Does the Vegetarian Trait affect anything besides food choices?

[Trubble]

I get the overreaction too. I'm a vegetarian because of, like others, fat globules and weird veins and such, and I don't like the way the meat is produced. I appreciate it's somewhat necessary for society, but choose not to partake in that system. I don't think it's wrong to eat meat, I just choose not to.

Anyway, I eat the fake meats on the market (Quorn, Linda McCartney), no weird unidentifiable bits, just some somewhat tasty protein like substance that hasn't hurt anyone. The amount of preaching I get from meat eaters just because I eat these products! "Why do you do that if you don't like meat?" "It boggles my mind that people eat those when they're vegetarian, why not just eat the real thing?"

Drives me up the wall, there's a guy at work who seems to forget conversations he's had and brings it up every couple of months. I guess my explanation isn't good enough, but hey, they don't really taste like meat and don't have the weird bits, I'm a vegetarian for mostly ethical reasons, it prevents arguments about dinner with my carnivorous boyfriend (he seems happy to put up with the fake meat as a compromise) and why the hell shouldn't veggies eat these products? That's who they're made for!

Ironically, it's harder to survive on candy over here in the UK, what with the lack of ethics belonging to Nestle, and the fact that the majority of Mars products aren't suitable for vegetarians. That leaves Cadbury. Also any jelly sweets the majority of the time have gelatin in. The thing I miss the most being vegetarian is marshmallows of all things.

[Zazazu]

This is why you quit being one of those ethical ones. I can eat all the marshmallows I want.

[SolaceDevotio]

The problem wouldn't be eating protein, but red meat eaten in large quantities, trans fats ect.

There is very very little trans fat in meat.  It occurs mostly in things like margarine and shortening, popular among many vegetarians who shun dairy.

[Silverdrake]

You can get marshmallows made with carageenan instead of gelatin.

[caterpillar]

This is why you quit being one of those ethical ones. I can eat all the marshmallows I want.

Marshmallows are one of those things I won't eat because of the texture. I don't care that they're made of gelatin, I just think they're nasty.

[Silverdrake]

Y'know, the other veggies in this thread were spot-on about meat eaters' defensive reaction. I rarely tell people I'm a vegetarian, don't harangue people about their food choices, and yet all I have to do is mention vegetarian sims, and people feel like they have to mock vegetarians. Eh, maybe it's all those prions they've consumed.

My mother used to tell nosy people that she got her protein from sperm.

[SolaceDevotio]

This is why you quit being one of those ethical ones. I can eat all the marshmallows I want.

Marshmallows are one of those things I won't eat because of the texture. I don't care that they're made of gelatin, I just think they're nasty.

Marshmallows are THE most evil "food" in existence.  I would rather eat anything the Bizarre Foods guy does than marshmallows.  Even typing the word makes my stomach turn...

[J. M. Pescado]

Marshmallows baffle me. I am not entirely sure what they really are. Or how exactly something is "jet-puffed", really.

[SolaceDevotio]

It's sorcery.  Evil sorcery.

[J. M. Pescado]

But is it the GOOD kind of evil sorcery, or the BAD kind of evil sorcery?

[snowbawl]

The BAD.

Marshmallows are an abomination.  Have you made s'mores?  It's like burning tires.

[SolaceDevotio]

Okay.  I do like smores.  Maybe the fire burns the bad sorcery out of them.

*runs out and buys the stuff to make smores*

[Trubble]

What about Lucky Charms? The last thing I knowingly ate with animal in it was Lucky Charms (brought back by a friend since they're "too unhealthy" for the UK). Marshmallow = win. They're good in hot chocolate too, or baked in a cake...

Yeah, I miss em. Though I will admit they are a very strange food, if you could even call them that.

[J. M. Pescado]

I really don't see the entire problem with animal-eating, really. Protesting the inhumane practices of factory farming doesn't mean you give up meat. It just means you kill it yourself. Try some 100% organic, free-range, all-natural, automotively processed meat.

[ZeKat]

Okay.  I do like smores.  Maybe the fire burns the bad sorcery out of them.

Of course, why do you think they used to burn witches?

Try some 100% organic, free-range, all-natural, automotively processed meat.

I did once, actually... my grandmother hit a deer with her car, but since she actually has a hunting license, and it was within hunting season, the police let her take it home after they checked it out... Free venison!

[SolaceDevotio]

Okay.  I do like smores.  Maybe the fire burns the bad sorcery out of them.

Of course, why do you think they used to burn witches?

Right!  And there we have proof that marshmallows are evil and smores are not. 

[Emma]

Sorry, but not all witches were evil. I find your comment offensive to witches.

[SolaceDevotio]

I'm sure he meant the evil children's story type and not the wiccan sort.

[Emma]

I find your comment offensive to wiccans.

[caterpillar]

I really don't see the entire problem with animal-eating, really. Protesting the inhumane practices of factory farming doesn't mean you give up meat. It just means you kill it yourself. Try some 100% organic, free-range, all-natural, automotively processed meat.

I agree with that absolutely. I'm a pro-hunting vegetarian. The problem is where I live, the only meat I'd be able to hunt is stray cats and dogs, squirrels and raccoons, and if I were to go up into the hills, coyotes. None of which appeal to me due to my cultural conditioning, so I end up just not eating meat.

[SolaceDevotio]

I find your comment offensive to wiccans.

Are you claiming that witchcraft is not associated with Wicca?

"When witchcraft is practised as a religion, it is called by the Old English term for witch, Wicca. This term is used to counter all the negative stereotypes that society has given witchcraft. Wicca is primarily a religion that worships nature, and sees all creation as sacred. In fact, all Wiccan holy days follow the cycles of nature and the changes in the seasons. Wicca also worships both a male and female deity, a female Goddess and a male God, who had together created the world and everything in it."

http://www.witchcraft.com.au/




eta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_(etymology)

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca

[snowbawl]

Pull your skirt down, Solace, your n00b is showing.

[SolaceDevotio]

Why because I responded to an offended senator?

[Emma]

Lulz.

[snowbawl]

snowbawl P&L