RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
February 2, 2014 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2014 at 9:07 am by Aractus.)
(February 1, 2014 at 12:22 pm)StoryBook Wrote: When are omnivores, not herbivores or even carnivore. Our body's are designed to eat BOTH meat and veggies.Also, pigs are omnivores (and also cannibals), however it's illegal anywhere civilized to feed them meat. It's also illegal to feed them table scraps commonly called swill (including restaurant scraps) from any meal that had meat even if the meat has been removed due to contamination. Australia is a very clean country, if I was in a country where it is legal to feed pigs swill I wouldn't be willing to eat their pork products. And I would definitely check first and not make the assumption.
Just like pigs we don't need meat, but we do need dairy and/or eggs in our diets if we don't have meat.
(February 2, 2014 at 8:44 am)enrico Wrote: Ok. but let me ask you one thing.I think it's wrong for countries to need to import any food. I believe that every country should aim to be neutral on the importation to exportation ratio of food, or to be net importers.
Argentina, Brazil among others are deforesting more and more land in order to plant more and more soia to be exported in europe the Us and everywhere in the world.
Now considering that in Europe and the USA most of this soia is destined to become food for animals how can you say that the land is not ravaged to grow food for animals?
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Now the fact is that many countries like the UK have populations way higher than they are able to feed from their own stocks. As you might see in one of my links in the previous post, we export about 45% of our beef. Much of it to the USA and the UK, but also to PNG, Indonesia, etc.
So I actually agree that people in the UK and USA should eat less beef until they can be self-sufficient (this is far more realistic with the USA than the UK which will never be self-sufficient, unless they're willing to accept negative population growth for the next 80 years). If you assholes could actually feed yourself, then perhaps we could actually look into feeding people who are starving and dying of malnutrition in the 3rd world countries with our food instead of fat Americans addicted to hamburgers.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke