I'm a veggy allright :P
I fall in the category if moral abstantion: I don't want any suffering to happen for the creation of my food, unless there's no alternative. So I do eat dairy products (I think it's not practical to refuse them, too difficult and possibly unhealthy) and my shoes are made of leather (recently vegetarian shoes have been developped, maybe I'll switch some day).
What I don't understand are people who refuse to eat meat, but have no problems with eating fish
Anyway I've been vegetarian practically all my life, as is my mother and her father. It's kinda a family thing, but I did chose for myself to do this (I did eat some meat before I could make the choice, at my 10th year or so).

Originally Posted by
MacGyver1968
but I guarantee if they went a couple weeks without food, a good percentage of vegies, especially the last catagory, would be some cow eating mf's.
Sure, if there was no other food I'll apply my 'unless there's no alternative' clause. Heck I'd even eat human flesh to stay alive, as most of you would to if it comes to it :P

Originally Posted by
MacGyver1968
I think we have canine teeth for a reason, and as for the vegetarian lifestyle being more heathy...I don't buy it. To me, if you look at the face of a long term vegetarian, it looks pale, and paper thin..like rice paper. (take a look at Sir Paul McCarthy)
Sorry but that's anecdotical evidence. I'd agree that vegans are sometimes unhealthy, they go too far. But there are no rational reasons why a balanced vegetarian diet can't be healthy. Or to throw in some anecdotical evidence of my own, neither me or my brothers are pale rice-faces :-D
As a general remark, think about this: what is the physical difference between killing and eating a human and killing&eating an animal? The process of killing is the same, with an equal amount of pain involved, and the meat produced is the same substance. What I frankly don't understand is that people freak out if pieces of human flesh would float in their soup (even if it's unrecognisable), while pieces of animal flesh inspire appetite :P