Puzzled about fish

[mdhome]

I once knew a girl who was a veggie. She certainly liked her ..erm...meat if you know what I mean

[spoogenet]

I believe Cartman would also say:

It's all a bunch of tree hugging hippie crap!



If a vegetarian is one by choice through "cute fuzzy animal" "logic".....do they also have a problem wearing leather shoes?

b

[Sasq]

For a while I went 'veggie' (some people say i never left that state )

Apart from not making sure I had enough vitamins I did feel better for a while.

However at the time I went veggie, it was because meet was causeing hell with my digestive track and I went off the flavour of it, absolutly nothing to do with cute fluffy bunny rabbits.

Dan

[Bohrn]

no question that we are omnivores. I love meat, steak, burgers, chicken, fish, cheese, eggs, milk etc. And who ever thinks soya anything is a good replacement can bite me. O wait, that would be wrong. Maybe I can sell soya arms for veg-heads to bite. Soya milk, "it tastes just like cows milk", yea right...Even my veg-hed parents absolutely hated Tofurkey.

Some people have tried to force a veggie diet on thier cats and dogs. thats abuse. True carnivores need a protien that they cannot synthesise from veggies.

On the other hand, we need alot of veggies in our diets. And good veggies are great! I love several good salads. And the way we treat our livestock is atrocious! We need and want to eat them, but we could be alot more humane in our treatment of the animals that feed us.

[Wombat]

I dated a vegetarian for about a year. I'm still bitter.

[Wulfman]

you are all forgetting something: a real "vegan" (singular for vegans?) does not eat honey too...

mfg
wulfman

[omegaRED]

Now thats just plain silly.

[Jorden]

Why are names for the meals made with tofu always ending on burger, turkey or chicken if the people who want to eat that cardboard stuff don't want to eat anything resembling a burger, turkey or chicken?

Jord.

[Wulfman]

not stranger than not drinking milk!

mfg
wulfman

[Wombat]

Drinking milk is a very culture specific thing. A lot of meat-eating cultures don't drink cow's milk.


One of my favorite things is to catch a "loud and proud" vegan red-handed. I've had people exclaim the virtues of vegetarianism, as I pointed out they were eating gelatin.

Why are there vegans that will wear leather?

[Wulfman]

1. I am not a vegetarian!

Personally, I wouldn't eat meat if I had to grow up and slaughter the animals myself.

It is quite easy for us to forget how our food is produced, the experience I made is that most people I know still believe their food is made the same way as 50 or 100 years ago - maybe because they don't really want to know how the steak or their sausages on their dish were produced.

I am not eating everything since I heard from responsible people in the industry how some stuff is produced - and I don't mean the coverage of the press on some of the things that happened in the last year(s).

I am not happy with eating something that still looks at me, like fish or a traditional sylvester-meal here - a cooked pigs head... hypocritical, I know.

If you want to tell me that these were only animals and they were meant to die for us - ok. But then imagine you have to kill and eat your pet - there is no difference, only tradition.

I will eat my steak in the future, I learned to ignore the connection from the friendly looking cow on the alp to the dead thing in front of me - it tastes (too) good.

Considering the energy (food, time, manpower) that is needed to create the steak compared to something made of e.g. soya with the same nutritive value the steak is a massive waste.
And you can live without problems as a vegetarian, especially if you know what you are doing and if you are a "ovo-lacto-vegetarian" (eating milk, cheese & eggs).

mfg
wulfman

[omegaRED]

Yeah, but how do you say no to a big juicy steak?

And i have the same feelings as eating "things that look at me" as you do Wulf. I dont eat any fish

[Wombat]

Bah. I know that meat is an extremely inefficient form of food. I might switch to soy stuff, if it tasted even <I>remotely</I> like the meat it was intended to replace.

Slaughtering cows? If you ever looked at a cow head on, you'd know it's just begging to die.

[omegaRED]

Originally posted by Wombat
Slaughtering cows? If you ever looked at a cow head on, you'd know it's just begging to die.

LOL

[Wulfman]

Maybe you looked at the cows face after it was transported some hundred kilometres / miles or it was electroshocked or something like that?

But I know what you mean, some cows just look ....

Horse - Salami, anyone?

mfg
wulfman