Comments on: The Third Reason to GoVeg http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/ go vegetarian one day a week! Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: eric http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/comment-page-1/#comment-596 eric Mon, 28 May 2007 01:13:34 +0000 http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/#comment-596 This is good information to know. As you know, it seems that vegetarians are always having to defend their diets and lifestyle choices. Facts add good ammunition to support this. Hopefully someday it will be the other way around. This is good information to know. As you know, it seems that vegetarians are always having to defend their diets and lifestyle choices. Facts add good ammunition to support this. Hopefully someday it will be the other way around.

]]> By: Jason Truesdell http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Jason Truesdell Mon, 28 May 2007 00:16:02 +0000 http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/#comment-595 I meant to say "much presence of..." Ah well... lesson learned... don't write while sleepy. I even recall a certain painkiller-dependent talk show host ridiculing a study on the impact of cattle production on greenhouse gases in 1991 or so, so research on the impact of factory farming on the environment has been around for a while. Diet For a Small Planet, while mostly useless as a cookbook and somewhat flawed from a nutritional point of view, also covered the environmental impact of meat eating in 1972. I meant to say “much presence of…” Ah well… lesson learned… don’t write while sleepy.

I even recall a certain painkiller-dependent talk show host ridiculing a study on the impact of cattle production on greenhouse gases in 1991 or so, so research on the impact of factory farming on the environment has been around for a while.

Diet For a Small Planet, while mostly useless as a cookbook and somewhat flawed from a nutritional point of view, also covered the environmental impact of meat eating in 1972.

]]> By: eric http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/comment-page-1/#comment-594 eric Sun, 27 May 2007 23:57:26 +0000 http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/#comment-594 the link. http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070527/OPINION02/705270317/1014/OPINION the link.
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070527/OPINION02/705270317/1014/OPINION

]]> By: eric http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/comment-page-1/#comment-593 eric Sun, 27 May 2007 23:55:44 +0000 http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/#comment-593 Ironically, while researching for tomorrow's article I came across this article smartly written about vegetarianism and nonviolence. <a href="http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070527/OPINION02/705270317/1014/OPINION" title="nonviolence in vegetarianism" rel="nofollow"> Ironically, while researching for tomorrow’s article I came across this article smartly written about vegetarianism and nonviolence.

]]> By: eric http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/comment-page-1/#comment-592 eric Sun, 27 May 2007 23:39:07 +0000 http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/#comment-592 It's good to hear that the environmental factor has been around longer than I realized (I suspected it had been, but I was more clueless about it at the time). Of course the actual problem has been around a lot longer than the awareness to the problem. Today, the environmental reason has more "teeth" and people seem to be more aware. I am certainly glad people are waking up and taking this into consideration. The nonviolence issue is one of the best reasons to adopt a veg diet...in my humble opinion. I actually started because of animal welfare issues, but it has evolved into nonviolence and health reasons. I too had gained weight the first couple of years. I was young and ate a lot of junk food. However, I still believe that no being deserves to be treated the way animals in our food system are treated. The ignorance and uncaring that surrounds this issue is alarming to me. It is a sad thing. I guess it doesn't matter what anyone's reason is for going veg, any reason is the right one. Thanks for posting Jason. It’s good to hear that the environmental factor has been around longer than I realized (I suspected it had been, but I was more clueless about it at the time). Of course the actual problem has been around a lot longer than the awareness to the problem. Today, the environmental reason has more “teeth” and people seem to be more aware. I am certainly glad people are waking up and taking this into consideration.

The nonviolence issue is one of the best reasons to adopt a veg diet…in my humble opinion. I actually started because of animal welfare issues, but it has evolved into nonviolence and health reasons. I too had gained weight the first couple of years. I was young and ate a lot of junk food.

However, I still believe that no being deserves to be treated the way animals in our food system are treated. The ignorance and uncaring that surrounds this issue is alarming to me. It is a sad thing.

I guess it doesn’t matter what anyone’s reason is for going veg, any reason is the right one.

Thanks for posting Jason.

]]> By: Jason Truesdell http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/comment-page-1/#comment-589 Jason Truesdell Sun, 27 May 2007 06:11:20 +0000 http://wannaveg.com/2007/05/23/the-third-reason-to-goveg/#comment-589 When I became vegetarian in 1993, environmental concerns were actually a factor, and I knew one woman for whom that was her primary consideration. At my university, it's possible the culture was a little bit different, as we really didn't have much presents of animal rights advocates and the like. The possibility of a health benefit appealed to me but I think I actually gained weight on my first year of a vegetarian diet. For me, minimizing unnecessary violence was a primary consideration, including environmental violence... I wasn't very focused on animal rights or animal welfare, though I know that was a big deal for some vegetarians. I think nonviolence was a fairly major factor in the 70s-era vegetarian movement as well. Since nonviolence was my primary motivation, and an eventual taste preference is my sustaining motivation, I'm probably less dogmatic than many vegetarians, but I think the environmental motivation is roughly on the same continuum as the urge to minimize violence. When I became vegetarian in 1993, environmental concerns were actually a factor, and I knew one woman for whom that was her primary consideration. At my university, it’s possible the culture was a little bit different, as we really didn’t have much presents of animal rights advocates and the like.

The possibility of a health benefit appealed to me but I think I actually gained weight on my first year of a vegetarian diet.

For me, minimizing unnecessary violence was a primary consideration, including environmental violence… I wasn’t very focused on animal rights or animal welfare, though I know that was a big deal for some vegetarians. I think nonviolence was a fairly major factor in the 70s-era vegetarian movement as well.

Since nonviolence was my primary motivation, and an eventual taste preference is my sustaining motivation, I’m probably less dogmatic than many vegetarians, but I think the environmental motivation is roughly on the same continuum as the urge to minimize violence.

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