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

[ElenorRigby]

Just that really!

Seeing as Hully has mentioned the nazi's, I'm going to throw in a BFvFF comparison

But Bogey, I am criticising your choice because I think it the wrong one. Do you want me to pretend I don't?

mary, I concur with the spelling atrocity

How can we have interesting discussions and learn and think if we don't say what we think and be open to new ideas and thoughts? I have never understood the idea that thinking someone wrong = heinous crime.

AF, you have described how I feel to a tee. I eat very little meat, once or twice a fortnight at most, but what I do eat I enjoy. My best male friend is vegan and I love having him over for dinner as I like the challenge and he likes being given something other than mushroom risotto (which is even more joyless without parmesan!). I prepare meals that he and meat eating guests can both eat, taking what they want from each dish. No issues at all.

But I refuse to accept that just because someone has deemed their way the only way, that I should automatically say "Oh ok then" and do that!

yy the whole Eleanor thing is simply beyond the pail.

Nazis, FFvBF anything else we can compare veggie / non veggie to? Conspiracy v moon landing?

Do you mean cock?

But of course you don't have to bogey. Any more than I have to go and eat some pig encased in some odd condom-like skin thing. Sausage, that's the chap.

Ironically, you are now wrong with that assertion! My choice isnt the wrong one. Its just different to yours.

I dont tell you that I am right and you are wrong regarding meat, I say that I respect your choice to be vegetarian but that it isnt for me.

Yeah, I think it would be more 'good' to not eat any animals that have been killed for the purpose. I don't see any moral advantage to eschewing roadkill, for example, as the thing was dead anyway.

But I'm a carnivorous omnivore and not fussy about whether it's 'meat' or meat. I don't eat fast foods - never have - but I buy reformed 'ham' and even processed 'chicken' if there's nothing else. I don't care if my steak is cow or horse meat. I've eaten horse knowingly, and alligator and other odd-sounding meats.

Gorillas aren't completely 'frutarian'. They eat maggots & things.

I'm keeping a list of MN vegetarians, as they will be the cleanest, tastiest MNers to eat when the zombie apocalypse strikes.

Hully, I think you have perfectly valid pants, too!

Let's not forget buggering choir boys

er, 'be a very quiet discussion forum if all the people "100% behind their arguments" didn't feel the need to reply bit of a cop-out there....

any of the people who think we have evolved past killing animals know a damn thing about how their vegetables and grains are produced?? you think no life is taken in that process at all? please, do some thinking, or researching, or something. Being veggie is fine by me, but it that is so the wrong reason if that's why you made the decision.

The Op didn't want a sensible discussion though.

Her title was goady. IMVHO.

Laughing at Garlicblocks approving of Hullys pants...

Our digestive system can digest anything, including meat, but we don't need meat to survive, like actual carnivores. Being omnivorous means it's our choice what we eat.

I was just pointing out that posts like this

Add message | Report | Message poster Nancy66 Wed 13-Feb-13 19:03:22
I like pointing out my incisor teeth to any militant veggies...they ain't for tearing tofu you know.

are rather meaningless because having incisors doesn't mean that we are carnivores - our teeth are rather more modest than some natural herbivores. In fact I'm pretty sure human teeth would be rather ineffective at ripping apart freshly slaughtered wildebeest or whatever, but that's what you get from millions of years of evolution and the invention of tools, agriculture etc.

I'm not a vegetarian because I can't stand mushroom straganoff!

So the vegetarians, just like food will have eaten plenty of greens so we don't have to? Damned considerate tbh, if I turn to cannibalism, I want a decent organic fed person to munch on.

how about roadkill ?

fair game ?

runs..............

Couldn't give a rat's ass what other people eat. Never understood why people like to get up in arms about other people's diets.

I am a (little nibbly type) carnivore and I love mushroom stroganoff !