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Any Vegan or Vegetarian Models Here?
Pesce-baca-tarian! I realize you didn't ask for us, but we're out there too! Bacon and fish are great. "I feel like you're not a real model until you cut something out of your diet" - joking around with my model bestie the other night. Mar 11 13 12:59 am Link Vegan with the exception of cheese on pizza. Mar 11 13 09:19 pm Link I was vegan for a few years then switched to vegetarian  and I don't have any "exceptions" Perhaps the only exception I had as a vegan was I would eat organic honey. I called it finders keepers  Mar 11 13 11:09 pm Link Completely Vegan!! Mar 11 13 11:19 pm Link Eyesso wrote: if you make "exceptions," then you are not vegan. You are lacto-vegetarian. Mar 12 13 10:27 am Link Koryn Locke wrote: I get what you're saying, but I can appreciate a person saying that they strive towards being a vegan with the exception of cheese on pizza or that they fall to pressure to eat turkey once per year but otherwise follow a vegan or vegetarian diet. I can appreciate that effort, the move towards consciousness behind it, the environmental impact of that move, and the vote for fewer unnecessary deaths that it makes via one's pocketbook even if you personally are more inclined to call them hypocrites. Mar 12 13 11:30 am Link According to the all knowing Wikipedia, there is also a thing known as the Paris Exception. It's based on the idea that if you're in Paris, at a fine restaurant, you might break your rules. I think everyone should be free to define their eating habits however they want. It is, after all, a personal choice about their lifestyle. Mar 12 13 12:25 pm Link NYMPH wrote: When you hear people accuse you enough times, "Oh, I'm sure you're only vegan until you want a steak," and roll their eyes, after you have lived as a committed vegan for awhile (including hygiene and clothing choices), then you understand why people who aren't completely veg*n would be better-suited to calling themselves "flexitarian." This is why that term was invented. I don't care what people eat. It's none of my business, but individuals who call themselves vegan or vegetarian when they are actually not, make those of us who are devoted to our lifestyles seem well...flakey. There's nothing wrong with continuing to live as an omnivore, if that's what works for you. Go right ahead, but please be aware that lifestyle veggies really do deserve to be taken seriously, and should you ever decide to go full-veggie, you will probably come to understand where I'm coming from. Mar 12 13 12:59 pm Link Vegetarian Mar 12 13 06:07 pm Link I guess it takes so much focus to be a Vegan that there's no time to read the date of the OP was 2011. Mar 12 13 06:21 pm Link Vegetarian Mar 12 13 11:44 pm Link vegetarian. 16 years. 90-95% vegan diet- cheese or ice cream as it calls to me. Mar 14 13 04:09 pm Link Vegetarian... really tried the vegan route but it was way too complex... if I was a nutritionist maybe I could have handled it... really great concept, very difficult to do the nutritional calculations... I just don't eat animals... period... Mar 14 13 05:31 pm Link I'm a vegetarian. I would like to be vegan, but for the time being I just make sure that my milk, eggs, and cheese is organic. I also prefer that I know whoever raises the animals that produce the products. I live close to farmers who raise free-range egg chickens and cute happy cows. So I know my animal products don't come from factory farms. However, many people who live in large cities do not have the privilege of getting their eggs from local farmers, so I won't criticize you if you think it's too much of a hassle. My vegetarianism is not for vainly maintaining my weight, it's for ethical reasons. I've been vegetarian since I was 6. It was a conscious decision that I made for myself. My father is vegetarian (he's Hindu) but my mother and siblings eat meat. I asked my dad one day why he didn't eat meat, and I decided that I agreed with him on the basis of vegetarianism (I am also now Hindu like my father, but since I'm not from India I just call myself religiously eclectic). I have upheld that decision ever since. I wouldn't want to force anyone to be vegetarian, I won't throw fake blood on people who cook meat or anything like that. It's merely my personal choice that I hope you can respect, just as I respect you. I don't like it when people shove hot dogs in my face as if it's supposed to tempt me, so I don't wave signs in their faces saying "Meat is Murder!" That doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to, but I try to be respectful so that I don't brand vegetarians as annoying. Mar 14 13 08:34 pm Link Koryn Locke wrote: Lol for years I was a vegan. Vegan make up, vegan friendly clothing, etc. never would I get upset if someone said something about "oh but I bet you cave when you drive by a Taco Bell" lol Mar 14 13 10:18 pm Link Dani Nikole Feist wrote: I do cave when I go by Taco Bell, and get a 7 layer burrito with no sour cream & no cheese. It's been months since I've seen a Taco Bell Mar 15 13 06:13 pm Link I'm vegetarian. Mar 15 13 06:20 pm Link No reason to be a vegan at all! I am a vegetarian because I don't want to sacrifice a sentient being without an utmost purpose. Which means that if I have to take an animal's life to survive, I will. And with deep sense of gratitude, because nothing wrong with living in harmony with the world and taking what you need from others, as long as you give a greater value to the world in return :-) Mar 16 13 06:56 am Link Peskatarian. Mar 16 13 07:04 am Link I wish I was vegan, but I like bacon too much. Mar 16 13 08:14 am Link I'm getting into 80-10-10. It's Awesome! Mar 20 13 01:06 pm Link Jessica Sodenkamp wrote: I enjoyed the food on 80-10-10, but I noticed a pretty obvious decrease in my muscle recovery rate after hard workouts. The soreness was more intense and lasted longer. Mar 21 13 08:11 am Link I'm a vegetarian as well! Going to slowly transition to vegan soon. Mar 21 13 08:37 am Link I'm vegan, and I will never work with fur and leather in photoshoots etc. Mar 21 13 09:25 am Link Veggie here Glad to hear there are so many others.Mar 25 13 09:36 am Link I'm raw-curious... and by that, I mean that, on a daily basis, I eat anywhere from 50-100% raw. Yes, I know that's an outrageous difference in percentage, but I'm working on it. When I'm not eating raw, the only meat product I'll eat is wild-caught salmon. What I like about the raw community is that the people tend to be much less judgmental than vegans and vegetarians. When I was vegetarian, no matter what I cut out of my diet, I was never "good enough." Ridiculous. Also, just as a protective measure: Apparently there's been a lot of mud-slinging on this thread. Don't bother flaming me, as I'm not going to see it (not coming back to the thread) and don't care what you think anyway. Mar 29 13 10:37 am Link Veggie, here! Mar 29 13 10:42 am Link Vegan, rawfoodist, gluten free Mar 31 13 08:00 am Link Koryn Locke wrote: OK....it's not a fad for me. I was raised as a vegetarian and have been mostly vegan. We are ALL 'mostly vegan' anyway...aren't we? Our society doesn't afford us the ability to be "fully" vegan. We either pursue it for health reasons or guilt reasons. I'm into it for the health reasons....cause even though I love the little animals, I recognize that I cannot escape the meat industry's reach. Mar 31 13 09:19 am Link I've been photographing a lot with FILM lately.....dang it! Sorry cows.... Mar 31 13 09:20 am Link Here are some features of a.... REAL VEGAN NO CLOTHES, ever.....because the development of textiles utilizes cattle byproducts. But further, the industry as a whole is supported by the large companies that profit off of animal cruelty. NO CAR....tires and asphalt uses animal products as a binding agent. The glue, plastics and fabrics that hold a car together are made with animal products. NO PRODUCTS..... at least none that ever use plastic, since plastic production depends on the use of animal products. NOT AMERICAN.....since July 4th fireworks use animal products and so do the big bombs we drop on human animals overseas. NO PETS.....since pet food is other animals and captivity, even if pleasant, is still cruel. NOT A MODEL (or photographer).....since cameras, clothes, film, and computers use animal products. NEVER BORN.....the rubber/latex gloves used to deliver you were made with animal products. The plastics and medicines used in your healthcare as an infant were unfortunately, animals. Mar 31 13 09:33 am Link Eyesso wrote: People make the BEST choices they can make. No, no one is 100% vegan if you are technical about it, but that is not an excuse to eat turkey on holidays then CLAIM you are a vegan. Mar 31 13 07:04 pm Link Koryn Locke wrote: Truth. Apr 01 13 09:13 am Link Koryn Locke wrote: But I've never had turkey for Thanksgiving.....have you? JASONRAYONLINE wrote: Apr 01 13 04:12 pm Link Koryn Locke wrote: Are you doing it right? For me the results were exactly the opposite. Apr 01 13 06:16 pm Link bumping the top thread because I really am that bothered by doubles showing up on the main page after a thread is moved. Apr 01 13 07:00 pm Link I am, apparently, "pescan". It's like being vegan, except I eat some fish/seafood. There's a lot of foods I can't actually eat because of my disease and crap, so I eat fish and whatnot. Plus, I'm still transitioning to vegan. Hopefully one day. Apr 01 13 07:21 pm Link Koryn Locke wrote: I totally agree with what you're saying Koryn. Apr 01 13 08:54 pm Link Lacto-ovo veg! And currently trying to cut out that lacto-ovo part... For ethical and environmental reasons... Apr 02 13 10:05 am Link Alexey Sun wrote: Love it! Yes yes yes. I think everyone's choice is their own. But for me, it's a very similar mentality to this. Apr 02 13 10:11 am Link |
