It's a slippery slope, don'tcha know? Sure you have choice NOW, but if THEY keep demanding greater recognition, we will soon all be forced to conform to their snowflake ways incase we offend them!!. We have to stand up for TRADITIONAL English food!! Our culture is being eroded by these cow huggers!!!!
Or something like that.
Interestingly, the inerrant, perfect word of God says either:
or changes it toKing James Version said:
Since my doctor says that I'm not supposed to have 13 pints does that mean he's possessed?New International Version said:
I was a veggie in my late teens/early twenties (until a hangover combined with a flatmate cooking a load of bacon broke me!) but you're making a good case for me to give it another try!
Personally I agree that this is becoming the case.
I've been vegetarian myself for 22 years. In those 22 years, I've met a lot of omnivores who are not content for me to make my own choices on what I eat / don't eat and take it upon themselves to try to convert me back to a meat-eating ominivore. There is definitely a significant cohort of society who seem to be threatened by anyone who chooses to adopt any behaviour other than that which they deem as 'acceptable'.
I was speaking to my Mum, who’s a vegetarian, about this recently and she said that’s exactly what she gets. She never tries to persuade people to become vegetarian but she’s had plenty of meat eaters try to convince her to “convert back”.
In practice, many lifelong vegans are those from a culture with a religious slant on why the exclusions of consumption of anything involving animals is adhered to. Religious beliefs are rarely forced on people outside their own families. Also there isn't that much difference between true vegetarian and vegan diets anyway with the exception of dairy products.
The environmental 'justification' is specious much of the time as so many raw materials and ingredients are imported from far away that whatever the saving on greenhouse gas by removing meat from their diet brings, is largely wiped-out by freight CO2 generation. Veganism made sense in regions where it has been practiced for centuries, i.e. before food was carried across the world, but compared to a normal omnivore's diet (which doesn't mean meat with every meal), the difference is probably far less. A vegan that was committed to their environmental claims would eat only fruit and vegetables grown locally and in season to where it is eaten, as has been the case for true vegans the world over for centuries. Anything else in a western industrialised nation like the UK is just paying lip service to a cause of as has been suggested by many, just following the latest fad.
and a load of Vegan protestors come in tipping blood everywhere and calling a chicken murder.
It’s logical - what’s produced more CO2 in production - beef from Aberdeenshire or quorn/other meat alternatives shipped in from South America?
It’s more that lots of vegans claim to be vegan for environmental reasons
Methane is an issue, but it's solvable. The bigger issue is clearing of land for grazing (or for growing soya to feed the cattle).
