Vegetarians 16:27 - Jan 15 with 3540 views | CountyJim | Not take the mick or anything but few questions First do you ever crave say a bacon buttie Why did you become a veggie was it health reasons or animal welfare And can you eat chickens eggs and it must be hard to pick out non meat products such as sweets etc | | | | |
Vegetarians on 16:32 - Jan 15 with 3529 views | Darran | "Can you eat chickens eggs" Honestly WTF? | |
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Vegetarians on 16:37 - Jan 15 with 3523 views | CountyJim | And remember Nana on the Royle Family "What about a very thin slice of ham " | | | |
Vegetarians on 16:45 - Jan 15 with 3511 views | LeonisGod | I know vegetarians who eat eggs and lots of them. But they're not good to be around in confined spaces. | | | |
Vegetarians on 17:08 - Jan 15 with 3470 views | VetchitBack | 1) Only when hungover 2) Animal Wellfsre 3) You can if you don't you'd be a Vegan is my personal answer. 4) Very true I've recently witnessed Halal Haribo. | |
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Vegetarians on 17:11 - Jan 15 with 3455 views | Jackfath |
Vegetarians on 17:08 - Jan 15 by VetchitBack | 1) Only when hungover 2) Animal Wellfsre 3) You can if you don't you'd be a Vegan is my personal answer. 4) Very true I've recently witnessed Halal Haribo. |
Are Halal Haribo meat free? | |
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Vegetarians on 17:12 - Jan 15 with 3459 views | VetchitBack |
Vegetarians on 17:11 - Jan 15 by Jackfath | Are Halal Haribo meat free? |
No just slaughtered "correctly" | |
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Vegetarians on 17:21 - Jan 15 with 3443 views | Jackfath |
Vegetarians on 17:12 - Jan 15 by VetchitBack | No just slaughtered "correctly" |
So Halal Haribo aren't suitable for vegetarians? | |
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Vegetarians on 17:26 - Jan 15 with 3441 views | VetchitBack |
Vegetarians on 17:21 - Jan 15 by Jackfath | So Halal Haribo aren't suitable for vegetarians? |
No. Quite a strange concept isn't it. | |
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Vegetarians on 17:29 - Jan 15 with 3425 views | Jackfath |
Vegetarians on 17:26 - Jan 15 by VetchitBack | No. Quite a strange concept isn't it. |
Not really. | |
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Vegetarians on 20:25 - Jan 15 with 3340 views | Sweyns_Eye | Lots of sweets have gelatin so not suitable for vegetarians. | |
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Vegetarians on 20:43 - Jan 15 with 3315 views | jackb | Birds trifle is veggie friendly now too | | | |
Vegetarians on 23:11 - Jan 15 with 3255 views | SCB1985 |
Vegetarians on 20:25 - Jan 15 by Sweyns_Eye | Lots of sweets have gelatin so not suitable for vegetarians. |
I wonder if any Muslim shop keepers have a sly handful of sweets. Most contain pork gelatin. Not many people realise what sweets contain, they be shocked. I don't eat beef due to walfare reasons, I think they are too large to be properly handled humanly. Full veggies would slate me for being a semi veggie, however I do care for walfare. I only buy free range. I love lamb and only buy Welsh, due to live transportation newzeeland lamb would be extremely cruel. As for craving every time I have Chinese I crave crispy beef, but don't give in to my cravings. As for sweets the gelatin is just a biproduct . | |
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Vegetarians on 08:06 - Jan 16 with 3213 views | Banosswan |
Vegetarians on 17:12 - Jan 15 by VetchitBack | No just slaughtered "correctly" |
They read a prayer before slaughtering those little bears. | |
| Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws. | Poll: | How do you like your steak? |
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Vegetarians on 10:28 - Jan 16 with 3174 views | Scotia | My Mrs is a veggie. I totally respect her wishes, but to be honest it is a huge pain in the arse. Sweets and all sorts of stuff are off limits, but the craziest thing is that until recently, she could eat chicken or Beef flavour crisps but not Cheese and Onion or Salt and Vinegar. | | | |
Vegetarians on 19:11 - Jan 16 with 3119 views | phact0rri | 1) I was never on the bacon even when I wasn't a vegan. I thought it was like eating fried salt. And I can't really think of any cravings... that I've had but then again I been almost 20 year now. 2) Animal welfare/politics. Lets hope this isn't about taking a piss on us. 3) I can. Its a choice that has me obstain from it. 4) When I first went vegan back in the 90's finding foods was not easy. Most of it was making your own stuff if you wanted it. But now... there are vegan cookies, and cakes and candies in the grocer's market! | |
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Vegetarians on 20:36 - Jan 16 with 3080 views | Tycoch_Tyrant |
Vegetarians on 19:11 - Jan 16 by phact0rri | 1) I was never on the bacon even when I wasn't a vegan. I thought it was like eating fried salt. And I can't really think of any cravings... that I've had but then again I been almost 20 year now. 2) Animal welfare/politics. Lets hope this isn't about taking a piss on us. 3) I can. Its a choice that has me obstain from it. 4) When I first went vegan back in the 90's finding foods was not easy. Most of it was making your own stuff if you wanted it. But now... there are vegan cookies, and cakes and candies in the grocer's market! |
Can you explain the politics side of your choice? If you don't mind of course | | | |
Vegetarians on 22:34 - Jan 16 with 3049 views | phact0rri |
Vegetarians on 20:36 - Jan 16 by Tycoch_Tyrant | Can you explain the politics side of your choice? If you don't mind of course |
I'm supportive of animal rights, and look to give more protections to animals within the farming space. I lobby and protest for more guidelines in non-human protections and support the complete dismantling of the factory farm complex. I dislike force breeding for companion animals, the unneeded and redundant testing for science (like 50/50 tests), and I believe in education and outreach more so than badgering people with violent photographs and all that stupidity. This is of course the cliffnotes-- but I'm not a member of any of the welfarist groups, I instead believe in the need for wholesale changes with how animals are looked at. I think the biggest issue is the way people see animals as "things" or "property" that can be bought and sold, much like an Auto. And I like to look at how people view animals and non-humans and how this idea of empathy can be looked at as way make positive changes. | |
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Vegetarians on 17:34 - Jan 19 with 2977 views | Tycoch_Tyrant |
Vegetarians on 22:34 - Jan 16 by phact0rri | I'm supportive of animal rights, and look to give more protections to animals within the farming space. I lobby and protest for more guidelines in non-human protections and support the complete dismantling of the factory farm complex. I dislike force breeding for companion animals, the unneeded and redundant testing for science (like 50/50 tests), and I believe in education and outreach more so than badgering people with violent photographs and all that stupidity. This is of course the cliffnotes-- but I'm not a member of any of the welfarist groups, I instead believe in the need for wholesale changes with how animals are looked at. I think the biggest issue is the way people see animals as "things" or "property" that can be bought and sold, much like an Auto. And I like to look at how people view animals and non-humans and how this idea of empathy can be looked at as way make positive changes. |
Ok I'll let you know my personal perspective - I am coming to the end of my veterinary training and am supportive of animal welfare. I have previously tried vegetarianism and was one for a couple of years, at the moment I am not. Mind if I ask a few more questions/discuss? Mostly 'cos I'm interested… and it's always good to challenge your personal opinions as at the moment I work in a very scientifically-based environment; this can skew opinions etc. 1. What do you mean by animal rights? 2. What do you mean by factory farming? Is there a point where farm turns into factory farm, or do you mean all farms? 3. Force breeding - can you explain further? 4. The 50/50 test - are you referring to the ED50 and LD50? I agree fully over the badgering people with violent photographs. I consider myself relatively well educated on this subject but find such leaflets to go further than simply being ignorant to being deliberate propaganda - I can usually literally point to the mistakes sentence by sentence. I don't think this helps either side of the debate, I'll try and find an example if you want. | | | |
Vegetarians on 07:18 - Jan 20 with 2917 views | phact0rri |
Vegetarians on 17:34 - Jan 19 by Tycoch_Tyrant | Ok I'll let you know my personal perspective - I am coming to the end of my veterinary training and am supportive of animal welfare. I have previously tried vegetarianism and was one for a couple of years, at the moment I am not. Mind if I ask a few more questions/discuss? Mostly 'cos I'm interested… and it's always good to challenge your personal opinions as at the moment I work in a very scientifically-based environment; this can skew opinions etc. 1. What do you mean by animal rights? 2. What do you mean by factory farming? Is there a point where farm turns into factory farm, or do you mean all farms? 3. Force breeding - can you explain further? 4. The 50/50 test - are you referring to the ED50 and LD50? I agree fully over the badgering people with violent photographs. I consider myself relatively well educated on this subject but find such leaflets to go further than simply being ignorant to being deliberate propaganda - I can usually literally point to the mistakes sentence by sentence. I don't think this helps either side of the debate, I'll try and find an example if you want. |
Thats fine mate. Honestly I am very opinionated on the subject and have a lot of views. Some personal feelings and others based on facts. But when I discuss such things I tend to like to talk about the facts. Feelings have no place in a debate. Its why one shys away from talking to people about politiccs and religion because to often thats what it is. but I'll try to answer your questions to my best ability. 1. What do you mean by animal rights? Animal rights depicts the margin of quality every natural creature should be afforded. For example, to have the ability to access its own needs(food/water/etc). To have access to the sun if a diural creature. The ability to take care of its young. The ability to defend itself against preditors. A margin of comfort based on its natural living environ. Things like this. In short the idea is that every creature has a right to a margin of life roughly equivalent to the majority of its kind in the wild. 2. What do you mean by factory farming? Is there a point where farm turns into factory farm, or do you mean all farms? A factory farm is a large scale animal processing plant. The term "factory" indicates a large scale creation of product. So its not a small farm where your housing 500 head of cattle. But were talking more in the range of 12,000+ cattle. It gets worse when you realize that due to the constriction of farm land to host such large numbers problems arise. These facilities are also less about caring for animals and more about drumming out as much product as they can which in turn means that the people who work and run these places are looking at numbers and statistics of product. And not so much thinking of animals as living breathing creatures. which I believe is part of the problem and why things have gotten so bad. 3. Force breeding - can you explain further? Forced breeding practices are having animals mate not of their own free will. And where this has been done for centuries. The problem comes when they are outputting more creatures than is at all natural and this creates problems of over population. The best example to look for more information would probably be "Puppy Mills" 4. The 50/50 test - are you referring to the ED50 and LD50? yeah I tend to lot the ED50 and LD50 into one, which I think a lot of people do. Thanks for being curious btw. :) | |
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Re. Vegetarians on 16:33 - Jan 20 with 2878 views | Tycoch_Tyrant |
Vegetarians on 07:18 - Jan 20 by phact0rri | Thats fine mate. Honestly I am very opinionated on the subject and have a lot of views. Some personal feelings and others based on facts. But when I discuss such things I tend to like to talk about the facts. Feelings have no place in a debate. Its why one shys away from talking to people about politiccs and religion because to often thats what it is. but I'll try to answer your questions to my best ability. 1. What do you mean by animal rights? Animal rights depicts the margin of quality every natural creature should be afforded. For example, to have the ability to access its own needs(food/water/etc). To have access to the sun if a diural creature. The ability to take care of its young. The ability to defend itself against preditors. A margin of comfort based on its natural living environ. Things like this. In short the idea is that every creature has a right to a margin of life roughly equivalent to the majority of its kind in the wild. 2. What do you mean by factory farming? Is there a point where farm turns into factory farm, or do you mean all farms? A factory farm is a large scale animal processing plant. The term "factory" indicates a large scale creation of product. So its not a small farm where your housing 500 head of cattle. But were talking more in the range of 12,000+ cattle. It gets worse when you realize that due to the constriction of farm land to host such large numbers problems arise. These facilities are also less about caring for animals and more about drumming out as much product as they can which in turn means that the people who work and run these places are looking at numbers and statistics of product. And not so much thinking of animals as living breathing creatures. which I believe is part of the problem and why things have gotten so bad. 3. Force breeding - can you explain further? Forced breeding practices are having animals mate not of their own free will. And where this has been done for centuries. The problem comes when they are outputting more creatures than is at all natural and this creates problems of over population. The best example to look for more information would probably be "Puppy Mills" 4. The 50/50 test - are you referring to the ED50 and LD50? yeah I tend to lot the ED50 and LD50 into one, which I think a lot of people do. Thanks for being curious btw. :) |
Thanks for agreeing to talk - this topic is so wide and so emotive that a lot of people stay away from it altogether! 1. Animal rights - what then would you say is the distinction between animal rights and welfare? Correct me if I'm wrong but you seem to be describing more of a welfare-based point of view rather than going down the more hardline view of animals rights being considered completely equal to that of humans. You also raise an interesting point over the 'ability to care for its young' - what then is your opinion on dairy farming whereby calves are nearly always taken from their dams within a short period of birth? 2. Ok I'm going to be a bit devil's advocate on this point. How many farms of various sizes have you visited? It's a personal and not scientific view point but as part of my studies I have been to a lot of farms. I have noticed that quite often you go to a small farm where the farmer still names his cattle etc. etc… however, due to lack of funding caused by small size welfare standard are actually pretty shoddy - that is determined by objective measures of welfare. However, when you go to a farm of over 1000 cattle or (personal experience) 1,000,000 hens the level of funding afforded by size means that their welfare requirements are very precisely managed. there is a saying that you don't get good productivity without good welfare, to what extent would you agree/disagree with this? 3. I have no issue to raise with puppy farming, I think animal welfarists and ARA's can get equally angry over this! 4. Sorry further questioning! Do you disagree with ED/LD50 in principle, or particular usages of it? | | | |
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