As long as we're on the trending question, I don't reckon this will be quite so popular, but how many of y'all aren't carnivores?
As long as we're on the trending question, I don't reckon this will be quite so popular, but how many of y'all aren't carnivores?
Hi all , if a newbie lurker can reply...
I am a vegan EXCEPT for honey. I know many people would not consider me a vegan for including honey, so maybe more like a vegetarian that also doesn't include dairy or eggs.
Lorri
I eat vegetables. Sometimes I eat the critters that eat vegetables too.
We're trying to move toward the local/sustainable meat production. Ideally we'll eventually be involved in the killing too. Figure you might as well confront it, and if you can't you shouldn't be eating it. [confront here doesn't necessarily mean chop its head off yourself, but at least acknowledge--in a non-academic way--the source.] Working on it...I've killed fish.
From a "footprint" standpoint I think we're doing pretty well for ourselves despite continuing to eat meat. We probably buy about 1.5 lbs per week with our groceries (two of us). Eating out adds some as well, but not much. Growing up we'd eat 1/2 lb per person per day. So mostly veggies, with a meat garnish. Mmmm, meat.
This could probably lead into a great gardening thread, too!
I'm with you that if you can't confront the animal while it's live, watch it die, etc, then it should be left alive. (The other plus side to this is you'll never be eating from a factory farm, they don't let the public anywhere near those places)
I eat vegetables. Sometimes I eat the critters that eat vegetables too.