h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Due to a new found self-belief I am becoming a vegetarian. It is something I have always wanted to do but never had the courage.

My reasons are purely ethical, and I must admit a week in my resolve is weakening. I crave more than anything a crispy rasher of bacon. But I know I'll be able to hold.

Are there any other researchers out there going through or have gone through similar experiences that can help out with advice, recipes...etc

Get your protein! That is where most veggitarians drop too low. Brain food, if your sluggish in the head, try more protein in the day.I especially like nuts & nut butters (yummy almond butter)to easily fill in protein gaps. I Have to have bacon occaisionally.

Thanks for that.

Can you recommend any good web sites ?

Also, does anyone know of a ( fairly ) definitive site of what products contain animal extracts?

I have given up a number of things in my life:smoking, sugar and coffee being prime amonst them.

I have always found that early on there is almost no craving at all and you think you've got it cracked. Then the craving sets in and builds to a climax. Once you get past that stage however, it rapidly tails off and after a few months disappears altogether. And the problem is over!

Stick with it! Long term it's worth it!

Lots of books available with info + all products used are listed on the side of packets. Watch out for meat by-products in the weirdest things!
ie: Chocolate mousse!
Biscuits from abroad - found some with pork fat in ... yummy!
lots more but no time.

Try here A393176 .

TSF ( can now pass a chicken korma without drooling )

Mmmmmmmm Bacon butty!
Roast beef and yorkshire pudding!!!

Gave up being a veggie after about 10 years when free range and organic meat started to become more easily available.

If God has meant us to be vegetarians, he would have made cows run faster....

If you do really fancy a bacon butty - try some veggie bacon, bacon bits or even bacon flavour crisps in a butty (yes, bacon crisps are veggie, it's only cheese and onion that aren't). OK it's not quite the same but it does cure that craving! NB an American brand is rather better than the UK varieties - and can be obtained in a supermarket that Jamie Oliver advertises. Have I got around the BBC no advertising stuff with that?



(successfully veggie for the past 12 years!)

I can't help. I am an unashamed omnivore, who doesn't draw the line at anything that moves.

still, as long as you don't turn into one of the veggie mafia who think we should all be forced to give up meat (while at the same time thinking this will have no consequences) then all power to you.

good luck with it.

Nah, I still think that animals are a fiar part of the food chain if treated properly.

Just, erm....not for me.

I met a veggie who eats bacon ... he didn't like the taste of other meats but loved bacon ... eat what you want to eat.

Personally, I could never give up meat as I enjoy it too much - if it doesn't moo when you fork it, it's over cooked.

That's not to say I need meat for every meal but I could never give it up ... Lent is hard enough!

We meet yet again! Do you realise you, me & mrs are all veggies?
Wonder if is too?
Yet another line of research?!
Terri

I agree - eat what you want to eat - don't say "oh I'm not allowed to eat that" - it's your choice - you can eat whatever you bally well want - there's not a food police force who will chase you down because you ate something you "shouldn't" have!

There's only one good reason for being a veggie - You can eat food that is still alive.
The ethics of not eating meat - Farmers would not keep cattle, poultry and sheep of the fun of it so there would be no milk products, eggs, leather and wool.

We get our nuts mainly from third world countries and not everyone can eat them. See http://www.nutallergy.net/info.html

On the subject of nuts, see http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/fig_and_nuts



Alji the Magus

There are many good reasons to be a vegetarian!

Did you know that it takes more to 'keep' animals than to grow the crops?? In order to have a herd of cows, there must be land and a food source for the cows - if we used the land instead to grow grains or vegetables, it would be far more efficient!

Try growing crops up a Welsh mountain.

Alji the Magus

Has there any actual biological conclusion been drawn on whether we are 'meant' to be omnivorous or not? (i.e. teeth, digestive system, proteins normally obtained from meat not otherwise occuring naturally, etc.)

"Try growing crops up a Welsh mountain."

Irrigating Montana, Wyoming, and Texas would be a neat trick, too.