Yeah, life is short, why not enjoy it, what is the threat or harm or difference made overall by eating meat or not eating meat? I wonder, and look forward to seeing more from all sides on the topic, most interesting to me would be people with spiritual arguments, since I can't fully grasp how atheistic arguments with no consequences in the afterlife for doing something most people in the world do can be justified.
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Vegetarianism. How do you look at it ?
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Yeah, life is short, why not enjoy it, what is the threat or harm or difference made overall by eating meat or not eating meat? I wonder, and look forward to seeing more from all sides on the topic, most interesting to me would be people with spiritual arguments, since I can't fully grasp how atheistic arguments with no consequences in the afterlife for doing something most people in the world do can be justified.
At least he's kind enough to break it up into paragraph structure for us.
I scroll on past unparagraphed walls of text without a second glance.
Someone says a mango becomes a male, female, or cow?
Are my paragraphs small enough? I can make them smaller if needed.
I've been vegetarian for 50 years. So are many of my friends. I haven't noticed any increased farting, nor do mine usually have any odor.
A meat eater can smell the difference. As for increase, i wouldn't say so
What is the "English" cuisine? I had a beef stew with lots of potatoes and carrots and yorkshire pudding (the bread thing) with it, is that like English style? That is what I ate yesterday and today.
Did you see the OP?
After reading 5+ pages, I'm quite astounded to see that I may be the only one who actually responded to the question asked in the OP instead of skipping over the OP entirely and responding to the title.
I'm quite disappointed, as I would have loved to read responses to the question, especially by dharmic posters. *sigh*
I'm quite disappointed, as I would have loved to read responses to the question, especially by dharmic posters. *sigh*
English is very varied, the stereotype beef, carrots and mashed potatoes is very 1950s.
For traditional food think beef Wellington, hotpot, cottage pie, shepherds pie, trifle, scones.
There is fusion food, mixes of foods from around the world. Like Scottish smoked salmon and rice or pasta.
I cook with a lot of wine that adds its own richness and flavour
But we are still trying to understand how it all happened...I'm not a scientist... so just my view
We do know that cataclysmic events happen, we know that poles switch every once in a long while, we know that a massive 9.0 earthquakes have happened, maybe a larger one?
Who knows?
How about the farrowing cage in post #2?
Farrowing Pens 101: Proper Pig Care & Management
Or battery cages?
Animal Cruelty - Eggs
Providing a large population with the meat they want at prices they can afford necessitates factory farming. It's cruel, but efficient.
exchemist
Veteran Member
That may be so. But that is due to sunlight at higher latitudes rater than dietary deficiency.
This discussion is wandering from my original point which was that vegans almost always need dietary supplements, whereas it is easy to avoid the need for them with ordinary vegetarian or non-vegetarian ones.
America has a truck driver shortage, and Sikhs step up to fill it
Sikhs can be either. The langar at Gurudwaras is always pure veg. The reason I mentioned it is that Indian restaurants always have good vegetarian options.
I loooove Indian food and luckily there are some great restaurants here as well!
But it is. Farrowing cages are necessary in factory farms, and factory farms are necessary, given our numbers and dietary habits.
Also immoral and environmental hazards -- but let's not talk about inconvenient truths....
Indian food has some challenges with regard to health ... too oily, too salty, too white, and too sweet. Diabetes is a challenge for many. I prefer home cooked Indian for that reason. My go to meal when I cook here is 2 veggie curries, cucumber raita, dhal, and basmati brown. I can cook other stuff, but that's the go to.
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
Yes, that was my point - vitamin D insufficiency, even if you eat meat, because of the latitude.
As to supplements, so many things are fortified it's not difficult to get everything you need without supplements. I would also say that, when balanced against all the horrendous negatives of the meat industry, for a vegetarian of any hue, taking a supplement is a tiny trivial matter.
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
We have the same metabolism and vitamin requirements as our ancestors in their tropical homeland, running around naked with their irradiated skin making scads of vitamin D.
Maybe we should never have moved North, or donned clothing.
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