How many times a week do you eat meat?

[Sparkly]

By "meat," I mean the flesh of land animals. (Chicken, pork, beef, etc., but not fish or dairy.)

On average....

[Swamp Rat]

1. What about crawfish?

:9

[Sparkly]

2. Not including crawfish.

:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

4. OK, then 'never' is my answer.

:hi:

Have a Louisiana beer wit da crawfish, cher. :beer:

[Sparkly]

5. Thanks -- Don't mind if I do!!

:toast:

[guinivere]

10. Mmmm....beer.

:beer:


A little jambalaya would be tasty.

[Swamp Rat]

14. Have some gumbo!

:9

[thereismore]

19. with alligator meat? nt

[Swamp Rat]

24. That is seafood gumbo... hey! do alligator and turtle count???

I LOVE turtle soup!!! :9

[Crabby Appleton]

15. I eat jambalaya or red beans and rice at least once a week

or more.

[Xipe Totec]

65. I'd rather have these cawdads...

[LaurenG]

3. None , no fish or eggs either

:D

[meisje]

6. Does possum count?

[Sparkly]

8. Hmmm......

:shrug:

[mcscajun]

11. Possum counts. n/t

.

[KamaAina]

34. Possum: The other white meat.

:evilgrin:

[Solly Mack]

7. Chicken maybe 2 times a month...Boca the rest of the time

[mcscajun]

9. Fish, dairy, chicken, pork, beef, whatever; I eat 'em all...and more.

Fruits, beans and vegetables all have their place, too.

There's probably not too many days I don't have meat in some form, whether it's a strip or two of bacon on an otherwise meat-free sandwich or crumbled on a salad, pepperoni on pizza,


to Asian stir-fry dinners, etc. I may not eat it as the main ingredient every day, but it's in there somewhere. Guilty as charged, and ok with it. I concur with a motto from Fatburger: "Do you really think man clawed his way to the top of the food chain to eat soy?" Not that I eat at Fatburger; I prefer better burgers, usually homemade.

[Clyde_dubyaD40]

12. If it has a face, breathes air or water - set it beside a baked spud

[Monkeyman]

13. yep

[mcscajun]

17. Food Philosophy 101

I believe there's room for all Nature's creatures...Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.

[MADem]

16. Other.

Maybe once a month, twice, tops. Fowl, most commonly.

[Sparkly]

18. Anybody ever heard of the notion of "eating according to blood type?"

This wasn't what I was thinking of when I started this, but it's interesting.

You can Google it, or here's one link:
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/11/1671_50888

When I first read about this, I realized I eat exactly according to this theory related to my blood type. (Supposedly has to do with your ancestry and inherited physical traits, indigenous foods and how your body deals with them, or something...)

[Lisa0825]

20. I read about it a few years back, but

the critiques I read of it made more sense than the diet. Unless they have come up with stronger evidence, there was little scientific proof of the connection. The placebo effect would be that when people start paying attention to their diet, no matter what the diet, their health and weight usually improve.

[Sparkly]

21. Ah -- That makes sense, too. nt

[aikoaiko]

23. that reminds me, time to get my meat on.

:D

[Sparkly]

31. I am SO not going to touch that... nt

[Shakespeare]

26. I've followed this loosely for about 9 years, and I'm a big believer.

D'Adamo has taken a lot of heat for his diet (and it's diet in the broad sense, not a weight-loss diet), but cancer researchers have been looking at these same cause-and-effect relationships between blood type and diet for some time now.

I was going through all the pre-op insurance red tape for major sinus surgery when I had a doctor recommend this to me--I followed it strictly, and within days my head cleared up. I ended up not needing the surgery, which is not a pleasant one to endure. I stray from it on occasion, and always feel the ill effects when I do. The biggie for me is avoiding wheat products at the height of allergy season (and that takes discipline).

[Sparkly]

28. Interesting!!

I'm type A-positive. ("I got an A+ on my blood test, Mom!") I eat naturally in many of the ways they suggest -- hated meat since I was a kid, crying and fighting over it...

[Shakespeare]

33. Type O here....

...and you know what that means. I'm one happy carnivore. :7

[Lisa0825]

42. Maybe you have a gluten sensitivity...

or an allergy to some other attribute that gets reduced when you follow your part of the diet.

As a former scientist, the *premise* of the diet does not add up.. that doesn't necessarily mean it can't have positive effects for some people. When people watch what they eat, they tend to make better choices, regardless of the fad.

edited to add:
The reason I reply to posts like these as well as things like homeopathy, is because I don't like ANY party's psuedo-science to get a free pass. Liberals tend to fight for science when it suits them, but tend to favor lots of alternative medicine theories that have little to no scientific basis (double-blind studies with large samples performed by unbiased researchers, etc). I am skeptical about psuedo-science from the right and the left.

[Shakespeare]

47. No, I don't have a gluten sensitivity--I was tested for that.

When my allergist checked me out and confirmed that my sinus cavities were indeed drastically improved (and then called off the surgery), he was loathe to credit the blood type diet, but did concede that something had certainly worked and, oh by the way, he mentioned, when a child is diagnosed with asthma, one of the first things they do is restrict the wheat intake, as wheat is a known irritant (and not the same as gluten intolerance).

Other grains containing gluten don't bother me in the slightest, but if I'm not very careful about my wheat intake when allergy season is in high gear, I am significantly more sensitive to the pollens in the air. Cut out the wheat, and within a couple of days I'm almost totally non-reactive to the pollens I would otherwise be horribly allergic to. It's not a matter of just watching what I eat--it's being aware of the effects that specific foods can have on my system. I thought it was complete bullshit...until I tried it (and for the record, I think homeopathy is complete hooey).

Perhaps science hasn't figured out exactly why this works yet (and I know there's no way mainstream doctors are EVER going to give D'Adamo's research any credit), but it sure as hell works.

By the way, you've said that the premise of the diet doesn't work--but I see that cancer researchers are doing similar studies. Isn't it possible there's something to it?

[ElboRuum]

62. If the last 50 years of hemming and hawing by...

...physicians and dieticians is any indication, it is obviously that metabolic pathways are so poorly understood that one should always take what they say with a grain of salt... even though salt's supposedly bad for you.

[Sparkly]

22. I should've asked above: Those who answered "NEVER" ....

Is it political, animal-conscientious, land-conscious, health-conscious, taste-averse, or other?

[Mountainman]

27. Animal conscious and health conscious here

I have an aversion to eating animals birds fish what have you. Also I know so many people who have disease from a meat diet. Just makes me nauseous to think of eating meat of any kind.

It's funny because I live in open range country and if you could see all those cows walking around here with shit all over their butts and the swarms of flies on them and the snot hanging out of their noses and smell their stench I think you would feel sick too.

[Sparkly]

29. Just testing the theory....

What's your blood type, do you know?

Have you read the OLD book "Diet for a Small Planet?" There's another good conscience-driven reason for avoiding meat.

(Not preaching to you meat-eaters, here!)

[unpossibles]

63. a variety of reasons

at first, I cut back meat only because I could not afford it, instead of a conscious decision. During this time I started to lose the taste for it and also began to lose weight and feel better physically.

The final nail in the coffin (so to speak) was working in a schwanky Italian place (in 1990) where almost everything was from made scratch; once I'd made sausage and cleaned chickens and dumped a bunch of spines into a soup pot to make stock, I had absolutely no desire to eat meat, which lasted for several years. There was a brief period where I started eating meat again partially out of convenience, but not very often - then a few years ago I reread Diet For A New America and Fast Food Nation and decided to quit again.

As an animal lover, I soon realized that was part of the equation too, although it started as a poverty and health (and gross-out) issue. Now, my wife is vegan, and I am pretty close, although I am not as strict about it as she is(I'll eat something with cheese or egg if I am not at home and it's all that's available).

I will say this - we both make it a point to not really talk about it most of the time as people get defensive, and sometimes rightly so. If someone asks, I'll discuss it, and sometimes I will mention it in a side discussion (such as if someone brings up water use in America, or other tangent topics where it applies).

And also, restaurant and grocery choices are WAY better now than they were 15 years ago, so it's a lot easier. I don't mind if people eat meat - we are omnivores, but I don't think that we're meant to eat it nearly as much as we do.

[Mountainman]

25. I stopped eating anything with a face on it in 1993.

[BeatleBoot]

30. It's All Yummy in the Tummy !!!

Chicken, Pork, Beef, Fish, Dairy...

Tonight we ate turkey burgers on the grill with cheese melted on top and avacado.

[Tiggeroshii]

32. Never. Been a vegetarian all my life.

Grew up in a conservative religious background that forbade that sorta thing.

[NMMNG]

45. You should have been dead by age 10 of protein and/or B12 deficiency!

Or at least that's what some would have us believe. ;-)

[Raine]

35. NEVER

been a vegetarian since I was 7 years old and I'm 55 now. I never liked the taste of it and as a child when I found out it came from a living creature I was repulsed and never ate it again.


EDITED: to include "Is it political, animal-conscientious, land-conscious, health-conscious, taste-averse, or other?"

[Placebo]

36. Every goddamn day.

:9

[MoseyWalker]

37. I was a vegetarian for a while, but

found a tribe of suicidal cows, and I've been eatin' em ever since.

[LeftyMom]

38. I stopped eating flesh 4 1/2 years ago.

Oh, and re: the Blood Type Diet discussion, I'm O+, but I had some pretty serious digestive and allergy problems that cleared up when I went vegan. I feel a million times healthier, my skin is better, I have more energy. Kinda funny to me, since my system's supposedly ideally suited for meats and other animal-derived foods.

[6000eliot]

39. I don't eat fish either.

[yewberry]

40. None

I gave it up 20 years ago. I'm type B, if you're keeping track.

[graywarrior]

41. Vegetarian for 35 years

[ThomCat]

53. That is awesome!

I've been a vegan for 16 years. 35 years is absolutely amazing!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

43. Love of animals, number one.

I am A-.

I have never really liked meat -- I hated anything that was bloody or looked like what it was. There were many nights at the kitchen table trying to get me to eat the stuff. The meat I was most comfortable with was stuff like hamburgers, hotdogs, bologna -- in other words, the lips/butts stuff that bore zero resemblance to what it came from.

I gave it up for good back in 1987 and I have never once regretted it.

I still like my burgers, dogs, and lunch meat -- now it's just the soy variety that gets in ma' belly. :)

[soothsayer]

44. We seem to get meat once a week on the new bev hills diet.

Otherwise, mebbe I'd eat it a bit more.

[ashling]

46. clarification please -

How many times are there in a week?

[donheld]

48. Sometimes twice a day.

[NewWaveChick1981]

49. 5-6 days.

I tried vegetarianism for a while, and sorry to say I just can't go completely meatless. :( I have, however, cut back dramatically on the amount of meat (once a day at most, and usually four ounces or less).

[cobalt1999]

50. Carnivore here.

I tried that vegatarian thing for 6 months, and it SUCKED! Craved meat all the time, gained weight, lost energy, didn't enjoy my meals. Never again.

Life's too short, bring on the steaks!

[malmapus]

54. Ditto! Fellow Carnivore here too.

Tried goin veggie, was miserable lol. So yeah decided as well that life's too short to not enjoy what I'm eating heh.

[xmas74]

51. According to this poll

it would be never since I eat turkey at Thanksgiving and begrudgingly try a friends venison summer sausage in Decemeber. That's all the meat I tend to eat.

[buddhamama]

52. never

i'm a vegetarian.

[YankeyMCC]

55. mmm...meat!

someone had to do it. :)

[FILAM23]

56. I voted every day,

but that is only if you include poultry and fish.

[flvegan]

57. Never. Vegan 6+ years.

[Mr. McD]

58. Usually 3 times a day

Especially beef.

[tjwmason]

59. Probably 3-4.

though often fewer - it's a very rare Sunday indeed that I don't have a decent lunch (with meat as a significant part), but for the rest of the time it's very much a toss-up.

I don't consciously try to cut-down on meat, but non-meat food is so jolly yummy I often choose it over meat.

[Fox Mulder]

60. Every day.

[ElboRuum]

61. Beef, it's what's for dinner...

Because pork is for breakfast and chicken is for lunch.

Had to chime in. Apparently the carnivores are a little underrepresented in this discussion.

[Zomby Woof]

64. 5-6 days

That's an average - sometimes every day, sometimes 3-4 days a week. All things in moderation!

Love a good thick ribeye, grilled on our patio with mesquite lump charcoal. :9 One of life's pleasures.

[bigwillq]

66. 4-5 days per week (nt)

[Blue-Jay]

67. Maybe twice a week or so...

Aside from the occasional hamburger craving, I don't eat a lot of meat.

[querelle]

68. Does This Include Oral Sex?

Sorry, but it needed to be mentioned................

Q

[City Lights]

69. Never.

:puke:

[Broken_Hero]

70. quite a bit

at least 5-6 times a week....:)