There really is no need to eat meat anymore!

[PinkyLovePerky]

There is nothing, nothing I say, that cannot be recreated in veg form

Vegetarians and vegans are weirdos you can tell them a mile off

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Maybe if more veggie food was gluten free but as it stands, nope. Besides, there's enough food I can't eat as it is. Let me have my damn chicken.

Maybe if more veggie food was gluten free

There are whole food groups that don’t contain gluten that are vegetarian.

Rice and potatoes don’t contain gluten, vegetables don’t contain gluten, soya and beans don’t contain gluten to name a few things.

Lived quite happily in that sort of diet for years

But most ‘veggie’ food is gluten free, just maybe not the processed stuff.

Enjoy your damn chicken Never ⚡️🐓⚡️🍗

I'm not bothered if someone is a vegetarian, a vegan, a meat eater or a fire eating circus clown....Nothing comes between me and my juicy steak.

I recently mentioned on another thread that it's physically impossible for me to be a vegetarian or a vegan as I'm extremely allergic to most high-protein vegetables. Peanuts, peas, chickpeas and soybeans all cause me to go into anaphylactic shock. So there's that.

I agree that there is no need to eat meat anymore, BUT at the same there are many things we dont need to do but we choose to do it any way. Providing it isn't illegal or disrupting others lives then keep making your own choices I say.
On that note I choose to keep eating meat.

I'm coeliac and losing with weight watchers. I find that so many meat alternatives aren't gluten free, high in points and expensive! 2 chicken breasts, £1.55 in Tesco I can make anything and I'm happy. :)

I’m guessing the market for vegetarian alternatives is huge right now, there’s all sorts of random stuff coming out everywhere. Like this weird jerky product! I think the supermarkets are just cashing in... wonder if any of it will last though. Can’t imagine enough people incorporating plant based jerky into their regular diets to warrant making this a standard product.

@NobodyKnowsTiddlyPom I have Crohn's too, I find the opposite, I can't digest meat, which lead to me going veggie, and I'm vegan now from an ethical point of view.
If I'm flaring, or about 10 days away from my infusion, I have to stick away from pulses etc., and everything has to be really well cooked (or blitzed into soup, which I hate!), other then that I guess I'm lucky I can manage most veg without bother, though salads can be tricky!

@crumpetwithmarg
Crohn’s is such a funny and subjective disease! I can eat seeds, nuts and salads til the cows come home.
We get our milk from the farm next door - they are extremely cosseted cows and spend the majority of their time outside (eating our hedges) so I’m happy about the welfare of them.

@NobodyKnowsTiddlyPom I am super jealous, I adore cows and would love to live close by some! Dairy intolerance was one of my first symptoms.. I used to drink at least a pint of milk a day!

I'm glad you can see they're happy cows.

This is probably not a popular opinion but I don't think there is such thing as ethical dairy.

Oh dear Hugs just as it was beginning to calm down.

@Ylvamoon language is ever evolving. Did you know that 'meat' comes form the word 'mete' which originally just meant 'food'? We've always had coconut milk, but most countries now don't allow the word 'soya milk' to be printed on a carton, as it may confuse consumers (who, I ask, would be confused? who?).
Using words like 'sausages' and 'cutlet' is just a shorthand of describing what the food may resemble. I don't understand why anyone has an issue with it. If you don't like this type of food, you don't have to eat it. I personally love Tesco's vegan sausage rolls (very occasionally, I'm pretty healthy overall). Yes, it's mainly made with tofu and contains no pig, but then again the word sausage originally simply meant 'seasoned with salt' and that they are.

@aftAsABrush15 I've also done WW before. Tofu - go to an Chinese shop to get the good stuff - is great and no points and cheap. Legumes are gluten free and free points and dirt cheap.

YABU, meat is tasty and yummy, no substitute is as good, ever.

Don't worry Pinky, I still like you .

I came across "vegetarian smoked salmon" amongst other inaccurate things in the freezer aisle of Sainsbury's. It may even have been vegan. What it most definitely wasn't, however, was smoked salmon. I took a photo which i can't now find. It also had vegetarian chicken dishes. Utter nonsense.

I came across some gluten free bread and pasta the other day in the supermarket .

I am still in shock tbh.

@HugsAreMyDrugs I'm pretty sure you're right, unless they're pet cows, naturally breeding as and when, and you fancy a drop of milk.. Perhaps that is the case?

I didn't see the problem with milk and eggs for many years, it's still fairly new to me (been totally plant based 7 months) and I couldn't believe the atrocities..

An enthusiastic meat eater, but if anyone gave me the IKEA recipe for their vegan hot dog, I'd never eat sausages ever again

Crumpet which makes one wonder what the point of being vegetarian is?

I don't understand those vegetarians and vegans who get ridiculously excited to eat something that looks and tastes "exactly" like meat.

I am not vegetarian but I do eat a lot of meat free products, most of which taste like shit.

I don't understand why so many meat eaters are so concerned with the validity of options available to vegetarians? Why does it bother you! Why do you need to understand?