Could vegetarians eat a 'test tube' burger?

[SimonMac]

If God didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?!

[pjclarke]

The 'finings' used to make the yeast drop out of some beers and wine is made by scraping the swim bladder of a Rudd fish, or sturgeon. You wonder what else they tried before they discovered that....

But I eat fish, and drink beer and wine, so that's OK.

I have no interest in proseletysing. But when people object to me being 'fussy' or complain because we can't go down the Carvery if I'm in the group I tend to get a bit smug and point out the figures on heart disease, strokes and cancer and life expectancy, and that veggies are smarter than carnivores.

[pmeswani]

If God didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?!

You are opening an argument about whether God really exists.

[SimonMac]

You are opening an argument about whether vegetarians really exists.

They do, and they can be easily spotted by looking pale and thin with very little energy to do anything other than whinge

[pmeswani]

They do, and they can be easily spotted by looking pale and thin with very little energy to do anything other than whinge

Is that from experience?

[d000hg]

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 meat suffers.

FTFY.

If God didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?!

A solid argument until you remember people and pretty dolphins are also made from meat.

[gingerjedi]

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.

Funny, I've never come across a preachy vegetarian but I've lost count of the times when bolshie carnivores have made my wife feel uncomfortable by demanding an explanation as to why she chooses not to eat meat.

[pjclarke]

can be easily spotted by looking pale and thin with very little energy to do anything other than whinge

Oh, I reckon this vegetarian could probably have you in a fight



And I wouldn't rate your chances in an intellectual contest with Socrates or Sir Isaac Newton .....

[gingerjedi]

I think Godwins law is about to come into play.

[doodab]

And I wouldn't rate your chances in an intellectual contest with Socrates or Sir Isaac Newton .....

I would. Simply by virtue of education I could "stand on the shoulders of giants" and teach them both some really clever stuff. Imagine showing Newton the double slit experiment or the fraunhofer lines or explaining Godel's theorem to Socrates.