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  1. Albert's Chip Shop

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    So everyone seems to be on the telly, in my ear and writing about the virtues of abstention from all things meat.

    What is the fuss about?

    Are there really health benefits from not eating meat?

    I'm old school and find it hard to reconcile the fact we have some lovely meat shredding teeth in our mouths... for a reason.

    It's like sport mode on a car... it's there for a reason.

    So is anyone a non meat eater and can they sell me the benefit?

    I'm eating a sausage sandwich as I type this.... btw....
     
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  2. Tobes

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  3. The RDBD

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    The benefits to me over 30 odd yrs *** seem to be more :

    1. financial
    2. environmental

    So for #1, my weekly food bill is a lot cheaper as I am not buying meat.

    #2 is less obvious, but it is there.
    You have to commit a lot of resources (grazing land etc) for the big livestock
    like beef, and there have been a lot of statistical studies showing that the
    clearance of space for such land etc would have a far better ROI being used
    for vegetable crops etc.


    *** For the record, I stopped effectively eating meat just as an experiment (to see
    if I could do it etc) . I noticed no real difference after a while so I stuck with it.
     
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  4. Sammy's Silky Skills

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    Cutting out meat helps lower cholesterol big time.
     
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  5. Lovearsenalcock

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    To be honest ive never gone long enough without meat to see it's benefits...i get people who might abstain from it...but i need meat..i once tried a Quorn version of a sheperd's pie.....it was ****..unless you like cooked cardboard.
     
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  6. The RDBD

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    If you ate per day the minimum amount of meat necessary to meet your
    protein/vitamin/mineral reqts, are you really consuming enough to build
    a cholesterol time-bomb ??
     
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  7. The RDBD

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    That is your taste buds talking.
    In the near future, you will have artificial food fabs that produce
    stuff for you to eat, that deceive your ancient receptors that respond
    to taste and texture.
     
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  8. Well, I certainly do love a good old surf 'n' turf at the local Harvester, and Little Chef's very fine Olympic Breakfast, if that's what you're referring to, Tobias?
     
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  9. Tobes

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    No mate. I was referring to your love of sucking cock in lay-bys <ok>
     
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  10. That doesn't happen, except in the fevered, homo-erotically charged imagination of Skiddy.
     
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  11. The Prime Minister

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    I dont eat much red meat, but do eat chicken and bacon.

    By the way our bodies are designed to eat meat, even if we do have a long digestive tract, like herbivores.
     
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  12. We would probably started out as eaters of fish.

    I know I love a good fish pie.
     
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  13. DMD

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    I reckon most of us omnivores are hypocrites. I couldn't kill something, but I'm happy to pay others to do it for me, and turn a blind eye to how it's done.

    Factory farmed male chicks being tossed alive into a macerator doesn't make comfortable reading, but the eggs still taste okay. £40,000 pa for a chick sexer too.
     
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  14. @DMD

    It's a cruel world, mate. No doubt about that.
     
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  15. DMD

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    It depends where you are on the food chain. Some creatures shouldn't have evolved to taste nice.
     
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  16. <laugh>
    I never thought of it like that, but - yeah - you're right.

    If beef wasn't so juicy we'd be less inclined to eat it.

    Evolution has a lot to answer for.
     
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  17. DMD

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    Problem there is, some creatures only exist because we breed them so we can eat them. They'd possibly be extinct if we didn't. Maybe tasting nice is a genetic survival technique.
     
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    Sirloin steak every time for me. Love it.
     
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  19. The RDBD

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    Did not work too well for the Dodo, did it. :)
     
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  20. paultheplug

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    I haven't eaten 4 legged meat for about 40 years, 2 legged for about 30 and it has been about 20 since I ate fish. 40 years ago most people thought I was deranged and a crank. One of the earliest vegetarian restaurants in London was in fact called Cranks. Stopping eating beef, pork and lamb etc. had immediate health benefits as was able to shed weight after putting on loads when I couldn't train after an ACL injury. I ate chicken for another 10 years or so as it was moderately healthy, if you had organic but stopped totally as I became more ecologically aware. Stopped fish for the same reason. My cholesterol levels are good, my weight is what it should be and I am healthier than most of my contemporaries.
    Like Spurlock I find many 'meat free' lookalike meals are awful, but there some that can fool hardened meat eaters. I thought that I might have trouble here in Spain, where dead pig and fish dominate most menus, but I have had no problem eating out and the range of fresh ingredients available make cooking easy.
    I do not regret giving up meat and can recommend doing so to anyone
     
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