Your thoughts on Vegitarianism

akamaisondufromage wrote: Dean wrote: I'm more impressed by Tesco's burgers than I thought I was - it says the sample tested contained 29% horse meat - I'm surprised they contained that much meat.   On holiday last year the good lady wife turned her nose up at Steak Haché œufs à Cheval on the menu in every café we dined at even after repeated attempts to explain it was beef not horse and just means "on horseback" just like devils on horseback and pigs on horseback.   a) You don't know what the other 71% is.   b) What are 'pigs on horseback' ?  (I know pigs in blankets but...)

Prunes wrapped in bacon (or figs or dates depending on which recipe you read, I suppose any dried fruit will suffice).

Practiced veggie diet for a while because I thought it was healthier.  Couldn't believe how much better I felt when I started eating meat again.  Beans and tofu/etc were apparently not doing it for my body.  Or my taste buds. 

Semantic juggling, I did not miss the premise. I never said eating vegetables is a "noble cause". Eating vegetables is just what it says it is and that is all. Since you like to argue about words perhaps you can tell me the meaning of "turn her nose up at". My dictionary says....to refuse to accept something because you feel that it is not good enough for you: so horse is not good enough for your wife, even the concept on a menu is repulsive to her. My wife does not eat animals at all, even the thought of eating one is repulsive to her. I do not think either is wrong, thats just who they are. To say vegans are smug and bash them for a lifestyle choice is narrow minded.

Edited by timothy leary - January 16 2013 at 11:43

Let me get this straight. Veggie diet is not noble. Eating beef but not horse is, even though a horse eats about the same diet as a cow. I don't know where the nobility factor came  into the discussion. Eating any kind of food and the concept of nobility seems foolish.  I would consider any meat i did not personally raise to be mystery meat. This includes so called organic meat.as pointed out before people are resilient and can eat just about anything. Lewis & Clark started out eating buffalo and then switched to horses when that ran out and when they ran out of horse they ate dog.I suspect if they had not met the Nez Perce indians they would have eventually eaten each other.

Dean wrote: I'm more impressed by Tesco's burgers than I thought I was - it says the sample tested contained 29% horse meat - I'm surprised they contained that much meat.   On holiday last year the good lady wife turned her nose up at Steak Haché œufs à Cheval on the menu in every café we dined at even after repeated attempts to explain it was beef not horse and just means "on horseback" just like devils on horseback and pigs on horseback.

Dean wrote: Blacksword wrote: Years from now we'll all be eating fake meat grown in labs anyway, from stem cells, and most people will be coaxed into thinking that is perfectly ok, through decades of pressure and brainwashing from 'ethical' politicians who will all still be gorging on venison and fois gras every day. 50 years ago they said we'd have hover-boots now and we're still waiting. Synthetic meat is easily made, it's called soya.

The principles of growing meat meat from stem cells in a lab, is established. That is actual meat, not meat substitute like soya. Mass producing it is the challenge, as no doubt marketing it to people like me will be too.

^I made a Quorn lasagne on Monday. Very good it was too...

Blacksword wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Reading on Facebook of people throwing their burgers away. Now that is disgusting. edit Because of a comment I left my nephews wife will feed them to a cat. That's better anyway. It is terrible. What's wrong with eating horsemeat anyway? Why is it any more aceeptable or unnacceptable than eating cow, or lamb or deer?? It is of course a cultural thing, and I suspect the biggest problem here is that Tesco were selling what were supposadly beef bufburgers, without declaring the horsemeat contents in the ingredients.

The root problem is the same as for so many other issues: too many people on this planet, and too many of them concentrated on huge urban areas.