Vegetarian on the road

The topic has been covered many times but not recently.

I just decided I'm going to be vegetarian again and am liking the change in energy the decision has brought on.

I'm curious about others' experiences and methods of keeping within the diet restrictions of vegetarianism while traveling and/or living outside.

Leadbellytherxrcur said:

Sure you could carry bulk beans & rice or buckwheat or whatever, but that still doesn't solve that "hey I just bought you a mcdouble cuz your holding a sign that says "broke & hungry" are you gonna just throw it away? I've thrown away kickdowns before but only if I have way too many mcdoubles or whatever.

Flying a sign that says "traveling vegetarian- broke & hungry" would probably not get you any sympathy in most places, especially since a lot of people believe beggars can't be choosers.

If you got a stack of cash saved and are not relying on the kindness of strangers, then vegetarianism may be a viable option.

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I don't refuse the offering ever, but usually don't eat it if it has meat. I'll give it to someone else. As for being invited to someones house, I don't really want to know someone who would be offended by me not eating whatever meat they were having. We would likely not get along very well long term.

Also its not a situation that can't usually be resolved with a polite admission that one is a vegetarian. Usually ppl have meat with a side dish or salad or something else that the vegetarian can have doubles of. Or if the vegetarian is invited to a later meal they can notify in advance the inviter that they are veg.

Also Wendy's has chicken salads where the meat is able to be picked out. So does McDonalds. Burger king has veggie burgers. In n out has a no meat option.

Leadbellytherxrcur said:

I guess you would rather not know most of the population not in Hip cities or off the west coast...Sounds like an elitist attitude

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There are plenty of people in the Midwest who are understanding. To say there isn't anyone who would is a bit of a generalization.

Confucious say, "When sign flying, take money you could use for drinking and spend on plants".

I'm not sure how difficult it would be for a person to limit their diet in a limited world.

Be ready to suck it up and eat a hamburger every now and then or peel some pepperoni's off some pizza.

Hang on, if you are doing those things you aren't really a vegetarian.

sometime in the late 80's - certainly by the early 90's I totally went vegetarian on the grounds of inhumane treatment in the factories where these poor animals are only living just to die.

*and I did say factories, because that's the cold light of truth !!

Now, this was easy having a good job that paid lots of money - but somewhere along the line, once I started free-diving I suddenly without warning found myself being a fish-atarian.

I can't explain how or why that happened - but it did.

Now where I am thinking for spending my retirement - my golden years ha ha !! - wilderness camping out of a canoe, guess what - I'm going to have to re-consider my views on eating meat.

That's still at least 10 years out from now, so I have a whole lot of time to learn and observe from the animals which I monitor as part of my wildlife monitoring thing which I do as a volunteer.

Me and my dog have came across truly gruesome sights - including the one where a deer was ripped apart by coyotes just a little while before we stumbled upon it. In fact, I took a picture of it when I was able to properly compose myself and it's on my profile page here. I did not elect to photograph all the more gory stuff, but you get the idea............

While my dog was genuinely interested in this revolting bloody mess, I was finding myself clutching my chest, then I thought about it some.......

Nature as a whole [with the exception of killer whales] tends to end suffering rather quickly and what happens then is the animal which perishes in turn gives life to all that remain.

I am fairly certain that deer carcus not only fed the coyotes but also birds and other small mammals, which in turn helped get them through he winter.

Where I am going with this is there has to be a balance in life, and there is such a thing as the circle of life - the problem lies when that circle of life becomes exploited.

I've seen many a vegetarian / vegan shit blood when they found out what they were eating contained palm oil in it, and we won't go into how many animals die for the sake of palm oil..........

Every thing - every action you take counts.

If you are a vegetarian and you are given a burger or whatever - the choice of what you do with that burger is yours - but know that an animal died for the sake of making that burger.

It would really be a shame if that animal died for nothing - but again, with the amount of food that is wasted in this country - unfortunately - most do.