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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I just want to point out that those steaks had a mother at one point. I'm sure she tasted good, too.
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No doubt.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
I think you type better drunk than many people do sober. I'm impressed.  |
Thank you. Unfortunately, I also talk coherently when drunk, which means much of the time people don't realize I'm drunk, and do stupid things like letting me drive home.
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Originally Posted by DixieGal
You go, Ricky! Have another steak and pick your teeth with the bones! Don't eat Mom, she's probably old and tough. Instead, have a big haunch of her baby veal!
I LIKE MEAT TOO!
To misquote C. Montgomery Burns: For far too long, it's been man against nature. Now we are finally winning. Excellent!
And now back to your regularly scheduled thread....
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That's one thing I will not eat. No veal, no lamb. Never ever. I just can't make myself do that. I don't mind that other people don't have a problem with it .... I just can't do it.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
Hm. I don't brag about not eating meat. Or eating bananas, or any other vegetables. It doesn't bother me to eat at a table with other people who are eating meat, and I had nothing against Ricky's post about her meal. Generally my vegetarianism only comes up if someone invites me to a meal (and if I haven't had a chance to pre-warn them, I've been known to just eat what's on my plate, though I think I'd be pushing my luck if I tried that with beef these days.)
It's always easier to remember the obnoxious examples of any given category. I wonder how many people we know who are vegetarians and don't make a point of rubbing it in to everyone they meet?
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Hmmm, sorry if I was bragging or being obnoxious or rubbing anything in. I don't eat meat generally, and don't buy it at the grocery store and fix it here at home. But that has just as much to do with my being too lazy to make real meals for myself as anything else.
If I am invited to someone's house, or to a party (like the ones we have here on Tuesday), I eat what's being served (except for those things to which I am allergic ... and I absolutely refuse to eat veal or lamb). However, while the Christians at the table are saying their grace, I am silently saying a short prayer for the dead over whoever is lying on my plate.
That's why I said "I try" to be a vegetarian. It's not an easy thing to do. The last time I made a really concerted effort to do it, I ended up in the hospital with an illness related to protein deficency. I also "try" to do a lot of things that are wonderful things to do ... but I also tend to fail miserably. And then I feel rather guilty about not having been a success at it.
I often marvel at those of my friends who are strict vegans (no milk, no eggs, no cheese ... no ICE CREAM!!). I could not do that ... but I admire them for working so hard at it.
Again, sorry if the post came off as obnoxious, or anything else other than what it was meant to be.
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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I dunno, with the killer tomatoes, spinach, etc., in the past year or so, it seems like the salads are beginning to fight back also. They grow lettuce in big high density feedlots of hydroponics. Then it's on to the vegavatoir to be butchered and then into plastic bags to sell as pre-cut salad. Seems sort of cruel to me.
(You know I'm kidding around this morning, right?)
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Originally Posted by nekokami
These days, I'm not sure you can rely on cows being vegetarians.  See "Mad cow disease" and it's origins for more on what I'm talking about.
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