I love meat. But i love the enviroment more. I was a vegitarian a while back, but i kept losing weight. I guess i have a very high metabolism. I would like to get back to veggi-ism but i also need to gain weight. if anyone has any high fat and protien vegitarian suggestions to help aleaviate my guilt that would be great. peace and peas.
Try eating lots of nuts. They contain a fairly high amount of fat (the good kind) while also providing vegetarian nourishment. Good luck!
SOY! Look at the nutrition facts, you'll see it has almost s much protein as meat... Also mushrooms, grains (How do you think horses support their huge muscle mass? Imagine how big their musles are, they need to nourish that somehow.), Orange juice ( 2g of protein per 8 fl oz...surprise surprise!!!), dairy, eggs, legumes( lentils have 12 grams per cup...), too much to list!!!
Soy, Soy, Soy. Tofu, soymilk, even soy ice cream if you want. If you want to gain weight, eat lots of pasta. For protein, you need to stick with soy, mostly. For iron, eat many leafy green vegetables; not all of them contain iron, but many of them do. Also, if you are vegetarian, you can completely pig out on vegetables, and not have to worry about gaining weight. Since that bothers someone like you and I (because we have very fast metabolisms), we need to really STUFF ourselves every chance we get. Also, I hope you like potatoes! I love them, and potatoes rock for vegetarians. French fries, baked potatoes, indian cuisine ... mm, mm, mm! Good luck, man!
I am a carnivore, I hate salads with a passion, they make me want to puke, I dont know why. THe long vegies that I know I like would be: potatoes, pintos, black eyed peas, nuts, sprouts, mushrooms I like most fruits, so thats not a problem. I want to become a veg. I am a little overweight, not much because I am just very largly built, and my metabolism is that fast cause IM not that active, but maybe could be with gardening. I dont want to be vegan, because I am in love with eggs and milk. And i have a leather backpack which has never failed me. I also do not want to keep eating meat cause of all the mad cow disease outbreaks and like the shit they put in there. The transition would be hard, because ive only ate meat my entire life, and could be why my eye sight is poor, and i get tired easy. like i said my vegetation intake is limited. I wont be able to make the full transition within the next couple of years cause I am in a southern family with southern cooked foods, but the meat intake could be greatly reduced cause the less the better right? How would I begin this transition? what should I eat to satisfy my hunger for flesh?
if you wanna gain weight but stay veggie, just eat lots of stuff that's veggie! a lot of fatty things are veggie, like sweets. eat tons of sweets and you'll gain weight. seriously, that took no thought...
I think there is just some meat that is ok to eat, like fish and chicken. Because they gotta be controlled some how. ANd the occasional cow, but not the mass slaughter of millions to be made into a Big Mac. And I dont want to GAIN weight I want to LOSE it, and is that possible by going more veg?
well you could start by yhaving one vegetarian meal a day and then you coul dthink of bein a poultrinarian(you only eat poultry) and then eventually you could stop eating all meat completly
wow... thats nuts.. i had no idea there was a catagory for people that just eat poultry.... ya learn somethin new every day.... guess im a poultrinarian
In lots of ways, here is a few. Consider all the paddocks/farms in the world that house the animals before they are slaughtered for human consumption. Imagine how much this has ruined the earth beyond repair and all the pollution it causes from using non-organic farming methods. Consider all the chemicals and nastys that run off these farms and into our waterways. Consider that as well as living in non-organic, unnatural, housing conditions, the animals themselves are feed their own by-products. Meaning what ever is left over from the animal once it's slaughter, is then processed and feed back to the next lot of animals. Then you go and consume all this blood, chemicals, adrenaline, and death, personally contributing to the distribution of all this pollution. i.e the sewers that end up in the ocean. If all the grain that was grow to feed animals was instead grown for human consumption there would be no world hunger. These are just a few reasons but I could come up with many more. go vego! august xx
exactly, august moon. If only more people could see that and as for the original question - you can also buy this dried protien stuff from health stores. You can choose from a one made from vegies or soy, and you just soak it in hot water, then add it to pasta sauce, it's pretty good. and NatureFreak, you probably can also loose weight from vego - and you'll cut out a lot of cholesterol and stuff too. Just make sure you learn how to cook right, i know a few people who turned vego, didn't know what to eat and just ate heaps of chips and stuff. Not the best way to shed a few kilos But find some good recipies (like on www.vegweb.com) and you should be sweet.
Read "Diet for a small Planet" some time and that will answer your questions. Also, alot of vegetarians, like me, have a different view about killing living things in order to prolong our own lives. We believe they suffer just like we do when they are slaughtered. As for how to not lose weight as a vegetarian.... eat all those things that we folks who aren't born skinny haveto keep ourselves from regularly IE: Ice Cream, Buttered microwave popcorn, chocolate, cake, and the list goes on.... man I wish I had your problem.
That is absolutely false. Are you farmiliar with factory farming? Chicken farms are enclosures that house hundreds of thousands of chickens. They put chickens three to five in small cage, cut off their beaks and turn out the lights, they feed them grain (which could otherwise be used to help solve world hunger) loaded with antibiotics steroids and arsenic to kill bacteria and keep them alive. (They shit all over each other because the cages are floor to ceiling and in long rows) It's so toxic in the farms that those who work there have to wear gas masks. They grow from hatching to adulthood in 22 days. There is no population problem, and if there is it's because capitalism causes it. Don't get me started on the egg industry that throws out literally millions on male chicks each day all over the country. Seriously, they throw them away live into dumpsters. It's horrible and disgusting. This is just the poultry industry. You should check out www.farmsanctuary.org or www.tribeoftheheart.org They have a fabulous documentary called Peacable Kingdom which addresses factory farming and the consumption of animals. Not only does factory farming destroy animals but it destroys the environment. It pollutes streams, lakes, rivers, and soil. The toxicity of steroid manure in such large quantities is devastating to eco systems. That's just the tip of the iceberg. I could go on for days about the injustice capitalism brings to our society. Animals do not belong to you or I, they belong to themselves. No one gave them to "us" as humans to exploit, torture, or use at our own will. It pisses me off that people think just because animals, children, women, can't speak out for themselves that it is okay to use and harm them any way we see fit.
Amen to that. It's not just the egg industry, it's the polltry industry overall that throws little male chicks into garbage bags alive (sufficating them) and then throw them into the shredder, fire,dump,etc... And fish, when they get caught in the nets often have their eyes pop out because of the pressure. It's disgusting.
i dont know if anyone mentioned this but cattle fields are one of the leading causes of soil depletion... it is also one of the biggest contributers to water pollution with all of the waste cattle produces, and some other form of pollution i think that i dont remember... also a loooot of rain forests are destroyed to make room for new grazing fields and farms. there are probably a few more ways as well...
