Not sure about where you guys live, but here where I live soy products are quite essential for vegetarian food. Tofu, soy milk, soy protein, etc. So I hope you don't live around here. I'm not a vegetarian, but I hate this kind of disrepect to personal preference from the comments above.

look, vegan and vegetarian diets dont make sense. at all. they go against nature. if we as humans weren't meant to eat meat, our digestive systems wouldn't have evolved to this point and wouldn't be capable to handling something like that.

I don't care what everyone else has to say, but...DUDE....vegetarians will always fail sooner or later. YDI

Vegetarians rock! More power to you. I started as well. And to all those meat eaters, remember the atrocious condition of most factory farms where the majority of livestock are raised. No living thing deserves that, especially ones that are as intelligent as dogs (pigs).

And all the people on here who posted that meat is required to stay healthy are full of shit. If you have ever heard of India you would know that its population is packed with vegetarians and they manage to maintain healthy lifestyles. It is proven that there are alternative methods to obtain the nutrients found in meat. Protein: nuts, soy (which OP apparently can't have), and beans Red meat is proven to be detrimental to your health, anyways. It's preposterous to suggest that OP deserved it because eating meat is "natural." We're humans! What do we eat that's natural? We would have to eat all food raw. Any use of oil or spices is out of the question, much less preservatives. A study shows that the majority of the food we eat is bad for us.

YDI for being vegetarian

vegitarians r soo coolll!!!! but its true u do need a litlle bit of meet(at least) to be truly healthy.

Omnivorians 1 and Vegetarians 0

me too. It' s almost worse for me though cause I'm lactose intolerant. But you could try rice milk that's a good alternative for soy milk

OMG how is this deserved by being a vegetarian??? i'm a vegetarian but i eat fish and shrimp so i can still eat at restraunts and at other peoples houses without being too picky. i am very healthy. its a very good decision to make if you do it the right way!!! i have slimmed down since i stopped eating meat and i feel great. FYL! and those who say YDI for being vegetarian can go play with themselves in the corner cuz they're too closed-minded to realize that people can be perfectly happy and healthy without meat in their diet!! and good luck without soy... you'll figure something out, i'm sure there are a lot of vegetarians out there who are allergic to it also.