Poll: Are you a vegetarian?

Are you vegetarian?

  • I'm an omnivore - gimme meat, gimme veg, gimme all the foods! (not veggie)

    Votes: 196 87.5%

  • Yes - poor little fluffy bunnies (veggie)

    Votes: 19 8.5%

  • I shall not forsake my animal brothers for anything (vegan)

    Votes: 9 4.0%
  • Total voters
    224
I like having vegetarian dishes as a side.
aubergine parmigiana with a side of grilled meat.
I also like vegetarian food, as long as it's naturally vegetarian and doesn't use any disgusting quorn or other equally vile substitutions. Just have to look at mainly vegetarian countries.
 
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Glaucus said:
I like having vegetarian dishes as a side.
aubergine parmigiana with a side of grilled meat.
I also like vegetarian food, as long as it's naturally vegetarian and doesn't use any disgusting quorum or other equally vile substitutions. Just have to look at mainly vegetarian countries.
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Torfu ?
 
Glaucus said:
Good god no, and see no reason why.
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A bit narrow minded. I'm not a veg eater by a long way but even I can see why people go vegan. Look at the state of farming and animal welfare in the western world its apalling and the reason it's that way is because of the heavy reliance on animal stock.

I won't knock people that want to try and do something about it.
 
I could quite happily live as a carnivore, I don't can't remember the last time I didn't eat meat for at least 1 meal a day. Mmmm tasty bacon
 
Edinho said:
A bit narrow minded. I'm not a veg eater by a long way but even I can see why people go vegan. Look at the state of farming and animal welfare in the western world its apalling and the reason it's that way is because of the heavy reliance on animal stock.

I won't knock people that want to try and do something about it.
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The trouble is that a high percentage of people that go vegan for these reasons actually don't know the first thing about health, sustainable farming, ethical farming or anything other than "duh, meat baddd". Plenty of people on here (admittedly a small percentage compared to your average person on the street) have bothered to research this and if you approach it in the right way it is far more ethically sound to eat responsibly sourced meat and other products than go vegan (at least in the way your average loud vegan person does).

It doesn't help that you also get extremely preachy clueless vegans sprouting rubbish a lot. Even those of us that don't have the view "duhhh..you don't eat meat therefore you suck" often find it hard to not react badly.
 
FrenchTart said:
The trouble is that a high percentage of people that go vegan for these reasons actually don't know the first thing about health, sustainable farming, ethical farming or anything other than "duh, meat baddd". Plenty of people on here (admittedly a small percentage compared to your average person on the street) have bothered to research this and if you approach it in the right way it is far more ethically sound to eat responsibly sourced meat and other products than go vegan (at least in the way your average loud vegan person does).

It doesn't help that you also get extremely preachy clueless vegans sprouting rubbish a lot. Even those of us that don't have the view "duhhh..you don't eat meat therefore you suck" often find it hard to not react badly.
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It's what I was getting at there are plenty of stuff you can get direct from the farmer at not much more in price. It's rare I eat any sort of supermarket or processed meat.

It's ironic that battery hens are now more 'ethical' than barn eggs. I now get the cheapest because it's likely to come from the biggest supplier in battery eggs. Daft. Or call off at the farm and get a dozen but they cost more.

Dairy farming is also pretty horrid for the farmer and the cows so I try tend to buy half milk half soya and avoid butter.
 
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Edinho said:
A bit narrow minded. I'm not a veg eater by a long way but even I can see why people go vegan. Look at the state of farming and animal welfare in the western world its apalling and the reason it's that way is because of the heavy reliance on animal stock.

I won't knock people that want to try and do something about it.
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Or you know, buy from a decent place, where animal welfare is much higher than the norm.
Just because cheap unethical meat and animal products are available doesn't mean you have to buy them.
 
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It's what I was getting at there are plenty of stuff you can get direct from the farmer at not much more in price. It's rare I eat any sort of supermarket or processed meat.

It's ironic that battery hens are now more 'ethical' than barn eggs. I now get the cheapest because it's likely to come from the biggest supplier in battery eggs. Daft. Or call off at the farm and get a dozen but they cost more.

Dairy farming is also pretty horrid for the farmer and the cows so I try tend to buy half milk half soya and avoid butter.
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I think the take-home message here is that it's very easy to make assumptions about people's reasoning when actually you may agree with it more than you expect.
 
I'd be lying if I said I were a vegetarian but I do not eat much meat at all. I do it from a personal ethics point of view.

It's not that I have any problem with eating meat, but I tend to think we consume too much of it.

As gay and as tree hugging as it sounds but I think when you eat meat you should have some kind of reverence and thanks for what it is you're eating. :o
 
Rosbif said:
I'd be lying if I said I were a vegetarian but I do not eat much meat at all. I do it from a personal ethics point of view.

It's not that I have any problem with eating meat, but I tend to think we consume too much of it.

As gay and as tree hugging as it sounds but I think when you eat meat you should have some kind of reverence and thanks for what it is you're eating. :o
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I think this is where being aware of the chain for the food you eat and generally having an interest in ethical farming is a good way to show your respect.
 
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