The Grapevine (OFF TOPIC CHAT) Part II

Tar.Aldarion · 24-09-2014 12:12AM

Too many people are like that, especaially those who are for animal rights but won't stop eating the products.

Just about to read this AMA from a holocause survivor who started the farm animal rights movement in America and has dedicated his life to that and veganism.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h8df0/i_am_an_80yearold_holocaust_survivor_who/

Should hopefully be good, also he sure as hell does not look 80.

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Tar.Aldarion · 24-09-2014 06:32PM

Everybody might be up to speed in a decade rolleyes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29007758

Just Like Heaven · 24-09-2014 08:16PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Everybody might be up to speed in a decade rolleyes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29007758

I'm afraid to read the comments of that article

I remember seeing it all over facebook earlier this year that meat sales were down something like 9% in the US this year. Probably still hugely on the increase as a whole though because of the adaptation of the western diet in China and now increasingly in South-East Asian countries.

BMJD · 24-09-2014 08:24PM

Coveney was on the radio earlier patting himself on the back for selling more baby formula to China :rolleyes:

Tar.Aldarion · 29-09-2014 06:11PM

Violife vegan cheese is great, I usually don't really like vegan cheeses but it's so nice.As is cornucopias blue cheese
I wish I bought more at the world veggie day, got 2 different packs for 5e which was great.

Melts perfectly well also, yummy.

thesandeman · 30-09-2014 03:50PM

Sorry if posted elsewhere, but if anyone has a sweet tooth M&S are selling veggie jelly bean thingies. Don't know how long they have been around but I only spotted them yesterday. €1.49 each or buy 2 get 3rd free.

Feu · 30-09-2014 03:59PM

also veggie wine gums. Just new afaik

for the non vegans. Dine in for 2 macaroni cheese thing today in grafton

Killer_banana · 01-10-2014 11:40AM

Feu wrote: »

also veggie wine gums. Just new afaik

for the non vegans. Dine in for 2 macaroni cheese thing today in grafton

Also they apparently now do veggie Percy Pigs. None of which they seem to sell in my local M&S.

thesandeman · 01-10-2014 11:54AM

Check around the Halloween sweetie display as you get to the tills.

Tar.Aldarion · 01-10-2014 12:01PM

Don't think yer missing out much on the veggie percy pigs tbh

Feu · 01-10-2014 02:00PM

i quite like the veggie percies (although steering clear of sugar currently

) They're not that distinguishable from the normal bag. If you ask a manager they should be able to get some in for you

Killer_banana · 01-10-2014 03:01PM

Feu wrote: »

i quite like the veggie percies (although steering clear of sugar currently ) They're not that distinguishable from the normal bag. If you ask a manager they should be able to get some in for you

Just had a quick google and (like everything else) they're glazed with beeswax. Oh well.

Edit: However I did just find their vegan product list and there's some desserts including jellies on there. :O

Gunslinger92 · 03-10-2014 06:38PM

Was watching a programme there and there was a new range of make up brushes on. I was interested up until it was said that they're 100% pony hair.

But I was just wondering about the exact details of make up brushes with animal hair? How do they extract it, is the animal harmed, etc?

(I get my brushes from elf, they're synthetic and very good)

henryporter · 03-10-2014 07:08PM

Three articles in the Irish Times this week on vegans - the first a book promo for the 'Happy Pear' dudes in Greystones, the second a good basic guide to getting enough vitamins etc. from a vegan diet, and the third a ubiquitous tongue in cheek 'I went vegan for a week and I'm lucky to be alive' type that even claimed rather spuriously IMO that meat makes food taste good - makes me think we really are at that same point when Homo Sapiens turned around to the Neanderthals and said "See ya's!". Anyways plenty of vegan exposure for a change - I'm too lazy tonight to link to the articles...

--LOS-- · 06-10-2014 05:07PM

henryporter wrote: »

Three articles in the Irish Times this week on vegans - the first a book promo for the 'Happy Pear' dudes in Greystones, the second a good basic guide to getting enough vitamins etc. from a vegan diet, and the third a ubiquitous tongue in cheek 'I went vegan for a week and I'm lucky to be alive' type that even claimed rather spuriously IMO that meat makes food taste good - makes me think we really are at that same point when Homo Sapiens turned around to the Neanderthals and said "See ya's!". Anyways plenty of vegan exposure for a change - I'm too lazy tonight to link to the articles...

I had a look at those, they're kind of soul destroying to read, such nonsense, I wouldn't know where to start

Anyway here is a nice reply to one of the original ones.

--LOS-- · 08-10-2014 04:01PM

My sister posted me these from vegfest London...

looks a bit like a skin infection

They're good but I think I prefer the ones I made myself before

Killer_banana · 08-10-2014 07:09PM

--LOS-- wrote: »

My sister posted me these from vegfest London...

looks a bit like a skin infection

They're good but I think I prefer the ones I made myself before

Just looked these up, they're even more expensive than Freedom Mallows. They look a bit more natural and homemade but £3.75 for marshamallows is just too much, even as an occasional treat.

Whispered · 08-10-2014 07:13PM

Hey. I don't post in here often so please excuse the intrusion. Just wondering, a guy in another forum is asking about eating his girlfriends placenta after she gives birth. While I have no intention of even considering it, would any if you think it's a vegetarian grey area: woman eats her own placenta. If the person eating it is the person who grew it. I know what I think, meat is meat so placenta isn't vegetarian but I did have to think About it. What do ye think?

Killer_banana · 08-10-2014 07:16PM

Not my cup of tea but can't see anything wrong with. Technically not vegetarian but no-one is harmed and if it's not eaten it just get thrown away.

--LOS-- · 08-10-2014 08:06PM

Killer_banana wrote: »

Just looked these up, they're even more expensive than Freedom Mallows. They look a bit more natural and homemade but £3.75 for marshamallows is just too much, even as an occasional treat.

woah didn't know that, I probably wouldn't buy them for myself all right :P

Ye looking at them, it's mostly the same ingredients I've used before except I'd use fewer of them. This is the ultimate test...

I nearly swallowed one of the staples from the pack drinking it, they really didn't think that packaging through!

Whispered wrote: »

Hey. I don't post in here often so please excuse the intrusion. Just wondering, a guy in another forum is asking about eating his girlfriends placenta after she gives birth. While I have no intention of even considering it, would any if you think it's a vegetarian grey area: woman eats her own placenta. If the person eating it is the person who grew it. I know what I think, meat is meat so placenta isn't vegetarian but I did have to think About it. What do ye think?

ewww :pac:

I've no intention of creating a placenta let alone eating it......but I can't see it being a problem morally, if that's what they desire

Whispered · 08-10-2014 10:27PM

--LOS-- wrote: »

ewww :pac:

I've no intention of creating a placenta let alone eating it......but I can't see it being a problem morally, if that's what they desire

Heheh I had no intention myself. But it seems to be a very stubborn little placenta (and baby of course). Waited 13 years and then surprised us lol.

Tar.Aldarion · 08-10-2014 10:43PM

Whispered wrote: »

Hey. I don't post in here often so please excuse the intrusion. Just wondering, a guy in another forum is asking about eating his girlfriends placenta after she gives birth. While I have no intention of even considering it, would any if you think it's a vegetarian grey area: woman eats her own placenta. If the person eating it is the person who grew it. I know what I think, meat is meat so placenta isn't vegetarian but I did have to think About it. What do ye think?

Depends why you are vegetarian/vegan. I am not vegan to tick the boxes saying things I ate weren't vegan, it;s to cause less suffering to others. So it wouldn't be against my morals to eat it, just my tastebuds

I know somebody who fed it to their cat.

Oldtree · 10-10-2014 02:06PM

Wouldn't eating a placenta make me a cannibal? Don't think I could do it as it's an animal by-product

Tar.Aldarion · 10-10-2014 04:38PM

This site seems quite handy, good for the shoes hunt!
http://irishvegan.ie/?page_id=158

thesandeman · 10-10-2014 05:11PM

Cool!! Didn't realise veggie Docs were back.
They were the best boots I ever wore back in the 80's.

--LOS-- · 10-10-2014 08:55PM

Whispered wrote: »

Heheh I had no intention myself. But it seems to be a very stubborn little placenta (and baby of course). Waited 13 years and then surprised us lol.

don't be scaring me! :P

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Depends why you are vegetarian/vegan. I am not vegan to tick the boxes saying things I ate weren't vegan, it;s to cause less suffering to others. So it wouldn't be against my morals to eat it, just my tastebuds

I know somebody who fed it to their cat.

those must be the cats that go on to eat their owners when they die....

Oldtree wrote: »

Wouldn't eating a placenta make me a cannibal? Don't think I could do it as it's an animal by-product

does biting my nails make me a cannibal?!

thesandeman wrote: »

Cool!! Didn't realise veggie Docs were back.
They were the best boots I ever wore back in the 80's.

I think they came back last year, they look kinda shiny in the pics though no? Havent seen them in person

thesandeman · 10-10-2014 10:01PM

They do a bit. Won't be long getting rid of the shine though. Design seems similar but the back looks wider than I remember.
I'll call into Schuh and see if they have any here.

Oldtree · 10-10-2014 10:29PM

--LOS-- wrote: »

does biting my nails make me a cannibal?!

Only if you swallow I guess

I wonder what the word is for eating yourself?

Edit: looked it up, seems to be "autocannibalism" or "autosarcophagy"

BMJD · 10-10-2014 11:37PM

Hi! I think I'll quit the old veggism and take up cannibalism

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Killer_banana · 10-10-2014 11:38PM

I met Jon Richardson tonight. His stand up genuinely played a major part in coming to terms with my OCD and inspired me to write my own and I had so much I wanted to say to him...but instead I got a photo, said thanks and then ran away. :rolleyes:

The Grapevine (OFF TOPIC CHAT) Part II

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