Firefly Vegan Community??

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JASONZZZ

Monday, July 12, 2004 5:02 PM

Actually, Man Meat tastes like a very very very greasy tallow-filled burger. It's disgusting. Maybe someone anorexic would be a better eat. But it's really grossly fatty otherwise.

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I don't mind what anyone eats ... I hear humans taste like chicken ... mmm, chicken ...

Actually, humans are more likely to taste like beef or bear, depending on their diet. Vegans and vegetarians are more likely to taste like beef. Omnivores and those who tend to eat more meat than veggies or even cannibals are more likely to taste like bear meat, I would think.

That aside (and back to the topic at hand), can't go as far as to say I'm a vegan, or even a veggie head. Let's put it this way: If I switch the amount of meat and veggies that I eat, I could be pretty close to a vegitarian.

You folks want to eat nothing but veggies, fine with me. Leaves more steak and pork chops for me.

If God didn't intend for man to eat cows and pigs, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

FORRESTWOLF

Monday, July 12, 2004 5:13 PM

My family is all ovo-lacto vegetarian - heavy on the milk (about 3 gallons a week between the 2 adults and 2 kids), but no fish, no chicken, no deceased animals (except for rennet in the cheese...sigh...).

As for actual VEGAN Browncoats, I work with someone who's family is all vegan - two adults, two kids.

Yay, veggies! Have to say, though, Firefly doesn't seem to really push the vegetarian agenda (compared with, perhaps, some of Trek lore on the subject).

WELA

Monday, July 12, 2004 5:46 PM

I wonder how you can afford to be vegan? I'm a vegetarian, and I tried being a vegan for a while. It's just too expensive for me (for the moment). I live in Holland, milk costs 50 cents, while soy-milk costs about 2 dollars, the same goes for all the other soy stuff. I'm still a student, so can't afford to go to the special shops anymore. If you want soy stuff here you need to go the the really expensive grocery stores. I do think it's wise to make sure you still get the protein from the soy you'd normally get from the milk, butter and cheese. So a serious question: how can you afford to be a vegan?
Ohhh and I don't even wanna know why someone's question 'are there other vegans out here' turned into a discussion about how human flesh tastes

"I'd better not work with living people"

FORRESTWOLF

Monday, July 12, 2004 6:13 PM

Even being ovo-lacto is expensive...I'll never understand why green peppers cost the same per pound as beef in America (I know, I know -subsidies, but it jus' don't make no sense).

MANIACNUMBERONE

Monday, July 12, 2004 6:52 PM

I am somewhat of a vegetarian. I try to not eat meat often, or if I do, it's very sparingly and never bloody. ick.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:47 AM

I am an ex-vegetarian and am am sort of following the Hawaii Diet for weight loss right now (it's vegan low fat -- but I'm not 100%). If I had married a different person, I'd probably be 100% vegan instead of this wishy washy thing.

and if wishes were horses, my daughters would have 15 a piece to ride

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JASONZZZ

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:09 AM

urp. If I only have sex with vegetables. Does that count as being a Vegan?

SAINTOFCHEESE

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:40 AM

Hey! i haven't posted here in a while, because things have been a little crazy, and well, you know... life. But... yeah! Vegans and firefly! yay! hehe. Well, i've been a veggie since i was 11 and I'm trying for the vegan thing now, especially since I'm living in a co-op next year at school. It's going to be shiny.

Yeah. Maybe i'll actually read all the responses to this post now. I just saw vegans and firefly and hit reply.

~*Saint of Cheese*~

SAINTOFCHEESE

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:07 AM

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Originally posted by Wela:
I wonder how you can afford to be vegan? I'm a vegetarian, and I tried being a vegan for a while. It's just too expensive for me (for the moment). I live in Holland, milk costs 50 cents, while soy-milk costs about 2 dollars, the same goes for all the other soy stuff. I'm still a student, so can't afford to go to the special shops anymore. If you want soy stuff here you need to go the the really expensive grocery stores. I do think it's wise to make sure you still get the protein from the soy you'd normally get from the milk, butter and cheese. So a serious question: how can you afford to be a vegan?
Ohhh and I don't even wanna know why someone's question 'are there other vegans out here' turned into a discussion about how human flesh tastes

"I'd better not work with living people"

Hey, poor college student replying again. Erm, at least where I live, I dont' find it that expensive to be a vegan. I mean, I guess it would be somewhat if you're comparing buying fresh vegetables to hamburger helper, but no one lives on just one thing. Here, soymilk and such aren't too expensive, but i don't exactly drink gallons of that. :) I find that a lot of times, meat and meat alternatives are similarly priced. There are plenty of cheap things you can buy. Very few vegans actually LIVE on vegetables. I know I don't. I shop as cheap as I can... I buy veggies at the farmer's market from the local people and then suplement with what's at the store.

Also, as far as protein, you should look at how much protein is in stuff that you wouldn't expect--like fruits and veggies. I was surprised, but the fact is, you don't need to eat 3 steaks aday to get what you need. I hate having people tell me that i need to be careful, because i've been living this way most of my childhood/teenage years, and I'm pretty healthy. People say I need to watch my iron, but I've never had issues with it when i give blood. I have plenty of energy and spend my days running around after 12 year olds at the camp I'm working at this summer.

And I guess as far as the meat eater's posts on this thread, I don't have time to enumerate the ways I disagree before bed. I know many people, some fairly die-hard meat eaters, who have become vegetarians because they think that the treatment of animals is obscene and wrong. I think that it's important to at least be aware of the situation--the decision you make is your own, but I can't deal with people who choose to turn a blind eye to suffering and things that bother them. (I definitely know some people who are like, "oh, I think factory farming is so wrong, and I could never kill anyhthing, but I don't want to think about it...")

I'm a member of the REAL Peta, and I get plenty of flavor and variety in my meals without animal products.

But hey, I didn't start this conversation, I'm just replying.

~*Saint of Cheese*~

DECKROID

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:34 AM

Not a Vegan, but I have quarrel with them folks that eat thataway. Myself, I grow my own beef. One steer at a time. That way, I know that he is 100% Organic. I feed him organicly grown hay (no pesticides) and organicly grown cracked corn (*again, no pesticides). And Dinner the Steer sure is tasty! (I name them all Dinner).

The only thing I dislike about the Veggie Community is when someone is wearing leather, be it shoes, pants, skirts, purse, thong , or wahtever and starts to talk to me about how eating of beef is terrible and how the treatment of animals is inhuman! Well, I guess it would be, seeing as how they are not human... and as far as cattle are concerned, we humans have BRED themaway to be both tasty and upid-stay. Its best to think of them as Carrots that walk around than think of them as puppy dogs.

That's my take on it, and like I said, I have no quarrel with thems that live their life the way they want. Just dont try convertin' me. (as a famous line from a GREAT show "just keep awalkin' Preacher Man")

I call her "Vera"

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