Are Elves Daisy Eatters?, Are Elves really Vegans? Options

[Serial_Peacemake...]

Now looking through the different SR editions it states flat out that elves are vegitarians in SR2, and of course the term daisy eater is a pretty common insult against elves. However has anyone ever given a REASON elves are the meta-type that can't eat meat? I mean they don't vary that much from humans, and really we aren't exactly well designed to be grazers. Though I realize this may be a moot point with how much Soy the average drone eats in 2070.

[Trigger]

Elves can only eat veggies!? :eek:

Damn, there goes Xander, the gayest elf ever created...he only ate meat.

[Sir_Psycho]

If it states flat out that elves are vegetarians in SR2, I'm pretty damn sure it's been retconned. Seriously. It surprises me that it was actually in hard print.

Even if it was canon, I would still baulk and refuse to follow it.

"...Or make some big production out of bringing some wilted salad to the cute little elf, so she won't have to spoil her lips with meat."
-Roweena, rigger.

I figured that contradicts sr2, although only implicitly.

[cetiah]

[Serial_Peacemake...]

Well I have nothing against it. I was just wondering if they ever give a fluff reason. I think SR4 states that most elves are vegetarians, and doesn't say they all are. So I suppose that it has most likely been at least partially retconned. However reading some of the early SR books they mention that meat typicallly isn't served in Elf heavy restaurants. Though it does make a funny mental image for all the Ancients to be sitting around with big salads, and soy burgers.
I only thought about it because I was working on an Sprawl dwelling elf with the allergy flaw to soy. Which started me wondering what exactly he would eat.

[Crusher Bob]

You can just walk out your door and pick up a good 40+ pounds of free range squatter. Of course, you learn that most free range squatter is not fit for consumption... It's all that artificial crap the greedy proles stuff their bodies with. Don't they know how bad that stuff is for you?

[bibliophile20]

I hope not; I have an elf character from Tir na N'Og that loves his meat and potatoes.

[mintcar]

The SR2 race profiles were written as something out of a biology book. The way I read it, elves could not eat meat, or were percieved as not being able to eat meat. Still, there doesn't seem to be anything else that supports that, and it would be rather strange lore-wise concidering elves strong connection with the irish (:P). I choose to see it as an early missconception that made it into some biology books in the early days of the awakening.

[MYST1C]

[TBRMInsanity]

My take on it would be that there are a higher then normal number of vegetarian elves (especially in the NAN), but this has more to do with the elves tendency to be nature lovers rather then herbivores. I think elves like all animals in the hominidae family are omnivorous.

[Jaid]

besides, i'm pretty sure it's dandelion-eaters.

honestly, who eats daisies? :D

[Crusher Bob]

From what I remember, there might have been a mention of elves having soem difficulty digesting meat, but that was it.

[Demerzel]

So the new munchkin tactic will be to take:
Allergy (Severe, Beef)
Allergy (Severe, Pork)
Allergy (Severe, Lamb)
Allergy (Severe, Chicken)

[Backgammon]

I remember a quote going something like "since most burgers are actually made from soy, a lot of elves dont realise they cant eat meat".. I have no idea what book that came from though.

[Blade]

Not a book. It was on Dumpshock IIRC.

[ShadowDragon8685]

[hyzmarca]

[Demerzel]

[Brahm]

[fool]

one of the characters that runs in my campaign has an allergy to meat. This works really well when the meet :rotfl: is at a bar b que, one of my absolute favorite places for meeting Johnson. As the evil GM that I am, I ruled that even the smell of it tended to nauseate her.
As to the question of whether or not elves are veg, I've always played them that way. From a RL biological/ physiological point of view it can easily make sense as a mild allergy. Just like Black people have a much higher tendency towards Lactose intolerence, the same could be theorized for elves. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they don't age. After all, statistically, vegeterians and vegans live longer and healthier lives than meat eaters. (BTW I'm not a vegetarian, I've just read a fair bit on it and practice medicine.)

[warrior_allanon]

to the OP's question i go once more to the quote file:

[Chrome Shadow]

In the novels elves eat meat...

[Kyoto Kid]

[Thane36425]

It may have started out that way. As some have suggested though, that may have been a generality. Some elves probably were vegans because it went with the fantasy view of elves (odd that since D&D elves were omnivores and saw hunting as good sport and training for war). It also could be part of that "elves as elite of metahumanity" thing and vegetarianism is more PC than eating meat, in some circles anyway.

None of the elves I have played bothered with that. Most of my mage were more manavores in that they often used the various food replacement spells whenever possible.

[Kyoto Kid]

...in the old Seattle Sourcebook the listings for restaurants catering to elves also made mention of seafood being featured on the menu.