Vegetarian and/or vegan members of BYC!

[Bantimna]

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Sorry to come back to you so late.
Cashews aren't that expensive, well we have to buy from Komati Foods, and then they ship it to us so that can.
The way to store properly Cashews can keep them a bit longer. Try some don't be afraid.

 

[Davaroo]

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CAFO's = Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

Thanks for that clarification. We are in agreement on their overall status as "bad," yes. 100%?

We probably don't share quite that much agreement. But 80% is usually good enough, and so it is in this case.

Thanks for the new term.

 

[Wifezilla]

I'll take it!

 

[Organics North]

All the talk about beans and rice..
How about some recipes...?
(I personally like to put hot sauce on beans and rice..)
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[Buster52]

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That's me now.

In the 60s I was a cowboy and in the 70s I was a rompin' stompin' lean mean green fighting machine United States Marine, complete with high and tight haircut. You see the bad guy colonel in Avatar? That was me, baby!

Funny how life works like that.

 

[Davaroo]

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That's me now.

In the 60s I was a cowboy and in the 70s I was a rompin' stompin' lean mean green fighting machine United States Marine, complete with high and tight haircut. You see the bad guy colonel in Avatar? That was me, baby!

Funny how life works like that.

Aint it?!

Jimmy Buffet has a song, "Pencil Thin Mustache," which I used to like to sing to the audience. In the song, Jimmy reminisces about his youth and accounts his present years by singing:

"Now Im gettin older / I dont cut my hair
I don't go to church / and I don't wear underwear
But I can watch those movies / and see it all there.
Just the way it used to be...."

... or words to that effect. It is a wonder how things, and tides, turn.

 

[FluffyColor]

I've tried to be vegie a few times, and I certainly eat meat a whole lot less. Probably because I love veggies so much.

 

[HorseFeathers]

Ohh, I'm semi-vegetarian. I only eat meat I've seen alive, because of concerns about factory farming and animal cruelty. It's sort of a knowing-where-your-food-comes-from thing.

 

[Sissy]

Semi veg here...and growing my own soon.

 

[bakohens]

I've been vegetarian since college so about 15 years or so (wow, has it really been that long?). I grew up in the country and my family raised a little bit of everything - chickens, geese, lambs, rabbits, etc. And I raised pigs in 4-H so I had a lot pets that I knew would one day end up on the dinner plate. I was fine with that as a kid, but when I got into college, the guilt started to eat at me (also dining hall meat wasn't that appetizing). And I realized that I didn't need to kill animals in order to live - that was a huge revelation for me! I think it was in the middle of my freshman year that I decided to try not eating meat, and since then I haven't looked back. When I became vegetarian, I almost immediately felt better - both spiritually and physically. Also, almost immediately after cutting out meat, my acne cleared up - a very important development for a 19-year-old college student!

I am still the only vegetarian in my family, which still causes some friction. My one rule is that no meat can be cooked in my house (I can't stand the smell at this point), so if I am having guests, if they want to eat meat, they can get it at a restuarant.