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If I ever believed half of your good natured comments I would be the most beautiful and most wonderful woman in the world! Thanks for the compliments though! I don't know if Martijn would like to join! Something tells me he wouldn't mind coming!

Oh, I LOVE y.....y...yon Greek mountains.
To walk in.
Yeah.





Cooking veggies NOW for tomorrow?
But that way there won't be a single vitamin left in 'em by tomorrow!!!

I'm cooking a lamb roast, same as last week, not very imaginative but that's what I want, I'm bloody starving too.....only another hour to go

Busy day cooking today! I made a soup with meat,vegetables,rice and egg and lemon sauce, a zuccini and cheese pie, meatballs with tomato sauce, onions and rosemary and a chocolate-hazelnut cake!
Food for almost the whole week and everything delicious!!!

During my "time off" from the forum, I've since become a vegetarian (!). My parents have actually been vegetarian for as long as I've known them, but they've never forced me to be vegetarian. Not once. I have very much the same attitude, and I NEVER play the 'moral card' if I'm with someone eating meat. And unfortunately, I LOVE meat. So it's been very hard to stop eating it after all these years, and I only explain my case in special circumstances. So I thought I'd explain it here on the forum as I wanted to share it, but without forcing the issue down people's throats. This particular video explains far better than I do why I don't eat meat anymore:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl … rSnQVajo#!

It's 12 minutes and tough to watch. If you have time, try to watch it all. The video is full of harrowing images, but if you haven't got time to watch it all or don't want to, then at least skip to 3:55 just to get a small glimpse of the torture many animals the world over have to endure.

The only thing I would 'preach' about is to be careful where your meat is coming from and how it got there. So long as the animals are well looked after and slaughtered in a relatively humane way, then I don't see much problem. (But purely from a personal perspective, I've decided to quit meat altogether as it's very hard to be sure of these things. Fast food suppliers tend to be the worse offenders.)

Don't worry though, I still drink, swear and make inappropriate politically incorrect jokes.

Good to hear! I think most vegetarians are like that and tend not to 'preach' about it or mind other people eating meat. I wouldn't even have a leg to stand on if did since I've been eating meat for 23 years! But I'm sure most people will agree that living conditions and the way animals are slaughtered is a concern. I'd happily shoot those who treat animals like this.

At least you won't eat any pets.

That's Bregt.

I don't know if you'd remember that I used to slam people here for eating Big Macs, KFC etc, however, I have to admit there are times when the boozeometer has turned me into a hypocrite.

it's a rare occurence though, honest to godly guv

Appreciated, and I've never had a judgemental vibe from you either nor most others here at this board come to think of it.

And remember, only God or Bregt can judge us.

To me, even if this kind of thing happens only very occasionally -even if it was once every 100 years- it makes me angry.

The fact that this doesn't represent the majority of slaughter or not is not what worries me, it's the fact that it represents it at all. It's horrible, disgusting and should not happen ever.

It makes me angry too. The video is absolutely horrible.

Personally I don't care about the death of animals, as long as they're done painlessly. What I care about is the life quality of animals and avoidance of pain. If they live happy and carefree lives with plenty of food, and are snuffed off before even realizing that they are in peril, I think that's a way better scenario than not existing at all or even what animals have to go through had they lived a natural life, where pain and a horrible death are inevitable.

Cattle and chickens are some of the most succesful species that ever existed on planet Earth, and they'd go extinct if we stopped munching them.

I've changed my buying habits moderately, by avoiding veal, fois gras and focusing on free-range chickens. But I doubt I'll ever be able to give up meat entirely, even though I have some sympathy for the vegetarian cause. I only have respect for people who do, so lotsa kudos.

Peter

This evening I had a Mexican feast of home made burritos, red tomato rice, guacamole and tortilla chips