lol are you ****ing kidding me?

The fact I don't like people who feel it's okay to force their dietary beliefs on other people makes you "shake"?

Today my GF told me about new mothers who eat their own placentas. She even showed me a picture of a "placenta shake" .. Urgh, yuck!

There's a kind of "meat" eating I can't take. There should be laws against self-cannibalism. :(

This was a question on Cash Cab the other day. Something about what nourishing part did Tom Cruise vow to eat after the birth of his daughter.... The drunk passengers answered Uterus :-O!! I didn't know people ate placenta!

My flatmate and I were discussing this last night! And how it is tradition and somewhat 'sacred' in many cultures. All I can say is... ew.

Let me start off by saying - I do not like animals, they smell, poo, eat their poo and wriggle around, I find most of them quite repulsive. That is how I started out being a veggie.

That being said - the more I learn about the way the animals are treated, and what kind of environmental impact it has, the more I stand behind my own choice. Not liking them still doesn't mean I want them to be ''tortured''.

I must add to this, that I live in a hippy-town ( :love: ) and it is EXTREMELEY easy to be a veggie here, almost all places have vegan stuff on their menus, and all the shops are PACKED with vegetarian heaven. So it has been an easy trip for me, I'm not sure if I ''could'' be a vegetarian in a country where the only vegetarian thing on the menu is peas and carrots...

^ From what I've seen, most places are very accommodating in terms of vegetarian food, because a lot more people are choosing to be vegetarians at this point in society. Most vegetarian alternatives I see these days are far more than peas and carrots. In fact, I had to go to a conference last week and lunch was provided. Before the conference you had the option of stating whether you were vegetarian or had any dietary requirements. The vegetarian options looked so much yummier than everyone else's food!

^ I officially like New Zealand then :)

I had some trouble in Eastern-Europe (thats where the peas and carrots were my main meal for a week), and surprisingly enough, in America. To be fair that was a smallish town in Indiana, so maybe they're just a bit behind... But seriously, we went to a mexican there one night, and I was informed they ''did not have any vegetables'', hehe.

but beans are a vegetable, and salsa contains tomatoes, and peppers and onions which are all vegetables

Yes I'll have the beans and salsa combo please.

Vegetarian mexican food IS delicious, they just replace the minced meat with beans and do everything else the same.