Could vegetarians eat a 'test tube' burger?

[BrilloPad]

That's fair play. I don't necessarily agree with it, but if that is your belief, then go for it. I am not one to deprive another person from retaining their beliefs.

Gosh - a normal tolerant person. How an earth did you ever get into CUK? I thought one had to be militant about at least 3 subjects to get in here.....

[pmeswani]

Gosh - a normal tolerant person. How an earth did you ever get into CUK? I thought one had to be militant about at least 3 subjects to get in here.....

I lived with my parents for long enough to become tolerant.

I get annoyed over some things, such as people giving noobs a hard time, but don't often show it, as I don't want to get caught up in a flame war.

[d000hg]

Personally I would see any meat being killed before I ate it. I would not enjoy it. But if I eat meat I ought to know where it comes from.

Ah "doing a Zuckerburg".

[norrahe]

It's still boo-hoo when the cutesy bambi gets killed.

But he sure does taste nice

I'm ok with game as long as it was shot responsibly and not some gung-ho idiot who can't shoot properly and as a result the animal suffers.
I don't agrrem with large scale game shoots where hundreds of birds are killed and only a fraction make the table.

I for one like to know where my food comes from and what kind of life it had i.e. was it farmed responsibly and fed well.

I won't buy anything that I know has been intensively farmed.

As for quorn, I did give it a try but it's not for me!

I'm happy to appreciate someone's choice to be veggie as long as their beliefs are not rammed down my throat.
I've had to put up with one too many preachy veggies who went on about animal rights. Though it was quite amusing to point out to them that the beer or wine they were drinking wouldn't qualify as veggie kosher.

[BrilloPad]

I for one like to know where my food comes from and what kind of life it had i.e. was it farmed responsibly and fed well.

Mrs BP goes to the local butcher (our village is blessed with a butcher, baker, post office and co-op despite being 20 minutes from London Bridge and 7 minutes from the M25) as much as she can - and sometimes goes for their organic cuts. You can really taste the difference!

If I win the lottery we will get all our meat as organic from there.

[norrahe]

Mrs BP goes to the local butcher (our village is blessed with a butcher, baker, post office and co-op despite being 20 minutes from London Bridge and 7 minutes from the M25) as much as she can - and sometimes goes for their organic cuts. You can really taste the difference!

If I win the lottery we will get all our meat as organic from there.

I was lucky when we first moved over here to be pointed to one of the good butchers by a local chef, turns out the butcher owns his own farm.

Poultry here seems to come from France, I have yet to find a decent poulterer who does Dutch birds. I miss going to a local farm and getting some fantastic chickens ( franklins of thorncote - they do delivery).

[pjclarke]

But why not eat meat from farms with good practices? Or game?

In theory I would have no problem with that, and indeed have been wavering recently as I'm bringing up a very carnivorous teenager. In practice, after several decades of vegetarianism, its become a habit. And there are other issues around resource usage and health. Also, after you stop eating meat, the bacteria in your gut that digest it tend to die off so if you start again suddenly you're liable to get severe indigestion. Lentil flatulence is bad enough ...

[pmeswani]

I've had to put up with one too many preachy veggies who went on about animal rights. Though it was quite amusing to point out to them that the beer or wine they were drinking wouldn't qualify as veggie kosher.

You won't get me preaching about being a veggie or animal rights. I won't ram down the veggie route on people if they don't ramm down my throat about eating meat.

I agree about the alcohol. I saw a documentary years ago on the Beeb (I think) where the process for making wine involved using a carcus of an animal in the fermentation process.

Oh, before I forget, I don't drink any booze.

[doodab]

Don't really get the question. Do you associate your hunk of clingfilmed 'stuff' on a plastic tray from Tesco with the cow it came from? Why should it matter if the 'chop' came from a pig or a mushroom?

Quorn isn't made from mushrooms. It's from a fungus which is grown in vats. I personally find that a bit icky.

[doodab]

Odd how we use these terms in opposite ways to accentuate the killing of humans and animals.

Well, it makes sense in a way. If you murder a human, it's a bad thing to do, so if we say we are murdering an animal it has negative connotations for most people. Hence we slaughter them instead, which is an acceptable thing to do to an animal.

If you slaughter humans, you aren't just killing them, you are treating them as if they were mere animals. It usually implies killing on an industrial scale as well. Hence it's worse than murdering them.