I'm not saying it isn't a healthy alternative, I'm sure it has many merits. It's their righteous indignation against everybody else that gets on my nerves. The appendix in other herbivores is much more prominent as it carries more of a function. In our bodies, it has been proposed that our appendicies are linked to diarrhoea recovery.
yes but the sequel went straight to BSE. Do you remember BSE? I bought Betamax. Mad. Every time I switch it on I fall over in my own sh!t.
Of course I remember BSE's. I got one in geography and another in maths. I struggled in English, but I blame that on dyslexia.
I tried the vegan thing for a bit in college it lasted about 2 days when I decided pizza was to important.
I don't eat meat. However, I eat fish, cheese, eggs. For me, it's a health reason. But I do also resent 'militant' diet-ism. Think on, though - a lot of awful things go on in the livestock business: http://www.ciwf.org.uk/?gclid=CPe-ge-hiskCFSMYwwod83AP0w
I could quite happily have sausages, bacon, steak etc for every meal. I don't obviously. But I I frigging love my meats and I shan't give them up for anyone.
I had a vegan working for me for a while, everything she ate stank, I made her eat in the kitchen in the end. She got the right hump and left, last I heard she was stinking up Ted Baker's office.
I'm an all round omnivore and believe that is the natural way; although I understand and respect other's choices. The key issue for me from the points of the OP is that concerning the food animals; it is one thing to farm them and to try and do it with compassion (the wild lacks any compassion), but I just wish we could do it with far less waste.
It seems to me like you're every bit as militant as you claim the vegans to be. I've known a lot of vegans and barely any of them were preachy, but as soon as they mentioned it people jumped down their throats. This is obviously a guilt thing, if you were so comfortable with your diet you wouldn't feel the need to ridicule anyone else.
I worked with someone that was vegan on moral grounds, but anti-abortion because they believed all life is sacred. Isn't that a paradox, as if it wasn't going to be eaten, most food livestock wouldn't exist.
Many vegans, (not all by any means), like animal rights activists and their ilk do come across as beardy weirdoes and professional protesters.
I've noticed that as well, when people force vegans/vegetarians to justify themselves it really winds me up, its their choice leave them to it.
I know quite a few vegetarians, even more confused selective omnivores (won't eat red-meat, even though they like it - sneak a bacon sarnie), but I don't know one as-defined Vegan. How many do you know?
