I think I am evolving ... into a vegetarian.

Former Member · February 2006

I knew the name of a pig I ate once. Meat tastes nicer if you treat an animal better. If an animal is stressed my bacon isn't as nice.

Former Member · February 2006

-[MoonRat]- wrote:

For what purpose?

Any. Except for maybe a wasp that was about to sting you.

Former Member · February 2006

-[MoonRat]- wrote:

A lot of "new-age tree hugging hippies" are actually very intelligent individuals.
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You're just saying that cos you're one :razz:

Former Member · February 2006

wooooooooah wrote:

I don't mind eating veggie food but I could never turn my back on meat, I need my monosodium glutamate fix

There are plenty of ways of getting monosodium glutamate into a vegetarian diet should you feel the need to :yes:

Former Member · February 2006

But do they taste as nice?

Former Member · February 2006

I'm With Stupid wrote:

But do they taste as nice?

Well I've been a vegetarian since I was six years old so I don't remember much of what meat tastes like. But msg on crisps is tasty and its in some powdered soups and noodles and stuff. I have had it sprinkled onto my food like salt too in Brazil which tastes nice but the thought of how unhealthy it is made me feel a bit sick.

Former Member · February 2006

Teagan wrote:

So does having misgivings about how our meat is produced place me in the 'tree hugging' category?

No, not at all. It's just that the way turlough worded it reminded me Eric Cartman.

I actually agree that you don't need to be a tree-hugging hippie (if those people really exist, I must say I've never encountered one) to care about animal welfare.

Former Member · February 2006

Randomgirl wrote:

Well I've been a vegetarian since I was six years old so I don't remember much of what meat tastes like. But msg on crisps is tasty and its in some powdered soups and noodles and stuff. I have had it sprinkled onto my food like salt too in Brazil which tastes nice but the thought of how unhealthy it is made me feel a bit sick.

small amounts of seaweed is it's natural source

putting msg on food like salt is VERY bad for you, and makes regular food taste taste bland

some chinese people in my halls had bags of the stuff, looked nasty

i like meat and vegetables and fruit etc, would never cut any out - i do like it to taste nice

only thing i really restrain from is buying fish due to overfishing which is having a far more dodgy impact on the world

Former Member · February 2006

I'm With Stupid wrote:

Any. Except for maybe a wasp that was about to sting you.

Nope, unless it was going to kill me. Wasps don't sting unless you piss them off enough, normally by staying still they will not sting (the stng is self-defense, not predatory). But nah... I personally do not kill spiders or insects or moluscs as I'm fond of them.

Former Member · February 2006

turlough wrote:

You're just saying that cos you're one :razz:

nah, I'm not really New Age, there's a lot about the New Age ideas that simply piss me off.

Former Member · February 2006

Skive · February 2006

-[MoonRat]- wrote:

(the stng is self-defense, not predatory).

Just want to point out that this isn't true.. Wasps are predators and their sting is not just for defence. Look it up.

It's true of bees however.

Former Member · February 2006

double post

Former Member · February 2006

-[MoonRat]- wrote:

Nope, unless it was going to kill me. Wasps don't sting unless you piss them off enough, normally by staying still they will not sting (the stng is self-defense, not predatory). But nah... I personally do not kill spiders or insects or moluscs as I'm fond of them.

Surely you'd kill a mosquito? One of those ultra-irritating buggers you can hear doing multiple low fly-bys as you trying to sleep, with that horrible wheeeeeeeeeeizzz sound, and which will eventually feast on you and give you 2 or 3 bites if you don't turn on the light and smach the bastard into a pulp.

Regarding wasps, I know insects are no capable of malice but wasps do sting beyond any conventional concept of self-defence. I was stung when got up in the beer garden of a pub and started to take my plate inside. There were a few wasps around that day (but not any close to me or the plate so no threat there) and one of them obviously didn't take kindly to me removing my plate.

I have to say I have zero tolerance against the bastards and will go out of my way to kill as many as possible.

Arguably the single most pointless and useless creature that ever existed.

Former Member · February 2006

I'm a vegetarian and have killed loads of mosquitos. They are evil and spread dreadful diseases especially if you are in a tropical country with tropical diseases. I have however never eaten a mosquito.

Former Member · February 2006

i have no problem eating any livng thing that tastes good.
if there were me and you and only one of us could survive ...i'd eat you too.

Former Member · February 2006

scarlettleeds wrote:

sorry i know this is only one tiny point in a whole interesting debate about vegetarianism, but i was just wanting to clarify something moonrat - do you mean that you wouldn't kill a wasp if you felt it was about to sting you, because the sting wouldn't kill you?

Yup, but say a black widow crawling towards me... fuck that.

Teh_Gerbil · February 2006

morrocan roll wrote:

i have no problem eating any livng thing that tastes good.
if there were me and you and only one of us could survive ...i'd eat you too.

:thumb: Straight.

"Evolving" into a vegetarian? Devolving. We took ages to evolve the ability to eat meat, don't waste it!

I think I am evolving ... into a vegetarian.

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