What is on Your Mind?

Well as I stated earlier -- no red meat for me. However, in light of what this thread has become, I have the following question.


How can one can one call himself/herself a vegetarian and use the term ovo or lacto or both. Clearly, these people fall into the category of omnivore (albeit they just limit the amount of animal intake they have). My assumption is that lacto refers to animal milk (I wonder how many coconut milk - vegetarians their are! )

Given the choice of Edible-Nest and Beef, I choose Beef - despite the threat of Mad Cow! I just dont think I could eat something like that. (To restate - To each his own I guess!)

Google, lacto-vegetarian means that food is selected from the union of {plant material} and {milk products}. You're talking like it's the intersection of those two sets. Some people just don't like eating corpses....go figure!

Here's a link that helps with the slippery terminology.

I meant that milk comes from animals (and some fruits like the coconut). I just dont understand how one can use the label vegetarian if they also drink cow milk, goats milk etc. But I am ok with those veggie eaters that drink soy!!! What a weird way to eat!

Precisely...hence the label lacto-vegetarian. You need some label... that seems as good as any I can think of. But if you have a better label, please share it. (Be nice...that wasn't a straight line )

Hi !
Well... yes, lacto-vegetarian means eating milk also, and I agree that somehow the term lacto-vegetarian and omnivore are the same... but this depends on the reason why the people are choosing this lifestyle... studying these words by the logical point of view, it's almost the same but in fact for your body is a very big diference. Meat can do a lot of harm to your body and it's also, somehow, useless (it has a lot of things that are not used by your body - about 20%) but milk... I can say that milk can't do so much harm ;-) and 99% of it is used by your body to grow and to keep a good health.
So, there is a difference betwen this two words... and, if you want, you can study more about milk, meat and vegetals and your subtle body. According to your subtle body (energetical body, aura and all that) milk and vegetals have almost the same type of energy and vibrations... but this is off-topic somehow ;-)

Hi !
You mean that... are people realy eating that ? I will certainly never eat something like that...

Bird's nest soup is a very expensive delicacy. And those swiftlets build their nests on very high cliffs. People risk their lives to collect a few bird's nests which they toss in their chicken soup. I agree...