Could You Stop Eating Meat

[emmie]

and become a vegetarian. BBC programme on Monday i think suggest that we could or more importantly should. I don't think i can live without certain foods.

[10ClarionSt]

Why?

[-SharonA-]

Yes I could if I could become a pescatarian.

[ummmm]

Yep. Not a problem. Not seafood though.

I didn't eat meat for years. It's only because of the kids I started eating it.

[emmie]

because of the devastating impact on the planet.
Climate change, deforestation by using the lands for cattle grazing, and so forth.

[Jackdaw33]

Certainly not. I shall be eating meat until the day they drive the final nail into my coffin.

[andres]

I haven't touched red meat since the 80s. Only eat chicken and fish .

[ummmm]

What certain foods would you miss, Emmie?

[emmie]

jack, so it doesn't bother you that cattle who produce methane are one of the largest sources of gases.
i can understand not wishing to change the habits of a lifetime...

[10ClarionSt]

Not the climate change cobblers again. Oh dear. The Sun is the main force behind the climate on this planet. Along with volcanoes. How does anyone propose to control them?

[emmie]

i would miss chicken, pork, i rarely eat beef.

[davebro]

I could - if I had someone to cook nice vegetarian meals for me.

[Deskdiary]

Could I stop eating meat? Yes, probably. Could I become a vegetarian? Definitely not.

As a family we don't eat a lot of meat, and the meat we do eat tends to bechicken.

However, there's absolutely no way I could give up fish, which we eat an awful lot of - it just pains me that, even though we're an island, fish is just so damn expensive in this country.

[emmie]

DD, we are emptying the oceans of fish, large scale fisheries trawl unreservedly, or so it would seem.
I wonder how much plastic we are imbibing as well.

[237SJ]

To me, meat is the flesh of an animal. Somewhere along the way the word meat has come to be construed as only red meat. So no, I couldn't be vegetarian as I like chicken and fish but it wouldn't bother me if I never ate red meat again.

[emmie]

admittedly i will eat a beef stew, but it also wouldn't bother me if i never ate another... but the population explosion around the globe all need feeding and that means more land for cattle, which means more cutting down of the rain forests.

[237SJ]

And the whole "Let's kill all the cows and other animals and put the world's farmers out of business" ethos is being driven by the militant vegan movement and nothing to do with climate change.

[237SJ]

There is a huge population in India and they don't eat beef..

[alavahalf]

Are you aware of the biggest producers of methane on the planet .. I will leave you to Google it. Just one clue, it's not cattle.

[Old_Geezer]

I could do quite a few things, doesn't mean I have the slightest inclination of doing them and making life miserable. And no, there's no "should" about eating or not eating meat. However, there's probably one about pushing one's daft hobby horse onto others as some kind of claimed obligation. Oh and there's a major moral one about controlling our breeding to reduce the world's population to a sustainable level.

[craft1948]

No I love meat, ribeye steak, lamb shanks, roast chicken, spare ribs etc...and I could never kill a carrot.