Meat eater, vegetarian or vegan? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

He knows how to prepare stews of liver, its to die for, the recepie

I love bull liver strw with cloudberries and rosen kål mmmmm

Mmmmmm leverposteij,

youve not lived before liver

Dean wrote:

If we could not preserve food to last us through winter I'm sure we would sleep through most of it (I know I feel like that most days when the sun is low in the sky and the temperatures drop) so yes.

I know how that feels. I was planning on getting out of the apartment, but the skies have formed an impenetrable thicket of grey substance, looking as seductive as the Danish gastronomic pride and joy, leverpostej:

Think I'll pass for now. Keep lying on my bed, drink coffee, smoke cigarettes and listen to music. Fine idea if I must say so myself Approve

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

If we could not preserve food to last us through winter I'm sure we would sleep through most of it (I know I feel like that most days when the sun is low in the sky and the temperatures drop) so yes.

What?

I dislike the term "meat eater" - I am not a meat eater, I am an omnivore, meat is a part of my diet, I also eat vegetables, dairy and fungi - that is not a "meat-eater" (carnivore) diet.

The disassociation between supermarket packaged meat and the animal in the field is an important point. That "naked lunch" moment when you realise what is at the end of your fork is not a complete reconnection, we were omnivorous before this disassociation existed. When we had to hunt, kill, butcher and prepare our own meat there was no compunction against eating it. I find this to be a curious observation because the revulsion against causing suffering to another animal is not a modern development, it too is a natural trait of the human animal - the necessity to kill to live did not desensitise us, being "humane" is not a newly acquired emotion but this disassociation has made us over-sensitive.

Where this disassociation has had a negative effect is in the inhumane treatment of animals in intensive food production, we need to reconnect this association between the animal and the slab of meat to improve animal husbandry.

We are an omnivorous species, this is the only natural diet for a human being but the key is balance. There are many ways to be healthy, excluding meat from the diet is not the only way, a balanced diet is a healthy diet. We are not carnivores who survive solely on a meat diet and we are not herbivores who survive solely on a limited diet of one class of vegetable - vegetarianism is not a natural diet [-vore diets are natural, -ism diets are man-made] - other species of animal do not eat a wide variety of vegetable food groups, they specialise on selected food groups (Frugivores, Folivores, Nectarivores, Granivore, Palynivores, Mucivores, Xylophages, etc). I suspect the reaction we have to killing is a natural regulatory process, just as the boredom we experience to eating the same thing over and over again is part of the same regulatory process, that maintains a balanced diet - variety is not only the spice of life, it is a necessary part of our natural diet that allows us to adapt to the seasonal nature of all food groups that is prevalent in temperate climate.

Our understanding of nutrition has permitted us to enjoy a vegetarian lifestyle, our technology has enabled us to make food groups non-seasonal so we can grow, harvest and transport any vegetable at any time we like anywhere in the world we like (this is not natural) and thus maintain a healthy balance all year round.

Edited by Dean - January 11 2014 at 05:38

What?

Should be a new film series, like Men in Black and Ghost Busterw, callled Animal Rescuers. (

I am familiar with the benefits of vegetarianism but I couldn't live without steaks and burgers. Moderation is the key.

Mmmmmeeeeeaaaatttttt

--
Frank Swarbrick
Belief is not Truth.

Padraic wrote:

I will never give up eating meat.

This.

This thread probably will probably "meat" a rotten end.

Poll Question: Which are you?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Meat eater	34	[77.27%]
Vegetarian	9	[20.45%]
Vegen	1	[2.27%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted