Comments on: No More Fishing? https://www.nomeatathlete.com/no-more-fishing/ Plant Based Diet for Athletes Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:10:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: fishatarian https://www.nomeatathlete.com/no-more-fishing/#comment-30700 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:03:41 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=1169#comment-30700 I know my email is misleading but it tells me of a vegetarianism (veganism) I once wanted to follow (which is hard), it’s not that hard if such a diet includes dairy, honey and fish and excludes eggs (except caviar). I call myself a lactopescetarian, fish eaters should be called fishatarians because they’re vegetarians who eat fish, the one exception. Most fishatarians eat eggs as I tried to look up lactopescetarian and I found out such a person is rare. It includes tofu, mushrooms, veggieburgers, veg protein sausages (trust me they taste like vegetables), and the occasional fish burger (that’s a fish Barney Burger from Barnacle Bill), Barnacle Bill makes the fish better, it is however better than the greasy battered fish and chips from a regular fish and chip shop, but it can’t possibly be better than pearl oysters or a cockle Essex chowder (with white wine added). That’s what it’s all about, my diet is about fine and healthy food and wine, it’s not about asceticism and no fun like most fishatarians and vegetarians (our responsibility, if fishatarian, is to only eat, wild, pole caught, sustainable fish, and avoid orange what’s his name, shark, big eye tuna and swordfish), the fish died naturally, nobody killed it, that doesn’t make it wrong, it’s safe to eat, but I have to eat fish that’s free from mercury, the smaller the fish the less mercury it’s got in it. But if a vegetarian is giving up fish then well done!

]]> By: Ex-SuperSteakLover https://www.nomeatathlete.com/no-more-fishing/#comment-880 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:17:06 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=1169#comment-880 In reply to Gen Mailhot.

Regarding the Food Chain-
As a vegan I believe it is a natural part of our world and our history. As a matter of fact, personally I don’t have any problems with killing an animal for food or warm clothing when necessary.
However, I am a big opponent of the very unnatural aspects of Factory Farming, in which animals must live in confinement and suffer their entire lives just to be killed for food or fashion. It is the inhumane suffering that is extremely wrong. I’m sure you know this already, but to stubborn meat eaters like my former self- when your conversation distinguishes “suffering” versus “simply killing,” it evokes a better understanding of the issues. Of course be sure to treat them to some good veg*n cooking so that they know they can still enjoy the extreme pleasures of eating while being ethical =)
With that said- I believe veganism should be a natural evolution of humanity. For example, our ancestors originated in Africa, but began to use animal fur to keep them warm in order to migrate elsewhere to look for food. Before modern times, animal protein and calcium was necessary as speedy transportation for plant based proteins and calcium (legumes, collard greens, etc) did not exist. However all the animals used then were not subject to factory farms, as they are today.
So onto the present- because of our need to feed billions of people in our world and all the modern advances, humans must consciously evolve to live on plant-based diets. We have all the transportation advances to provide access to any nutrient that plants can provide. I think it is very irresponsible to use modern technology (antibiotics, growth hormones) to factory-farm the animals in order to satisfy our outdated need for their flesh or by-products.
Just my 2 cents for your future conversation with interested people =)

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