I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I’m a big believer in listening to my body’s cravings.
In terms of the quality of food entering you, vegetarian food is definitely far better for the system than non vegetarian.
I’m vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.
When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. ‘Live’ means in its uncooked condition, because a live cell has everything in itself to sustain life. The idea is to take life into you. When we cook food, it destroys the life in it.
Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters… That’s like telling someone they can’t be a vegetarian.
Don’t even get me started. I’m not against all vegetarians. But if you’re a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.
I’m not a vegetarian, but while I don’t want to defend it, I try to be mindful about the amount of animal products I consume. I eat a lot of vegan meals at home, and I’m okay with paying more for higher quality meat and eggs as a tax.
I’ve been a vegan and a vegetarian for 15 years and I’ve always just quietly kept and values and my beliefs to myself. I didn’t want to preach or be outspoken about all these things.
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
My mother raised me as a vegetarian, but when I turned 18, I decided to expand my palate.
I do eat a lot of greens. I eat healthy, but I’m not a vegetarian.
If you want to eat more vegetarian food, you don’t have to become a vegetarian. It doesn’t have to be an identity overhaul.
I live in Texas, man. It’s hard to be a vegetarian down here.
People say, ‘Well, why don’t you talk about being vegetarian?’ And I’m like, ‘People will find out.’ The people who are interested in what I do and why I do it, being a vegetarian is a big part of that.
I’m not a pescatarian, I’m not a vegetarian, but I’m also a conscious person. And I know the impact of the way that we fix meat nowadays is not good. It’s killing us, it’s killing the planet.
We’re a 100-percent-organic house. My daughter is a vegetarian and practically vegan. That’s her choice. That’s how she eats. We’re really conscious about what we buy.
I’ve never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.
I’ve been a vegetarian for years and years. I’m not judgemental about others who aren’t, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It’s your choice, just say: ‘I am what I am.’ There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
Ill cook at my house on Christmas Day and my mom will come by. I dont know yet what Ill be making. Ill probably do a roast of some kind, maybe a tenderloin. My family loves that. My daughter is a vegetarian so I will do something special for her.
I’m not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that’s wrong. If you’re going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I’m definitely not a big fan.
I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
I try to eat vegetarian, though I’m not very good at it, and it’s a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there’s fat in your body. Eat protein, and there’s protein in your body. Eat magic, and there’s magic in your body.
I’m a vegetarian, but I don’t expect other people not to eat meat.
The early days of being vegetarian meant ordering plain salads with vinaigrette and a baked potato. You could put the potato in the salad, and, if you were lucky, there were kidney beans.
I had to go vegan. First vegetarian, then I had to go vegan. And I do miss the cheese, I have to – I must confess.
I’m always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I’ve been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
I was raised Southern, where every meal had meat on table, but I don’t eat that way in life. I’ve been experimenting with a lot of vegetarian and vegan food.
I’m an omnivore, although I am trying to eat less meat. I went vegetarian for about two years, then I suddenly got a craving one morning and that was it.
When I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I’ve been a pure vegetarian; I don’t even take egg.
Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.
I just don’t see how it is possible to be a vegetarian or vegan when you break your body down so much. You have to recover. You need those proteins and proper amino acids, like leucine, which only really comes from animal fats.
I thought my early attempts at cooking tofu went well, but, in hindsight, I realize that’s because I was cooking for hungry, vegetarian college students.
I say I just happen to be gay. It’s just like everything else – I’ve been on the board of The Humane Society, and I’m a vegetarian, but these are just some of the things that define me as a person. They don’t define me in general.
When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.
I’m a vegetarian and have been since I was about four because I struggled to separate the idea of the animal from the food.
I’m vegetarian and my husband is not, so the one kind of commonality in our palate is that we both love spicy food.
I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, ‘Dead bird, dead bird.’ It didn’t feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it.
I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.
I love to cook, it’s one of my most favorite things in the world. That’s why I stopped being a vegetarian – I didn’t want to serve people things I hadn’t tasted myself.
My initial going into vegetarian was learning about eating healthy.
Im a fan of the restaurant where they only have one thing and maybe a vegetarian option. You get what you are given.
I’m a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.
I worked on the line, I’ve been an executive chef, I’ve worked for the Mets, I’ve worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I’ve worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I’ve worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I’ve been through it all.
I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.
By the way, I’m not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.
Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It’s really a win-win situation.
I’m into yoga, I meditate all the time, I’m vegetarian.
At a time when you do not know what chemicals are being fed into plants, there’s no way you would know how toxic animals are. So, I’d stick to vegetarian fare.
Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
I couldn’t kill a chicken, I couldn’t kill a cow – I was a vegetarian too at that time – so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn’t kill this and I couldn’t kill that.
India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
I learned different ways of working out. I learned a lot about my body. Let me just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger had 20-inch biceps when he did his first film, and when I did ‘Saala Khadoos,’ being a vegetarian, I managed 18 and half inches.
I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they’re just going to have to go hungry.
If you’re going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.
We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.
