Vegetarians.
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- mrdobolina0
I smoked 2- 3 pound beef roasts for 15 hours yesterday..I dont mind vegetarians or vegans, I got a few as friends, but they generally just shut the fuck up about it. there is nothing worse than a loudmouth vegan telling you how wrong you are for eating meat.
- sounds tasty.omgitsacamera
- agreed. But it is also annoying as fuck to have meat eaters telling you how ridiculous vegetarianism is and how we are missing so much from meatVectorMasked
- yupJaline
- I don't call vegetarians ridiculous, I just think they're ridiculous. Granted if I had to kill an animal I'd probably be vegetarian.flavorful
- vegetarian. I don't like icky stuff.flavorful
- mrdobolina0
I bet your vegan barbecues are a blast :)
- talking about global warming while cooking organics trucked across the country and burning coal too.omgitsacamera
- Jaline0
I enjoy meat.
I have vegan and vegetarian friends (although half of them have started to eat meat now) and respect them.
I don't like when people boast about either side, but it's annoying when vegetarians get upset that someone didn't buy them a bunch of stuff for get-togethers, such as for BBQs. I'm fine with bringing some things, but vegetarians should be making the planner / purchaser aware of their own needs and not *expect* that person to know what they (the vegetarian) want. At least for the first time they have a BBQ together. Yes, I have had experience with this more than once.
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- That BBQ rant thing was in reference to one or two vegetarians. If my friend had more than that, she would've had more of a variety of food.Jaline
- more of a variety of food for everyone at the BBQ. (my friend = the person who plans and buys for these things)Jaline
- At a work thing one of the VPs was like handing out hamburgers and hot dogs and stuff and I had a bun and she...flavorful
- ... went, "Hey Jerome! What'd you have?" And I told her a veggie burger please as she was like behind the table thing.flavorful
- I told her, "Veggie Burger" please. And she just laughed and gave me an actual hamburger. I mean I was kidding but the fact she didn't even care, hahaah.flavorful
- kidding but the fact that she didn't even care, hahaha. But circling back to your point, I agree, it shouldn't be up to the BBQer.flavorful
- BBQer/Party Planner if the vast majority of the group is non-vegetarian.flavorful
- Yes, you just summed up my post nicely in your last note, hahaJaline
- thats what i love about youdrgs
- i know you enjoy meat, Jaline. But sorry, tonight I got a slight headache and i need rest...janne76
- mrdobolina0
a veggie friend of mine had a real low key wedding in a park and I grilled for everyone afterwards. there were about 25% vegetarians at this thing. I marinated eggplant slices in balsamic, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic for like a day. topped them with cheese for the people who werent vegans and a home made tomato sauce on the others. these people went nuts over this stuff, I even had 2 charcoal grills there and cooked meat on one and veggies on the other, to not upset the people that were against mixing the grills with meat and veggies. I dug the challenge of feeding them all considering there were lots with special dietary concerns. there were like 40 people there.
- Nice!flavorful
- That's awesome. I would, but I have to learn this stuff first...Jaline
- jaline, you would have loved these chicken skewers I made about a week ago.mrdobolina
- marinated in soy, ginger, garlic, rice wine vinegar, crushed red pepper for 18 hours!mrdobolina
- :)Jaline
- mrdobolina0
I did a bunch of portobello mushrooms too with olive oil and basil and lemon. I didn't have much time to prepare for this thing, but hooked up some vegan friendly rolls and served the eggplant slices and portobellas on these rolls. it seems that these guys werent used to having people give a shit about them at bbq's, so it turned out really nice.
- my mental image of dob gets fatter and fatter as i keep readingdrgs
- you'd be surprised.mrdobolina
- arielamazing0
Hold on to your hummus, the votes are in for the annual Sexiest Vegetarian contest.
- alexand0
I've been veggie since I was 9 or 10. I am 25 now and nothing seems to be going wrong. My doctor is even veggie.
- vespa0
is there a link between vegetarianism and depression / listlessness?
all the vegetarians I know seem to be slightly this way inclined.
- moth0
If I was vegetarian I wouldn't be able to sleep at night for thinking if I could, or could not eat a venus flytrap, or any other carnivorous plant.
And Dobs - why would you willing feed a vegan? They don't willing eat. They should be left alone to die like Pandas.
- DaveO0
My cousin is vegan, quite relaxed with it in reference to other people but has strong beliefs about the dairy trade. His view is that if you're a vegetarian for moral reasons / animal cruelty etc, you should totally stay away from animal products. So people who say eating veal is cruel one minute, then but cheap supermarket milk the next, are as bad as the next person. The milk trade DIRECTLY SUPPORTS THE VEAL TRADE. Think of all those cows who give birth year on year – them calves are much easier and more cost effective to kill than to rear. He tells me all kinds of stuff like this, which isn't propaganda as such but interesting nonetheless
I eat meat, I eat fucking anything, but I really don't enjoy hypocrisy of vegetarians who don't do their research. Had an ex girlfriend like this. I could probably be vegetarian, did a month vegan as a detox, piece of piss the lot of it.
- DaveO0
Also, when I was getting my first tattoos done, I met a group of crazy straight edge kids – these are HARCORE vegans, as hardcore as the punk music they listen to. Crazy. One of them was in this crew Vegan Death Squad in San Francisco....
- Vegan punks eh? For some reason that makes me laugh. Maybe they just need attention?designbot
- lowimpakt0
the issues with the dairy industry does make just being a vegetarian quite difficult - especially if your reasons are related to animal ethics or the environmental impact of food production.
- detritus0
I love food '.'. I always try and buy organic, free-range stuff and try and to limit the amount of meat I eat (not too successfully, it has to be said).
Morally, I think there are as many issues covering seafood and plants as there are well-raised meats. If they're not eating farmed fish, or are buying fruit and vegetables with a heckload of carbon emissions supporting them, ethical veggies 'as bad' as us meat-eaters, imho.
I have no problem with breeding animals for consumption, as long as they're treated humanely - the bonus being that a happy chicken makes for a tasty chicken. Same goes for dairy and egg products that are so produced
- moth0
i completely concur with detritus.
nothing makes me happier than some slow roasted, organic, happy lamb.- Mein gott, Moth concurs with me? *spins, faints*. You'll be pleased to know that I don't eat lamb or goat - too cute.detritus
- lamb: king of meatskelpie
- i can sort of agree. i may eat "wildlife" meat though, essentially stuff hunters may bring home...janne76
- i just FUCKING HATE industrial meat, force-fed animals in small cages with food that isn't even natural...janne76
- moth0
I'm actually in the process of ordering a whole lamb from these guys;
http://www.gowersaltmarshlamb.co…Supposed to be the tastiest lamb in the UK.
- lowimpakt0
can I make this thread even more boring?
400 pages of research on the environmental impacts of livestock http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/…
"Using a methodology that considers the entire commodity chain, it estimates that livestock are responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, a bigger share than that of transport. However, the report says, the livestock sector's potential contribution to solving environmental problems is equally large, and major improvements could be achieved at reasonable cost."
and 169 pages on meat and dairy in the UK
http://www.fcrn.org.uk/frcnResea…"While clearly the impacts are significant, we need also to consider the fact that if we did not eat meat or drink milk we would have to expend energy and emit greenhouse gases to produce substitute foods."
- moth0
Goat rocks detritus.
- kelpie0
never eaten goat, will have to check it out.
on the inhumane nature of eating animals, I have to say that's a major part of the appeal to me; munching away on a juicy cut of cow or sheep or pig, contemplating the unique evolutionary bad ass status that puts me in the position to happily consume the body of another sentient animal and not give a single flying fuck.
sorry, but that's just how I roll.