vegans in japan.

I always wondered how vegeterians cope with their daily needs in protein (the useful type, not that found in soya etc) ?

 

I'm getting my protein, are you?


(just a joke!)

 

Eating raw eggs all the time is comperable to wearing that pink outfit I m sick of it

(Serious)

 

I don't know what you mean by "the useful type", because soy beans certainly contain useful proteins that we need to survive. The main thing to worry about is getting all of the right proteins in a given day. Take a look at this about.com quote:

 

Soy doesn't contain any useful muscle building protein, in the same sense that Egg-whites or Whey offer. There are many plants that are high in protein, but our body only uses specific amino-acids in order to build muscles. As such, I can't imagine a vegeterian body-builder or professional athlete. Soy just isn't efficient, you literally do away with most of it in the John.

 

Soy protein is not intended for male athletes. Soy protein will keep you alive and prevent muscle breakdown, but will not let you build muscle.

 

the only thing you "could" worry about as a vegan is Vitamin B12

 

thanks everyone who mentioned something about the topic.i was just hoping that it could be possible.for any of you that are curious about vegans,you should spend a few minutes at :http://www.vegan.org/about_veganism/index.html

i havent eaten meat in about 17 years now,i just decided to go vegan about 2 years ago.

 

I'm a vegetarian, not a vegan, in that I still wear leather and so on. I do not consume any animal products in my diet.

That said, I get my vitamin B12 from Red Bull. 80% in 1 can baby.

 

i prefer soy milk and multi-vitamine juice

but red bull is fine, too

 

This is great info.

I went to Osaka in my teens and ate a 'vegetarian' meal at a nice restaurant...only to find they used fish extract in the soup. Got quite the upset stomach that night.

I was stuck in Osaka for a night last year and i had such a hard time scrummaging for vegan food. I walked to 7-11 close by only to find nothing (at least nothing that i could understand). Went to the hotel's restaurant and ordered the crappiest plate of fried rice for 2000 yen.

I hope the next time i end up in Japan, it'll be better.

Do you even realize that the majority of animals you eat get their proteins from plants? If a cow can be massively huge just by eating grass, i'm pretty sure us human vegans/vegetarians will do more than just fine with our soy goods.

You'd be surprised. And besides, most pro athletes do not gorge on a lot meat in order to be in competitive shape.

 

You don't see many people eating 10% of their body weight in just grass every day... well you might, but they probably wouldn't last long!

Ah I miss the days of your pro-vegan avatars and my photoshopping them into something else...

 

i definetly missed something here :lol:

 

My aunt is a vegetarian. She will eat meat on occasion when it is socially impossible to not do so (she has eaten bologna before because she attented a meeting at a restaruant and someone had ordered for her without knowing she didn't eat meat)

She also always orders the Pasta with Meat Sauce at Olive Garden as well, of course she just scrapes the meat off of the top of it (which is usualyl what they just do, pasta and put the sauce on top) and just enjoys it.

As for the protein thing, I would imagine Peanut butter would be acceptable unless you were of course alergic.

 

He used to have these cute little animated avatars of people hugging cows and eating grass, and I would edit them so the guy was sick after eating the grass, then would slaughter the cow for a BBQ, you had to be there at the time... it was better than I explained it!

 

Yeah, i remember that one.