Face Up To Your Crimes

Mmm... yum, yum. I want to see how long it takes to turn that cute little piggy into pork scratchings!
 
Hmmmm I'll try to watch it. I was a vegetarian for ten years but caved in to the lure of bacon and red meat when I was pregnant with Emily. During each of my pregnancies I'd always craved meat, and I'd always been incredibly anaemic. The third time it became just far too difficult and since then I seem to be making up for lost time and have eaten ten years worth of meat in the last four :lol: I'm not anaemic now either, so it obviously agrees with my body :confused:
 
If people want to become vegetarian out of a sense of ethics (or morality, if you prefer such a word), then they'll go ahead without the need to watch this programme. I know of no person who has NEEDED to become a veggie because of health or dietary reasons, although eating vast amounts of protein and fats isn't considered healthy, any more than eating too much carbohydrate, sugar, or sodium is. I guess that a lot of people nowadays, particularly the young, are now so divorced from the natural world that they things all animals are cute 'n' fluffy (like stuffed toys) and that sausages are made in a factory, without the spilling of bloods and guts.

It's good to remind kids how their food arrives on their plate, and I think it would do none of them the slightest harm to be taken around farms, to see how animals are reared, chickens produce eggs, etc., and also to an abbattoir to see how that sizzling bacon gets from Mr. Piggywinkle to their breakfast table. If it puts them off meat products for life, so be it.

As for anaemia, I'm anaemic even with meat-eating and take two prescription-strength tablets daily, Griffin! It's doing the trick, though: I could donate blood easily for the first time in around 18 months a couple of weeks ago, and feel far less tired generally, so it's worth getting your doc to prescribe the stronger variety for you.
 
Originally posted by Honest Tom@Jul 5 2005, 09:23 AM
The creatures being slaughtered weren't the only dumb animals on show.
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Quite right. That chap with the tattoos and piercings was very odd, he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near those animals and I think he needs to undergo some kind of counselling :(
 
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