New vegetable discovered....free range eggs!

[MadduckUK]

Surely the parents should wait until the child is old enough to make an informed decision for themselves?

oh noes, its like religion lets not go there

[steve threlfall]

Don't forget the classic veggie justification- meat is bad for your health

Eat some nice healthy soy instead. Keep deluding yourselves

[Kezzer]

Vegan - A Veggie who in their spare time looks down on people who wear leather jackets, but mostly spends their time taking calcium, iodine, vitamin B12 and vitamin D supplements, to stop their face turning blue.

Are you one of these strange creatures, kezzy?

Vegan, no. Vegetarian, yes

[Kezzer]

Don't forget the classic veggie justification- meat is bad for your health

Eat some nice healthy soy instead. Keep deluding yourselves

"Meat... it's what rots in your gut!".

Those adverts are just stupid, another delusion designed to sway people from eating meat as well as supporting the current vegetarians. I'm a vegetarian for ethical reasons, not for health reasons. I think eating meat is perfectly natural, I just don't think the way we obtain the meat is natural.

[Blademrk]

I would be Vegitarian, but I like bacon and burgers too much.

[chicken]

Don't forget the classic veggie justification- meat is bad for your health

Eat some nice healthy soy instead. Keep deluding yourselves

Hush now! Soy is good for the moobs!

Packed full of phytoestrogeny goodness!

[kalniel]

I just hope all you meat eaters are out hunting for your food day in and day out, keeping warm by the fire lit in the entrance to your cave, as we have done for thousands of years.

Couldn't possibly be the case that if we suddenly change our lifestyle and life in houses and work in offices that a change in diet is also perfectly fine could it?

[Brucelles]

Nope.

[kalniel]

Why not then?

[Brucelles]

Cos I get sandwiches delivered to the office and the only vegetarian option is avocado salad. I can eat that once or twice a week, but after that I need a change, so 'Hello bacon and scrambled egg'.

By the way, as a vegetarian (not a typical one, I suspect) would you eat mussels? One of my colleagues is a vegetarian and she eats mussels. Her reasons are:

a. She likes them a lot.
b. They have a really primitive nervous system and probably don't feel pain as we know it.
c. She is Belgian
d. they don't move around, so they are more like plants than animals.

[directhex]

Cos I get sandwiches delivered to the office and the only vegetarian option is avocado salad. I can eat that once or twice a week, but after that I need a change, so 'Hello bacon and scrambled egg'.

By the way, as a vegetarian (not a typical one, I suspect) would you eat mussels? One of my colleagues is a vegetarian and she eats mussels. Her reasons are:

a. She likes them a lot.
b. They have a really primitive nervous system and probably don't feel pain as we know it.
c. She is Belgian
d. they don't move around, so they are more like plants than animals.

we're ignoring the key issue:

bacon improves EVERYTHING

fr'example, i make a mean chili soup. but it's even better with bacon!

or consider the humble cheeseburger. it's even better with bacon!

[Brucelles]

Try making a lentil stew.

Then try a lentil stew with bacon and German sausage in it.

There's no contest.

[MadduckUK]

Try making a lentil stew.

Then try a lentil stew with bacon and German sausage in it.

There's no contest.

if there is no contest, pepperoni or chorizo need to feature somewhere

[kalniel]

Cos I get sandwiches delivered to the office and the only vegetarian option is avocado salad. I can eat that once or twice a week, but after that I need a change, so 'Hello bacon and scrambled egg'.

By the way, as a vegetarian (not a typical one, I suspect) would you eat mussels? One of my colleagues is a vegetarian and she eats mussels. Her reasons are:

a. She likes them a lot.
b. They have a really primitive nervous system and probably don't feel pain as we know it.
c. She is Belgian
d. they don't move around, so they are more like plants than animals.

For me pain has nothing to do with it, it's more a question of sustainability and the methods used to 'collect' the food. If muscle farming/collecting were ecologically sound then I'd have no problems with it, except I don't like muscles (I think.. hard to remember as my father has a violent allergic reaction to them so I've never risked it).

[finlay666]

reminds me of the simpsons...

"im a level 12 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow" (i think that's it)

but as far as eating animals goes....I don't object to it, I do however object to the treatment of things like battery chickens, and the halal slaughtering method, religious or not

[chicken]

I just hope all you meat eaters are out hunting for your food day in and day out, keeping warm by the fire lit in the entrance to your cave, as we have done for thousands of years.

Couldn't possibly be the case that if we suddenly change our lifestyle and life in houses and work in offices that a change in diet is also perfectly fine could it?

No, because we developed farming to better suit our meat-eating needs amongst other things, and central heating for our homes.

If anything we developed to eat more meat through the changes in our lifestyle, so I don't really get your point.