Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
This is "National Vegetarian Week"
WE ARE told that National Vegetarian Week "is upon us" week commencing Monday 18th May. For those seeking refuge from this week that is "upon" us, finger-lickin' local alternatives include:
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Steakhouses
Burger King
McDonalds
Kebabs
Halal
.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Steakhouses
Burger King
McDonalds
Kebabs
Halal
.
Tags for Forum Posts: balance, diet, health, meat, nutrition, omnivore, varied, vegan
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
-
Paul, that's a good tip, but I hope you're not solely eating meat!?
The important thing is to eat a balanced, varied diet and that would include vegetables and fruit etc.
We are neither herbivores nor carnivores but us humans are omnivores ...
.
-
Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
-
Just wondering what the point of this post is, why the hostilities?
And you can have a balanced diet as a herbivore as billions of people have prooved, some species cannot live without flesh, humans can.
-
Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
-
You know, some people just don't like the taste of meat.
-
-
IMHO, nobody should eat solely one kind of food, either meat or vegatables. I'm sure we don't eat enough vegetables and fruit (or fish), but its still safest and healthiest to eat a varied, balanced diet. I think most food nutrionists would say as much.
-
-
Nice one John : )
Actually statistically veggies are healthier (and live longer) if you believe all reports and articles written about this subject. You've posted all the links above mocking this event and then you go on about a balanced diet, seems a very odd post indeed?
-
Permalink Reply by rahman on
-
halal butchers make it on to the fast food list? im rather confused.
if we had to actually kill the poor animals ourselves, a lot of us would be veggie i reckon. (that includes me). i remember taking a trip to my parent's ancestral home which is set in farmland when i was a kid - i witnessed our dinner being killed and was veggie for a good two years after that. even though it was done quickly and humanely, it was still horrid. modern farming methods are even worse.
-
Permalink Reply by Danzigger on
-
I don't understand your point, Clive.
Are you trying to say that national Vegetarian Week is threatening your right to eat meat? I'm sure it isn't: it's perhaps just encouraging people to sample a wider range of vegetarian food. For a week. No-one has to do it, but some people might discover vegetarian food they would never have tried otherwise. They might go on to include more vegetables in their diet, which can only be a good thing.
-
-
I think characterising vegetarian week as "encouraging people to sample a wider range of vegetarian food" – is confused.
I eat vegetables. I eat stuff that is labelled "vegetarian" or "suitable for vegetarians", although certainly not because of that labelling. I think we should all eat more vegetables (and fruit) like the government recommends, five portions a day. I'm all for encouraging an increase in fruit and vegetable intake (and reducing the intake of high-sugar, highly-processed food). I feel sure that most food nutrionists would say, eat a varied diet.
But vegetarian week is not about any of that is it?
It's intellectually dishonest to pretend that it is.
It's about proselytizing the cutting out of an important food group and that in doing so, may run health risks. It's promoting a life-style choice that makes moralistic claims. And when it comes to Vegans and Lacto Vegetarians, it takes on the appearance of a cult.
At the extreme end, it is allied to "animal rights" organisations that have engaged in quasi-terrorist activity. But for me, the classic vegetarian is the middle class teenage daughter who thinks lions should be re-trained to eat grass. Some people in this world would almost die to have the chance of the choice of being able to cut out a major food group.
Vegetarian week may be "upon" some of us – most likely those who already subscribe to this sometimes pernicious movement. But vegetarian week is not upon me and is not unlikely to be "upon" me.
.
-
Permalink Reply by Alison P on
-
Oh for goodness sake!! It's just a promotional week to try and raise the profile of vegetarianism, what on earth is the harm of that!
There are a zillion more health risks associated with over-consumption of the kinds of food that Clive is singing the praises off than there are problems caused by over-zealous veggie living, not mentioning the environmental issues of meat production etc etc. Encouraging a bit more thought about that isn't a bad thing.
-
-
I don't eat a lot of meat, but I'd like to think I recognize intellectual dishonesty.
The "promotional week" of this movement is the smiling face of something that can lead to ill health (missing out on essential elements) and in a wider context, lead indirectly to the intimidation of scientists and the opposition of medical research that can help the suffering and other research that can help the hungry.
I couldn't agree more that a bit more thought is needed about these issues. Mild vegetarians need to examine their consciences; "over-zealous" veggies are beyond reason.
-
-
Vegetarians can enjoy a perfectly healthy lifestyle if they balance the nurtients that they are getting from their food. It is not the road to ill health. A lot of the time, they are healthier than Omnivores. I say this as a meat eater.
And WOW! Thats a little over the top. Vegetarians and extremist animal rights activists are two different types of people.
© 2024 Created by Hugh.
Powered by
