Vegetarian

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 11:26am #1

Right. let's not beat around the bush anymore.. it looks like the consumption of meat is terrible both for the environment and for our physical health.

I know we get nowhere preaching or criticising, but I'm interested to know if boardsies have cut back?

D3V!L · 03-02-2019 11:27am

Sorry brb my bacon is ready.....

Dakotabigone · 03-02-2019 11:30am

If it’s just an office job you are doing it’s fine to be a vegetarian.

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 11:31am

What?

SeaFields · 03-02-2019 11:31am

Have a fry up on right now that would kill a lesser man. Does that answer your question op?

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 11:33am

SeaFields wrote: »

Have a fry up on right now that would kill a lesser man. Does that answer your question op?

Yes it kind of does. Thanks.

SeaFields · 03-02-2019 11:34am

nervous_twitch wrote: »

Yes it kind of does. Thanks.

Ah don't be discouraged. Here have a sausage.

hairyslug · 03-02-2019 11:35am

Have some bacon in the slow cooker, I'll let you know how it goes at around 4

Tom Mann Centuria · 03-02-2019 11:37am

Only vegetarian? Disgusting murderer. I'm a level 5 Vegan, I never eat anything that casts a shadow.

Pac1Man · 03-02-2019 11:38am

Not even a link OP?

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 11:41am

Pac1Man wrote: »

Not even a link OP?

No links, sorry. Just interested in the general consensus. Not a militant vegetarian/vegan.

dxhound2005 · 03-02-2019 11:45am

nervous_twitch wrote: »

No links, sorry. Just interested in the general consensus. Not a militant vegetarian/vegan.

The general consensus at languageandgrammar.com is that the expression general consensus is redundant.

anewme · 03-02-2019 11:50am

Cut out meat in June of this year. I was in Thailand and found I was ordering chicken pad Thai, but leaving the chicken as it was rubbery. The food in Thailand is amazing, you’d not miss the meat one but. When I came home, I just never went back to it.

Still eat fish.

Love making cauliflower wings!

Am phasing out dairy and use oat milk.

Eat eggs from my friends hens but not outside of this.

Went for Sunday lunch last week to be told the veggie option was meat n two veg without the meat. I’m still laughing.

I thunk there’s a certain fad for replacing junk food with junk vegetarian and vegan stuff, proceeded meat substitutes. I dont eat them at all,

Beasty · 03-02-2019 11:50am

Yeah I've cut back. Haven't touched the stuff since 1967

Fenster · 03-02-2019 11:54am

I decided to go vegetarian last October. It's been a great and interesting experience for me in so many ways. I'm looking at reducing dairy consumption next (almond/soy milk versus dairy milk) and meat's a rare treat. It's going great and I'm happy with where I'm at.

Giveaway · 03-02-2019 11:54am

These mininal meat diets are based on a big fallacy, the people studied don,t eat much meat. But i suspect they are not even considering non official sources of protein such as insect based food and bush meat. If one looked at a Sierra Leone work gang making a road in the jungle and just considered their rations one would see a low meat diet. However when not workinf the guys spend a lot of time trapping and eating(almost any animal caught)

BeerWolf · 03-02-2019 11:55am

I ain't changing my diet because us humies can't curb their overbreeding!!

That being said, there's plenty of delicious vegetarian options. Love my Indian foods, and Spicy bean burgers, for example.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 03-02-2019 11:57am

nervous_twitch wrote: »

Right. let's not beat around the bush anymore.. it looks like the consumption of meat is terrible both for the environment and for our physical health.

I know we get nowhere preaching or criticising, but I'm interested to know if boardsies have cut back?

That's the narrative alright but there's plenty of criticism and some formidable debunking of that narrative around.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/01/whats-really-behind-the-plant-based-diet-agenda/

And no, I'm still consuming the same amount of meat and veg as I was before.

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 11:59am

Giveaway wrote: »

These mininal meat diets are based on a big fallacy, the people studied don,t eat much meat. But i suspect they are not even considering non official sources of protein such as insect based food and bush meat. If one looked at a Sierra Leone work gang making a road in the jungle and just considered their rations one would see a low meat diet. However when not workinf the guys spend a lot of time trapping and eating(almost any animal caught)

Nope, we're not. Lots of protein available in meatless diets. Look better now than I ever did

monkeysnapper · 03-02-2019 12:07pm

I'm not a vegetarian by any means but I have a job where I'm active all day , plus do cycling and running and I have to say theres definitely alternatives to meat .

I have tried to cut down on red meat for the last few years and have felt healthier for it.

For first 6 years after leaving school I was a butcher , it really is gross some of the things I did.

1. People roasting pigs heads so you have to take eyes out.

2. Skinning and gutting rabbits .

3. Making sausages out of all the crap you cant use for anything else.

4. When you kill your own beef you get livers/ kidneys tongue separate from carcus and we used to boil tongues, then peel the hard skin off them , put in a press and leave for few days . Then you slice like ham .

For sausages you would use a lot of the meat from head of pig , tongue, cheeks, and some of the meat left after you severed the head from body.

My brother in law worked in abattoir. I'll leave this for another day .

ShaneC93 · 03-02-2019 12:13pm

I wonder what vegetarians & vegans will think of cultured meat (lab-grown meat that is made without harming / killing the animal) which a few companies are planning to start mass-producing this year. Will they all eat it because the slaughtering animals aspect is gone? Or stay veggy/vegan for health reasons.

davidk1394 · 03-02-2019 12:15pm

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I'm not a vegetarian by any means but I have a job where I'm active all day , plus do cycling and running and I have to say theres definitely alternatives to meat .

I have tried to cut down on red meat for the last few years and have felt healthier for it.

For first 6 years after leaving school I was a butcher , it really is gross some of the things I did.

1. People roasting pigs heads so you have to take eyes out.

2. Skinning and gutting rabbits .

3. Making sausages out of all the crap you cant use for anything else.

4. When you kill your own beef you get livers/ kidneys tongue separate from carcus and we used to boil tongues, then peel the hard skin off them , put in a press and leave for few days . Then you slice like ham .

For sausages you would use a lot of the meat from head of pig , tongue, cheeks, and some of the meat left after you severed the head from body.

My brother in law worked in abattoir. I'll leave this for another day .

Kill all our own animals here aswell for the freezer. Cut back a bit on meat consumption but I won’t ever give it up.

biko · 03-02-2019 12:16pm

nervous_twitch wrote: »

it looks like the consumption of meat is terrible both for the environment and for our physical health.

It doesn't look like that at all, quite the opposite.

Are you a vegetarian because you like animals, or because you hate plants?

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 12:16pm

ShaneC93 wrote: »

I wonder what vegetarians & vegans will think of cultured meat (lab-grown meat that is made without harming / killing the animal) which a few companies are planning to start mass-producing this year. Will they all eat it because the slaughtering animals aspect is gone? Or stay veggy/vegan for health reasons.

I will eat it.

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 12:17pm

biko wrote: »

It doesn't look like that at all, quite the opposite.

Sorry, I don't understand. Can you explain?

biko · 03-02-2019 12:19pm

All the evidence points to the opposite direction.

Since you didn't bother backing up your statement I won't bother either.

Haithabu · 03-02-2019 12:21pm

nervous_twitch wrote: »

Right. let's not beat around the bush anymore.. it looks like the consumption of meat is terrible both for the environment and for our physical health.

I know we get nowhere preaching or criticising, but I'm interested to know if boardsies have cut back?

I have cut down a lot mainly for those two reasons. Still have a steak maybe every second week or some salami / ham on a sandwich once a week. But apart from that there is no meat on my table any more and I feel fine.

I want to do a vegetarian cooking course as I know there are a lot of nice meals you can do, without the meat my meals have become a bit repetitive. If anyone knows where such a course is on (in Dublin), let me know.

It's sometimes tricky when abroad, w went to the Caribbean last year and there was not much of vegetarian choice in the restaurants.

Planet X · 03-02-2019 12:21pm

nervous_twitch wrote: »

Right. let's not beat around the bush anymore.. it looks like the consumption of meat is terrible both for the environment and for our physical health.

I know we get nowhere preaching or criticising, but I'm interested to know if boardsies have cut back?

Soon....there'll be no bush to beat around. It'll be ate!

wakka12 · 03-02-2019 12:21pm

I think being vegetarian is a good thing to do for the environment. Eating meat is certainly not terrible for your health though so long as you dont deep fry it or use highly processed meat, some beef or chicken from the butcher is perfectly healthy, many studies have shown no appreciable difference in life span between vegetarians and non vegetarians

nervous_twitch · 03-02-2019 12:22pm

biko wrote: »

Since you didn't bother backing up your statement I won't bother either.

OK, we will continue in this ignorant bliss. If you can show me that the consumption of meat is actually good for the environment, I will be all ears

biko · 03-02-2019 12:33pm

You started the thread, where is your evidence?

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