Comments on: Kashrut Made Easy: Milchig Forever

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:46:15 +0000

I’m also a vegetarian, but not a vegan, and not a pescetarian either- which is actually what you are. To all those who yelled at you for eating fish, forget them, it’s your choice. I became a vegetarian in second grade after a field trip to a dairy farm where i played with chickens and milked a cow, and I haven’t eaten meat, poultry, or fish since that day.
I definitely hear you on how easy it is though to remain kosher this way! I’m a college student and I could never afford two sets of dishes and pans, nor would my roommates understand the concept, but they understand the vegetarian thing pretty well. The only thing I have to watch out for is when I go home to my parents house and I eat a veggie patty/boca burger etc with my dinner while they have chicken or meat, I need to use milchig place settings and dishes because almost all veggie burgers except for ones that clearly read vegan contain whey! So watch out kosher milchigetarians/vegetarians, and don’t eat that morningstar farms griller on a fleishig plate!

By: Kari

Kari — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:41:28 +0000

oh please. lets get it straight, real vegs do it becuase we value ALL life

By: seamus

seamus — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:33:20 +0000

You eat fish ..your not a vegetarian so dont call yourself one

By: Jem

Jem — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:54:57 +0000

In my conversion process, I was intrigued by how many vegetarian Jews I was meeting. I didn’t understand until I began keeping kosher myself. I still eat meat but its slowly working its way out of my diet. I’d rather go without meat than forgo covering my food in cheese.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:26:29 +0000

if wouldnt step on a ant why would you eat fish.

By: therealdeal

therealdeal — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:46:26 +0000

you are not a vegetarian. Vegetarians do NOT eat meat in any form, including fish.You probably also wear leather and use products that are inflitrated with animal fats. You are a joke and give vegetarians a bad name, just admit it already you aren’t a vegitarian you are a MORON!

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:15:05 +0000

My son became a vegetarian when he was five or so, once he understood the relationship between aminals and dinner, about fifteen years ago.

I worried about his development as a result of not getting big healthy slabs of flesh–until one day I got in his face and saw I was looking up at him.

He says he’s an ice cream and French fry vegetarian, not a stand in the kitchen chopping one.

He avoids having people assume he’ll lecture them because he’s shy and unassuming, so I gather people think he’s afraid the animals will strike back if he eats them.

By: Lisa S.

Lisa S. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:53:54 +0000

I’m a semi-vegetarian for the very same reasons. I eat meat outside the house but only bring it into mine on Thanksgiving. The few fleishig utensils in my kitchen are for that annual date with a dead bird, when I prepare the turkey myself). I realize that I’m not going to sell the rest of the world on the vegetarian ideal, and I feel pretty good about my compromise.

Living in Nashville, I always thought kashrut would be easier when I moved to New York. I’ve found that it’s as hard to be a vegetarian in the frum community I inhabit now as it was to be in the “kosher minority” before. Now that I’m rooming with a carnivore who loves her daily chicken as much as I love my milchig, things are getting complicated.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:31:30 +0000

Sorry, you’re not a vegetarian when you eat fish.

By: rachel

rachel — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:47:12 +0000

I’ve been a vegetarian my entire life and grew up in a vegetarian home (despite my father being a meat-eater). I also adhere to the non-preachy way of vegetarianism – except when I get to rub it in the face of my meat-eating friends that I can have a delicious ice-cream cake or or cheesy spinach artichoke dip anytime I’d like love it.