[Eco] vegan, vegetarian, mindful?

[becca at earthlingshandbook.org]

I'm like Luisa: I will eat safer seafoods once in a while and poultry
rarely.  One other thing: I'll eat meat (any kind I don't find totally
repulsive) if it's otherwise going to be thrown away.  I figure it's
better for somebody to eat it than for all that energy to have gone into
making meat that then gets wasted!

Occasionally, too, I will wind up buying one turkey sandwich when I am
feeling very run-down and dizzy.  It makes me feel so much better.  Does
anybody know what is in the turkey that does this, and what is a
convenient vegetarian source of the same nutrients?  Iron seems the
obvious thing, but I take iron supplements and eat lots of beans and
broccoli and raisins and iron-fortified cereal and pasta.

It's easy for me to get enough protein at home, but when traveling I
sometimes have problems.  When I did recycling at GenCon, for example, I
got by on veggie pizza and bagels with creamcheese and salads and veggie
burgers and baked potatoes, but I was doing so much physical labor that I
really needed more protein!  (And I had this horrible experience where I
waited in line forever planning to buy a big dish of hummus, but when I
finally got up there, the clerk said, "We're out of hummus.  Try our Greek
salad; you will like!" and I, light-headed with hunger, wound up paying $6
for what turned out to be 80% parsley!!!)  I did not recover from the
depleted feeling until I ate turkey a couple of days after getting home. 
Since then, I usually bring a jar of nuts with me on trips.
---'Becca