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Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:43 pm
by lyndon taylor
I was refering to regular cheese, like cheddar, or provolone. On average meat has 7gm/oz of protein, same for cheese, hard cheeses can have up to 10gm/oz, cottage cheese is very low 1.9gm/oz

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:45 pm
by Alex123
Aloka wrote:from the info on a container in my fridge ....in 100grams of low fat natural cottage cheese there's 10.7 grams of protein, one gram of saturated fat and 73 calories.
Personally for me, that is LOW amount. In meat for example the number is 20+. Cashews can have 18g and if I remember correctly pumpkin seeds 20g+.

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:53 pm
by lyndon taylor
Nuts are about 3-4 gms/oz protein. It all depends on your serving size, how much protein you get, but high protein foods like cheese and meat, you have to eat less amount to get the same amount of protein.

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 1:48 pm
by Jhana4
lyndon taylor wrote:Nuts are about 3-4 gms/oz protein. It all depends on your serving size, how much protein you get, but high protein foods like cheese and meat, you have to eat less amount to get the same amount of protein.
Cheese, eggs and nuts aren't really high protein foods when you look at the total amount of protein you get per a usual serving.
It is certainly not the case when you look at the amount of protein you get for the amount of calories ( and fat ) you consume.

You can get much more protein, with much fewer calories and fats via legumes ( beans ). Lentils, peas, mung beans ( also called moong dahl in Asia ) and black eyed peas are very high in protein, very low is "gas", and fairly fast cooking ( 20 - 40 minutes ).

They are also much better for the planet than cheese, eggs and meat, which generate much more pollution in their production. Those foods also require more human edible food than it produces. Not cool in an overpopulated and hungry world.

You can learn more about using legumes here
http://beforewisdom.com/blog/cooking/beans-2/

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:39 am
by Jhana4
lyndon taylor wrote:Funny you should say that about chicken, I have this kind of belief that if you could eat only one kind of meat, it should be chicken, something about eating the least advanced animal in our food chain,
An adult chicken might be smarter than a 4 year old child
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/chic ... -1.1428277

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:16 am
by lyndon taylor
As I haven't eaten any young children, I can't really compare them to chicken!!! Anyway I'm full vegetarian now, so that means no chicken, or young children......

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:24 am
by chownah
Jhana4 wrote:
lyndon taylor wrote:Funny you should say that about chicken, I have this kind of belief that if you could eat only one kind of meat, it should be chicken, something about eating the least advanced animal in our food chain,
An adult chicken might be smarter than a 4 year old child
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/chic ... -1.1428277
I read some of the article.....an example of why chickens are "smart" is that a mother hen who tastes unpalatable food in a bowl of a certain color will warn her children to not eat from that color of bowl even if it has good food in it. To me this seems pretty dumb....she is warning her children away from perfectly good food.....if you raise your kids this way it is unlikely they will ever pass the college entrance exams! I think that what has been proven in the article is that a 4 year old child might be smarter than an adult scientist!
chownah

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:32 am
by SarathW
Ajhan Sumedho's experience with vegetarian diet:
===========
I found myself
aiming for the vegetarian dishes first so that I could
pass them out according to my own needs. It brought
up a really childish tendency in me. Then one day
another monk saw me doing this, so he grabbed the
vegetarian dish first and only gave me a little spoonful.
I was so angry when I saw that. I took this fermented
fish sauce, this really strong stuff and when I went past
his bowl, I splattered it all over his food! Fortunately,
we were forbidden to hit each other. This is an
absolute necessity for men — to have rules against
physical violence!
:)

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Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:37 pm
by DNS
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Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:23 am
by Jhana4
SarathW wrote:Ajhan Sumedho's experience with vegetarian diet:
===========
I found myself
aiming for the vegetarian dishes first so that I could
pass them out according to my own needs. It brought
up a really childish tendency in me. Then one day
another monk saw me doing this, so he grabbed the
vegetarian dish first and only gave me a little spoonful.
I was so angry when I saw that. I took this fermented
fish sauce, this really strong stuff and when I went past
his bowl, I splattered it all over his food! Fortunately,
we were forbidden to hit each other. This is an
absolute necessity for men — to have rules against
physical violence!
:)

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So what is the meaning behind posting this quote? To show that people who care enough to try reduce the suffering of animals are foolish for trying and to try scare people who are starting to think like that so they will not even try for fear of being ostracized.

Good thing the historical Buddha wasn't scared of being different for a principal or we wouldn't have the good things we have now.

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 1:10 am
by Alex123
Jhana4 wrote:To show that people who care enough to try reduce the suffering of animals are foolish for trying and to try scare people who are starting to think like that so they will not even try for fear of being ostracized.
Well, samsara is dukkha.

Carnivores eat other animals. Even if humans don't eat chicken, or rabbit, the fox or some other carnivore will. The big predator fish can eat smaller fish... And unlike humans, they do not have humane way of killing their prey.

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 1:24 am
by dagon
Jhana4 wrote:
SarathW wrote:Ajhan Sumedho's experience with vegetarian diet:
===========
I found myself
aiming for the vegetarian dishes first so that I could
pass them out according to my own needs. It brought
up a really childish tendency in me. Then one day
another monk saw me doing this, so he grabbed the
vegetarian dish first and only gave me a little spoonful.
I was so angry when I saw that. I took this fermented
fish sauce, this really strong stuff and when I went past
his bowl, I splattered it all over his food! Fortunately,
we were forbidden to hit each other. This is an
absolute necessity for men — to have rules against
physical violence!
:)

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http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/intui ... reness.pdf
So what is the meaning behind posting this quote? To show that people who care enough to try reduce the suffering of animals are foolish for trying and to try scare people who are starting to think like that so they will not even try for fear of being ostracized.

Good thing the historical Buddha wasn't scared of being different for a principal or we wouldn't have the good things we have now.
Prephaps the text that follows the text you have quoted may help ..
I was trying to live up to an ideal of vegetarian purity,
and yet in the process having these really violent
feelings towards other monks. What’s this about? ItIntuitive Awareness 29
was a vindictive act to splatter all that strong chili
sauce with rotten fish in it over some monk’s food. It
was a violent act in order for me to keep a sense that
I’m a pure vegetarian. So I began to question whether
I wanted to make food into such a big deal in my life.
Was I wanting to live my life as a vegetarian or what?
Was that the main focus that I was aiming at? Just
contemplating this, I began to see the suffering I
created around my idealism. I noticed Luang Por
Chah certainly enjoyed his food and he had a joyful
presence. It wasn’t like an ascetic trip where you’re
eating nettle soup and rejecting the good bits; that’s
the other extreme.
Some of the aggressive and attached people i know are vegetarians - some of the kindest are vegetarians - i guess that it is what is going on in the mind and how the self is identified that makes the difference, not the menu choices that are made.

metta
paul

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 2:27 am
by Ben
dagon wrote: Some of the aggressive and attached people i know are veterinarians - some of the kindest are veterinarians - i guess that it is what is going on in the mind and how the self is identified that makes the difference, not the menu choices that are made.

metta
paul
Indeed. I have seen the same thing. In my experience it is the person and not the preferred eating arrangements that are usually to blame.
kind regards,

Ben

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 2:36 am
by cooran
Well, I don't know any veterinarians - unless you count the last one I took my dog to in order to get his injections. Why single one profession out?

With metta,
Chris

Re: the great vegetarian debate

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 3:22 am
by dagon
cooran wrote:Well, I don't know any veterinarians - unless you count the last one I took my dog to in order to get his injections. Why single one profession out?

With metta,
Chris
lol, i was not being mindful, caught out again

thanks mate
regards