Ashcottmanor
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^ Me too Stella is very proactive and ahead of her time. I think she's lovely! I just wish I could afford her clothes.
My reasons for becoming vegetarian were:
1. Ethical: I don't want to eat something that has been tortured, electrocuted or punished during its whole life to life in a severely overcrowded shelter just for me to eat it. It's all about karma. And quality: we are what we eat.
2. Today's farming methods: I don't think it's healthy to eat chicken that due to the lack of space grows deformed and is forced to grow quickly by hormones. When I learnt about this, I took the decision to only eat free range, organic chicken - after some time, I started not liking the taste of chicken and decided to completely rule it out of my diet.
3. Health: I feel so much better when I don't eat meat.
4. Poverty, climate change and sustainable development: if humans ate all the food that is given to animals and drunk all the water they consume we could erradicate hunger and children death because of no resources, for example in Africa. Moreover, producing meat creates a huge quantity of CO2 - contributing to climate change.
My reasons for becoming vegetarian were:
4. Poverty, climate change and sustainable development: if humans ate all the food that is given to animals and drunk all the water they consume we could erradicate hunger and children death because of no resources, for example in Africa. Moreover, producing meat creates a huge quantity of CO2 - contributing to climate change.
As a vegetarian since age 8 and a vegan since age 13, I fully agree with your post, but I just wanted to say that your characterization of Africa is offensive and off-mark. There is hunger in every country, western or not. Africa isn't just a swatch of barren land with starving people everywhere, it's a huge continent 2.5 times the size of the USA and in the majority of places in most years, people eat just fine; there are plenty of resources to go around. Yes, there are many people suffering from famine in Africa at any give time, but it's famine due to natural causes (locusts, drought, etc.) and has been occurring for tens of thousands of years on the continent. It has a little to do with poor agricultural practices but not much. The only way to provide food to these areas is to continue to ship food in from other areas, which is extremely expensive and as poor a maintenance of land for agricultural practices and waste of resources as the meat and dairy industries. Basically that difficulty suggests that these areas should maintain low populations over time, not that we should continue to encourage people to live and reproduce in areas which cannot support their population numbers, which providing an endless supply of food on the tab of more wealthy countries would certainly do. It sounds cruel, but it's not smart or safe to allow a population to reproduce past the capacity of what its environment can maintain (in other words, we should ALL be able to eat local, across the world, if not, we're doing something wrong or are suffering from a temporary natural disaster).
The meat and dairy industries waste too many resources like land and water for us in the UK or USA to all be able to eat local, unfortunately, and this is where the problem of resource scarcity comes in when we talk about those industries. We are mismanaging our own resources and many, many people go without food in OUR OWN COUNTRIES because the costs of agriculture senselessly inflate the prices of land and food, leaving those with little money unable to eat. Yes, people in the western world do die of starvation!
My reasons for becoming vegetarian were:
1. Ethical: I don't want to eat something that has been tortured, electrocuted or punished during its whole life to life in a severely overcrowded shelter just for me to eat it. It's all about karma. And quality: we are what we eat.
2. Today's farming methods: I don't think it's healthy to eat chicken that due to the lack of space grows deformed and is forced to grow quickly by hormones. When I learnt about this, I took the decision to only eat free range, organic chicken - after some time, I started not liking the taste of chicken and decided to completely rule it out of my diet.
3. Health: I feel so much better when I don't eat meat.
4. Poverty, climate change and sustainable development: if humans ate all the food that is given to animals and drunk all the water they consume we could erradicate hunger and children death because of no resources, for example in Africa. Moreover, producing meat creates a huge quantity of CO2 - contributing to climate change.
all i've been eating lately is brown rice. yesterday was half rice half lentils, today it was half rice half millet haha gotta love being poor.
recipe? i do make this bean burger recipe alot, and change the bean/grain/flavourings to what i have/feel like:
http://sweetbeetandgreenbean.net/2009/02/04/kidney-bean-and-quinoa-burgers/
what kind of recipe? dinner?
I cook a yam for 6 minutes in the microwave,first poke it several times with a fork so it won't explode LOL, and I have that with a big salad with kale,arugula,lentils,tomatoes,olive oil,broccoli,kalamata olives,roasted pine nuts.