Re: vegetarians?
by Anonymous on 31 December 2000 @ 10:03 PM
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Hello, Roshni. I also recently joined. I am so happy that you want to be a vegetarian. Please visit the PETA website for information about the vast impact you will make not eating living beings(in helping sustain the environment, on your health, and in helping alleviate nonhuman animal suffering). Hooray! I have been a vegetarian for one year and two months. This decision was among the most important and influential in my life. Good luck and stick to your convictions.
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Re: vegetarians?
by marylynx on 01 January 2001 @ 05:24 PM
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Hello Roshni!Welcome to the community.I am new here as well but I have been a vegetarian for 10 years.It is very difficult in the beginning,especially when you are a teenager.But with oatience and reason you can calm the people around you that see you like a freak just because you prefer something different.I believe that maybe this will be enough to make you take the decision:the vegetables fed to a cow in order to produce a steak can feed 12 people!!! Even the hunger problem can be solved.Please contact me for anything you want to know.But most of all visit:www.peta-online.org.Take care, Mary Lynx
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Re: vegetarians?
by gaby santiago on 04 January 2001 @ 06:02 AM
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Hi Roshni! itīs really good to know that people who are greenpeace members are also vegetarian!!im vegetarian and i feel so good, healthy, lively and so happy!try it, you will have many benefits, but maybe the most important: to avoid animal suffering!
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Re: vegetarians?
by thebatgnome on 04 January 2001 @ 09:33 PM
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Greetings and welcome.I'm pretty new here myself. And I'm not a vegetarian, though I've considered it on several occasions. But it's not for me, at least at this point in my life, and you don't have to be in order to do good by the environment. Animal rights is a worthy cause, and one I support with all my heart, but it's got nothing to do with being a good memeber of GP. The organisation has enough trouble with its credibility because those two get mixed in the public eye. Though whatever you do, the best of luck to ya! And don't get me wrong....I really admire a vegetarian who manages to stick to her carrots;)thebatgnome
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Re: vegetarians?
by Kirsten Elliott on 05 January 2001 @ 08:05 PM
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I'm a vegetarian and I have been for about 6 years. I don't miss meat at all.You find animal products in all kinds of foods, even Pop Tarts and Doritos. I would definately recommend becoming a vegetarian.
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Re: vegetarians?
by David James Lindner on 13 January 2001 @ 06:17 AM
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Having always been a moral and ethical supporter of GP, and having just worked for them for nearly three months I do have a slight moral dilemma re:vegetarianism. You see, I'm not vege. Never have been and probably won't ever be. My reasoning behind this goes as follows: Mankind has evolved over millions of years to eat both vegetables AND meat. Just because the earth is now facing ecological crisis doesn't mean that we should put all this natural selection and progress (???) to one side. Don't get me wrong - I can FULLY understand why a lot of GP supporters are vegetarian. It's just not for me. I do my bit in as much always try to buy organic/free range meat from the local butcher as opposed to from the supermarket. I also try (although this is very difficult) to only buy meat that is native to the country that I'm in. For example, when in Australia, I try to buy and eat kangaroo, emu, etc, rather than beef, pork, etc that has been raised on Australian soil. Reason for this is that these imported animals hooves/trotters/feet in general do a lot of damage to native flora that has evolved over millenia to be able to successfully support indigenous animals. Anyway, I think that's enough of my rambling for the time being. See ya later one and all.
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Re: vegetarians?
by Richard Trigaux on 09 April 2001 @ 01:13 PM
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Yes we are many.
Not all Greenpeace members are vegan, but many are.
Cheers.
Peace and Light
richard trigaux
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Re: vegetarians? and subequent postings!
by Uncle John on 12 April 2001 @ 05:24 AM
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This posting seems to have generated a lot of interest, but the positive value of information exchange has somehow denerated into a slanging match between two individual protagonists, which I do NOT consider to be PRODUCTIVE.
I suggest that we all try to respect the opinions of others - I was raised to do that - even though my personal opinion may be that they are in error.
Should you consider it desirable to continue, may I suggest a suitable venue, and pistols at dawn!
But please do it somewhere else - you are cluttering up this site with useless junk!
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Re: vegetarians?
by agata on 19 April 2001 @ 08:47 PM
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yes i'm a vegetarian and i was before i joined greenpeace. :) but i do it also because of health problems.
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Re: vegetarians?
by red on 20 April 2001 @ 07:22 AM
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I've been vego for about four years after reading texts such as 'Diet for a small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe, which Roman also mentioned.I became vegetarian mainly for health reasons although I had felt eating meat etc was morally objectionable, especially being an environmental supporter. Although I don't claim to be vegan, my diet is primarily non-animal. I don't consume eggs, milk or rennet cheese and as packaged foods are difficult to define, I avoid most.Initially, I found things like egg difficult to avoid, especially when eating out, and that was probably more to do with my being uncomfortable about asking what dishes or things had in them. It is difficult in this respect when you first decide to become vegetarian if the people around you aren't supportive and tend to alienate you for having different views. But now I feel the better for my change. I find it amazing that the attitude I have towards meat-eating has really developed since excluding it from my diet. When I was a meat eater, the smell etc didn't seem objectionable, and I think non-vegetarians are sometimes dishonest with themselves about what they are actually eating and how it got to be on the end of their fork. A man once told me a story of a friend who held a dinner party for a number of distinguished guests. This host was vegetarian, but the guests were simply expecting to have meat etc for their meal. Dinner was served in a large silver platter and the host removed the cover to reveal several beautiful white doves, very much alive.The host anounced that he had prepared something a little different for everyone and that in order to eat the doves for dinner, everyone would have to kill them themselves. Every was shocked and disgusted. The host simply said if you cannot take resposibility for killing the animal/s every time you eat meat you should not. I would be interested in people's comments regarding this last statement. I myself thought that although it doesn't deal with other issues of consumming dairy, it seemed to make a pertinent comment about non-vegetarians.
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Re: vegetarians?
by Sophos on 20 April 2001 @ 08:50 PM
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Hey I'm a veggie, and regarding your comment, I say "right on! The meat-eaters that I know definitely disassociate the meat from the animal. In fact, they all seem to get quite upset when I refer to their lunch as a "cow flesh sandwich". I am a vegetarian primarily because eating animals is a terribly inefficient way of using our resources, and I think it is working against the fight for our environmental/social health. I know you all have heard it before, but the amount of energy required to produce a pound of beef is outrageous. The same energy could feed something like twenty vegetarians. To all you vegetarians: Good for you! And to all you meat-eaters: It's not too late, become a veggie today! ~Sophos
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Re: vegetarians?
by Eric Dunstan Webb on 30 July 2002 @ 02:35 AM
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Most of the time. When I'm not I feel guilt not only because of the inefficiency of feeding livestock raised for food but also because of the way these tame animals are treated, especially poultry. Perhaps the most effective weapon activists can wield is the purchasing power of their money. This is why I would always support vegetarianism as a more Earth friendly lifestyle for most people.
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Re: vegetarians?
by Eric Dunstan Webb on 30 July 2002 @ 02:36 AM
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Most of the time. When I'm not I feel guilt not only because of the inefficiency of feeding livestock raised for food but also because of the way these tame animals are treated, especially poultry. Perhaps the most effective weapon activists can wield is the purchasing power of their money. This is why I would always support vegetarianism as a more Earth friendly lifestyle for most people.
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