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

[ElenorRigby]

Just that really!

me luv meat

Please stop labelling us veggies as smug. The vast majority are, y'know, normal folk going about our daily business and just choosing not to eat certain stuff. I wouldn't dream of telling someone not to eat meat, yet I've had loads of people twatting on at me over the years - 'You'll make yourself ill if you don't get some steak down you', 'Bet you could murder a bacon sarnie', 'I bet you're going to lecture me now aren't you' (erm, nope) and my personal favourite 'Is that why you're so small?'. Yaaaawn.

Seriously, eat horse, cow, dog, whatever. Just leave me to eat my tofu in peace will ya.

Tbh if I was really really hungry I'd eat the cat.

But while I've got an element of choice,whether it is meat or veg I like to know (as far as I am able) what chemicals it has been exposed to,whether people or animalshave been exploited or ill treated in its production/delivery,how far it has travelled etc etc.
Personal choice,but I can't help but question what I put in my mouth.

Totally chairman I know loads if lovely non smug veggies and if course lots of meat eaters than are huge twats.

Hmmm steak!

Nothing in the world would put me off meat, top of the food chain and all that.

Surely it was the reason God made it taste sooooo good :o

The combination of anaemically proud smugfuckery and the other listless moaners asking not to be characterised as smug is amusing.

I only know 1 really insane veggie, actually vegan. FIL is bonkers. Used to have a go all the time about disgusting meat, used seperate pans to cook his stuff (which is fine BUT he used to really have a strop about having to do so). Even tried to force me to watch an RSPCA video about the awful treatment of cows. He was not impressed when at the end he asked me if I wanted to go veggie. I replied with no, but I'm hungry now so I'm off to Maccy Ds.

Oh but he still eats cheese, wears leather and uses products with animal in. Not a very good vegan! The rest of my veggie friends are respectful of my choices as I am of theirs, and make sure if I cook anything that they can eat it without having to cross examine me. Except FIL. I don't cook for him.

what I find amusing is that most veggies have made their choice from conscience, are largely quiet and apologetic about it, and yet STILL have to listen to defensive bollocks from animal eaters

Quite right chairman I get far more criticism for being veggie than I have ever given out to people who eat meat.

And just because (in this country) animal eaters are the majority - it sure don't make them right.

Defensive bollocks taste best sauteed.

Who's defensive? May as well be defensive about respiring oxygen, or being carbon-based.

Why do we attack each other's food choices.
I love meat, my niece is a vegetarian.
Neither of us are wrong.

It's because deep deep deep down they know.

Oooo I love my little kitty/ puppy/ hamster etc

But I'm gonna eat bits of a cruelly treated dismembered sheep/cow/pig

It's a difficult ethical contradiction to live with.

I actually cannot believe that Hully is vegesquarian. Has to be a DA/agent provocateur thing going on.

I will always eat meat. In fact I hope to one day to be able to buy my own land and raise our animals to slaughter. I think t'internet brings out the bitch in a lot of people. I don't know any rabid vegetarians or vegans in real life but on forums they come out in droves. Perhaps it's because they just don't have the energy in real life to be so dogmatic.

I'm vegetarian. I have no objections to any one else eating meat. I will even cook it for DP and the DSs if necessary - although I do hold it at arms length while pulling an exaggerated bleeeurgh face - but that's just because I hate the smell of raw meat.

Where does this place me on the evolutionary scale? Or am I some freakish evolutionary dead-end? [worried]

Don't have pets myself, I get fat if I snack.

Yeah. That's right. You all give a fuck about AF's fuck but who gives a fuck about my fuck? No fucker, that's who.

[sulk]

If people could eat a little less meat even,it'd go a long way towards feeding this world of ours.

bruxeur

I am a vegetarian.

I don't like specieism.

Never have.

Hully surely it's only an ethical contradiction if you wouldn't also eat your little kitty/puppy/hamster? As far as I'm concerned meat is meat and it's tasty. If I happen to be in Thailand and puppy is on the menu I'll take mine medium rare please.

In my last job I worked with majority vegetarians, I had been there 2 days, sat down to lunch around a round table with my new colleagues and opened my sandwich prepared the night before whilst they chomped on their vege sushi, only to find I had picked up the wrong lunch box and it was in face 6 chicken breasts!

Mortified is not the word....

They were very nice about it and each gave me a little bit of their sandwiches and sushi, I will never forgot that moment.

Yeah right. You are funny and energetic. This ≠ veggie.

I don' object to people eating meat either (as said dh and dc do) because we all have to make our own decisions. But if I'm honest, I find it distasteful. Although am too polite to say so.