Readers Respond: The strangest, silliest thing you've ever heard

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when did you start eating vegetables?

I am a vegetarian and have been since i was five. One day my friend asked me when did i start eating vegetables? he thought that i replaced meat with vegetables in my diet.....

—Guest stephanie

thoughts about vegetarianism

I ate a little meat before I turned vegetarian couple of years ago cause I watched only three minutes movie Earthling. I cannot describe how shocked I was and pain I felt... no words, only tears :(( Do people so obsessed by meat taste that cause poor animals suffering all their life and being throat cut in the end??? I had realized that there was NO ANY excuses for people to torture, kill and eat animals who by the way evolve on this planet as well as mankind do, I guess the main reason why people love meat is that they get used to its taste since early childhood. The myth about its use has been debunked long time ago, I' m not talking about vegans and rawfoodists that I personally know who laugh quietly at meat eaters who think that meat is an indispensable source of protein. My conclusion is - humanity will spiritually degrade until it stops killing animals!!

—Guest Anastasia

Vegetarians eat fish! Don't they!

I've been a vegetarian for my whole life and I hate when people ask if I eat fish. On my school lunch menu fish entrees are marked vegetarian. I don't want to sound to mean but are people that stupid? Fish IS meat and if you're vegetarian you don't eat meat.

—Guest Khaotics

People say you need meat to survive.

People always tell me you need meat to survive but if animals are to eat why don't we eat dogs? The only reason we would rather eat a pig then a dog is how they look. The truth is, did you know a pig is just as smart and loyal than your dog?

—Guest char

Animals are meant for eating

Animals were "meant" for eating???? Yeah, sure cows were put on this planet so we can shackle them by their back legs slit their throats and let them die of blood loss. Yeah, right.

—Guest char

But it's seafood

I am not a vegetarian, but I do have a funny story to tell. I was travelling in South-East Asia and I met up with a fellow traveller who was a vegetarian. She was telling me the difficulty she was having in ordering food. She ordered a noodle dish and told the waiter no meat, he came back and she noticed it had meat in it. She told the waiter that she asked for no meat and that waiters reply was "It's not meat it's seafood". After that and language difficulties she was a a seafood eater for a few weeks. I thought it was very funny story.

—Guest Guest Traveller

"I tried being veg., but I ate bacon."

I've been told this SO many times! Bacon is a hard thing to overcome for a loy of aspiring vegetarians. It was hard for ME, and I've been at it almost 4 year, since I was 13. But, really? "I was a vegetarian for 4 months, then I saw this bacon sandwich, so I gave up." ONE sandwich makes you give up your morals? You can't just use that one cheat food, then continue with being a veg?

—Guest Sybiria

Separate predators from prey

I read that vegans want to separate predators from prey in the natural world. I've been vegan for close to 30 years, and have never heard anything like this from my vegan friends. Weird one, eh?

—Guest Diana

Being vegetarian

There are more than 1000 million Indians in India and all over the world and multiplying at an astounding rate that have never eaten any meat or fish products because they are in fact 100% vegans. So why do Christians need meat?

—Guest Indian

McDonald's...

My husband is a vegetarian and has been for most of his life. I'm not a vegetarian myself, but there are certain meats I don't eat, and the only time I eat meat now is when we go out. We both like McDonald's and my hubby always gets a big mac w/o meat. One day I was getting us some lunch and when I ordered the girl behind the counter gave me a blank stare when I said no meat on the big mac. She asked me "So you just want a bun?" No, I want a big mac w/o meat. She kept asking me that and trying to convince me that I couldn't order that. Finally she went and got the shift manager (who usually works the counter when I go in at lunch time) and asked if I could order that. Her manager had to show her how to input it in the computer. Then when I got the sandwich, it was just a bun in a box. Is it really that difficult to understand that I want a big mac w/o meat because it's for a vegetarian??? Sadly, they screw up our order a lot if its during the lunch rush.

—Guest wife2veggie

"I thought all vegetarians were skinny!"

I have heard this many times to which I replied that I didn't give up over-eating, bread, pasta, sweets, smoothies, bananas and more.

—Guest Linda Shirley

Frustration!

1. I have a friend who can't (WON'T) get it through her head that I "don't eat fish either". Was meeting her for lunch one day and was running late so she ordered for me -- a fish sandwich. I reminded her for the hundredth time that I do NOT eat fish. Her response: well I'm not paying for that sandwich! 2. A different friend: she tells people that I CAN'T eat meat due to a medical condition. That is SO NOT TRUE!!! 3. Third friend's comment: "I could never be a vegetarian because I am more concerned about people than animals". My response: "that's okay, I don't eat people either."

—9cats2dogs

mother

"You don't eat meat so I guess you're into fish and chicken?" "If it has a face and a mother I don't want to know.OK?"

—Guest trevor

"You're a vegetarian? You can eat fish."

Hello, in case you didn't know, fish are members of the animal kingdom. Vegatarians don't eat animals. Enough said.

—Guest firenymph

Bull

"However do you keep your strength up?" gasped a nurse when I mentioned I was a veggie. "I don't really know.Must ask a bull sometime."

—Guest trevor