You can give 'em to me if he doesn't want 'em...artichokes are delicious.

I am not a vegetarian nor are any members of my family. I love meat, but I love vegetables as, as well(I wonder how many of my fellow meat-lovers are opposed to chicken hearts, beef tongue, lamb brain, and lamb testicles).

Not at all, just because I laugh at something does not mean that I have a sense of moral supremacy over it.

Only if I can have some too.
Artichokes are DELISHUS. :0



...Honestly, the list of things I will not eat is pretty narrow. It mostly consists of mushrooms. And natto. And anything involving maggots. :C

I'm a chicken fiend.
Fried
Baked
Boiled
Jerked
Barbecue
Rotisserie

You name it and I'll eat it. Steak is good too. Medium or well done. It all depends on what I want when I eat it. Do I want it to accept it's fate and slide into my stomach? Or do I want to put up a fight with a piece of dead meat and give my jaws a work out?
Then there's bacon. Oh. My. God. Bacon. It just go's with everything. It's like a condiment and a food all rolled into a delicious strip.

Vegetables are grand too.

:shrug: Eating meat can't stand up to ethical scrutiny. It's only come under scrutiny relatively recently in our history though, so it will take a while for the cycle to complete. Eventually society will get to the point where it is illegal. It will take a while though.

Typical cycle:
1 - People come to an awareness about a potential issue
2 - Philosophers debate back and forth for several decades, and a dominant position arises, complete with proposals for social change
3 - The rest of society spends anywhere from a few decades to a few centuries playing 'catch up', gradually moving toward that position. This is because starkly asking one generation with one culture to drastically alter it rarely works. Instead, each generation makes incremental changes that they are comfortable with
4 - Social change initiated at a legal level, some generations down the track

That's the cycle that suffrage, abolition and other issues have followed, and looking at the status of animal rights in current intellectual debate, it will likely follow the same course.

Hell yeah. It's chicken almost every day for me! Not a fan of bacon though.

*gasp* D:
Blasphemer!

Maybe zeno just never had good bacon. Though I can understand not liking it at all due to it's salty taste.

You mean canines? Pointy teeth used for tearing food? I like giving them a workout, but people don't like it when I don't use my knife and fork. :sadvaultboy:

Anyway, I like my meats. Vegetarianism I find odd, but I don't see anything about it to really object to. All it means is they don't get dessert. After all, how to you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

I think we hijacked the veggie thread.

Oh I'll chew some on rare occasion. My main reason is health - I generally minimize red meat consumption and focus on white meats like chicken and fish. And as far as calorie-filled artery-packers go, Bacon is kind of the King so I minimize it the most. Its taste isn't so bad.

Oh crap this was a huge meat derail.
Uh, I have no problems with vegetarianism. One of my friends is actually a vegetarian.

@Zeno: Ah! Health reasons. Yeah bacon is the king of death meats.

I can eat it but I don't really like that you have the taste in your mouth all day long and it feels like you've just eaten bacon every time you burp

One thing I've learnt from my dad who is in the produce industry, the food at farmers markets is exactly the same food, only a day older and cheaper, because they couldn't sell it to the supermarkets in time.


People say that vegetarianism is ethical - in New Zealand we have 11 sheep for every person, and about half that in cows. We have loads and loads of introduced animals like deer and goat that are wild. We also have no natural predators. If we all went vegetarian we would need to cull every single one of those animals, otherwise they would destroy the ecosystem.

Yeah, another reason change cannot be drastic. Like I posted earlier - although the eventual outlawing of meat-eating is a likely occurrence, it won't occur via some drastic immediate social upheaval. Because meat-eating is too embedded into our cultures, and such a mindset cannot change in a single generation. And it's a good point you make that meat-eating is embedded into other things as well - such as economic and environmental policy, which could also only be changed over a very long period.

Red meat and blood sustains me.

Got to have my fish! Fishy eh?

The first time I went to India I went vegetarian. I stayed vegetarian for a couple of years and then switched back to being an omnivore. I respect the ideals of vegetarians, and enjoy a lot of their food (especially Indian vegetarian cuisine... not a bowl of nuts and carrots, but amazing food cooked in sublime spices), I just am personally happier as an omnivore.


If you are looking at becoming a vegetarian, learn to make a really good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal_bhat. It was my staple food for a while. Great source of protein and a good "stomach filler".

I've been a veggie for about 4 years now and I'm feeling great

Meat is the only thing that makes eating worth while.

I'm vegetarian
Before I became vegetarian I worried I'd miss meat. I needn't have
I don't worry what others choose to eat, I'm not my brother's keeper

Respect all around