to think that vegetarians will not be happy until farm animals are extinct

[mrleebob]

Let's face it. If farmers can't sell them, they have no purpose to keep them. So they become near extinct.

[EdgarAllenSnow]

i'm sure some people would still keep cows and sheep etc as pets, if no-one ate them.

so YABu (for another reason)

[DuelingFanjo]

yawn! Another one!?

[Marjee]

Yabu! I'm vegetarian, I made that decision for my own personal reasons and I'm happy with my choice. I don't force my opinions on anyone but have been subjected to ridicule from die-hard omnivores countless times.

[bintofbohemia]

OP - are you Matthew Wright in disguise?

[Vallhala]

"I used to be a vegetarian but started eating meat partly because I couldn't stand being lumped together in the animal extremist camp." WTF?

I'm vegan and I'm proud to be in the animal extremist camp. :o

I often get asked why I don't eat meat, why I think I dare try to make a difference and soforth and like Marjee have been subjected to criticism and ridicule for my choice. Despite this, and as much as I have ached to on occasion, I have never asked a meat eater why they are eating a piece of cow... :o

[ChippingIn]

Valhalla - it's astounding isn't it how some meat eaters feel free to criticise, judge and be incredibly rude, but the uproar should a vegetarian ask then why a meat eater chooses to eat slabs of dead animal, killed for their pleasure....

[Vallhala]

It sure is, Chipping. I've had several veggie/vegan friends remark on this.

The other one is what a dreadful mother I am to have decided to bring the girls up as vegetarians and how they must be deficient in this, that or the other. They're 13 and 15 and (shock horror) unvaccinated as well as being veggie. The worst illness they have ever experienced is the common cold.

[ChippingIn]

It's child abuse don't you know!

[cory]

If we only needed to eat enough meat to keep British farmers in employment and the cattle stocks safe from extinction, we could afford quite a few more vegetarians.

The truth is that the current very high level of meat eating is a bad strain on the environment. I, for one, am trying to cut down on my family's meat consumption because I just don't see how we can go on like this.

And fwiw my distinct impression is that, despite the rise in vegetarianism, people are eating more meat than they did when I was a child- chunks of meat are bigger, people are not filling up on boiled spuds and Yorkshire pud.

[splashy]

Yawn. What a boring, shit-stirring post!

Try harder op.

Or maybe just think a little!

If the world was vegetarian there would still be many farm animals, just less than there are now.

[droughtended]

Haven't read the whole thread, sorry. I'm a vegetarian. I don't want people to stop eating animals. What I do want is for animals to be reared, kept and slaughtered in humane conditions.

I understand humans eat meat. What makes me not eat meat is knowing that many animals suffer in the meat production process.

[ClimberChick]

note yet another vegan MNer. Glad there's more of us than I originally thought :)

[YulenoYurbubson]

YANBU.

As a vegetarian, my primary aim is the elimination of goats. The fuckers.

[Abr1de]

I agree with cory that people should eat less, but better-quality, meat.

I'm happy to eat it once or twice a week and pay for better quality farming methods.

[ChickensHaveNoMercyForTurkeys]

I keep farm animals and have never eaten one. They do provide eggs though. Sometimes

[ChickensHaveNoMercyForTurkeys]

I have pure breed pekin banatams Riven. They are extremely temperamental. Little cowbags

[NerdyFace]

Mmmmm...Meat!

I literally get the shakes thinking about NOT going a day with some kind of meat ingestion!

I tried Veal for the first time yesterday and it shall be eaten again! I have enjoyed Shark in Japan along with something I was lead to believe was Whale of some description!

Tried seal on a family holiday to Alaska. Have eaten, Horse, Zebra, Aligator and Crocodile.

I like meat for no reason OTHER than taste, I love the smell and the texture.

That being said, I have NEVER encountered a preachy Vegetarian who has condemned me for my decision too eat meat or anything like that.

Those wankers from PETA on the other hand...