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62. I dont consume animal products

Thu Apr 16, 2015, 01:46 PM

Apr 2015

And I am healthy. I get complete protein from plant based sources and am not missing anything.
Do you care about animals? Do you care about climate change and water shortages?

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Consumers buying more organic products, new data show [View all] Omaha Steve Apr 2015 OP

More products are actually being labeled. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #1

Why do you care about the death of some marine life chernabog Apr 2015 #8

Because at least the tuna get eaten. Other fish get thrown out. n/t pnwmom Apr 2015 #9

I have a crazy idea... chernabog Apr 2015 #11

Don't eat fish if you don't want to eat fish. pnwmom Apr 2015 #12

Don't pretend like you care about marine life if you eat fish chernabog Apr 2015 #13

Anyone who wants to continue eating fish MUST care about marine life. pnwmom Apr 2015 #16

Killing and eating dead animals chernabog Apr 2015 #20

Go tell it to the lions, tigers, sealions, penguins, and every other animal out there that doesn't Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #22

Haha chernabog Apr 2015 #24

No, that's not my argument, that's your own ridiculous oversimplification thereof. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #26

I like eating dead animals. They are tasty. closeupready Apr 2015 #38

Do you recognize climate change chernabog Apr 2015 #39

Do you recognize "Name Removed" in this thread? closeupready Apr 2015 #40

No? chernabog Apr 2015 #44

AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service Orrex Apr 2015 #41

Thanks, Orrex. closeupready Apr 2015 #42

Of course you'd laugh Orrex Apr 2015 #43

LDO lol closeupready Apr 2015 #46

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Thank you chernabog Apr 2015 #33

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Exactly chernabog Apr 2015 #37

Agreed! mucifer Apr 2015 #81

Fish have great vitamins and it is recommended that yeoman6987 Apr 2015 #76

Plant based foods chernabog Apr 2015 #77

I was sorta interested in healthier food and less meat yeoman6987 Apr 2015 #79

I think you mean Linda McCARTNEY, not McCarthy (n/t) Autumn Colors Apr 2015 #82

True yeoman6987 Apr 2015 #83

I go by closeness to extinction. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #18

So if one species is not close to extinction chernabog Apr 2015 #19

I'm not a vegetarian, if that's what you mean. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #21

I can tell. chernabog Apr 2015 #23

What argument am I trying to make? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #25

You don't need to eat animals to survive chernabog Apr 2015 #29

Yes you do. d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #47

Can you back that claim with science? chernabog Apr 2015 #48

I don't need science to back up the fact that people have preferences. d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #50

That is not the part of your reply I was asking about chernabog Apr 2015 #52

Fine. Just cuz you asked. d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #53

What's a low grade protein? chernabog Apr 2015 #54

If you bothered reading the information that you asked for d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #61

I dont consume animal products chernabog Apr 2015 #62

I love animals d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #63

So you don't care about animals chernabog Apr 2015 #64

Resorting to name calling just because I eat meat? d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #65

You are utterly wrong chernabog Apr 2015 #66

Read the EPA website. Its much fresher than some article written in 2006 d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #67

What I posted was global chernabog Apr 2015 #68

You know the EPA also has global figures too d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #69

I love that chart chernabog Apr 2015 #70

And a shorter life span d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #73

How about nitrous oxide? chernabog Apr 2015 #74

Still not a greenhouse gas we produce in abundance d_legendary1 Apr 2015 #75

It's not the cow farts. It's the land and the amount of grains and water mucifer Apr 2015 #80

It felt good telling a fellow Costco shopper the other day... tridim Apr 2015 #2

That's your opinion. Nutritionally they're the same. pnwmom Apr 2015 #10

not sure that you can make that claim SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2015 #14

If you're going to dismiss the science, you can say anything you want... ag_dude Apr 2015 #58

when right over your head SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2015 #59

evidently they both did ag_dude Apr 2015 #60

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Because she appreciated the advice. tridim Apr 2015 #28

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Smaller, tastier, more nutritions, grown in the wild, no pesticides. tridim Apr 2015 #36

Not exactly marle35 Apr 2015 #56

K & R How strange that many think organic is a novelty movement. It was the norm for food, clothing appalachiablue Apr 2015 #3

I like "organic" SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2015 #4

So true moonbeam23 Apr 2015 #6

No longer enough arable land, and water is running out of our aquifers faster than we jtuck004 Apr 2015 #49

Which garlic do you grow? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #55

We eat 90% organic moonbeam23 Apr 2015 #5

+10 Wow, that's great & so simple. Will use it with a relative soon- appalachiablue Apr 2015 #45

in a thread about that group in texas "raising the dead", a poster compared buying organic niyad Apr 2015 #7

some people are not able to think SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2015 #15

was trying to locate a book on soil written about 23 years ago, and, in googling just niyad Apr 2015 #17

There's plenty to read on that topic kentauros Apr 2015 #84

thank you for that wonderful information. will spend some time with it today. niyad Apr 2015 #85

rush out the articles KT2000 Apr 2015 #32

This is good news because it'll force the food industry to change. mountain grammy Apr 2015 #34

13 years ago. 2002. Bushco put strict regulations in place? merrily Apr 2015 #51

Monsanto knows this too. midnight Apr 2015 #57

I believe most pro-organic arguments are bullshit. Nevernose Apr 2015 #71

Roundup is absorbed into the plant cells Omaha Steve Apr 2015 #72

That's GMO, not organic Nevernose Apr 2015 #78