Vegetarians are a pain to cook for
12-May-2008
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There is nothing worse than when a vegetarian, or worse still a vegan with holier-than-thou morals turns up to your barbecue.  What on earth do you do to feed them?  Do you source out some cardboard burgers or point them in the general direction of the salad bowl?

I know they think they’re being good and pure, not harming animals and being ultra civilized, but it’s just downright inconvenient for the rest of us who have to cater for them and put up with their snide comments.  I wouldn’t mind if it wasn’t for the attitude.  Us meat eaters normally tend to hang out with fellow carnivores, but somehow or other when it comes to a social gathering you’ll occasionally get a veggie with chip on their shoulder.  A chip that must not have been cooked in animal fat I hasten to add!

They’ll try to convert the meat eating hordes to their way of thinking.  Eating meat is bad.  It’s not healthy and think about the cruelty and suffering to the animal.  What’s the matter with them?  Have they looked at their teeth lately? Those pointy ones might be a bit of a clue, because I don’t think the thousands of years of evolution were for nothing!  To hell with them I say, when in Rome do as the Romans do.  If you don’t like sausages I'm not going to force you to eat them, you can feast on the cheese roles and salad for all I care.  You don’t have to eat meat, but if I want to partake of dead flesh then I will and what’s more I will enjoy it.

Hamburger on a barbecue, not suitable for vegetarians with attitude

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not setting out to deliberately offend vegetarians.  After all, one man’s meat is another man’s poison or so they say.  It’s the ones that don’t respect my opinion and criticise the fact that I eat meat that I have a problem with.


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"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921
*PeDr0  26-Mar-2008 01:46

 
Everyone has a reason for their eating habit, and criticizing another person's reason for their eating habit is just so uncivilized.
*Chloe  15-Nov-2007 18:13

 
It's morally right to slaughter animals for food. There's naught wrong with slaughtering those which have been specially herded for this purpose. This includes little baby lambs and piglets.

Vegetarians who have some moral hangup because of this really do need to go and have psychotherapy to get over this.

If we really meant to eat only nuts and seeds we would have beaks like finches.
*Evolve  21-Oct-2007 19:24

 
chips with curry sauce:
all I can say is.... that...is...THE most...idiotic comment ive ever heard in my life.
im not even going to add to that its sooooo stupid its not even funny.
*iolanda  21-Oct-2007 14:00

 
Never read so many idiotic comments regarding what people will and wont eat.
For christ sake what does it matter?
I dont eat meat, cause I dont like it. Simple as that. If others want to eat meat then fine, tuck in to your hearts content. That's why we have little baa lambs and moo cows.
Has anyone ever considered what will happen to all these critters if we ALL decided on a vegetarian diet? I cant see them being released into the wild, can you?
If we didn't eat them they wouldn't live in the first place.
From a moralist point of view it is more important that the animals we, as a species, consume are treated humainly. And when the time comes for that animal to be slaughtered it is done as painlessly as possible.
At the end of the day, whether you enjoy a prime steak or a nut cutlet what difference does it make what the bloke next door is eating?
*Chips with curry sauce, mmmmmmmm  14-Aug-2007 22:08

 
you idiot post diluvion.... I am a vegetarian and my real name is sarah and I am Irish... I only took the name iolanda because that is what my dad wanted to name me because he lived in brazil for many years..
Moral reasons means that the people think eating meat is wrong because it is the slaughter of animals for food.
*iolanda  09-Jul-2007 14:23

 
I don't eat meat = Iolanda. I am not sure what my real name is = Sarah.

Iolanda = Hungarian, foreign name. Not eating meat must therefore be a foreign practice. If it was Sarah doing the eating, it might actually be Kosher. But there again it might not.

Being vegetarians for moral reasons? For chrissake what's morality got to do with it.

What if I was a Mandrake eater? When that plant is pulled from the ground, it shrieks in pain. This shriek is able to madden, deafen or even kill an unprotected human.

Pulling up tubers out of the ground must be painful too. Backache perhaps?

Scything wheat. That's really cruel. Slitting the throat of a little baby lamb, in the name of sacrifice, wow I am crying.

My religion is getting to me.
*Post-diluvian  28-Jun-2007 23:06

 
Have you noticed that when the sun comes out and the BBQ's start veggie burgers and sausages disappear quickly from the shelves into the trollies with the corpse burgers?
I could be the dieters going for the healthier and low fat option.
But after saying this I have been making some wicked veggie kebabs.
*andy  28-Jun-2007 18:39

 
beefeater,

we vegetarians all have our reasons for being vegetarians there are moral reasons, health reasons, religious reasons or people don't like the taste of meat.
But we all make our decisions one way or another and for a good reason.
I personaly think eating meat is wrong because I do not like the idea of animal slaughter for food when there are many other sources of food and their nutrents for example--- protein is mainly found in meat and fish but you can get protein from other sources such as beans and leafy green vegetables.
We do not need meat to survive and it was an offencive comment " they all have weird names" I'll have you know my real name is not iolanda but sarah!!
*iolanda  27-Jun-2007 16:10

 
Most vegetarians are fruit cakes, that is fruit and nutcases. 5 a day sorts! Ever wondered where the expressions came from? Well it's all clearly laid out here. Have you also noticed what weird names they have?

In the words of Marie Antoinette, if they can't have their cake and eat it, let them eat bread.

Seems that they didn't try to fight their way to the top of the foodchain. Have you ever asked yourself why there are no vegetarians in a cannibalist society?

Until around the end of the last Ice Age, about 11,000 years ago, our esteemed ancestors feasted on roots and tubers, fruits and nuts, bugs and grubs and MEAT! We are all omnivores!
*Beefeater. True Yeoman  25-Jun-2007 18:01

 
there are many vegetarian foods that are tasty and meat free and it is ok for meat eaters to eat vegeterian foods.
This article was offensive es[ecialy about "cardboard burgers" and thinking we are "holier than thou".
*iolanda  25-Jun-2007 16:26

 
Claire, I want to marry you!

That list of food sounds truly delicious. True, I am a meat eater and quite happy with that, but I like other stuff too. The only thing you mentioned that I wouldn't touch would be the couscous. I'm sorry - but that stuff just tastes like sawdust to me.
*Snoopy  22-Jun-2007 00:25


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