veganism: Fruits/Veggies - You're getting the nutrients from Earth second hand (eating a source that processes it directly) Clean Animals (beef, fish, poultry, mutton) - Getting nutrients third-hand (eating the thing that eats the thing that processes the nutrients) Unclean Animals - fourth-hand nutrients (eating the animals that eat the animals that eat the things that process the nutrients) That's the basis of the Biblical dietary laws. Fruits/Veggies are ideal. But as far as meats, it's not just because God decided that some animals were unclean. It's practical advice as well. Get your nutrition as directly as possible. Don't eat the predators, and don't eat the garbage cans.|||Good answer Report Abuse |||Does it really matter what you eat as long as you get the nourishment you need? I eat meat and I eat vegetables and that should be good enough for everybody. As for veganism I don't mind it and I actually admire vegans for their discipline; I can't imagine eating nothing but non-animal product for the rest of MY existence. The only thing I don't like about some vegans is if they are who they are simply because they think humans are monsters for eating other animals for food. They say meat-eaters are disrespectful of living things; what are they doing? Are plants not living things as well? So why are they eaten? Are lions and cheetahs and other carnivores monsters because they feed on the flesh of other animals? NO and that answer should apply to humans as well; lions are being lions, cheetahs are being cheetahs and we are just being ourselves. Also I should add that if it weren't for the consumption of meat products the human race would never have survived the Ice Age when most plant life perished. So yeah follow whatever diet you want; just do it for the right reasons.|||Meat-eaters eat too much meat to be healthy. Veganism and vegetarianism are not how we are supposed to be. Humans are meant to eat meat. However, considering we have access to lots of meat nowadays, we eat too much being meat eaters. Eating no meat is healthier than eating too much meat. Thus, being a vegan or a vegetarian is the healthier option. Neither have the higher moral ground, for animals are killed in both process. In fact, more small land mammals are killed in the process of providing specialist foods for vegans and vegetarians, and also habitats for animals are destroyed in this process too (which does not happen in the process of providing food for meat eaters). More vegans and vegetarians = more demand for vegetables and specialist foods = more animals killed and more habitats destroyed (so animals can never live there again. Ever.). So neither is more moral than the other - but being a vegan or vegetarian is healthier.|||Health-wise, I don't think you get all the nutrients your body needs from just eating fruits and vegetables (veganism). Although, I also don't suggest eating red meat. Fish is much preferable, and chicken, too. We also need to drink milk. So, there should be a good combination of fresh fruits and juices, fresh vegetables, almonds and walnuts, oatmeal, white meat (fish/chicken) eggs, and fresh milk/yogurt. And these you should eat religiously!|||You can eat vegans, but I think that's cannabalism....just kidding. I know eating people is a big taboo for most cultures. Although that brings me to my point. I think that most people are speciest and will place higher value on species that are closer to human than not. For example, cows (being a mammal) will have a higher value than an ear of corn ( a plant)...making it harder for them to be willing to consume said cow, morally. If your philosophy however, is that everything has an equal value spiritually, Doesn't an ear of corn deserve the same respect given to a cow, or a human? If you think about it like that, you might not want to eat at all. Or you might go the opposite direction and realize that since you have to eat to live, you might as well just eat anything, since spiritually everything has the same value. |||If one is an omnivore by nature, which is what we are, (we have teeth and a digestive system system for booth meat and veggies) then forcing yourself to not eat meat is not natural. Saying that killing animals for food is somehow wrong (a sin?) is just fanatic and denies reason. Danielle seems to be a level headed person and even nice, but Eskimos, who have been around a few thousand years, may dissagree with her.|||im a vegetarian of 17 years eating meat is part of nature, we are all food for soemthing else, but i just dont want to be part of it myself, but i dont expect anyone else to change, my boyf is a ravenous meat eater, i dont know much about veganisim, but i often wonder exactly what they do eat, and whether they care that nuts and seeds are part of plants, part of life, its still eating another being, just one that we dont understand of consider a being, for me the fact is, if you were to not want to eat any living thing, you would be dead, because there is very little in this life that isnt from some sort of living being, be it animals or plants|||Meat is so delicious. I dont think I could live the rest of my life without eating another ham and turkey sandwich, or never again tasting bacon. So for those vegans, good for you. I'll stop eating animals when they tell me they don't want to be eaten.|||Meat eaters devour vegetarians. Vegetarians don't devour meat eaters. Odor eaters devour odors. Meat eaters devour shoes plus odors plus vegans. Humans devour the meat eaters,the vegans. The cooking techniques the real issue.|||I'm an omnivore, so I'm going to eat like an omnivore. Pandas are omnivores who adopted the vegan lifestyle, how's that working out?|||I'm a vegetarian.Why? Not sure who(religion) you are addressing|||You think eating meat is bad? Vegans are eating all the plants. That's no better. Just because it doesn't have eyes or a mouth doesn't mean it's any different.|||Veginismus has nothing to do with meat-eating.|||I think vegans eat to sustain life just as meat eaters do. To each his own.|||Both are living beings|||Whatever you like. I'll eat veggies if they're fried.|||I eat both meat and vegans|||I don't eat anything with a face|||to each his own