Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[Aractus]

This can't be right. My father gives my family of 5 an entire butchered heifer every year. And we eat just about all of it except for the occasional roast we give away.

I'm only counting mince, not steak. Most people would eat more steak than mince - unless they're either addicted to meat pies or beef sausages or to hamburgers.

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However, many vegetarians are more comfortable with fish-eating than the eating of cows.

Vegetarians will consume animal products - dairy (if they're lactose tolerant), eggs and honey (I usually ignore honey since it's hardly a vital source of daily nutrition). So I look at the question of should a vegetarian who wants to have a low impact upon the lives of innocent animals consume dairy - it's really not a moral issue but vegans often claim that it is. Cattle have a comfortable life of leisure. So do Australian sheep, even if they are subjected to the "horrible torment of mulesing" - which is really about as painful and distressing as giving a kid an injection. At school there was a kid in my class who had Type 1 Diabetes and I thought it must absolute hell for him to have to jab himself with a needle every single day - but of course now I know that needles mustn't worry him much anymore if he's been doing every day for 14 or whatever years! Or taking your pet to the vet.

This idea that we treat our animals cruelty is wrong. Especially in a country such as ours (Australia), we're a very clean country we have regulation and laws, and we treat our animals vey well.

As for eggs - most eggs seem to be free range these days, regardless you always have that option so they can also be assured that the chickens are living well and happy. If a vegetarian still has misgivings then they could just keep their own chickens in a coop. There's many people who do this.