Does a vegetarian diet make someone more edgy and irritable?

I say vegetarian only because vegan is a myth.

It seems like vegetarians are snippy, at least here. Are they getting too little or too much of something to cause this?

Ex. Adding too much salt for flavor or too much salt in store bought prepared vegetarian foods causing high blood pressure which results in irritability.

blackbyrus---I agree. With written words, the READER supplies the inflection more than the writer.

actually it sounds like not a balanced veggie diet. if salt is an issue at least try to get then to use "Sea salt". And yep again store prepared foods usually have an exceedingly hi salt content already. Preparing meals at home & monitoring the amount of salt from start to table could help. also sometimes a little protien hit helps that crankyness-you know have a few nuts for a snack (unsalted-haha), akmonds are easy to carry in pocket. i have been a veggie for over 25 years - raised 4 boys, and one daughter veggie-boys all over 6' daughter beautiful and almost 6'- and i have blood pressure issue's -bad genes-a little cammomile tea wouldn't hurt either. Seriously the balance is important in a veggie diet and the SALT thing is really important - maybe have EX. see a Doc about the Blood Pressure thing - nothing to mess with. hope all is well :)

no. i don't think so. we get just as much nutrients as meat eaters. we get stuff from soy and nuts and beans that ya'll get from meat. it's just a different form. i know what you mean though. but we're all the same.

and vegan isn't a myth. it is possible to have a non dairy diet. totally not hard or impossible.

It all depends on the person more so. But it's expensive to be a vegan/vegetarian I think that's probably what it is.

No, but idiotic questions from people who either thrust meat in our faces (figuratively speaking in an online environment), ask idiotic questions that we've heard 40 millioin times before, whine "what about the plants," question our ethics because it's impossible to be perfect -- folks like THAT are what make me edgy and irritable.

not really.

Veganism isn't a myth. I'm sorry you rely on wikpedia or your own sarcasm for definitions.

A vegan seeks to exclude the use of animals and their products from his/ her lifestyle WHENEVER POSSIBLE. If there are no vegan alternatives available, it doesn't make a person not vegan! that's like saying the diabetic who eats a donut for breakfast because of a lack of alternatives is not really diabetic. very poor reasoning on your part.

The vegetarians are probably "snippy" and "edgy" because you are ignorant, irrational, and your "questions" reek of ridicule. We can criticize your lifestyle much more easily than you can ours. Why don't you get a life and leave us alone, or become vegan yourself so you won't be so confused all the time??

I'm guessing it's partly from all of the trolling making vegetarians on here actually snippy, and partly that it's hard to read tone online, so someone might actually be chill and come off as angry because of their typing, or could be jokingly sarcastic back and that's taken as snippy. I can come off a variety of ways depending on the question, my mood, my word choice, or the perception of the person reading my answer... And sometimes I ask/say things on here simply because it amuses me to say it that way. The internet is not Serious Business.

Yeah yeah yeah, and a human cannot be a 100% carnivore either. Bla bla bla...

More edgy than... than what...? Than a 'regular' person who cannot even drink coffee without cream, sugar (coco, cinnamon, vanilla, whipped topping, sprinkles, etc.)? Than those 'regular' people who eat sugar flakes for breakfast then heap on even more sugar. Or those 'regular' people who cannot eat a steak without sauce all over it. Or eat a baked potato without sour cream, chives, bacon bits, cheese... Most 'regular' people basically cannot eat anything that doesn't have flavour added in some way shape of form.

it hasn't made me more edgy and irritable.

the only time i've been irritable on here is when people post animal cracker-like questions, meant only to stir controversy. but i've also tried to tone it down... i'll be sure to put a happy smiley face at the end of whatever sarcastic sentence i've typed...

;)

it is all nonsense
BUT
you have not seen the NEW peta add..
it is good for naturist's (nudists)

You need to do something about this!!!!!!!

Think of all of the products on the market that have "vegan" on the label. Think of all of the restaurants that say that they serve "vegan" food. Please, defend the word "vegan" as best you can from this corruption.

You need to file lawsuits against all of these companies and businesses. When you have put all of them out of business and have made yourself rich from all of their court-ordered losses, please, come back here and tell us all about it.

You may also want to get in contact with The Vegan Society, the creators of the word "vegan", and let them know that they have been spreading the wrong definition since 1944. Tell them that if they do not put "100% animal-free" into their definition of a "vegan" you will sue them just like you did to Morningstar and Gardenburger.

http://www.vegansociety.com/phpws/index....

Good Luck =)

It's all that roughage passing through the colon.