Eat Meat? of the day
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- craigatkinson0
I don't feel the same attachment to sea creatures I don't think. certainly not sea food, fish perhaps, but I'll keep eating them.
- lukus_W20
I've been a vegetarian all my life, but started eating fish about five years ago.
I like fish - but feel like a bit of hypocrite, as fish really is meat. And I can't really justify why eating sea-creatures is acceptable and land creatures isn't.
The concept of killing an animal and eating it, isn't my major concern; morally I think factory farming is very bad.
So, I'm now at a point where I feel like I need to either stop eating fish or start eating meat.
- Just keep on eating fish. What you eat doesn't have to make sense. Eat what comes naturally. Fish is good food.mikotondria3
- People eat cows but not dogs, or other people. Pigs, but not cats. It's all lines in the sand, it's up to you, no justifications.mikotondria3
- lukus_W20
I've been a vegetarian all my life, but started eating fish about five years ago.
I like fish - but feel like a bit of hypocrite, as fish really is meat. And I can't really justify why eating sea-creatures is acceptable and land creatures isn't.
The concept of killing an animal and eating it, isn't my major concern; morally I think factory farming is very bad.
So, I'm now at a point where I feel like I need to either stop eating fish or start eating meat.
- kgvs720
- Vegan chicken sandwichkgvs72
- that's never chickencraigatkinson
- impossible!prophetone
- craigatkinson0
As I said, the decision wasn't really a decision initially, I just hadn't eaten meat for a few days. For years now I've said if I thought about it too much I'd stop eating meat [not including sea things]. So I became aware that I didn't need meat having never been a huge meat eater anyway, and when I did it was burger, or pizza etc so not the best cut! So now I just don't eat it and it's fun finding new things to eat. So MrT yes ethics, lightly, I suppose.
- That's actually exactly what happened to me in 1990.mikotondria3
- Good on you, I should to, but enjoy the best meat I can get for 2 or 3 meals a week.MrT
- d_rek0
I just roasted a whole free-range, vegetarian fed chicken in my cast iron-skillet with potates, carrots, and some garlic yesterday. I rubbed the bird all over with salt + pepper, tossed it in the over at 450 for almost an hour, brushing twice with olive oil and oh my fucking god was it good. I'll gladly keep eatin' that flesh.
Don't get me started on red meat. I've been dry-aging my own steaks for about 2 years now. Amazing.
- ok_not_ok0
- That's enough to make me go veggyset
- looks delicious!monospaced
- slappy0
A good friend of mine had colon cancer when we were in our 20s, he was a salad dodger big time and it really hit home how important moderation and whole foods are for us.
- ksv1230
Vegan diet for 20yrs.
- Vege for 20 years, vegan for 7months.. Still slightly plump, excellent BP, though..mikotondria3
- yeah avoiding meat doesn't have shit to do with being slender, that's for surescarabin
- albums0
re: eating fish
Great app, I use it at the deli all the time.
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- i_monk0
I pretty much stopped eating fish (maybe twice a year at most) for the same reason miko outlined above. Cows and chickens won't be going extinct any time soon.
- MrT0
so craigatkinson what prompted your decision? Health? Ethics? A girl? Budget? Are you spending more/less/same as well as feeling better?
- detritus0
- I haven't had one of those I'm yonks! Do you like beef jerky?set
- Your user name seems apt in a description of PeperamiBaskerviIle
- lol@ Baskerville.stoplying
- ESKEMA0
diversity in reasonable quantity is where balance of the ecosystem is achieved.
- MrT0
There are plenty of sustainable fish if you can find or catch them. I know in England they/we're so attached to cod and haddock they are fucked but other options are not, but people must be reluctant to try other varieties.
- dMullins0
Don't get mercury poisoning from all that fish.
- mikotondria30
Sticky wicket, eating commercial fish; it's really really fucking up the ocean, just catching tons of everything, scraping the sea floor and wasting most of it. All the big fish are gone, of commerically fished stocks, most of which have been decimated to the point of near-extinction. Near in time, not numbers - it's a certainty for most of them. Fucking greed, over and over and over again. Eat farm-raised fish only, or wild crab at a push - there's enough of them still. The rest of it is fucked, it's an embarrassment.
- ukit20
Everyone is contributing to something
Save the planet, kill yourself