I'm a vegetarian that consumes dairy products. Sorry no eggs. Am I classified as a lacto-vegetarian ? No problem with that. Anyways inspite of staying in the US for 7 years I still cannot stand the smell of meat. Recently we had a product launch party and guess what ? They were probably roasting meat ( not sure if it was beef or pork ) The hall was jam packed and I happened to stand next to where they cooking/roasting meat. I almost puked. The person standing next to me was saying "wow, what an aroma" and looked at me. I controlled my urged to puke and said "yeah, it is". Somehow I could find a place far away from the meat place and breathed a sigh of relief. The veggie food there was cold cut cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, some lettuce, ranch and some Italian dressing. I was the only one eating those veggies without the ranch and everyone else were enjoying the meat. After our VP gave the speech and thanked his team for their contribution it was time to leave. I was already feeling hungry and called my wife to make Chapathis ( Whole wheat flat bread ) and spinach curry. She was like " What , you didnt get to eat anything there at the party ?" . I had to explain. She was not in a mood to cook. I drove as fast as I could and when I reached home lunch was ready!
People have asked me some interesting questions on vegeatarianism for which I did not have an answer then.
1. Plants have life too. So if you are eating plants, why can't you eat meat ?
2. Meat has protein and proteins in beans and milk is not sufficient. So how do you manage to get adequate protien ?
3. Why can't you eat egss ? Eggs are animal products just like milk.
2 comments:
People only ask questions because they do not understand why you choose a different approach to life and it unnerves them. I have the kind of opposite problem, I am allergic to dairy, nuts and soya like anaphylectic type allergic. So I eat meat, not through choice but need really, which means all my yoga friends cant understand why Im not veggie, the answer being because I would strave :-)
Here i think I would have answered their questions :
1. Plants have life too. So if you are eating plants, why can't you eat meat ?
Ans. We generally eat fruits of plant not plant itself. Once the fruits are ripe then only we are supposed to eat . These days we buy store brought so we trying to adjust to changing world .
2. Meat has protein and proteins in beans and milk is not sufficient. So how do you manage to get adequate protien ?
Ans. How protein in beans and milk is not suffient ?
3. Why can't you eat egss ? Eggs are animal products just like milk.
Ans. In earlier days we used to get milk from cows and we used to feed them and we don't kill them once they are of no use instead we used to take care of them untill they die . They are right that milk is animal product .
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