What are ya??

Nature Boy

Let's all have a good 'ol poll!
No particular reason, just for the sake of it!

Pick the one that best suits you. Lots of options so you should fit in somewhere. If you don't then you're a freak!

Mentalmiss

Glad to see the raw foodist in there but I prefer Raw Vegan because there are a lot of raw foodists that are not vegan and use honey and there are even a few (Carol Alt for instance) who eat raw meat and fish.
I am a Raw Vegan.

Nature Boy

Well I guess what I mean by raw foodist is raw fruit and veg (and nuts and so on). I guess I don't really know all that much about it, I didn't realise people ate raw meat too!

I made the list such that the diets have less animal foods in them further down the list

Mentalmiss

Nature Boy wrote:

I guess I don't really know all that much about it, I

Well when you feel that you are ready to know more then just ask me. I will be happy to help anyone who wants to take this jouney.

Nature Boy

I don't think i'd be doing it (maybe i'd try it for a few days or something). How long have you been doing it? Do you like it? What would be a typical meal?

Mentalmiss

I am celebrating my first aniversarry of 100% raw just about this week.
I had half a honeydue melon when I got up (about half past nine ) and I have prepared a green smoothie to have in about 30 mins after I work out.
There is no such thing as a typical meal for a raw foodist as the diet can be even more varied than normal peoples.
One meal would be. Prepare lots of cliced ray vegies this evening and coat in olive oil and sea sale and let steep overnight (an hour will do) place in the dehydrator for a few hours to soften. I like it with chilli sauce and onion dip on the side.
The onion dip is made of cashew nuts and water blended and then add chopped onion.
If you do not want to go raw then I would recomend that you add a green smoothie to your daily diet. I will try to find a link to some info and post it.
http://www.rawfamily.com/articles/odetogreen.pdf

Shabadu

Back on topic thanks. Mentalmiss, I've warned you once before about proselytizing. This is not a forum for recruiting people to your personal beliefs.

Oobie

I'm a lacto ovo vegetarian but I don't really like eggs. I don't mind them when they're in food and I can't see them but I don't like eating them boiled.

Nature Boy

Shabadu wrote:

Back on topic thanks. Mentalmiss, I've warned you once before about proselytizing. This is not a forum for recruiting people to your personal beliefs.

I expressed an interest in her diet, asked a few questions about it and she answered them. I don't see a problem with that

Mentalmiss

Shabadu wrote:

Back on topic thanks. Mentalmiss, I've warned you once before about proselytizing. This is not a forum for recruiting people to your personal beliefs.

I have no intention of recruiting anyone. I will derive no benefit from such an effort.
I answered the poll honestly and merely pointed out that my correct classification was not there and why.
I was then asked a question and I answered it honestly.
I have answered other questions here from the standpoint of someone who has been vegetarian for over 30 years and vegan for 5 years so why can I not answer from the standpoint of someone who has been raw for a year.
What are you afraid of. A little awareness of the existence of another way of doing things never hurt anyone.
Someone had to bring vegetarianism and veganism to our attention before we went down that road.
I do not care if anyone on this board goes raw but I do care that you do not want them to know that such a way is there for them.

Nature Boy

Oobie wrote:

I'm a lacto ovo vegetarian but I don't really like eggs. I don't mind them when they're in food and I can't see them but I don't like eating them boiled.

By the way by Vegetarian in the poll I mean Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian

Oobie

Nature Boy wrote:

By the way by Vegetarian in the poll I mean Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian

Whoops! Voted for the wrong one then!

Erawtica

I am also raw vegan and find it to be the most wonder-filled way to eat. Began as a vegetarian of 15 years and slowly evolved.

Erawtica

Kolodny

Currently pescatarian (at least most of the time) but I was strictly veggie for 5 years before.

Nature Boy

Kolodny wrote:

Currently pescatarian (at least most of the time) but I was strictly veggie for 5 years before.

May I ask why you gave up being veggie? I don't mean to go off topic too much, just interested to know why people give it up

RuggieBear

I eat meat but i eat it very rare.

Probaly even rarer than this


So i'm probably a Raw Carnovore. but i quite like raw veg so maybe i'm a raw omnivore.

i'm feeling a little confused...am i a raw foodist?

Blub2k4

I'm an omnivore, but very often eat vegetarian.
If I eat meat it tends to be quality and less of it.

Nature Boy

This is turning out to be an interesting poll. So far, 62.5% of the people that visit the vegetarian forum aren't actually vegetarian!!

Tar.Aldarion

Oobie wrote:

Whoops! Voted for the wrong one then!

Ya, me too. Damn. Although, I'm a bit more towards vegan than that.

Samos

I voted for semi-vegan, which doesn't make sense to me, because you either are vegan or not. But I'm vegan in my personal cooking, but whenever I eat out or get lunch at work the option is rarely there. I should stop being so lazy and make my own lunch at home and bring it in!

Nature Boy

It's the same for me. 'Semi-Vegan' obviously isn't a proper term (hence the inverted commas). What I mean by it is you eat vegan food fairly regularily or you're on the way to becoming vegan.

Erawtica

I think you're proselytizing.

E.

RuggieBear wrote:

I eat meat but i eat it very rare.

Probaly even rarer than this


So i'm probably a Raw Carnovore. but i quite like raw veg so maybe i'm a raw omnivore.

i'm feeling a little confused...am i a raw foodist?

Nature Boy

The results of this poll have been very surprising to me. Why do so many non-vegetarians visit the vegetarian forum?

Blub2k4

Nature Boy wrote:

The results of this poll have been very surprising to me. Why do so many non-vegetarians visit the vegetarian forum?

Personally, I eat vegetarian quite a lot and I cook a lot, so this forum is just a natural one for me to look in on.

Omnivores eat veggies too, unlike vegetarians in their different guises who dont stray to the dark side at all, so it only doesn't work the other way around really.

(If you come to the other forum now and again I wont tell anyone though sssshhh!!)

Nature Boy

Oh I know what you mean (Although I don't know of any onmivores who don't eat any less than at least 2 meals a day with meat in them).

I mean I was jsut expecting a small amount of people to be non veggies, but it has turned out that the majority are meat eaters.

Is there any situation where veggies are not a minority?? They're even a minority in vegetarian forums!!!

Doomspell

Don't really have diet....I picked fruitarian because I do eat alot, not because its a diet or anything, I just like it

Tar.Aldarion

Do you know what fruitarian means?

Nature Boy

I only put that in for the sake of it. Didn't think anyone would actually pick it!

niallb

Nature Boy wrote:

Oh I know what you mean (Although I don't know of any onmivores who don't eat any less than at least 2 meals a day with meat in them).

I know quite a few omnivores who'd eat flesh several times
a week or month, but not on a regular basis.
Most of those prefer to cook vegetarian.

I've been vegetarian for over 35 years, and have known many
people who've been more or less committed to it along the way.
In the 70's you wouldn't even find the word "vegetarian" in a
dictionary printed in Ireland, let alone in a menu.

I've known two people whose eyesight suffered as a result of
a vegetarian diet - perhaps they needed to pay more attention
to combining foods in their diet. They were recommended by
their doctors to return to eating fish at least, and recovered
without any lasting harm.

NiallB

Nature Boy

Maybe some meat eaters don't eat meat regularily (I still have to say I've never met one!) but that doesn't explain why the majority of people visiting a veggie forum would still eat meat. If a meat eater wants to try a vegetarian meal they'd go to a recipie website not a forum that discusses vegetarian issues such as animal rights and animal by-products in food and the like, why would they care about anything like that? I'm genuinely curious. But I have been rattling on about it so I guess I should shut up!!

Blub2k4

I see merits in all points of view, but I think it is only fair to doff ones cap to evolution and accept that meat eating is an efficient usage of energy, but loses that once it becomes a mass industry that focusses on profit. I spent a lot of time on farms as a kid, I like to know meat has had a past that is beyond a space in a box for a few months. At the end of the day I think I can partake of the vegetarian forums plus points, which are many, and we can avoid the whys and wherefores mostly which lead to points of view diverging.
I wont wave my meat eating in your face however unless I'm asked, and I definitely wouldn't be so crude as to illustrate it with a picture.