Do you think PETA might have more sucess if they offered nutritional counseling?

Taverner

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:01 PM
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Do you think PETA might have more sucess if they offered nutritional counseling?

I'm actually serious. One of the biggest barriers to vegetarianism and veganism (for the common dude) is cooking this way is a whole different beast, and the layman needs nutritional counseling to reorganize their way of eating.

Especially if you are fairly active - you need to be conscious of your protein intake, and to make sure you get complete proteins.

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Dr. Strange

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:07 PM
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1. The vegetarian/vegan lifestyle might have more success

if such counseling were offered. Not PeTA, though. Their biggest barrier is dumb publicity stunts.

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Nicholas D Wolfwood

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:17 PM
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2. Ditto to DuStrange.

I agree with the concept, but PETA is avoided like the plague, and with good reason.

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LeftyMom

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:19 PM
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3. You mean general nutrition advice (lots of AR groups, including PETA, put that out)

or something more along the lines of classes or one-to-one counseling? 'Cause the latter would be effective (well, if anybody else did it, maybe not from peta so much) but very spendy.

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flvegan

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:31 PM
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4. I can see a benefit, but

considering that most folks don't have any nutritional training outside of what they've learned from parents, family, the net, the govt "food pyramid" etc, no. Being vegetarian or vegan really doesn't require any more nutritional training than eating a non-veggie diet. Veganism is a bit more labor intensive, but vegetarianism is really just as easy as the avg diet.

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LeftyMom

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:36 PM
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5. Oh, you brought up something I meant to address but didn't.

People tend to have a concern about the health of veg diets and a belief that to be properly executed they require much more planning. Absent major health issues that's not the case at all, one only has to eat ample quantities of a wide variety of foods. If any more planning than paying attention to what I throw in the cart at the grocery store were needed I'd have wasted away by now, since I simply haven't got the time.

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Taverner

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:39 PM
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6. But what about me?

I consume (or at least try to) my body weight plus 10-15% in grams of protein. With animal flesh, this is pretty easy, but doing it veggie without all the excess carbs is pretty tough...

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flvegan

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:55 PM
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8. The bioavailability/BCAAs in soy, for example

make up for the slightly lower number of grams of protein. With no cholesterol, lower calories and lower fat, the carb count doesn't matter so much.

As you already know, junk food vegetarianism/veganism is no different than junk food avg diet.

I'm 220 now, athletic, I lift a lot. I probably take in 100g of protein a day for maintenance. In a growth phase, I might do 150. I've found I don't need as much as I did when I ate meat. YMMV, though.

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IndianaJones

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Mon Oct-29-07 12:46 PM
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7. A theme park would probably help. With a water park. nt.

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Deep13

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Mon Oct-29-07 01:03 PM
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9. Don't know, but since I oppose their agenda I would rather they don't succeed. n/t

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