Vegansexuals in New Zealand

[Professor Twain]

[link]http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB4/aamsz=300x44_MULTILINK/4147483a6009.html[/link]

No sex, please, you're a carnivore.

A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.

Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

The co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Annie Potts, said she coined the term after doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".

Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything from battery chickens to sexual preferences.

Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.

"It's a whole new thing – I have not come across it before," said Potts.

One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."

Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.

"I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance," she said.

Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.

She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.

She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.

"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," she said.

[Colt45]

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» Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband,

» Hans, for nine years.

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This is Hans, his name is Hans - harden the f@#k up Hans.

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» » Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat,

So as not to offend Lisa..I will leave this quote alone ! :-D

[Mel39]

I like Homer Simpson's take on it.

" If god didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them of meat?"

[Mel]

If it is true that you are what you eat then these guys eat nothing but fruit. They are f&%$#*&g fruits. If I met a lady that was that nuts we would not even get close to the bed before I'd jump out the window.

I bet their **** don't smell bad and their urine taste great. So if two vegans get together and have oral sex are they eating meat????

[El Presidente]

The will do anything to justify intercourse with sheep ;-)

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» The will do anything to justify intercourse with sheep ;-)

Prez...after 12 years of marriage those sheep are looking pretty good actually.

[rsanz]

» The will do anything to justify intercourse with sheep ;-)

Dunno mate, most of us prefer eating sheep...

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but sometimes the daggs get in the way:-)

[Taino]

I really find all this vegan thing such a crap!, I mean, if you want to eat or do not eat whatever that's your problem, but from there to discriminate (in any way that they do: intellectually, physically, etc) others because they don't eat like you it's just such a nonsense embedded with marketing, that I just really cannot tolerate.

Just a few facts:

-there is no possible way humans could have reach the level of development they have today, without the consistent supply of protein meat has provide for over a million years to mankind

-vegans and extreme vegetarians (this is a medical fact) have to be extremely careful with their diet, they should support it with vitamins and proteins complexs and they have far more dangers to get problems related with anorexia and derivatives than people with normal diets. They must be constantly checked by a doctor.

...and finally it's just food, not a religion!

...AND this has nothing to do with my cute discriminating vegan neighbor:-P

[smokum]

The world is running amok with people like this. I must have missed all those cave drawings of primitive man eating grass ober an open fire and the hunters taking down a huge bean sprout with their spears. I am a paid member of PETA. People Eating Tasty Animals and always will be.

[Well Armed]

Vegans have a mental disorder. I am offended that they don't eat meat.