Are you Vegan, Vegatarian or neither and what are the benefits/drawbacks?

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...twelve

[Local Trouble]

What took you so long?

[LastSurvivor92]

Oh boy do not start on "the healthier option". It's really not. You can 100% eat a shittier vegan diet than one that includes meat.

My fiancee is a dietician and I will fight all of you on this subject so help me God.

I agree  my sister eats only vegan sometimes and it's really annoying because there are clearly better options that are still healthy.

[Frosty Venom]

You certainly can be a healthy vegan though whilst also not having to worry about contributing to large scale animal torture and destroying the earth.

[Valaquen]

I remember the whole pink slime thing grossed me out when I first heard about it. And it's true , when you get away from junk food , and other things like baloney and cheeseburgers and fast food , you'll feel like crap if you eat it again. Back in college when I was lifting all the time , I spent about three months eating perfectly clean .

I had one cheeseburger at the end of all that, and I thought I was going to throw up . I was sick the whole day . I also have had family members and friends eat clean for several weeks, and the first time they ate a hot dog or frozen pizza they became severely nauseous .

And it's true that if you do go without certain foods and drinks for an extended period of time , you won't miss them. I haven't had Kool-Aid or cake or pop tarts in probably seven or eight years. Once you get through those first few months without something, you're out for good if you want to be. I once went three years without a hotdog , but I screwed up and had some for July 4th. They made me feel like crap and I had to cut them out all over again. It's been well worth it though.

I've got an advantage though, in the fact that my family never really did eat fast food when I was a kid and we still don't. So I really don't have any desire for it.

Regarding the bold, this happened to me recently. I hadn't eaten red meat in months, and then not long ago gave in and had a burger at a pub. I felt wrong the whole day, went to the gym and could barely finish my sets, everything felt like a slog. Never again!

[Deathbearer]

Neither. I love meat and I have absolutely no interest in giving it up

[Ingwar]

I had one cheeseburger at the end of all that, and I thought I was going to throw up . I was sick the whole day .

I've never eaten meat since I became vegan but I've had few episodes when strong smell of cooking meat and fat made me nearly to throw up. There is only one taste and smell I kinda miss. It's salmon. Don't know why.

[Oasis Nadrama]

Funny, salmon is the only flavour I ever hated. 

If artificial meat ever comes out, I'll clearly eat it. Except if it's really expensive or linked to really dubious industrial shit.

[Valaquen]

Funny, salmon is the only flavour I ever hated. 

If artificial meat ever comes out, I'll clearly eat it. Except if it's really expensive or linked to really dubious industrial shit.

Have you heard of the Impossible Burger?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63FHZy_7-qs&t=