Lets Talk Vegetarianism

#1

[url=‘https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html’]Eight years ago, struggling to remove deadly E. coli from hamburgers, an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia.

The company, Beef Products Inc., had been looking to expand into the hamburger business with a product made from beef that included fatty trimmings the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil. The trimmings were particularly susceptible to contamination.

With the U.S.D.A.’s stamp of approval, the company’s processed beef has become a mainstay in America’s hamburgers. McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food giants use it as a component in ground beef, as do grocery chains.[/url]

MMM, pathogen-contaminated Ammonia-flavored pet food burgers… boy am I glad I stopped eating processed meat. Anyway, this thread is to discuss the pros/cons of a vegetarian lifestyle. I’m not totally vegetarian but I think we can learn alot from their healthy habits.

#2

Yes, it can be healthy, but eating 0 meat can be pretty unhealthy too!
And in my country eating meat isn’t that much problem, we can still get high quality non plastic meat.

#3

If everyone around me was a vegetarian, I’d eat even more meat (if that’s possible…). Just keeping on, pissing them off.

On topic: Con: No meat
Pro: ehr… what?

#4

Wow, so it doesn’t even shock you that you’ve been eating pet-food-grade meat ‘purified’ ineffectively with industrial chemicals? And you’d eat even more of it just to “piss off” people who don’t eat meat? Weird, dude.

#5

I wouldn’t eat meat if it wasn’t so tasty! …I mean, i wouldn’t eat animals if they were made out of, oh…concreate.

#6

Every good thing has downsides.

#7

I was never a vegetarian and will never become one. My father is a cook, so I grew up eating meat pretty much every day and I love it that way. That also means that I do not eat at McDonald’s, but rather buy my meat at my local butcher, where the meat is 100% chemical free.
I know a lot vegetarians, and they all claim to live healthier than me, but they are all drinking and smoking, which I’m not, so I guess that evens things out.

#8

Vegetarianism Pro & Con

Advantages & Disadvantages of Vegetarianism

Pros & Cons of Vegetarianism

Ethics of Vegetarianism

Here you are - some material to discuss for you. I am Vegetarian and don’t miss eating meat at all. My important vitamins like B12 I get from certain types of cheese explicitly made for vegetarians. You can buy them in certain reformed food stores and in some supermarkets around where I live. Eggs, dairy products, fruits & vegetables I get delivered weekly from a local Eco-Farm whose farmers guarantee their food to be completely organic. Certain types of cheese are the only dairy products I still consume, and I mainly consume eggs because I know that without animal protein my health is going to decrease significantly.

I am used to getting flamed, spammed, shunned and mocked just because I confess being a vegetarian, even though I have never tried to convince anybody that eating meat is wrong. It is usually I who have to explain myself to others for “not being normal”, as if that would be something superior.

I have long since grown tired of this game and am not going to play the same role here again, so this post is going to be my last contribution to this thread. The links I have provided are among the most useful I have come across by simply googling. If they raise your interest, you should have no problems finding more information. Have fun folks!

#9

Eating meat like we do now in the west is a super wasteful and unsustainable practice that really needs to end. we are killing the planet and starvin billions- kinda sucks

#10

Synthesized strawberry flavoring is essentially made of gasoline. If you are looking to avoid chemicals, and lower quality meat, simply buy higher quality all natural products, but don’t think this sort of thing is restricted to just meat.

#11

Using poisonous industrial chemicals to process food that would otherwise be unfit for human consumption is actually restricted to just meat.

#12

Uh…no, that is not true at all.
Hexamethylenediamine which is used to generate adipic compounds are often used as citrus flavoring. It’s also used in many synthetic food substitutes that are permitted as kosher, where non synthetic versions wouldn’t be.

#13

I can’t find any reference to that being true on Google. And what does that have to do with processing non-food-grade products into food grade?

#14

Uhm…you know: I don’t get where you get the poison thingy from. I ate meat ever since I got my teeth to properly chew it and I never feeled sick from it or anything and I’m perfectly fine with nothing that’s really dangerous at all. Also: No people I know died from eating meat. This is the case with many people. I think only few die from it.

#15

If the pets can survive it, why wouldn’t I? :retard:

#16

Because animal metabolism != human metabolism?

Just a thought…

#17

I got the poison thing from the dictionary definition of “Ammonia.” I’m not saying meat itself is poisonous, just that the majority of hamburger sold in US fast food restaurants contains dogfood-grade meat processed with Ammonia.

Also, about people dying from eating meat, people die all the time from eating meat contaminated with bacteria. The article in the OP is about how tainted meat that would otherwise have to be thrown away, is treated with Ammonia to kill the bacteria and then added to ground beef used throughout the country. Since ammonia tastes bad (its toxic), they have been using less and less ammonia, which results in more meat being contaminated with deadly bacteria, and potentially deaths.

#18

I suggest watching Supersize me

Besides being fun, it’s actually quite informative.

#19

I made the shit for 4 years while I worked at DuPont. I was required to learn about it. Not only is it made into food grade product, it’s also kosher.

EDIT: Also, here is your proof.

https://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/canada/552119-1.html

#20

My advice to you is “get over it,” because you are terrible at debating on the internet.

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