cholestrol...

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ORIGINAL: MasterNdorei

i was a vegetarian for on and off most of my life, with the longest stint being 7 years. When Master met me i was eating fish and chicken. Since the beginning of this year Master decided to no longer eat meat. i am having a great time planning new meals for Him, and blowing His mind with a variety of meals that have no animals.

My favorite cookbook this week is The Moosewood Cookbook, but that changes frequently. i had forgotten all the yummy things i can do with eggs... wow that almost sounds dirty...

Master's dorei

Yeah!! I knew there were "others" around here.

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ORIGINAL: Bluebird

I was full vegetarian (no flesh, but did eat dairy and eggs) for about 18 years, then in the last 3 or 4 have added fish and supplemental fish oil on the advice of several doctors.  You can do perfectly ok with the protein supplied in a veggie diet, but I was having a lot of unrelated health problems and was not absorbing nutrients correctly, so they felt that I needed the extra protein and especially the fat (ever hear those words coming from your doctors and you know something is screwy in your system). 
 
The other thread - I was going to post there, but why piss in the ocean?  Each person has to do what he or she feels best works for them.  I don't expect that my husband or friends go veggie, and conversely I don't expect them to preach to me.  It is about respect on both sides.

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ORIGINAL: azzmaster

much of nepal is able to grow vegetables, unlike tibet... there are 3 basic geographic zones... alot of it is not in the himalayas. its extremely buddhist there and pretty hard to get meat. One of the easiest countries for a vegetarian to visit. They manage to eat the vegies from the lower lying plains in the higher elevations. tibet is much higher and thus hard to grow anything besides barley. so the barley flour mixed with tea and yak butter is pretty commonly eaten. most people also eat yak but they don't get it everyday

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ORIGINAL: sharemeuk

i've been veggie (no meat, no fish - i will use dairy products, but even then i only use veggie cheese etc) for 23 years now.

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ORIGINAL: Tristan

... most if not all of the vegetarians I know all say they feel much better than they used to when they ate meat.

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ORIGINAL: lovetokissnylons

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ORIGINAL: Tristan

... most if not all of the vegetarians I know all say they feel much better than they used to when they ate meat.

Have to agree with you, Tristan, I've never met a vegetarian who DIDN'T say they feel much better than they used to when they ate meat. 
Also, when I think about it, I've never met a vegetarian who's seriously overweight (there may well be some, but sure not many).  That's alllllmost tempting enough to make we want to give up meat, but haven't been able to do it yet.  What we HAVE been able to do is what lots of diet and med. researchers advise, and that is to use meat only as a condiment -- not the main ingredient in anything.

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ORIGINAL: azzmaster

well real one, people die from high cholestrol all the time... heart disease, and thats what causes plaque around the heart... just google high cholestrol and u will see. i think ur thinking of good cholestrol...when u get blood work done they check for both. some fats, like fish oils are good for people, beef and pork fat is a killer. if u look back in traditional cultures, no one ate the quantity of meat americans do except perhaps some very rich people, or those in the far north where nothing else is available. say indigenous people like eskimos who live on a meat diet, when anthropologists study skeletons they find alot of the older ones had severe degeneration of hip joints... which u can directly attribute to surplus protein... thing is, those people in the north who had meat diets ate the whole animal and the animals lead a natural life, not fed drugs or fattened up by keeping em penned up... the eskimo(inuit) also eat the intestines full of vegatable matter.... not something i find appealing but its probably a whole lot healthier than a rack of ribs