THE INTOLERANT VEGETARIANS...
Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 12:44PM I am a vegan - have been for six months now and can honestly say I do not miss eating meat. My decision to go meat-free was taken for health reasons, it's my way of coping with my Diabetes and it works for me. But I have NOT TIME for wackos like PETA. I see that they have launched a series of angry campaigns against A-list carnivores. They are shifting their focus from celebrities who wear fur to others who encourage the "exploitation" of animals by eating them. In its latest campaign, Peta – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which became infamous for dousing fur-wearers in red paint – has launched an attack on the singer Jessica Simpson. Ms Simpson was singled out for ridicule after she was spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Real Girls Eat Meat", believed to be a light-hearted dig at her boyfriend Tony Romo's vegetarian ex-girlfriend, Carrie Underwood. Alistair Currie, a spokesman for Peta, said:
"Jessica Simpson might have a right to wear what she wants, but she doesn't have a right to eat what she wants – eating meat is about suffering and death."
Sorry Pal but she has EVERY right to eat whatever the heck that she wants. PETA is about intolerance and should be ignored for the rabble they so transparently are.
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Reader Comments (19)
Jessica Simpson will just have to go topless.
I agree the PETA folks give you plant killers a bad name.
I hate PETA. Okay - on to the important question. Has not eating meat helped with your blood sugar? I always found that more protein/less carbo. did wonders for mine. How are you getting adequate protein? Nuts, seeds and soy? I don't mean to pry, but I'm very curious about this...
Grizz.
Food nazi's are going nuts.
Sodium enforcement officers from several local councils have toured chippies up North replacing traditional 17-hole salt shakers with a new 5 hole lo-salt version. All at taxpayers' expense
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Telling people not to eat meat is dangerous advice.
It's the chief source of Iron in our diet, and without it people suffer from anemia, tiredness, headaches and palpitations.
I bet PETA & Islam get on like a house on fire.
Alistair Currie. Ummm...tasty name...
--she doesn't have a right to eat what she wants--
With comments like that, PETA is vegetarianism's worst enemy. That's intolerance indeed, and no one is going to stand for that.
Following up on Troll's questions, may I ask how you feel after having made this change? How has it affected your energy level? Has there been any weight gain or loss?
I haven't eaten meat for 22 years and I've not missed it. It's actually a very inefficent way of farming in terms of the area needed to produce a given amount of food, compared to growing vegetables.
Rapidly rising meat eating in India and China is part of the reason for the recent rise in grain prices, because all those cows have to be fed.
I agree that the Peta crowd give us veggies a bad name. They should urge, not hector.
That comment about Jessica Simpson having the right to wear but not eat what she wants is so dumn and so illogical, even the person who uttered it must be blushing with shame.
Peter - How are you getting protein? I'm not being a bitch, I'd really like to know!
Grizz
Grizz
Check this out.
I recently saw a t-shirt that said "Meat is Murder: tasty, tasty murder."
"I am a vegan - have been for six months now"
Crikey. I didn't see that one coming!
Vegetarianism is all very well but there is nothing wrong with eating meat. Frankly, PETA need a good medium-rare steak to wise them up.
The PETA people are clearly insane.
Soy, lentils, chick peas - nasty stuff.
Rare steak, any kind of pig meat and grilled chicken - tasty good eats!
Daph
I like my ( medium rare ) steaks but boy do I love my chickpeas too. They're the basis of falafel, which is nature's perfect food.
Good Morning Phantom,
I've tried them and just don't care for them, red pepper humus dip is okay (isn't that mashed up chickpeas?), but you know what, it's cool that you do! I think people should eat what they enjoy!
When I was married to the Greek, we had to have lentils at least once a week - they were soooo foul.
I love humus too. For a squirrely part of the world, the Middle East has given the world some good food.
I love gyros - sliced lamb and that fabulous yogurt wrapped in a warm pita. My favorite food is Mexican though, barbacoa tacos in corn tortillas with pico de gallo on Sunday mornings along side a big bowl of Menudo.
I'm making myself hungry.
The humble Chickpea is nature's perfect food stuff, being the source of both humous and fallafel as highlighted above.
I should write a thesis at some point about the perfect kebab. Here in London most of them are made by expat Turks (at least they are down South London) with a smattering of Greeks and Lebanese.
Actually in a happy incidence of even-handedness I can rate my two all-time favourite kebabs as coming from a small stall in West Beirut (its a long story) and a Sephardic Jewish place in Paris.
Kebabs in Amsterdam have to be among the worst on the planet. Most of them seem to be made by Egyptions for some reason and simply involve carbonised lamb chunks with no salad. I guess their customers arent too discerning...
I would have generally described myself as an uncompromising carnivore but for the discovery of a couple of vegetarian curry houses. One is Woodlands which I mentioned to David a couple of weeks ago. The other one, for any London Denizens reading, is Kastouri in Tooting. Well worth forgoing meat for.
Sorry for rambling - I do find food interesting.
My motto is "if you like it,open your mouth and chew on it "
Colm,
It's all very well folk 'going vegetarian', but what about the subsequential CO2 emissions? They should all wear a badge, so that us innocent folk don't ride the same 'lift'(elevator), as them..