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Sorry, just got back on. Ussually I eat waffles with jam/jelly or hazlenut cocoa spread in the mornings along with a glass of "Trader Joe's GreenPlant Juice" (Way better than it looks[its completely green]) or some fruit juice. Other days I'll eat mac and cheese for breakfast or granola cereal with hemp seeds. OR I can heat up a soydog wrapped in a tortilla with cheese (40 secounds)if i'm in a rush. And ALWAYS, a multivitamin that I probably don't need. For school lunches I eat PB&J, carrots/celery/broccoli with ranch dip, pudding, cheese pizza, cheese stuffed breadsticks, with candy and/or fruit pies. To drink, I get water or propel (Propel has vitamin b12 in it) For dinner I usually have a homecooked meal, consisting of Tofu or soymeats, speghetti with soyballs, Tofu enchiladas, scrambled tofu(Vegan replacement for scrambled eggs), theres far to many dinner options, infact I don't think I've had the same dinner twice since I started. Vegan foods... http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/ Vegetarian foods... http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/eat.html Although, of course the lists aren't full, and theres much more Many statements I made can be found back here, http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/ Also, search around for vegan atheletes, vegan runners, vegan bodybuilders, often their website have details on their lives and what the eat and why it helps.

step 1. Take a deep breath. step 2. Push your nostrils closed with your fingers step 3. Exhale as hard as you can only through your nose, for as long as you need/can. step 4. Swallow spit/ chew gum step 5. Shake head The pressure inside your head builds up, it can make water some out the sides of your eyes, bubbling, and then air will come out (it doesn't hurt though) Also this can either stuff up your ears or get rid of the stuffiness. (It's going to make your ears better, because it does the opposite of what you have) The last 2 steps are in case it stuff up yor ears more, but since its newly stuffed up, it should easy to get rid of and take out what you had before.

Guthix_girl, How old are you now? (Since I know you were 10 when you started) And also, I love tofu I've been eating tofu since before being vegetarian, my mom makes a killer tofu enchilada. Tofu tastes like solid water by itself uncooked, but if you cook it with sweet/sour sauce, it soaks up flavor, anything that you can cook tofu with will get it's flavor soaked up by the tofu, so it's impossible to not like any tofu at all. Oh and Lageris, if you weren't expecting reasons to be Vegetarian, you obviously didn't read the "and why" part of the thread title.

Viktorkrum, x10 is an exageration, milk usually has the largest price gaps from organic to non, as much as 5 dollars a gallon. (about 2x the regular price) And Trader Joes stores try and price all the food as low as the can, and they buy directly from producers. (And they always have a sampling table somewhere, with atleast 1 drink and 1 food dish) http://www.traderjoes.com

Defender, You should be eating fruits often anyways (I'd prefer clementines over oranges, easier to peel and smaller, also sweeter) Try asking your parents to shop at a health grocery store next time they go out, maybe just for one time so they can try stuff out, compared to regular grocery stores, there's a bigger variety of foods in health stores (in contrast to having 4158643 brands of the same food), theres bound to be something they like. Don't be afraid to try out anything, heck theres a juice called "Green Plant", the liquid is completely dark green, and somewhat thick, hard to get yourself to drink it first, but it tastes wonderful, and also has calcium,vitamin c, vitamin a, iron, and some protien. (Really healthy for you) And excercising, it is good for you, although I'd rather recomnd cardio training (aerobic excercises, running) over just weight lifting or something of that sort. A few days ago, I went out running with my dog, and it was the first time I've ever ran 3.5 miles non-stop (and that was in the cold :) ), I feel like this new diet is helping my heart lots to.

Whoa Rodl, calm down :| I was only pointing out that you thought vegetarians couldn't drink milk, and right there in the qoute you showed me, you were disproved. (To add to that (in rebuttal to your attack on my grammar), I learned Lithuanian and English at the same time, my parents only spoke Lithuanian and little English, and I had to learn English basically on my own, and I'm doing pretty well, with the honors course english classes I take in highschool now and all...) If you support PETA, you don't have to go all out, that would be like saying, if you support the troops, go sign up for the military and get yourself to Iraq as soon as you can. Soap was invented using animal fat and ashes, but I'm certain they don't make soap like that these days. Does our gag reflex prevent us from eating ANYTHING at all? You can eat dirt perfectly fine without gagging if you don't mind the taste, then again, I'd like to see you eat a cow raw, like a real carnivore would. A 1000 years ago people thought the world was flat. Not even a century ago a group of people thought it was right to kill all jews. Not everything humans do is right. Carnivores have all strong, sharp teeth (http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/anatomical_images/family_pages/carnivora/carnivore_teeth.jpg/medium.jpg) You try biting through an animal's skin with out severly messing up your teeth, our "Canine" teeth can be found in the same places as gorrillas and monkeys, who have nearly the same teeth structure as us but are completely herbivores. (Which can obviously disprove the common opinion that vegetarians lack protien, look at these 400pound beasts) If you throw a ball to a dog, it'll go catch it if it wants to play, who are you to say that Chickens wouldn't? Factory farm chickens sometimes attack eachother for space, not eat eachother, so imagine if someone cut off your hands because you picked a fight with someone who was making you feel uncomfortable and was intruding your space. For your next statements, I'm pretty baffled as to what you're trying to say, so I'll try my best. If all humans did have the instinct to lunge on top of an animal and eat it all, then PETA wouldn't exist, as that would be a carnivorous instinct. Your example of the pig, imagine you're starved, don't have any tools and are stuck in an empty room with a live pig, to make it more interesting, say you have extremely sharp teeth. Would you lunge at the pig? Would eat it's raw meat? If you answered yes to these questions, you'd be dead fast, because you can't eat raw meat, because we're herbivores, just like the pig who wouldn't eat you. So I guess to you I have my head stuck to far up my wagon, apperantly, it's a wagon full of logic. Seeing your upsetting statements I can't reply to your hamster problem, as I can't trust that you didn't play a role in it. We don't farm insects to eat them. Infact there are many bugs out there that would start eating you before you eat them. There you have it, I replied to everything you've stated. EDIT: Defender, Trader Joes and Whole Foods shouldn't be to hard to find locally in the US. As for my research, its from when I started considering Vegetarianism, if you want me to find a source for a specific statement I made, I can try and look it up agian, although it wouldn't be to difficult to look it up yourself if you're really interested. Also, http://www.stonyfield.com <- supposably the most humane dairy company out there, the Organic Trader Joes milk is actually also bought from Stonyfield and anouther humane milk company, depending on the prices that those companies sell at the time to them.

When I click on the properties of your pixel, it says its only 1388 bytes, its under 6kb. :?

Anyhow you aren't a vegetarian, don't lie to yourself, you drink milk. Good luck. Reading level? :lol: And not everyone who sides with peta has to be a complete vegan, thought I don't use animal tested products, besides the medicines that I don't know are. That's the problem, thats all you had to eat, and you didn't eat large meals, I however eat like a pig breakfast lunch and dinner. And I have snacks lying around the house that I eat if I get hungry. My parents lived in Lithuania in a small town until I was 3, when they were kids they never had many processed foods of any kind, everything had to be farmed, neighborhoods would ussually gather around for the killing of a livestock animal and that would be their meat for the week unless they caught some fish.

But, those animals aren't dieing for our own use, they happen to be in the wrong place in the wrong time. I'm a vegetarian now, not a vegan. Vegetarians : Don't eat anything that an animal died for (no meat, no fish) Vegans: Don't eat or use anything that animal made/ died for (No leather, no eggs, no milk) When I said I only drink Stonyfeild milk, that might of thrown some people off, Stonyfeild is just an organic dairy company that's arguably the most humane to animals (well, they better be, it's alot more expensive that regular milk, they even include the address of their factory on their milk pints, if you ever wanted to see and judge for yourself) Plus, Bob Burnquist and Geoff Rowley are both big time pro skateboarders, both hxc Vegans. http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html That's a good webpage about the natural agrument for vegetarians/vegans, but you have to understand this about the logic used there as compared to most people who argue eating meat is natural. For a cow that doesn't understand a human, they could say that we don't have feelings either. Imagine, you go in front of a cow, it sees and recognizes you, and you painfully brand it. The next time the cow sees you it will remember that you've hurt it before, and will be afraid of you. If you can say honestly that dogs and cats have feelings, how can you deny that other animals do to? The USDA is very leniant on what it puts its "Organic" label on, so even that meat can be filled with hormones. The meat you buy at your regular grocery store would be still considered "bottom of the barrel meat" even if you have it as a filet mingon. The companies that produce this meat don't care for what happens to the buyer, all companies want profit, faster growth = less food used = meat made faster. The meat you would find without these hormones would be in a rural area in eastern europe, where the meat is still eaten rarely and the pigs, chickens, and cows are grown on an old couple's farm. (My mom used to do little jobs for these kinds of farms in Lithuania, such as catching the chickens at night and putting them in the barn) Not only that, but the animals that are killed for meat in those kinds of farms are killed by hitting a nerve on the head hard that kills the animal instantly, and not the neck slitting process big factories use. Meat used to be more humane than it is now.

dh for dharoks is annoying, I keep on thinking "dragonhide" #-o I asked people what nvm meant, and everytime they would say "nevermind" and I just thought they said "nevermind" as in"Don't worry about it, it's not important" took me a few months before I realized that nvm meant nevermind. :wall:

By your logic, 4,500,000 people were vegan in 2000, which I sadly doubt.

I'll try to address some of the statements made since my last post here... Gorrillas and monkeys also have the same kind of "canine teeth" as we do, a carnivore who's as big as a human would have a canine tooth that would easily puncture our skin, our canine teeth are only called that, because they're shaped more for tearing than grinding. I searched "Vegan lifespan 2 years shorter" and I couldn't find anything to back that up, infact, try searching "Vegan lifespan" a majority of resources will say it's longer.

Bears have the immune system and digestrive tract of a beasty machine. Of course, they are also much hardier And fish contain the most essential vitamins and health sources of any meat. They are also the leanest and lightest types of meat. In addition, they are the only meat humans can eat raw :P. I'd recommend sushi if anything. (even though that question I had was a tad sarcastic...) But see, we don't have a beastly digestive tract and we're not as hardy as a bear. Though, even if eating fish would be extremely healthy for me (which I'm sure does have many healthy nutrients and whatnot), I wouldn't do it, mainly because of my animal rights beliefs and that I find seafood disgusting, and how I think it's odd that we can manage to have fish as pets and care for them, cry when they die, yet eat a fish raw without a secound thought about it. Once you clear your fridge of meat, and buy many types of food that you enjoy, and try out the soy(fake)meats (I find them tastier than real meat), its really easy. So the only difficult thing is, if you eat out at restaruants or fast food alot, its sometimes hard to find something vegetarian, but most restaurants will have something. Anyways, I've stopped eating fastfood meat when I was 9 (5 years ago)

That, of course, being the only reason. (assuming you say that because you think I based the first statement on the secound one) A quick google search will bring up many results of proof vegans/vegetarians live longer.

I hated seafood and fish years before now, and I extremely rarely ate any seafood. Do you have any reasoning for why you think rare meat is good for you? And I still stand by my humans being herbivores reasoning. Imagine 3000 years from now, humans are extinct and some other futuristic species finds our remains, based on our bodies, do you think they'd think we were omnivores? Once again, a reason I think humans are often considered omnivores, is because we have no natural instincts of what we should eat, we just test out food, but now, parents teach children what to eat. Also, do bears get fatally ill from eating to much raw meat? :lol:

Vegans often have low amounts of vitamin B12, mostly unobtainable from a vegan diet. But I used to take, and still take a multivitamin fom Dr.Weil, it includes 300% of the daily needed value of B12. Also, there are barely any significant vitamins that are hard to get from a vegetarian diet. I have these "Smart dog" hot dogs, fat free, meat free, made of soy, and 1 serving has 38% of protien needed (based on a 2,000 calorie diet). Plus, these things taste GREAT. (And I don't drink soymilk) To get some other extra protien, my mom keeps a small bowl filled with various nuts on the kitchen counter, which are great for snacking on. (My mom went vegetarian to after she found that I stopped eating meat) Google vegan body builders. You can EASILY get protien from even a vegan diet, plus the vegan body builders have more cut muscles, and don't have to dehydrate themselves to look more cut like regular ones do. EDIT: oh, and I am all for animal rights and I side with PeTA, but I did not include any of my positions of animal cruelty in the first post, because that seems to get the most negetive attention. I think animals have the same feelings we do, and facts are, if you Live in the US or get meat from the US, the animals you eat are incredibly stressed, ussualy unhealthy, and have horrible lives.

Since January 22nd I've become completely vegetarian. I never really ate much meat anyways but I still did. I decided to stop eating meat all together a month ago. I'm only 14 and my body is still growing, so my parents were worried (They found out a week after I started). I had already educated myself about what vitamins are hard to obtain through vegetarianism, what affects it can have on your body, and what you need to look out for, so I had an answer for every question my parents had. Meat has the hormone estrogen (because meat factories use them on animals to make them grow faster), this hormone is transfered into the meat we eat, which is why girls (they're more susceptable to this hormone, because it's naturally a female hormone) often hit puberty at young ages such as 9 or 8. You might think this is harmless, but this can stop kids from growing their full height, because this hormone closes up the bone plate that determines your height earlier. Amazingly, around the secound week of vegetarianism I stopped getting acne :shock: , and now when I do, they're gone within a day and not as bad/noticable. Many people try and argue that you need meat for protien. This is definately not true, think of some of the biggest animals living today, Giraffes, elephants, rhinos, and silverback gorillas, all herbivores. Next time you're at your grocery store, take a look at the fake meat's nutritional values, its alot healthier than real meat, it can often contain more calcium, vitamin c, iron, and yes, even more protien than regular meat, not to mention it has less fats and often tastes better than real meat. Soy, the product used to make most fake meats, contains alot of protien. "But we naturally have to eat meat!" I heard this alot from my dad, and others, truth is, we don't, infact, we're herbivores. Think about how biologists determine whether extinct animals were herbivores or not, carnivores have claws, long canine teeth(our canine teeth are pathetic compared to real carnivores), and never opposable thumbs(someone will probably correct me here). Herbivores have flat grinding teeth, and alot of them have opposable thumbs for picking fruit. Statistics show that vegetarians have higher average lives. A mostly carnivorous village somewhere in Asia, infact have one of the lowest average death ages. There is a proven way to reverse heart disease, by going on a completely vegan diet. Some other things that seperate us from carnivores: We cook our meat, we can get fataly ill if we dont Carnivores have an instinct to want to eat all of the meat they kill, not just muscle or fat. Humans don't have an instinct on what's edible and whats not, we learn from testing out things, normally if it doesn't kill you, we consider it safe, nowadays, we learn what to eat from our parents. I won't mention any of the horrible things we do to animals, because this is ussually the most contraversial thing about vegetarianism, in my point of veiw, yes, animals have feelings. (plus if all meat factories in the us stopped, we'd have enough extra grains and things to feed africa) My results from being vegetarian at 4 weeks: Less acne I grew from 5'4 to 5'5 (might not be connected) I have more energy. I've never been on track or anything, but yesterday I ran with my dog for 3 and a half miles, more than I ever have. I get less tired from workouts, and recover faster. I wake up easier in the mornings. My skin is less pale. I have a larger appetite, and this is mostly good, because as a result I'm getting more vitamins and minerals. I have a longer endurance now. 5 week edit: I got a bit sick this weekend, but its something that every other person seems to be getting around here, my mom, my dad, my freinds, alot of people. But I got it after my mom and got rid of it before she did. Really, I think a positive attitude really helped, because I kept on telling myself "I'm not sick, I'm not sick, I'm not sick" and it went away. 6 week update Nothing new really, just found a new health store around my house, but I'm still sticking to my Trader joes, alot cheaper. I can answer most questions that you might have about vegetarianism, from a previous meat-eater point of view, so feel free to ask.

By the way, Lithuania is pulling out all of it's troops, all 53 of them. :XD:

Ha, I wonder how many troops Lithuania had in there... the erban/metro area of chicago has twice as much population as the entire country of Lithuania. Anyways, less troops there is good, we're no longer stopping terorism, we're just giving them a reason for more.

zombie hunting/massacring. You go to your local Zombie emporium, either buy a zombie and release it, to hunt it down, or ask to go to one of their facilities with your choice of weapons to try and kill as many zombies as you could in 10 minutes. My high score is 33. :-w (Don't ask... zombie related dream last night)

Darn, when I read the question here the first thing I thought of was the "Head Chef" in the cooking guild :lol: , I phail. (But to my defense I didn't do the My Arm quest yet) I once included runescape in a project for spanish once, and the teacher said he's heard about it, now i'm afriad to talk to any newb players with anything irish/spanish in their names (The teacher was Irish, he was one of the best teachers I've had)

The circle thing hanging off the hotel in Dubai is actually a tennis court, pro tennis players stay there often and sometimes fool around and try to hit passing by boats, or get tennis balls onto the street. :-w ^ house on the rock, winsconsin (I've been there) http://www.pbase.com/ysic/the_house_on_the_rock ^ its full of collections inside, pretty interesting http://www.atpm.com/7.10/house-on-the-r ... finity.jpg (high resolution) ^ The Infinity room, its basically a long windowed hallway that leads to nothing, and its also hanging over a cliff thingy. http://www.springgreen.com/old_images/infinity.jpg (they're looking through a glas box thingy to the below trees) after seeing that last picture, I can remember that I actually thought that room lead further, but it was only an illusion oh and, oy the great, you remind me of my English teacher :lol: EDIT: erm... why is "spring_green" censored? (without the underscore)

I mined you! I didn't get any ore though...

I nominate the boy that stands outside of the Fremnick Hall. I mean, who here doesn't still have their pet rock in their bank? We are all underestimating the infiltrating powers of the mysterious pet rock.* Scratch that. I don't nominate him, he'll become an absolute monarch in due time. *If anyone understands where I came up with that, give yourself a cookie.

Yay! Finally a helm to wear while rcing =) (I could never find one I like before :lol: )