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to wonder WTF would it take for people stop eating "meat"

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ElenorRigby · 13/02/2013 18:33

Just that really!

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EmmaBemma · 13/02/2013 20:46

You don't have to use those prissy little quotation marks. It's still meat, it's just equine and not bovine.

bruxeur · 13/02/2013 20:46

Veg is there to soak up the gravy with.

NippyDrips · 13/02/2013 20:51

Veg on the side of a roast is great and even roasted veg, but there ends my ability to cook it. If I turned veggie I would be serving up bowls of country veg (carrots, peas & broccoli) for every meal. Not appealing.

TheSeventhHorcrux · 13/02/2013 20:52

Stropzilla now THERE'S an image!

TheSeventhHorcrux · 13/02/2013 20:56

entjournal.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/devil-in-disguise-the-unethical-practices-of-monsanto/

I don't understand how vegetarians can justify their practise with the "ethical" argument and still happily eat dairy products.

At least vegans have cut it all out

Stropzilla · 13/02/2013 20:57

Sorry...that's probably enough to put you off eating ANYTHING!

EmmaBemma · 13/02/2013 21:09

You've got a good point, Seventh.The cruelty of the dairy industry is absolutely staggering - from an animal welfare point of view, vegetarians haven't got a moral leg to stand on. I should know - I was one!

VerySmallSqueak · 13/02/2013 21:14

Is organic milk any better ?

(clutches at straws)

RibenaFiend · 13/02/2013 21:14

Won't someone PLEASE think of the carrots?!

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TheSeventhHorcrux · 13/02/2013 21:17

I'm not sure, squeak, I imagine it has to be somewhat better but at the end of the day cows don't naturally produce milk all of the time so there is some kind of fiddling going on there.
I heard rumours of impregnating cows and then aborting repeatedly to keep the produce up but I have no idea whether that is true or not.

Hullygully · 13/02/2013 21:31

the continuous milking makes them think they are "bfing" isn't it?

sherazade · 13/02/2013 21:35

Once I found glass in my organically bought veggie burgers.
And I love meat.
So there.

VerySmallSqueak · 13/02/2013 21:43

So basically when it comes to knowing what is in your milk,organic is better,but when it comes to ill treatment of the cows it matters not.

Can't seem to get over how bloody awful soya milk tastes though.
I even tried almond milk recently - equally bloody awful.

happybubblebrain · 13/02/2013 21:43

Actually being a vegan isn't much better than being a vegetarian as animal products are in everything and where you'd least expect them. Such is the cruel world we live in. There is no getting away from them.

Meat is disgusting and that's why I don't want it in my body. You eat it if you like, I don't care what you do.

TheSeventhHorcrux · 13/02/2013 21:51

Meat isn't disgusting. Eating meat doesn't make you disgusting. Equally not eating meat isn't disgusting.

You know what is disgusting? Saying people are stupid, murderers or unevolved because of their dietary choices.

I think what you mean, bubblebrain, is "I think meat is disgusting"
To put it that way isn't derogatory to anyone, we would want to infer people are disgusting, would we?

shallweshop · 13/02/2013 21:53

Mmmmm love meat - don't eat processed stuff much though - mostly stick to free range/organic. I love food generally and will give most things a try. I love the fact that my kids will also try anything and don't have any issues about any foods. It makes travelling (and life in general) a lot easier and more varied.

happybubblebrain · 13/02/2013 21:58

It's bonkers how seriously people take things on here. If people call me smug (based only on their knowledge of what I don't eat) my natural response is to be a smug as I can possibly be just to annoy them.

Meat is disgusting, that's a fact. Have you not seen it being manufactured on the news lately? It's not just my opinion. I've heard hardened steak lovers in the last couple of days say "yuk, it's disgusting". I don't think all meat eaters are disgusting. I know of some perfectly nice ones.

socharlottet · 13/02/2013 22:09

'I would rather be vegetarian or pescatarian than eat non-free range or organic meat and chicken. '

and you think that if it has been so easy to pass off horse meat as beef , the meat you have bought marketed as 'free range and organic' always has been ?

pigletmania · 13/02/2013 22:13

Nah I love my meat and will continue eating it despite what certain people say about it.

Hullygully · 13/02/2013 22:15

piglet - statements like that always make me think of cordelia gummer.

shallweshop · 13/02/2013 22:18

Socharlottet - organic meat is fully traceable back to the farm so yes!

NotADragonOfSoup · 13/02/2013 22:24

Meat is disgusting, that's a fact

No, that is your opinion.

socharlottet · 13/02/2013 22:31

shallweshop but not by you!

Supermarkets repackage stuff as organic all the time.

pigletmania · 13/02/2013 22:48

Well hully thats how i feel. Yes i agree veg is there to soak up the gravy with a nice bit of meat on the side

BadLad · 14/02/2013 01:10

I think vegetarians get their smugness from not being murderers.
And being more evolved.
And knowing better.

Nothing will stop the stupid from eating meat, it is a proven fact.
I don't care what they do.

If only they made judgypants out of leather.