Where do you get your protein???

As a veggie I'm obviously a pastey, undernourished, tree hugging weakling and thus I'm used to all the usual questions such as "but..... what do you eat?", which is fair enough because 95% of all food is meat and rare plant based foods are only just starting to catch on.
So what about that next concerned question....."Well where do you get your protein from?"
Good question, we should look into that.
So here are the stats for protein per 100grams of food, comparing meat to horrible veggie rabbit food;

Ground beef 26g       versus    Soy beans 36g
Pork sausage 12g      versus    Pumpkin seeds 19g
Cod 18g                    versus    Chickpeas 19g
Chicken thighs 24g   versus    Peanut butter 25g

So you greasy meat head carnivores.....are YOU getting enough protein?? I'm worried about you, you do need protein you know!

poor horsey?

All this nonsense about the horse meat scandal..... you're better off veggie.
It's okay to kill and eat a cow but not a lovely horsey? the country is full of morons!
some people seem horrified that they may have been mislead into eating horse meat labelled as beef,  there was a fuss last week with televised protests in Nantwich over poor conditions at a horse abattoir and now more horse meat stories are coming out everyday on the national news.  why? why are people bothered when horses are involved but are quite happy to chew on a dead cow and live in ignorance to the fact that millions of pigs, cows and chickens are living a poor quality meaningless life all across the country?
If you eat meat then what's the difference? If you couldn't tell the difference when you were tucking in to your 'beef' lasagne then why does it matter?  Either way the meat came from an animal that was killed after having had a bad life.  We're talking about meat found in ready meals and processed food anyway, I wouldn't eat that stuff even if I wasn't vegetarian, it's made for the kind of person who doesn't care what they're eating or doesn't know what they're eating.  Hopefully this publicity will make people think a bit more and then people like me might stop labelling them morons.

time to go vegan?

I have been vegetarian now for 5 years which is long enough to have become adept at rebuffing the salad muncher jibes and accustomed to the confused questions of "but what do you eat?" and "so what made you want to be vegetarian?", these questions seem ridiculous sometimes but then i also realise that your average meat eater probably doesn't think about or even know about the issues that bother me or any other vegetarian, and if they do maybe they don't care.  Having different values, seeing meat eating as the norm and following that norm probably does make people wonder "why would anyone be vegetarian?".  But to me the more I learn the more my own values are reinforced and to me it seems ridiculous that anyone would want to consume meat products, I think from now on I should reverse the roles and ask people "so what made you want to be a carnivore?".
More and more over recent years I have been avoiding dairy products, I don't use cow's milk instead I use rice or oat milk, I avoid cheese and have started keeping eggs to a minimum.  I've had people say to me "oh but you can take it too far though" and "you have to think about your health" but no I don't agree, I believe I have a much healthier and varied diet than the vast majority of meat eaters.  By educating yourself a little it not only becomes easier and more enjoyable but also more important to be vegetarian and ultimately vegan.  The following is taken from a Huffington Post article which many vegetarians may find surprising bordering on shocking, I would also hope it would be an eye opener for all the meat heads out there.....

Jodhpur to Pushkar - please remove your shoes!

Time to leave Jodhpur, its been a brief visit and maybe we should have stayed longer because it's a really likeable place that exudes character, but there's other places to see so on we go to Pushkar.....
Early morning we get to what we're told is the bus stand although it doesn't particularly look like one and show our ticket to the guys on the bus who hardly speak any English, and then sit down without having really cleared up whether the bus is going to the right place.  After travelling half an hour or so Bec was panicking that we were going to end up in an obscure town in the middle of nowhere and I was desperately trying to self teach Hindi so I could read the road signs.  I got up to try and confirm we were going where we wanted and got what seemed to be a yes but I certainly wasn't 100% sure everything was ok..... maybe 70% sure.  I Sat back down and told Bec "Yes we're definitely on the right bus, yes I'm 100% sure" and 5 hours later uncrossed my fingers and exclaimed "See I told you!, you should trust me more!".  We jumped off the bus at a place called Ajmer and got a tuk tuk the remaining 30km to Pushkar.  There was a line of taxis waiting for the buses and one of the drivers ushered us to his and eagerly bundled our bags into the back, a drawn out argument ensued on the price of the fare, he was asking for 2000 rupees and all the other drivers were insisting it was the usual price, I haggling for ages to get a price of 1500 which although it was 30km along a hilly road I was annoyed that I'd let us get ripped off and not gone in search of a local bus.
Pushkar is a fairly small quirky town, feels more remote and rural, and is sat next to a lake surrounded by hills.  Down by the river there are steps leading down to the water from various temples to bathing ghats where people bath in the holy waters of the lake.  We soon discover that it is hugely insulting to wear shoes near the water's edge after several people shout at us, "this is a holy place! you must take off your shoes!", I promptly remove mine but Bec has some cuts on one of her feet and tried to get away with keeping her shoes on much to the disgust of most people we walked past so she eventually had to relent.

Later in the afternoon we wandered the markets, arranged a camel safari for tomorrow, ate Tibetan and arranged bus tickets for our next leg of the trip on to Agra.  Pushkar is relatively quite laid back, not much traffic and the place seems to belong as much to the animals as the people, there's plenty of cows, camels, goats, monkeys and pigs wandering about freely as well as the usual stray dogs of course.  Seems a cool place, good vibe and mostly no getting hassled apart from a couple of specific areas.  There's also a ban on meat, fish and eggs here due to the 'holiness' of the area so being a vegetarian here couldn't be easier for us.