[geeks] Vegetarianism... was Re: [rescue] Friggin huge list m embers!)

[Mike Meredith]

On Tuesday 16 October 2001 11:11, you wrote:
> I have yet to find a non-meaty substitute that tastes like pretty
> nearly any of the meats I enjoy.  Not that that should matter.  Why
> people try to force veggie food into being a direct replacement for
> meat is beyond me. It's different food, so prepare it differently and
> enjoy the different tastes.

As someone who gets to eat things that are effectively meat 
replacements (I've pointed out that stuff that isn't meat but tastes 
somewhat like appetising to me) whenever I get a meal off my parents, 
I'd just like to point out that they do make it easier when you're 
making a meal for 1 vegetarian out of 6.

> We've got the teeth for it, and we've got the intestines for it.

Any carnivore would fall about laughing at that, although it's true to 
an extent.

> Those are nothing to do with choosing to eat meat or not, and
> everything to do with stupid farmers cutting costs to please the
> supermarkets.  

The (UK) farmers would argue that they're forced into it all by the 
power of the supermarkets, and that they don't know what gets put into 
animal feed. Not sure I agree with them, but I'm getting very cynical 
about (UK) farmers.

> And there is some debate over whether BSE is transmissible to humans.

Really? How do they explain new varient CJD then ?