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Elaine B. Dec 31st 2009 12:14 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 8208473)
In around ten hours time I’m going to start the new year off as a vegan. We are both going to eat 12 grapes each.

My OH has been vegan for the past year and he's so much healthier and has lost lots of weight, another bonus for me is he now does most of the cooking.

I'm vegetarian and so are the kids but the vegan thing is a bit too much for me, can't live without cheese:o

Dick Dasterdly Dec 31st 2009 12:35 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by paintermujer (Post 8208280)
No Im not a veggie-I used to be and my eldest daughter is.

I cant just look on animals as meat.

They can make much better friends than the human variety of animals.

Maybe I should take up eating humans instead.:lol:

You mean like that Chinese restaurant owner whose brother worked in the morgue and kept him well supplied with choice cuts from his recent "clients",.....until the authorities caught up with him.

Enjoy your next Chinese!.....:rofl:

paintermujer Dec 31st 2009 12:51 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 8208610)
You mean like that Chinese restaurant owner whose brother worked in the morgue and kept him well supplied with choice cuts from his recent "clients",.....until the authorities caught up with him.

Enjoy your next Chinese!.....:rofl:

Chinese is my favourite food.

Looks like I may have sampled human then at some stage.

Oh well, better than pony.:lol:

lynnxa Dec 31st 2009 12:54 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 8208473)
In around ten hours time I’m going to start the new year off as a vegan. We are both going to eat 12 grapes each.

At the moment the cruel woman is experimenting in the kitchen with a new curry sauce from an Iceland tin. The smell is drifting through to the computer room. I don’t suppose it will do any harm to finish off this unpleasant year with an Iceland chicken curry.

so you'll be vegan for less than a minute?


or is this to be a lifestyle change?

HBG Dec 31st 2009 1:06 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by lynnxa (Post 8208676)
so you'll be vegan for less than a minute?


or is this to be a lifestyle change?

I’m currently a meat eater with a beer belly, though not a massive one. I make resolutions every year, and always break them. Maybe next year will be different.

lynnxa Dec 31st 2009 1:16 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 8208710)
I’m currently a meat eater with a beer belly, though not a massive one. I make resolutions every year, and always break them. Maybe next year will be different.

do you think so?


vegetarianism I might manage if I had to


apart from bacon sarnies;)

veganism though - a step too far for me

bil Dec 31st 2009 1:52 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 
Usual silly confusion about what is natural and what isn't. We evolved to eat anything we could, and we were happy to kill and eat anything we could get into our mouths.

Veganism is a very suspect religion to me for a number of reasons. Number one, it ain't natural, number two it is totally suspect morally.

Stop killing the pests, and the crops will be overrun with them. You cannot keep pests off the crops without killing, and frankly there isn't enough room for them and us to eat.

So if you are a vegan, that means someone else has been killing your pests for you which to me is quite immoral and hypocritical.

CLR Dec 31st 2009 2:22 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by lynnxa (Post 8208748)
do you think so?


vegetarianism I might manage if I had to


apart from bacon sarnies;)
veganism though - a step too far for me


A friend of mine went veggie for a number of years - but it was the smell of a bacon butty that brought her back to the fold:rofl:

warren d Dec 31st 2009 3:13 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 8207343)
It’s not natural human behaviour to eat animals, It’s only ignorant humans that think so. Fortunately, the tide is turning, and the ignorant are being driven back to the caves where they belong.

:lol:

Originally Posted by paintermujer (Post 8206482)
Can somebody tell me why when we buy meat in Spain we are constantly reminded of the animal we are eating by lovely live photos or outlines on the meat package.


Originally Posted by Bigger Jim (Post 8208094)
Its so 99% of Brits who live here can buy the right meat. Would you have us starve to death or become veggies cause the Spanish prefer to use there own language?:D:D:D

Jim

We went to our friends house for a BBQ in the summer. They are Brits and have lived here about for five years or so. My friends wife said she wasn't sure if the packet of meat she had was beef or pork because she couldn't understand Spanish. My wife had to explain to her that the picture of a cow on the packaging meant it was beef. :lol:

steviedeluxe Dec 31st 2009 4:30 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 
Do Turkey Twizzlers count as vegetarian?

warren d Dec 31st 2009 5:12 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by steviedeluxe (Post 8209207)
Do Turkey Twizzlers count as vegetarian?

They don't even count as real food do they? ;)

fionamw Dec 31st 2009 6:23 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by warren d (Post 8209009)
:lol:
We went to our friends house for a BBQ in the summer. They are Brits and have lived here about for five years or so. My friends wife said she wasn't sure if the packet of meat she had was beef or pork because she couldn't understand Spanish. My wife had to explain to her that the picture of a cow on the packaging meant it was beef. :lol:

:D indeed... however, with apologies to the lady in question and everyone else for going off topic, how can this happen? How can someone live in a country for five years and not take the trouble to understand the rudimentary words??????

lynnxa Dec 31st 2009 6:30 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by fionamw (Post 8209449)
:D indeed... however, with apologies to the lady in question and everyone else for going off topic, how can this happen? How can someone live in a country for five years and not take the trouble to understand the rudimentary words??????

5 years??


I know some who have been here 25 years and still point:eek:

fionamw Dec 31st 2009 6:37 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by lynnxa (Post 8209465)
5 years??


I know some who have been here 25 years and still point:eek:

OMG:ohmy:

lynnxa Dec 31st 2009 6:43 am

Re: Meat eating in Spain
 

Originally Posted by fionamw (Post 8209481)
OMG:ohmy:

to an extent you can get away with it around here, I sometimes think unfortunately:frown:

and the pictures of the cows on the packs of meat don't help them to need to learn;)


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