I am a vegetarian. I don't eat meat. Fish. Chicken. Anything that is dead. I do, however, eat animal products, like butter, milk, eggs....so I am not a vegan.
Is this the natural state of things? No, probably not. I am not a skinny hippy, in fact quite the opposite. I just can't bear the thought that something has died so that I can enjoy my supper.
I cook meat for Stew and Lizzy, although I refuse to cook offal, and I also won't stuff a bird. I often wish I wasn't. Especially when you go to a pub or restaurant and get one choice of meal. I also remember being in the states and basically starving for two weeks. And I have to admit to missing my Christmas turkey.
Could you be a veggie?
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no i could not. give me a big juicy t-bone steak and i am a happy camper. animals are here to help sustain us. that is how we evolved. now maybe that isn't a good thing in the big scheme of things considering the situation of the world. but i believe a person needs a well rounded diet and protein from meat is one of them. most vegetarians i know are a bit sickly. no disrespect intended. if you are happy then that is good for you. i always found it amusing when my vegetarian friend would eat meat substitute and proclaim that it tasted just like meat! then eat the damn meat i would say.... it is already dead.
p.s. those steaks look quite tasty.
No , if we didn't eay m,eat cows would be extinct
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/15/nrams15.xml
typical french for you
I don't know why that link doesn't work. It works for me. It is Gordon Ramsey being mean about vegetarians...and tricking one into eating meat. I thought you would like it.
wtf is offal?
i need meat. i suffer from hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. i know a lot of people who don't eat meat for various reasons, and they find plenty of places to eat mom and pop wise, but if you try to count on theme pleases to eat, then it's hard.
then again, i live near yuppietopia with 5 different organic groceries, 2 of which are vegan. i don't go there as a) i hate their attitude that "we're better than you" and b) stuff costs 5 times as much than getting the safeway organic stuff.
my guy's momma is a type 1 diabetic, plus she can't eat fresh water fish, poultry, melons, strawberries, caffeine, wheat gloutin (sp?), or food dyes. my dad once described it as a fat person's hell.
jilly
Clanky,
I go on kicks where I don't eat meat. I'm happy with vegetables, salads and pasta, but then I go to a Mexican restaurant---or a fabulous steak house-- and the carnivore in me erupts and over takes the vegetable in me.
I like chicken. I LOVE shrimp and salmon and I like Italian sausage and dead cow too.
I like to think that the animal dead happily so it could be a hunk of meat on my plate :)
Clank, I admire you for being a vegetarian. I tried it once for four months and thought I would starve to death. I suspect I just don't know how to cook meatless dishes with enough protein.
Of course, Meme is also right, that if none of us ate meat, we wouldn't have domesticated beef cows or lots of other animals as well.
I seem to do better if I eat a small amount of meat and include it in or with a salad or pasta dish with lots of veggies, nuts, and seeds. That's my intention, of course. What I often actually eat is lots of bread and cheese with not enough veggies or fruit.
I was a vegetarian for 10 years but once I got married (27 years ago) I did start eating fish and shrimp 4-5 times a year. It has been 37 years since I have eaten meat or fowl. I could live without fish/shrimp, but the sad truth is- I don't have much emotional attachment to fish and crustaceans. I know I have said this on repeated occasions,, but I still have nightmares concerning slaughterhouses (which we were required to go thru from kill floor to final disposition of all parts). I do cook meat for those in my family that eat it.
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