i'll eat poultry and fish

I lurrves my meat. I truly cannot imagine my world without bacon.

I'm a vegan that eats seafood and poultry. How's that possible: I'm allergic to dairy and eggs!!

nope, i do love my meat lol, but since all my food has to be halal/kosher and many places dont accomodate that, i usually go for the veggie options. and i dont mind, its a nice change!

No, but I used to only eat fish. Now I eat fish, chicken, turkey, and occasionally pork -- nothing else.

I like my steak mooing.

Ok, here's what irks me in a big way, so here goes.

You eat any of the following:
-seafood
-poultry
-pork
-beef
-lamb
-goat
-essentially anything that had to be slaughtered to be eaten

Then you are NOT a vegetarian

If you don't eat anything of the above list, but eat:
-dairy
-eggs
-honey

You are NOT Vegan (just vegetarian, and even then you must be careful what cheeses you eat because of the rennet).

I used to be vegetarian for 11 years, vegan for 2 and it always bugged the living daylights out of me when I heard people say "I'm a vegetarian, but I eat fish/chicken" like it doesn't count.

Smacks83 I totally agree! People ask me all the time if I eat fish, I'm always thinking 'no the fish still had to die, just like the cow or chicken'.
I just don't think that one life is more valuable than another.

meat is gross it all reminds me of road kill... i know i did it til i was 11, but now i really can't imagine eating someone's carcass haha... so nasty!

wings are for flying, not frying

aw i love your av floppyfish! me too!

Smacks83 - You are so right. I was strict veg for 7 years and it makes my head spin when people say that. During the later years in my vegetarianism I found a love for cooking and decided to try other options. When I would be asked "Are you still a vegetarian?" I would respond with "No, but the only meat I eat is fish." It was the truth. Today I do my best to eat locally grown, organic and free range meats. It can't happen all the time but I do my best to stick to it.

Be responsible and who you are with your food. You don't bother trying to set your mind at ease by saying you don't slaughter cows, just chickens. It won't get you any further in life.

I am with smacks83 all the way. I have been a vegetarian since I was 12, so roughly 7 years, two of which I was vegan, but went back to vegetarianism once I started getting ill. I know plenty of people who can do veganism easily and healthfully, but I just couldn't get the hang of it and would eat fries with ketchup all day.

I'm a carnivore!

Smacks83 - totally understand your annoyance, but sometimes its just easier to not explain.

I am a pescatarian (aka i eat fish, dairy, eggs occasionally), but at least 3 days a week I eat vegan. I eat this way for environmental and health reasons.

That is a lot of words, besides the fact that 60% of people I say this to dont know what a pescatarian is, let alone the difference between vegetarian and vegan.

So sometimes it just easier to say "vegetarian" when ordering food or letting people know of your eating limitations.

I am a meat eater, we are not herbivores or carnivores we are omnivores.

I loves me my meat, but for health/cost/environmental reasons, I've tried to cut my consumption. I'll go vegetarian about 4-6 meals a week. Admittedly, I enjoy food even more now that my diet's more varied. It's encouraged me to get creative in the kitchen

i noticed some comments regarding whether or not people eat "things which have been slaughtered" defines them as vegetarian.
for a lot of people, vegetarianism is not an ethical thing necessarily.
it could just be due to allergies or other health/ dietary reasons.
and that's their right.

I was for a decade then stopped to train for a half ironman and then it was easier while I learned about some food allergies I have. I have gone back to my non-meat eating ways now that I have my allergies figured out. I suppose I may try to find a balance to get my good omega-3's etc. but for now I am in the lacto-ovo category.

I was a strict vegetarian for 7 years until I became pregnant when I had an overwhelming urge for a burger. I tried and tried to not give in but eventually did, and have been eating meat - all kinds - ever since. My daughter is 8 months old and as of now I have no desire to go back to a vegetarian diet, although I might in the future.

I've tried it and it wasn't for me.

Nope. I love meat!

I'm a flexitarian! Basically I am vegetarian/vegan until PartySugar makes me dinner!

A vegetarian for health, environmental, or financial concerns is still someone who doesn't eat anything that was slaughtered.

Chichiwood, I did not mean my comment to be an ethical one. I meant it more as if something has to be killed, then vegetarians cannot eat it. The whole point of vegetarians is that they don't eat meat (for whatever reasons). But if you eat anything that is considered meat/flesh/animal-tissue/whatever-you-call-it from animals then you are not a vegetarian.
Hope this clarifies.

i'm kosher so when i'm out do dinner, i eat vegetarian or fish. but otherwise i LOVE meat!

I limit my red meat, but I eat everything in moderation. I LOOOOOOOVE veggies, but I would not want to cut out all other options for dinner

I love steak way too much to be a vegetarian

I would have to say that fish is the only meat I eat. I was vegetarian for about 7 years, and then started eating fish bc it's so much easier to make sure you get all the vitamins etc that you need, and it's also "easier", lame excuse, I know. Where I come from fish is a huge part of the local eating habits and delicacies so it really makes my life better to eat fish also. This said, I've never actually cooked any fish of any kind, I only eat it while eating out, or at dinner parties and such. I don't see myself eating any other meat ever again. I tried a piece of chicken not too long ago, but I just could not do it.

Go team veg! Fourteen years and counting.

I was a vegetarian for 5 years, and then I became pescatarian. Now, I eat poultry as well. I still refure to eat red meat.

I consider myself a flexitarian. I eat fish once a week, but otherwise it's vegetarian fare for me.

Flexitarian, and I agree with SillyGirl as far as using "vegetarian" to simplify things when ordering. I eat mostly vegan, some eggs and fish a few times a week, and dairy and other meat only if someone is cooking and I need to eat.

I eat mostly vegetarian and limit my meat intake to two individual meals per week. And I refuse to call myself a flexitarian.

If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat! ha ha ha I eat meat, but I am going to start having a meat free day once a week or so.

Meat is murder.
Tasty, tasty murder.

I've been in and out of the vegetarian lifestyle--it's just not feasible with my health.
So I just try to limit my meat consumption.

I don't eat a lot of meat, mostly because I don't like paying for it and veggie-based protein sources are usually cheaper. Right now the only real meat I eat is probably chicken stock...I'm kind of on a veggie kick since all the summer produce is so good. I don't call myself a vegetarian because I do eat eggs and dairy and I will eat meat if it's served to me, but I don't eat it very often AT ALL.

I've never been a big carnivore, but these last few months my body has been rejecting most bit of animal I find in my plate, even the smell of chicken makes me really nauseous.
When I went home last week, I got to see a few whole rabbits and a rooster that had just been killed, and it made me incredibly uncomfortable and upset. That was a good thing though, I don't like the idea people don't want to see animals being killed but are fine with buying steaks from the supermarket because they don't see the animal behind it.
Anyway, I'd been thinking about it for a long time, but I think I'm going to try and be a vegetarian for a little while, or at least eat as less meat/fish as I can handle.

I think I could become a vegetarian, since there isn't a whole lot of meat in my diet and I hate preparing it, but I just don't have the discipline.

I believe in moderation. My dinner plate is mostly vegetables, but I do have 1 meat item every night. Most of the time is fish (Salmon / catfish / Talipia) or chicken, I have red meat may be once a week. And I limit myself to just a Palm size serving.

I've been a Vegetarian for about 10 years. I'm Lacto-Ovo and I eat Honey. I am VERY picky about my dairy and egg sources - have to be from organic/from humanely raised animals (I get our eggs from some family friends or local farms) and the cheeses have to be made without rennet. Honey has to be Organic too.

And I agree with Smacks. It's a huge commitment to be Vegetarian (regardless of your motivations) and I have always felt like people cheapen it by saying they are Vegetarian, but they "occasionally" eat chicken, meat, etc. You either are a Vegetarian or you aren't. If you occationally eat chicken, meat, etc., then you are someone who eats meat and poultry in moderation, you are not "kinda" a Vegetarian.

Good lord, please excuse my grammar/spelling in the prevoious post. Threw my thoughts out there and then didn't review prior to posting!

I love meat, but I try to eat chicken mostly, or vegan meat since it's lower in calories and high in protein. I agree with Smacks83 on the vegetarian/vegan diet list. I was a vegetarian for 2 years and it always bugged me when people said they were vegetarian, but ate fish.

I cook veggie at home, because I hate buying and preparing meat for just me. But I'll eat meat when out at a restaurant.

I could never be a vegetarian, I'm too much of a carnivore! I'm much more of a flexitarian, not opposed to meat, but don't usually take the time to prepare it for myself!

I stopped eating fish when i was 9 becasue it was cruel the way they kill fish and other animals.
But i wasn't allowed to give up meat becasue i am a gymnast and need the protien

No meat for me.
I eat fish, eggs (organic, cage free, no antibiotics or hormones only) and cheese and yogurt.

I wish I could cut the cheese and yogurt b/c I think you still get all the terrible sh*t that was pumped into an animal when you are eating a product that came from it, even if it isn't the animal itself, but I can't seem to make my head overrule my taste buds on that one yet.

Advah: "I don't like the idea people don't want to see animals being killed but are fine with buying steaks from the supermarket because they don't see the animal behind it."

Truer words were never spoken. Right on! It bugs me to death when people don't like to know where there food comes from (or worse yet, don't like to eat chicken/fish whole because it still looks too much like an animal). Ugh!

I'm a vegetarian. About 90% of my diet is vegan, but I occasionally have dairy when I eat out.

I can always count on Shoneyjoe to make me laugh...out loud...prompting my boss to walk into my office only to discover that I am not working !