Thread: Give up meat?

Quote: Originally Posted by Ursa major I got the impression that a lot of agriculture in the UK (whether involving animal husbandry or not) is is very resource intensive. (Whether it can be made less so while maintaining yields is something I'm not really qualified to comment on without investigation.) Farming is not land intensive. Geez. I have a theory about our obesity. I think a lot of it has to do with processed and boxed foods that...

Re: Give up meat? I don't eat lamb at all, I tried some once by mistake-thinking it was beef-and let me tell you, I spat that bite of meat out faster and further than I've spat anything. It had the unlucky misfortune of landing on someone else's plate, I think somewhere in their pasta. That was the last time I ate at that buffet, though. As for me, well, I really don't care where I get my meat from-I'd prefer from the...

I got the impression that a lot of agriculture in the UK (whether involving animal husbandry or not) is is very resource intensive. (Whether it can be made less so while maintaining yields is something I'm not really qualified to comment on without investigation.)

Re: Give up meat? Most meat is very good. The one I dislike most is probably turkey. It's rubbish that at Christmas instead of having tastier chicken, or excellent pork or brilliant venison we end up eating bloody turkey. We should try goose, perhaps. Not had that for ages.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rufio Respectfully I think you're missing the point, which is that our livestock agriculture is extremely resource and land intensive, which clearly wouldn't apply to an African herdsman or somesuch. I don't think anyone has ever starved to death because they were vegetarian anyway. Did i say being vegetarian made anyone starve ? I said its not the answer to the problem for people that dont live in...

Quote: Originally Posted by Urien When I lived in the USA I found that Americans much preferred beef and lamb was little seen. I don't know if that preference extends to Canada. The American diet and the Canadian diet is almost identical; we even have many of the same fast food chains and Safeway (the largest US grocery chain) exists coast to coast here. Not surprisingly, obesity in Canada ranks very close to that of the US. Lamb is a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Connavar My earlier post was to people that were talking like why eat meat at all when everyone can afford to eat green which isnt true globally. Were you referring to Lord Stern, Conn? No-one on this thread has said that people in the third world could just switch to a meat free diet. For my part, I specifically stated in my post that people in the Western world were the ones who ate meat by choice, and I...

Re: Give up meat? When I lived in the USA I found that Americans much preferred beef and lamb was little seen. I don't know if that preference extends to Canada. In the UK lamb is much more frequently seen, I'm not quite sure why; it might be something to do with historic rearing patterns and the ease that sheep could historically be reared (particularly on marginal land) as opposed to cows. Whereas by the time North America was...

Hi JDP Quote: Were the nation to become suddenly vegetarian, I believe there would indeed be a reduction in the number of livestock and fewer of those animals would be killed quite so prematurely. I think the number would not be insignificant. Fair point. Perhaps it might have been more accurate if I had said that a vegetarian UK would still involve the killing of many millions of animals, albeit fewer than are currently killed. The problem...

Quote: Originally Posted by Urien Mosaix, It fails your "so what" test. It does not fail mine. There is not, I believe, an absolute standard. You find the increase in Government information comforting, I find much of that information takes the form of nagging at best and at worst indoctrination. I find the Government information useful. Half the population criticise the Government for secrecy and cover ups, the other half...