O/T... Vegetarianism in the workplace...

That's one of the problems, saying people are naive or not wanting to face facts mate, I'm sure he 100% knows what happens to animals in the food chain, infact I would wage a months wage every person who enjoys meat understands the way some, not all are treated, just as many greens who want everyone to have electric cars understand the ill treatment, inhumane conditions children have to endure to mine the cordite ( I think that's how you spell it) so we can enjoy owning a battery operated electric car, whilst they dig vast acres of green land to get to the cordite

 

People are not going to like this, but yes, I have eaten dog. It's not something I enjoyed, but I ate it and would do so again if I was in the same situation.

 

Snowed in down at Foxholes Animal Hotel, Haigh?

 

Business meeting in China. I just ate what they brought out. Turns out some of it was dog. Doesn't particularly bother me.

 

I wasn’t asked the question but yes, I’d eat cat or dog. Or guinea pig, horse, or anything else they served if it was the norm wherever I was in the world. I probably wouldn’t enjoy all of it, the idea of bugs etc doesn’t appeal, but I’m not on the ethical high ground to state what animals are food or are not. In reality there is little reason to discount other animals from our diet, it is only that it is culturally engrained into us that a cow or sheep is food but a dog is a friend.

I’m not of the thought you can’t love and care for pets, and consider yourself an animal lover, if you then go on to eat some other animals.

It’s a bit like saying you can’t like the natural beauty of natural wildlife, a woodland or whatever, if you eat plants.

There is mixed scientific opinion on whether a plant based only diet is beneficial. There isn’t much doubt that a vegan diet would likely be healthier than the diet I generally follow as I’m not always one to make the healthiest choices - aside from having salad on my kebab sometimes (!) - but there is very little convincing argument from sources without a vested interest that would suggest to me that a balanced, varied, omnivorous diet isn’t what the human digestive system is best adjusted to.

And as for the global impact, people talk about the methane output of animals reserved for food, they talk of the water used pound for pound compared to plants.

They don’t talk much about flying various fruits and vegetables around the world in kerosene fuelled planes, after being grown in unnaturally irrigated environments and then wrapped in a nice plastic bag. I’m not so certain the environmental impact of a lamb chop or rump steak from an animal reared in this country, fed on naturally growing grasses, and then shipped tens or hundreds of miles tops, as opposed to thousands, and in a comparatively efficient diesel van (which might well be electric on due course) rather than a plane, is all that much worse than an avocado from Mexico, Peru, even Israel or South Africa or bananas from the Caribbean or South America

 

When vegetarians are really hungry do they still say they could eat a horse ?

 

Don't you get smug when you get up and look out of the window and the weather is foul, raining sleeting or snowing and you fire up the computer with steaming cup of coffee in one hand whilst listening to the weather and traffic reports about this accident here and that traffic jam there. I know I did!
My wife used to give me grief as she got wrapped up in coat scarves gloves etc. to get in the car and battle the bad weather and traffic to get to work especially as some mornings I would start work still wearing 'jim-jams and dressing gown' just to wind her up!

I know what you mean about missing interaction though . In the early days we used to have Friday after work meet ups at Henry's in Leeds with people from other projects to network although that fizzled out long before I started working from home as I was working Long term on a project based up North and multiple sites around UK

 

In my heard they say “I could eat a tree” and I won’t hear anything to the contrary.

 

There's an old saying " He who pays the piper calls the tune."

 

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horseradish."

 

How about following Celtic in opening a vegan food section in our ground

 

Be good to have any food in our ground....