Meat eaters. Would you?Re: Meat eaters. Would you?Lots of our foods are already very messed around with, intensively kept animals
pumped with antibiotics & fed allsorts to make them grow quicker, veg grown without soil, milk from modern breeds of cow has a different (& some claim harmful) form of protein than old fasioned guernsy/jersey. I dont think this meat would be any worse for us than some of whats on offer now. "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant Re: Meat eaters. Would you?Which is why I think I'm lucky as I grow my own....as for "chicken nuggets" unless I make them myself I don't consider them part of any food group
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(¸.✰´¨(¸.✰ Manda Living our version of the Good Life with 1 dog (who feels like we're living with 4!), 1 cats, a few sheep and 11 chooks. Don't get your knickers in a knot..it solves nothing ~ just makes you walk funny
Re: Meat eaters. Would you?the fascinating thing keep coming up in the discussion is "shortage of food". When I was in college (many years ago), my project was to determine whether a particular protein source (in this case it was actually a bacterial product designed as animal feed) contained all the "essential amino acids" for it to be an ideal solution for world famine. It was more of a scientific project than social but I researched that side of it as part of the conclusion. Interestingly, manufactured food to solve the world food shortage problem is not new - and so Quorn was born (read more about it in Wikipedia)
Re: Meat eaters. Would you?Fascinating use of technology! Obviously we would all prefer to eat naturally grown, non-intensively farmed meat, but if this can produce reasonable quality meat for those on low incomes, I think it is infinitely preferable to intensive farming. No animal suffers here, and as has been said, cheap meat is already produced using antibiotics and growth promoters so no different really.
Re: Meat eaters. Would you?Facinating to read about the history & controversy around quorn - thanks Lancashire Lass.
It certainly didn't end up as the saviour of the starving poor, in fact I doubt if Quorn is any cheaper than meat! Rhubarb93 it's true this could be a way to provide low quality food to people on low incomes without being cruel to animals. But shouldn't the goal should be to improve the quality of food for everyone (without being cruel to animals!)? Maybe we should all just eat less meat (but please don't get me started on HFW! ) Re: Meat eaters. Would you?Talking of HFW, here he is answering questions now over at the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... l-livechat Re: Meat eaters. Would you?I don't have the money to do the things I want to. Rather than eat "lower quality meat" I just eat less meat.
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Ditto - we make one chicken breast do two meals for two by adding veggies and/or making pies. Chris xx
34.If someone can’t accept you at your worst, they don’t deserve you at your best Re: Meat eaters. Would you?No, I wouldn't eat it - even if I was paid to. But then I'm a dinosaur, or an alien, or maybe both, I really, really don't like the way the world's moving now. I just wish I'd been born 200 years ago, I'd have been much happier. (I think, anyway )
Re: Meat eaters. Would you?I wouldn't fancy eating it, at least not on a regular basis. I might try it once just to say that I had. I don't eat quorn or margarine or anything else that would be impossible to create in my own kitchen, so I am considered a bit of an oddity.
I am not sure I would have been happier if I had lived 200 years ago though, Redoak. I would have died from appendicitis when I was 13 years old. Sunny Clucker welcome in Barnsley.
Re: Meat eaters. Would you?Me too Redoak. Maybe we got off the same spaceship.
Re: Meat eaters. Would you?I wouldn't eat it.
You know the 'shortage of food thing' is rubbish. As a world as a whole, we produce more that enough to feed everyone on the planet. It is the distribution of food (which of course involves far more complex issues like distribution of wealth, resources, political elites, etc etc) that is the problem. Helen xx
3 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 chooks, 3 fish, a shrimp that thinks its a prawn and a dappy dog. http://www.acountrygrandma.blogspot.com
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My dad is trying to teach my youngest to say "Chicken nuggets are not real food, bring me the grilled seabass please" He has a way to go, she's only just mastered "mummy" LoL Waiting to welcome Sunny Clucker to Northern Ireland!
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