Meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat. And cheese. Also milk and ice cream. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Nummy.
Sorry.
Actually, it's really easy to get enough protein without animal products. For one thing, we don't need half as much as we consume. Americans overdose on protein; it's ridiculous. I make a sprouted whole grain bread two slices of which can provide me with half the RDA of protein. Last year, I went through a brief stretch of eating carefully, and just one or two small adjustments would have been required to make my diet completely vegan. I like the things on the list in my first paragraph too much to have done that, however, and so then and now I prefer(red) to continue to live with my hypocrisy instead (hypocrisy because all the reasons for eating vegan make perfect sense to me, and I frequently feel evil for eating the way I do).
That said, gosh, so much prickliness from you vegan folks! I'm sure it gets boring fielding questions from mystified meat eaters, but is this thread really so offensive? Or is it just a straw/camel kind of thing?
edit: Colin, I think the questions in this thread are prompted by people's thinking that this board is friendly enough for those who never felt comfortable asking the vegans in their lives what they want to know to think that now they finally have a chance to try to understand. I have no doubt whatsoever that erika had no intention to be undermining when she asked if you craved meat. I know if I asked it, it would reflect more a kind of wonder and respect that you can eschew something that I seem helpless to give up. And how you can assume that people are trying to "make [you] look stupid because you don't thing what we're doing is right" just mystifies me.
Maybe I better go sit in the dark, too.
