Being a vegetarian is bad for your memory. FACT.

July 6th, 2008 · 41 Comments

I feel bad writing this post. I have friends who are vegetarians. And I have no problem with vegetarians (well…). I just enjoy having a go at vegetarians. Thus:

Are you a vegetarian? Do you actually remember if you are a vegetarian? Have you committed mass lettuce murder? The chances are that you don’t remember. This is because being a vegetarian and having that “holier then thou” attitude like a couple that I know is actually because you don’t remember your heinous crimes against vegemanity.

That chances are that after you committed the murder of tearing from the ground that poor lettuce or carrot or whatever else was grown in a big pile of stuff that came from the rectum of a horse, that you tucked in to a nice tofu burger. Or added Soy milk to your tea. And calmly looked at the world with a disapproving eye.

Had you not read the signs up everywhere when you were a kid? Soyvent abuse can kill. It can kill because you forget who you are and you might do something stupid (like being a vegetarian?)

Between you and me, I squeeled like a piggy who was just named prize piggy in the Piggy-Go-Lucky carnival fair and won a prize of free sausages for life when I read THIS story (on a serious note, dont read it all, it is all about Alzheimer’s which is a sad thing, but I only needed the first paragraph to write this post!) which has the greatest start ever to a news article ever when it says:

Eating high levels of some soy products – including tofu – may raise the risk of memory loss.

Of course, I believe that the occasional vegetarian uses it to their own advantage, and chows down on a steak and then conveniently forgets all about it while snorting soyvents out of the packet and going on a winter wonderland trip to Brocolliville in their head while downing shots of soy milk.

Remember and live by this slogan: JUST SAY NO! to being a Vegetarian. Do not fall to peer pressure.

Eat Meat. Be Normal. It makes you attractive to the opposite sex.

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41 responses so far ↓

1 don // Jul 7, 2008 at 2:45 am

Just getting ready to tear into some barbecued steaks (from my own cow no less.)

Mmmm! Mmmm!
2 Sy // Jul 7, 2008 at 8:24 am

So it is a proper steak rather then the stuff you get in the supermarkets? mmmmmmm!!!!

Now I want a steak, but instead am at work the next 11 hours. Joy.
3 Tamera // Jul 7, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Eesh. I could never be a vegetarian. I hate tofu. Okay. I’ve never tasted it, but I’m sure that I hate it.
4 The Movie Whore // Jul 7, 2008 at 7:37 pm

That’s damn funny. Yet it does not explain my own memory loss as I would not eat tofu if your life depended on it. I say your life because I never give options on my own.
5 Sy // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:24 am

@Tamera – You dont need to eat it to know it is disgusting. Think about what it is for and who it is for and you realise that steak is the way forward. Tofu is the way forward…but only towards the bathroom to get rid of it.

@Jim – I believe your memory loss may be alcohol related! I say this because I believe I may have the same issue! But thanks for endangering me all the same! You are a true gent!
6 MOB // Jul 8, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Sy in the interest of fair play I should tell you about a new blog awards site! It’s called the Bloggers Choice Awards 2008. I am sure you will have any number of people to nominate you but if they don’t I will!

Debs is a vegetarian you know! She’ll be after you!
7 Sy // Jul 8, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Ah yes. I know of that one. I dont think I could go through all the begging people for votes again!

Yeah I thought Debs might be “anti” this post!
8 menopausaloldbag (MOB) // Jul 8, 2008 at 5:45 pm

Sy – have you seen the quality of last years winners? I know what you mean about all that begging – I can’t be arsed but all publicity is good publicity! I guess with baby syette coming along soon you have much more important things to be concerned about and I don’t blame you.

Love live HRT when the effing thing works – my husband’s life is no longer in danger – woohoo! I am no longer certifiably insane and I might even write another post soon!
9 Sy // Jul 8, 2008 at 6:11 pm

Yeah, realistically, I was starting to wind the site down when I started voting for the BoB one, but then won and carried on. I am pretty sure this site will be as good as toast one little one is here. Who knows! That or at least the posts will be once a week max or something. I am not sure. Part of doing this site was about interacting with the readers, but I seem to be getting more and more readers and less and less commenters! OK, so each to their own, a lot of people just like to read and not be “involved” so to speak, but without knowing people appreciate the site…

So the hubby is out from hiding under the bed then? How is he looking for the not breathing when you were about?
10 Kelly // Jul 9, 2008 at 5:26 am

Yuck! Veggies. Eat meat! I agree.

Besides, animals love it when you eat one of their little brothers or sisters in front of them. Just the other day I was eating a drumstick in front of a chicken. I said, “This could be you, bub.” The chicken pecked my eye out for that but I just kept on eating his little brother anyway. Hee hee.

Oh, and congrats on your prize, Sy
11 menopausaloldbag (MOB) // Jul 9, 2008 at 9:32 am

It won’t be much fun without you competing dear boy – shame. Go on, think about it – we Brits did so well! You have plenty of time to change your mind – this one seems to go on until the end of the year – how tedious trying to vote daily for that!
12 Sy // Jul 9, 2008 at 4:22 pm

@Kelly – I have a parrot that eats chicken. So yeah, they really do enjoy it. I dont see people moaning that tigers eat meat. Although I honestly would like to see some “Holier then thou” human walk up to a hungry lion and say something.

@MOB – Til the end of the year? Geez…I dont know if this site will be around in October, let alone the end of the year!!! I will have a think about it, but no promises.
13 Mrs T // Jul 9, 2008 at 9:55 pm

I have just orderes 20 tonnes of tofu for Mr T. I feel sure he will appreciate tofu sausages, pizza, nuggets……… and then hopefully he will not remember when I make him sign those blank cheques on a daily basis made out to “Mrs T’s secret stash account”….
14 Sy // Jul 9, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Dont forget to send one to the Sy Get Rich Quick fund! They are always nice to get in the post! I am not sure the 20 tonnes will work. You may find that ends in death. Oooorr…are you going after the life insurance?
15 Mrs T // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Unfortunately, Mr T has not been generous in the Life Insurance stakes; all I get is ten quid and a can of baked beans.
16 Sy // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:38 pm

They are Heinz though right? Coz you know…they are a top bean.
17 Mrs T // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:53 pm

Nah, it’s just one of those pretend cans that you can use to put stuff in to hide from the burglars .(I think they might have figured that one out now; that Argos catalogue is fantastic.) Anyhow, Mr T just keeps all his precious things in it. (The vascetomy did not go well.)
18 Sy // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:57 pm

I put my valuables in my underwear. Dirty underwear. You know, if they want my money, they are damn well going to have to work for it!

Do you shake your tin to see if Mr T cries a little every time?
19 yeah // Aug 3, 2008 at 8:43 am

liked this posting struck me cuz, – recently went to a doc. apt. with a “veggie terrier radical doctor”!! I HATE RADICALS – ;c) – EAT WHAT YOU WANT – JUST – ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING-! EXERcIsE YOU FAT FAT disgusting PEOPLE!!!

Someones gotta agree with me here, think of it – (evolution) idiots!

#1 I am fairly certain I have 2 teeth called canines!
Weird right??? Wonder why I have those for?

#2 Most mammals cannot metabolize plants as well as meat, “hence – why herbivores have larger guts”! yum yum cud!!
So even if you do nothing but eat veggies all the damn time you may look good now but your really gonna fuck up your kids – kids – kids, kids, that is if you force them to be a veggie eater too! I am SURE you will too bitches, HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL! ASSHOLE!

So why do most veggie terriers live longer?
My honest guess is because they:

#1 Have such “extremist health standards” that they do take better physical care of themselves.
#2 Their narcissistic controlling “I am better than you” personalities wont allow them to die young, and be proven wrong!!!!

I AM LEANING TOWARDS NUMBER 2!! HA HA

Be an independent person, and don’t listen to societies bull shit!
fuck your radicals, your extremists, your dumb ass cults you call a religion, and your fad too fit in and look better than others!!

So listen too me and don’t be a veggie terrier or you will go to HELL!!!? Dumb Ass!
20 Jessy // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:55 am

Fuck you who ever wrote that last entry.. you dont have to eat me to be happy.. Not eating meat is normal and it is the persons choice .. they dont do it for anyone else but themselves.. so shove it!!!!
21 HAHA // Feb 4, 2009 at 2:10 am

Yeah, they do it for themselves at first. Then forget that it was for themselves later on ~ for the lack the cholesterol (from meat) helping power those little synapses in the brain? Eccentric or dumb?

WHOA WHAT A TWIST! DID SOMEONE REALLY JUST SAY THAT?

That has to be it! ;c)

PS. I AM FAIRLY CERTAIN HERE THAT
“So listen too me and don’t be a veggie terrier or you will go to HELL!!!? Dumb Ass!”
From : YEAH

Was more of an extremist comment, of which Jessy there did not quite fire off upstairs as a joke to end the Extremist, Radical, Fad rant.
22 Brittany // Feb 17, 2009 at 12:08 am

O…k already there seem to be a few problems here.
Memory loss is NORMAL!! It is something that generally happens when you age, and if vegetarians lose their memories faster then who gives?? Besides, there is no actual evidence backing that up-it’s the same as people saying that you increase your memory standing on your head(which I believe, as it increases the blood flow to your brain -I dare you to prove me wrong) except without the scientific proof.
Anyway my point here is that I am vegetarian, I have no problems and I find that the only problem here are those people here like ‘yeah’ who have decided that we have problems and that all meat eaters should single us out like jews and hate on us. It’s sick and disturbing. We aren’t extremists either, it’s just something we do for any reason. I became vegetarian for no reason then decided that it benefits everything-I save money, the planet, the animals and my sanity. It’s like a conscience free diet. BTW, most or all vegetarians are not extremists and your just jealous because we have no problems so you try to bring us down by creating one. Vegetarians are generally happy and do not hate on meat eating people. Personally I have no problem with it. Thanx for the discussion anyway it’s an interesting page.

p.s Sorry for bringing the Jews into this, they’ve had it hard. I like Jewish people.

p.p.s Hi Katy, my meat-eating friend. I’ll email this to you.
23 Sy // Feb 17, 2009 at 1:05 am

Wow…I wrote this post back in July 08 and it is still attracting attention!! I should probably write about the endangered green squirrel next…
24 katy // Feb 19, 2009 at 2:20 am

i must first say… i love pork….. to the point of doom…. !!! yar!

anyways my bff (brittany!!!!!) is a vege, and they are cool… no problems…. poor veges…. (your right britt, the jews have been through a lot)
25 Gabriela // Jun 7, 2009 at 12:18 pm

I thought the article “Being a vegetarian is bad for your memory” had some scientific basis. I bet you get checks from the meat industry. Enjoy!
26 Gabriela Masa // Jun 7, 2009 at 12:22 pm

Though I am not a vegetarian, I thought the article “Being a vegetarian is bad for your memory” had some scientific basis. I bet you get checks from the meat industry. Enjoy!
27 Gabriela // Jun 7, 2009 at 12:24 pm

trash article. No scientific basis.
28 Sy // Jun 7, 2009 at 10:31 pm

Wow…you are seriously missing a nut or two arent you! Have you read what else is on this site? Obviously not because you tell me it is a trash article and have NO idea what the site is about! Enjoy!
29 curious_girl // Jun 8, 2009 at 8:11 am

*will go eat vegetarians. not a typo

curious_girl’s last blog post..Food Alert!!
30 butt // Feb 23, 2010 at 6:24 pm

site sucks balls
31 Sy // Feb 23, 2010 at 6:30 pm

The above comment was made by a retard from Timmins in Ontario on 209.226.48.226 who found the site searching google for ways to insert things in their arse. Lovely!
32 LM // Mar 3, 2010 at 2:24 am

Eating a vegetarian diet without B12 supplementation will be dangerous, because only animal products (or those with appropriate bacteria) will have B12. However, soy in itself doesn’t appear to cause the problem, as evidenced by the *benefits* of tempeh in the Java study. There is something going on, likely largely B12 deficiency among some soy eaters, perhaps coupled with formaldehyde contamination in some tofu. But done smart – not sure you can blame the vegetarian diet.
33 LM // Mar 3, 2010 at 2:27 am

Brittany says “and if vegetarians lose their memories faster then who gives??”

Brittany, get back to me after you’ve spoon fed a parent with alzheimer’s, wiped their butt for the hundredth time and then treated their sores. Don’t forget watching your children wither from hearing their cries. There is NOTHING worse – and everything that can be done to prevent it must be done. B12 tests are so essential…for everyone.
34 previn pragash // Apr 6, 2010 at 12:26 pm

yeahh…. this is the way we’re supposed to live! there was a reason god created these food chain.

If we are animals and part of the food chain we should not try to control other animals in what they do. If we are animals we are no more or no less then other animals. We are not gods or rulers and have therefore no business stopping other animals from doing whatever they want to do.

We are not really part of the food chain because there is not a single species that feeds exclusively on humans and we have put ourselves on top of the food chain because most people eat everything.

All animals kill out of a need to survive. Either to have food or to protect themselves.
Therefore the notion that “killing animals is wrong” only applies to those that kill animals for fun, sport, competition or any other reason then survival. Which would be humans.
35 Mhm, no. // Jun 11, 2010 at 2:12 pm

My goodness,
I’m a vegetarian and I have been for a while now.
I have no problem with my memory, nor have I ever had problems with it.
If you honestly think this is true, you’re ignorant and stupid.
Vegetarians can be and are just as healthy as meat eaters, and they are proven to actually be more healthy.
Get the facts before you post crap like this.
36 Sy // Jun 11, 2010 at 2:19 pm

Wow…you missed the point totally….and were doing well until you called it crap and called me ignorant and stupid…and now I will just say you are mildly retarded. Must be the vegetables.
37 EdHead // Jun 14, 2010 at 8:28 pm

Assume the mail/website bits are optional…

I stumbled across this blog because, in fact, I was looking for a link between being veg and losing my memory. I started experiencing some memory loss (really nasty stuff: I’d get in the car to go somewhere and couldn’t remember how to get from point A to point B, for example. And at the time, I’d just turned 40. Mid-life memory loss?) a few months after I first “went veg” (no easing off, just went cold turkey, no pun intended) about 9 years ago. Then I started eating salmon and other fish again and things improved.

So you just might have a point, but I’m also not totally convinced that the memory loss was/is due to my veg tendencies. At that time, I’d just moved to Germany, was struggling with the language, work, apartment, first kid on the way, a bunch of stuff, and I’m more inclined to look to general stress as the origin. And apart from the memory issue, I actually felt a hell of a lot better physically, less tired, more alert, fitter, etc.

And I just realized I’m sounding awfully serious for a site with a name like this one…

Fun site. BTW, some of the comments you attract typify what Tom Tomorrow talks about in the first panel of this truly great cartoon: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/04/12/this_modern_world

I’ll keep looking, if I can remember what I was looking for…
38 Jv // Sep 21, 2010 at 10:32 am

Killing vegetables is better than killing screaming animals,cage them and scare them to death.Most of animals humans eat are also social animals.The non veg probably lose all their memories that you eat your meat and also eat vegetables ,so eat more than we do.Nevertheless,the animal raising takes ALOT more resources than growing vegetables -
39 Andrea // Oct 5, 2010 at 8:46 pm

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41 Alyssa D // Feb 22, 2011 at 6:06 am

I am a vegetarian and not an extremist or a narcisist. I love animals and do not believe in causing them physical or emotional pain to consume them when I can live perfectly healthily on vegetables. I noticed there was a few things wrong with the premise of your blog. The quote you are blogging about says, ” Eating high levels of some soy products – including tofu – may raise the risk of memory loss.”

Ok 1 – High levels. This most likely means extreme levels of soy products. As in, drinking soy powder drinks multiple times a day combining them with multiple glasses of soy milk and tofu and such every single day.

2 – It says it “may raise the risk of memory loss” as in it may not raise the possibility that you may one day lose your memory to something that is probably unrelated to soy products.

I have a terrible memory. I always have. I don’t do drugs or smoke pot a whole lot (because I don’t really consider that a drug. to me, it’s like alcohol – technically a drug, but not too bad for you in lesser doses at a time). With age, comes memory loss. Naturally. I really don’t think it has much to do with soy….

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