Do Flexitarians statistically outlive vegetarians?
352871
I am a vegetarian and i would probably say yes even though i hate it!!! The animals are a source of proteen which every one needs but veggies (no I don't mind being called a vegi!) only relay have nuts and meet supplements like vitamins but even the Omega 3 vitamins are fake!!! I will get some Sources later!
515152
They are both vegetarians.
799001
I like veggies. I don't believe God really cares about you being a vegetarian. As for the dominion we have it without slaughtering animals. Adam and Eve never ate meat in the garden of eden only afterwards did God say that you could. So having dominion is control of them(Which we still do).
1079756
That would be categorized as a Pesco vegetarian :] .
686037
It's called Hinduism. I'm a hindu and many many many many ...... hidus like me are not vegetarian. I eat fish but vegetarian hindus don't. As for reincarnation/rebirth many Hindus don't believe in that either. There is nothing compulsory in Hinduism.
897723
It is written in the scriptures that in heaven that the predator and prey animals will exist together in harmony so I say yes. \n\nOther mammals are not held to the same set of standards that people are held to. There is not sufficient sentience to reach an 'age of accountability'.
115041
I know that where I live in the Silicon Valley of California there's a lot of Hindus from India who work in the high tech industry. probably more than 60% of their restaurants are strictly vegetarian. I think it may depend also on what sect of Hinduism is most prominent in the specific region of India they come from.
275579
Can I ask how exactly being a vegetarian has ANYTHING to do with sexual orientation?\n\nAlso, to the 14 year old, do you really think you're mature enough to be having sex?
1065049
it's not called as vegetarian, but some vegetarians, do eat eggs, because they take this eating animals thing a bit less seriously. (some even eat fish, so this thing is really confusing to me anywayz)
1100857
Not horrible but not a balanced diet.  Vegitarians do not eat only fruit and veggies.  They suppliment their diets with things like nuts and they eat tofu, etc.  You need some protein in your diet and you won't get enough (if any) with only fruit and vegetables.
428347
With Mad Cow disease, pumping antibiotics and growth hormones into cattle to fatten them, how can it be safe to consume their flesh?  That's not counting the cancer that runs through their muscles after the "spot" was removed from the carcass.  Chickens pass on Leukemia, and pork was never intended for human consumption if you believe the Word of God.  There ARE "clean" and "unclean" flesh foods of the land, sea, and air, mentioned specifically in Deut. & Leviticus.  If you look up the life-span of pre-flood human beings who were mostly vegetarians you'll be surprised to find they lived hundreds of years.  After the flood, when God gave man permission to eat animal flesh, man's life-span diminished quickly, until 70 years was the "norm."  It's an interesting study.  And yes, I'm a vegan and happy to be one.
360466
You know the guy who invented the all meat diet died out of a heart stroke? Does the doctor look healthy at all. C'mon!\nFruits and vegetables are the easiest to assimilate for the body. It takes 1500 cubic cm of biliar salts to consume a single ounce of meat. \nPlease! change your doctors, go to a nutritionist and save yourself some years of life. Find out obout vegetarianism...
55872
Vegetarian food only. Pythagoras belonged to a cult which was very strict and allowed only vegetarian food.
119767
yup. off and on for 15 years... now a full vegan with only occasional lapses with some really good organic cheese (oooh, gouda). \n\nbecause of health (good fats, no build up of mercury or mad cow disease) \n\nenvironmental degradation (eating meat requires 4000 gallons of water a day, vegetarians only consume 300 gallons... plus the loss of our ocean's fish due to overfishing, plus factory farms ....)\n\nand now, because i'm living with and in love with a professional ethicist, i've been persuaded that the animal rights issue is important as well. (it just doesn't make any sense to do to animals the things we do. just too disgusting and unnecessary.)\n\nyou'll get a bunch of answers about how humans are supposedly "not designed" to be vegetarians, but really, we weren't designed to ride in cars either, were we? and we REALLY weren't designed to eat poisonous food, become overweight, and poison our earth in the process.\n\nand BTW, i've never needed any kind of vitamins, and my doc says i'm on the best diet there is (mainstream, reg. doc too). i hardly think a cow was "born to be eaten." like all living things, it was born to live. (and die of old age.)
387998
Yes, while it can be said that sHitler was a vegetarian (although this is disputed since he "cheated" often), he was also a f'n madman. Why would anyone use him as a prime example of anything execept insanity and hatred? There are many better examples of vegtarians out there, and there are far more Mohandas Ghandis, Leonardo di Vincis, Leo Tolstoys and Albert Einsteins (yep, all vegetarians) than Adolf Hitlers in the "history book" of vegetarianism.
1121792
Yes, we can obtain protein and even vitamin B12 from plant produce such as beans and soya products. The original diet was fruits and after the fall God instructed man that the herbs of the field would be meat for him to eat. It was not until after the Noah's flood that you had meat eating. Thou shalt not kill (murder) i believe also goes for the animals too which we should take care of.
174902
not that much really, tehre's some people who during cuaresma do not eat meat (red meat I mean...) but it diesn't really have a noticeable impact...