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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 08:46 PM
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can vegetarians eat bread?
full of little yeasts living happy lives

if this is a dumb ? i apologize but i have a bet going
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 09:09 PM
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1. Vegetarians will, but
vegans will not usually.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 09:15 PM
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2. My daughter's vegan and eats yeast products.
It's classified in the fungi group, not the animal group.
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 09:32 PM
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3. hah i win
in your face hahahahahahahahahaha
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 09:32 PM
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4. Yeast is a fungus
so of course vegetarians and vegans eat them, at least if they know how to read.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 10:17 PM
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5. If they're ethical, they will eschew grains, because lots of animals are killed in harvesting it.
Edited on Sun Jul-25-10 10:18 PM by Rabrrrrrr
mice, voles, gophers, chipmunks, and so on, not to mention the vast quantities of insects.

Plus, of course, the massive deforestation or prairie destruction that takes place to make land to grow grains and all the animals that are killed/displaced in that process.

The ethical vegetarian will also eschew all farmed veggies and fruits.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 11:35 PM
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7. The truly ethical vegetarian will eschew grains, leaves, seeds, and other parts
of living things that don't want to be eaten in favor of fruit that has fallen to the ground. They will then deposit the seed that passes through their bodies in places new fruiting trees can grow and flourish.

Or they can get a grip and realize the way this planet works is that we have to eat other creatures to live, whether they're rooted to the ground or ambulatory, depending which species we are.

Morality vegetarians irritate the crap out of me.

I stopped eating meat because I didn't like it all that much. I kept eating a veg diet because it was cheaper and I felt better on it. I also don't give a rip what anybody else needs to eat to feel well.

Bon appetit.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-10 12:24 PM
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8. I, OTOH, love the taste of meat but strongly disapprove of how it's
produced in our industrialized agricultural system here in the US, so I wind up not eating much of it (compared to when I was growing up).

Plus, fresh produce here in CA is great year-round and it's a shame not to take advantage of that. So a lot of times I simply don't have room in my meal plans for meat, lol.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-10 12:36 PM
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9. I've given up red meat altogether since I really dislike it now
and have completely lost any appreciation for the flavor. The rare chicken I eat (and last week was one of those rare times, chicken breasts braised in white wine, heavy cream and thyme) is free range, organically grown chicken that can't be cut with the side of a fork. Most of the time I stick to Quorn, though, as it satisfies the fried chicken Jones and is actually a lot cheaper than organically raised chicken.



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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-10 03:44 PM
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10. If you're eating rare chicken, no wonder you don't like it......
:rofl: :spank:
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 10:20 PM
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6. Mmmmm, fungus... tasty, tasty fungus!
I'm a vegetarian. Well technically, an ovo-lacto-pesca-vegetarian since I eat eggs, dairy & fish. It would be HARD to give up bread. Hurrah for fungus!
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Retrograde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-10 06:55 PM
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11. Yeast are neither plants nor animals
They're in a completely different kingdom, the fungi, which also includes mushrooms and molds. Besides, if you give up bread you also have to give up beer and wine.

(There's some evidence that fungi may be more closely related to the kingdom animalia than to the plantae, and mushroom cells contain the same form of chitin found in arthropod exoskeletons, but as far as I'm concerned if it grows in the ground it's not an animal. Now pass me a beer :) )
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