To hate the - why can people not manage without meat for a day?

[jennymanara]

I have a vegan friend who is a bit extreme about it, also have several vegan friends who are not. But this one friend pushes for everything to be meat free. Barbecues together, meals at someone's house, weekends away. Her favourite saying around this is that she can not understand how on earth people can't manage not to have one day, or one meal, or one weekend without meat. My answer is always that the occasion is supposed to be fun, and that means people eating what they want to eat. She always says it is pretty sad if people can not have fun without eating a dead animal.

Should we all not have a glass of wine or two at a wedding because Uncle Pete is a recovering alcoholic?

Winter Have you noticed that life is full of being hectored e.g. adverts, cookies, on here, on normal telly, the news media etc. etc. you'd have to live in a place without electricity to escape it!

Yes, but you can use the remote on a TV, but generally it's considered poor form to brain a person with one.

Why not eat a horse though? Cows, beef cattles, lambs and pigs etc. are just as intelligent as horses.

A lot of butchers in Amsterdam sell horse sausages. You eat them cold, like sliced on a sandwich. It's really nice. There's also a restaurant that serves horse steak.

Yes and in France too, I was replying to another poster , who was being typically squeamish about it.

True, ppeatfruit, but I can turn those off, flip a page, or close the site. Not so much with a preachy coworker or friend.

I can see where your friend is coming from, everyone needs to be eating less meat for the good of their health and the environment.

But you can’t dictate what people eat (unless in your own home).