1: Are you vegetarian or vegan?
No. I do eat meatless on occasion, but I like the taste of meat.
4:Would you ever consider becoming vegan/vegetarian (if a meat eater)
No. We are omnivores by nature and jumping through loops just to avoid eating a certian thing is pointless in my eyes. Yes I understand many people don't eat meat because they feel sad for the animals, can't stand meat because of the flavor/upbringing/genetics, don't have to money to or just follow some pointless diet.
6: How are your energy levels/iron levels etc (i guess both could answer this)
Normally good, but I am currently recovering from an illness so it's low at the moment.
This has nothing to do with me eating meat. It is because my meds kill my immunesystem.
7: Do you take a vitamin suppliment. (i guess both could answer that too)
No. Vitamin suppliments can actually do more harm than good.
CBS news had a small story about it based on several science papers
Many vitamins are stored in fat and high enough doses of these vitamins can actually make you very sick. Yes with a bad diet or just not being able to get the vitamins in food you can use it to get the amounts you need in a day.
With normal meals, it is a waste of money.
First off,
It was noted on the last page that for honey you need to kill animals.
Cute as this is not the case.
Bees are kept to make honey, these honeygrates are removed and most honey is taken away. There is always left enough for the bees to raise their young and they get extra sugarwater if they can't make more honey due to other reasons. None of these bees are killed for it. The smoke doesn't calm them, but give them more CO2 in their bodies making them less able to respond. This keeps them at the bottom and safe from harm.
There are many ways to just not eat meat. You don't need special products to take it's place.
Frankly I think that if you avoid eating meat just by using those products, your the lazy one. Many other products can be used to make a good filling meal without meat of those fake things. It is also cheaper than those fake things.
It just takes more time and knowleage about the products.
True, the prehistoric man ate more fruit, roots and other plants than meat. However this does not mean they ate this because it was healtier, it could simply be because they couldn't hunt effectively back then.
Thing is, while I am not against eating meat or even the ways the Netherlands kill them (I know how they do it and the way of the chicken is the thing they do need to do better) I am against killing just for sport.
Kill an animal, use every part of it. Don't just take a pic with it and either leave it to rot or just take the head.
Also, sorry Moeru, but being more healthy now than when you lived in the US does not mean being a mostly vegitarian did that to you. Sadly while the US has good products and you can get a lot of good healthy products, there are always a ton of products in the supermarkets that contain a ton of sugar, preservatives and plain junk. Unless you take your time to find the good stores or read the ingredients to pick the less bad items, you will get junk in your system.
In the Netherlands a lot of preservatives and junk arn't allowed in the food and Japan is even stricter in it.