BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: Whippet
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 04:29 AM

Now us whippets always make a fuss outside the butchers shop, we howl and we crave for the smell of the bones and flesh we never do the same outside the greengrocers funny that

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: mooman
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 04:39 AM

Whippet,

Havn't you got anything better to do, when there are such horrific things currently going on in the world, to prattle on about vegetarians?

I for one do not care to be spoken of in the same sentence as the probable perpetrators of yesterdays outrages.

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: Whippet
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 06:12 AM

Yesterdays outrage is as you say an outrage and cannot be trivialised and I for one wouldn't even think of doing that but as the other threads on that subject have shown there are a lot of angry revengeful folks out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: GUEST,Omnivore
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 01:24 PM

Yes,English John, those of us whose last name is Pratt are fortunate if we live in the US instead of the UK, since most Yanks don't connect our name with our posteriors.

Whippet, can't you use an epithet like "jerks" or "dorks," or some other such, instead of choosing one that is also a not-too-uncommon surname?

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: Roughyed
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 07:03 PM

Couple of things from this thread. I read that a pint of beer contains one third of your daily requirement of vitamin B12. If that's untrue, please don't tell me.

I think some vegetarians (and I've been one for over twenty years) are prats. It is still unusual to be vegetarian in the West and some vegetarians seem more interested in being unusual than they are in being vegetarian. You see the same phenomenon in left-wing politics, cyclist and even, gulp, folkies. Whie the rest of us are trying to say 'Hey this is great, listen to this you'll like it' these people seem to go out of their way to alienate others who do not agree with them.

I take the view that we are all vegetarians - in between meals.

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 05:58 PM

I know where meat comes from! The stork brings it and puts it in the cabbage patch. Right?

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: Whippet
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 04:27 AM

Then we shoot the stork and eat it !!

Subject: RE: BS: Veggies !! Do you think they're prats
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 11:30 AM

If vegetables do feel pain, that still leaves pme gppd reaspm fpr avoiding meat (personal decision, but I wish it wasn't, and I wish the sanctimonious churches would make more of this): humans don't need meat to be healthy, and the commercial production of meat is massively wasteful of world food resources.

It takes between five and ten times as much grain to produce a specified amount of human nutrition from beef as it would take to get that same nutritional value from the grain itself. Moreover cattle are flatulent enough to be poisoning the world with their farts. They are the second biggest contributor of methane to the greenhouse effect, after aviation emmissions.

If you think this doesn't matter much, remember that most of the malnourished people in the world live in countries that produce more than enough food to feed their poppulations - if it didn't go on fattening cattle for the developed world.