To think that the world will never turn to being veggy...

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To think that the world will never turn to being veggy...and meat is actually quite tasty...yumm ....roast chicken....

But buying free range/freedom food meat if you can afford it is the next best thing?

I buy free range/nicely treated meat because it makes me feel better. But even I can see that's a bit mad when I am happy for the animal to then be killed for my dinner. I think, unless you are veggy, you can't really preach.

Nope the world won't. I wish it would but I'm a realist.

Fair enough :)

I can't afford free-range or anything remotely humane...I will still have meat. Moral purchasing is a luxury I can't afford...I just want to feed my family and if that means cheap battery style foods then so be it! When I have money I will have a choice..till then I will get the cheap stuff!

thank God it will never turn veggy.
Each to their own.
I recently chose a restaurant based on a negative review complaining about lack of vegetarian choice. Food was incredible

The only way I would ever be a vegetarian would be if there was no meat to eat.

I have the luxury of buying organic/free range meat ATM, but if the choice was between no meat and battery meat then battery meat it is.

I care a bit, but I care more about readily available protein.

Top of the food chain here, and I intend to stay there.

If the world turned completely veggie we would all die as the amount of fucking methane produced would blow the ozone layer to smithereeens.

On the basis of pulse-eating farting veggies, or cows running amock?

I'd agree with the OP. Occasional eating of high welfare meat in a mostly vegetarian diet seems like the way to go (although I've not eaten meat for nearly 30 years, so I'm a bit ick about it, frankly.)

I actually think the world will become veggie, inevitably humans will over run the planet and we will run out of space to raise livestock so any spare space will be spent on growing crops for us to eat.

Wouldn't it take as much space to grow crops as it would to graze animals?

İf the whole world became veggie than there would be a massive shortage a crops and people would stave to death!

Won't ever be in my lifetime and thank the lord it won't.

I only eat meat once a week maybe twice (seeing as it's Easter, mmmm Lamb) but that's due to money. I love meat, I do not have the luxury of buying humanely but such is life.

I was veggie until we weaned DD and now I eat fish. ;Its a bit of an esoteric argument but I would be upset if everyone went veggie. It would have a devastating effect on the british landscape - for example, if people weren't eating sheep they wouldn't be kept, they wouldn't graze heath and uplands wouldn't be maintained .

Although, Micky Lee, it takes less energy and less land to feed a veggie than it does to rear animals in an extensive manner. You can grow enough veg for a family on a 10 pole; you couldn't keep enough animals in that area to feed a family.

It'd better not turn veggie - if it does, we can wave bye-bye to our countrysides and out ancient forest land and any kind of natural landscape we've come to love.

Interesting, isn't it, how vegans and vegetarians are significantly under-represented among ecologists?

I guess so...

I like meat (in moderation) and we tend to get the better quality stuff when we do have it.

I actually think meat and dairy products are the best source of some nutrients like iron and B12...which the body really needs...

Vegan diets can be quite dangerous.

Awaits an inevitable flaming from the vegan/veggie contingency

Well my free range lamb is in the garden at the moment, will be ready about October.

The more we evolve and the more kind and compassionate we become the more the vegetarian population grows. Some of us are just ahead of our time.

If the whole world turned vegetarian you wouldn't recognise it. All those animals the vegetarians love would all disappear, no-one would keep pigs and cows and pets.
Oh and the massive reduction in global population due to the world-wide famine, that would change things a bit too.

*as pets, not and.

No I don't think it ever will. But we're not far away from growing real meat in laboratory conditions - good for animal welfare and essential to if the human population continues to explode.

Sausages, any diet can be dangerous if not balanced.

Heart attack with your red meat anyone?

Sometimes I wonder how I've made it into my 40s...

I'm saddened, disgusted but not in the least surprised at some of the selfish, cruel opinions voiced on here.

No doubt vegetarian diets can be good but we are omnivores and sometimes meat, and particularly fish, has the best quality of certain nutrients we may need

Homosapiens are omnivores - designed by millions of years of evolution to thrive on a diet which includes meat. A vegetarian or vegan diet is unnatural.

End of argument.

Hecate

Wouldn't it take as much space to grow crops as it would to graze animals?

A lot of cattle, for example, are actually reared on grain, meaning we are growing grain to feed ourselves, and cows. It would feed more people if that grain went to people, instead.

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Erm, most of the world is veggie, or at least in most of the world meat is a very rare treat.