I'm a pescetarian, and have been for several months now. As long you ensure that you get your iron from leafy vegetables, like cabbage and spinach, and your protein from nuts, you should be fine.
Oh, and if you're thinking about cutting out meat, don't go cold turkey.
edited 26th Feb '12 1:07:06 PM by ACrackInTime
Thanks! So I'll increase my intake of leafy vegetables. I don't often eat nuts, but I don't dislike them either, I'll give them a try.
And if it's the former, for now I'm definitely going to keep eating fish.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.Well, I started getting really bad cravings for meat, and often found myself walking to the fridge to get some meat. I was shaky and my stomach kept gurgling. But then, I did it the slow way. I cut out the red meats and only ate chicken, whilst also replacing my turkey slices with Quorn. I also started eating some vegetarian meals that were high in iron, and then stopped eating chicken. Now, I haven't touched meat in months.
But it also takes high will power. The first weeks of living off Quorn were hell.
edited 26th Feb '12 1:21:55 PM by ACrackInTime
Oh. That's worrying. I hoped that, since I could have fish as much as I wanted, no such problems were likely...
Oh well, we'll see what happens.
I suppose?
As an aside, the name "pepperoni" never fails to confuse me — in Italian, it* just means "bell peppers", not the spicy salami which is sometimes put on pizza (which would be "salame piccante" or "salame al peperoncino", perhaps).
Weird.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.Because it's bad for the environment, too.
Now, one meat I would like to eat more of to get around this issue, and that is kangaroo. Our country is full of the things, they eat native pasture, and they don't produce as much methane (to my knowledge, anyway).
Sadly I am not really in control of the sort of meat I am fed, and my family refuses to try it.
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Well, if there are health benefits, that alone should be reason enough for me. I kinda like being in this universe, and if something can make it more likely that I will be around longer and in better health I should probably start looking into it. Same reason why I don't smoke, basically.
Then there is the matter of ecological damage, of course.
But perhaps, yet another reason is that I don't much like to see myself as an apex predator. I don't think that it is evil to eat animals or anything; but still, I prefer to see myself as an apex being — one of the masters of Earth, one of the stewards of creation. This does not necessarily imply vegetarianism, of course; but it does, I think, imply a certain degree of benevolence towards lower creatures and a certain desire to avoid them suffering.* I never ate meat for the purpose of emphasizing my supremacy to cows, I have nothing to prove from that point of view; but if anything, going a little out of my way in order to prevent suffering would be a better way to express the difference between my role and a non-sapient being's.
But I am rambling. For now at least, I'm not really going vegetarian, I'm just trying to go towards semi-pescetarianism. And to be honest, I may or may not fail. We'll see.
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Not likely for now, but thanks, I'll keep it in mind. Do you know if this also applies to ovo-lacto-vegetarians or only to straight vegans? I heard that if you can have eggs and milk, you generally do not need supplements, but I don't know anything for certain here...
edited 26th Feb '12 2:55:08 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.I would recommend a full physical before you go too heavy on this as well as regular check ups along the way. I am anemic, taking shots and everything. I used to not eat beef or pork for religious reasons, but due to the problems other tropers have mentioned above, my diet didn't help my condition, it aggravated it. So I had to work with my doctors to find a good balance between getting enough of the right kind of meat because not all supplements process well for my needs.
"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

I've long had a bit of interest in reducing my intake of meat — in part for animal welfare reasons, but mostly for ecological and health reasons — and I think I'll finally give it a try.
For now, I'll take it easy: meat no more than once per week, fish when I feel like it, and, of course, no restrictions whatsoever on milk or eggs (I don't actually eat eggs all that often anyway, however).
Question: from a nutritional point of view, this should be pretty safe, right? Should I pay special attention to have enough fish, milk, eggs and legumes to get enough proteins, or is this pretty much guaranteed given an otherwise reasonable diet?
More in general, perhaps we could use a thread to discuss vegetarianism, semi-vegetarianism and other dietary variants...
edited 26th Feb '12 1:05:39 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.