Run for your lives! Here come the vegans.

[Ocean1]

And people who drink bubbly wines are methodeists? Frothy coffee drinkers are, perhaps, latte-day saints?

Oh that's damn good, bit sick-making but good.

[Ocean1]

My knickers are crotcheted silk. Pure white and very airy. Misted with Intoxication/D'orsay.

Stay on topic, are thay or are they not edible?

[Swoop]

Soon it will be illegal to eat meat, non-organic vegetables and anything that isn't grown within 5km of your dung-fuelled stove. Fast foods will be banned, as will anything that contains animal fat or any other material derived from a sentient being.
Tuck into those steaks while ye may, for the tofu surely cometh.

I am rather concerned with the hippys. If a dope smoker in the South orders/purchases his/her weed from a grower in the North... Have they considered the "carbon footprint" of the transportation required to get their weed to them!!! I seriously doubt it!

There's always lentils. But they make you fart.

Why do vegitarians' farts smell so bad?? If the gubbinment is worried about cows farting and causing the ozone layer to implode, why not deal with the REAL problem...

I've made a food choice - I will only eat the meat of Vegitarian animals.

Possibly the solution right here. If I were a cannibal, would the eating of a vegitarian be classed as kosher? Hey, he/she has only grazed on herbacious materials!
As one cannibal said to the other, whilst eating a clown, "does this taste funny to you"?

[Skyryder]

Stay on topic, are thay or are they not edible?

You will never get to munch on the goodies down that way.

[sunhuntin]

im a vegetarian, and yes, i do eat small amounts of fish. i was full vege from the ages of 17 through to 21. i did it due to reading several articles put out by safe [safe.org i think] i cant recall why i went back to eating fish, since it was my least favourite meat as a kid.

when i was flatting, the day before i moved out, i was told i wasnt a true vege cos i wear leather. vegans dont wear leather. had i been more on the ball she would have been told she wasnt a true christian due to having a child out of wedlock. plus, all my leather is second hand, so im not supporting the industry at all.
that taught me that what i believe is fine. i dont give a rats what ideals others would have me fit into, cos that is my business, not anyone elses.

i could say that people who only ride on sunny sundays are not true bikers, but i wont cos who am i to say what makes someone true?

[davereid]

Most vegetarians that I have met have chosen it as a "healthy" choice, to help control weight etc. Not sure it's true, I have met plenty of fat vegetarians, and I have a paddock full of fat lambs and cattle. Certainly seems a hard way to be hungary!

[Skyryder]

im a vegetarian, and yes, i do eat small amounts of fish. i was full vege from the ages of 17 through to 21. i did it due to reading several articles put out by safe [safe.org i think] i cant recall why i went back to eating fish, since it was my least favourite meat as a kid.

when i was flatting, the day before i moved out, i was told i wasnt a true vege cos i wear leather. vegans dont wear leather. had i been more on the ball she would have been told she wasnt a true christian due to having a child out of wedlock. plus, all my leather is second hand, so im not supporting the industry at all.
that taught me that what i believe is fine. i dont give a rats what ideals others would have me fit into, cos that is my business, not anyone elses.

i could say that people who only ride on sunny sundays are not true bikers, but i wont cos who am i to say what makes someone true?

You seem to be confused as to what constitutes a vegetarian. One is or one is not and that is defined on one single issue of food. In saying this I should add that vegetarianism is not about ideals or a philosophy although many become vegetarians because of their own ‘personal’ ideals and philosophy. It’s what you put in your mouth. I hope that this difference is understood. The eating or not eating of flesh. There are no half measures in this. Those who criticise vegetarians or for that matter vegans on the basis of what they wear have no knowledge of the subject, and I suspect that you have been hurt by your ex flat mates comments. But I digress. You imply that there is a difference between ‘full’ and ‘true’ vegetarian and a ‘vegetarian’ as you call yourself. As an analogy to reinforce the use of full and true as a prefix you use the word ‘true biker’ and make the same mistake of defining the word true as a prefix where there should be none. By adding a prefix you alter the meaning of both biker and vegetarian to one of you own interpretation. One is a biker or one is not. It has nothing to do with being a ‘true biker’ by how often that you ride. The same applies to vegetarian. It is not about being true or full. Both these words as a prefix have no value other than allow you to define your own interpretation of how you see yourself. A vegetarian is a person who abstains from animal flesh as against animal products of dairy, eggs etc. I know people who also call themselves vegetarians solely on the basis that they do not eat red meat. They eat chicken and fish. Are they vegetarians?

I could call my self an astronught but that does not make me one.

sKYYRDER

[sunhuntin]

You seem to be confused as to what constitutes a vegetarian. One is or one is not and that is defined on one single issue of food. In saying this I should add that vegetarianism is not about ideals or a philosophy although many become vegetarians because of their own ‘personal’ ideals and philosophy. It’s what you put in your mouth. I hope that this difference is understood. The eating or not eating of flesh. There are no half measures in this. Those who criticise vegetarians or for that matter vegans on the basis of what they wear have no knowledge of the subject, and I suspect that you have been hurt by your ex flat mates comments. But I digress. You imply that there is a difference between ‘full’ and ‘true’ vegetarian and a ‘vegetarian’ as you call yourself. As an analogy to reinforce the use of full and true as a prefix you use the word ‘true biker’ and make the same mistake of defining the word true as a prefix where there should be none. By adding a prefix you alter the meaning of both biker and vegetarian to one of you own interpretation. One is a biker or one is not. It has nothing to do with being a ‘true biker’ by how often that you ride. The same applies to vegetarian. It is not about being true or full. Both these words as a prefix have no value other than allow you to define your own interpretation of how you see yourself. A vegetarian is a person who abstains from animal flesh as against animal products of dairy, eggs etc. I know people who also call themselves vegetarians solely on the basis that they do not eat red meat. They eat chicken and fish. Are they vegetarians?

I could call my self an astronaut but that does not make me one.

sKYYRDER

a vegetarian abstains from animal flesh. a VEGAN abstains from animal by products like egges etc. and yes, those people you know are vegetarians because that is how they describe themselves. honestly, sky, what you think doesnt really bother me. i am what i am, and you cant change that.

[Skyryder]

a vegetarian abstains from animal flesh. a VEGAN abstains from animal by products like egges etc. and yes, those people you know are vegetarians because that is how they describe themselves. honestly, sky, what you think doesnt really bother me. i am what i am, and you cant change that.

Obvously it has otherwise you would not have responded to my post. Well I tried to give the corrct meaning of the word, but in your books a pedaphile is not a pedaphile until he call himself one.

Now don't go throwing the Tui's at me..............yea right.

Skyryder

[jazbug5]

Sorry Sunhuntin'- but you are not a vegetarian. You eat flesh. If you must give yourself a label, then the correct one to apply is 'pescetarian'.

I personally don't care what other people choose to eat, the whole subject bores the hell out of me- but I do get fed up of being told by restaurants that the only 'vegetarian option' they have is fish- and after all, all the 'vegetarians' they know eat them!

As for the lazy stereotypes- no, I do not own a hessian skirt or weave mung beans into baskets. Did you know that Hitler was a vegetarian, by the way?
Heil Mung Bean!


PS Re the original post- seems a bit of a leap from a simple labelling improvement to help people make an informed choice, to troops of limp, anaemic vegenazis forcing innocent citizens to consume tofu under menaces.

[jrandom]

... seems a bit of a leap from a simple labelling improvement to help people make an informed choice, to troops of limp, anaemic vegenazis forcing innocent citizens to consume tofu under menaces.

Hitcher is all about the leaps.

the whole subject bores the hell out of me

Are you implying that the hell within you is now completely excised, or just slightly reduced?

[McJim]

As for the lazy stereotypes- no, I do not own a hessian skirt or weave mung beans into baskets. Did you know that Hitler was a vegetarian, by the way?
Heil Mung Bean!

Aaaargh! the curse of the Mung Bean! Is your name Gillian McKeith?

Sheesh - the number of burgers I had to buy to get my wife to stop reading that wummin's books!

[merv]

My daughter is a full blown vegan and she is due home Friday for the weekend. While one can perhaps admire her commitment to the cause what is always interesting is pop on down to Porirua New World with her and fill the trolley with the stuff she wants and we have a $400 trolley compared to about $200 - $275 if me and mrs merv just fill it with the stuff we normally want (trolley filled with about the same volume). So the commitment is an expensive business compared to the usual cheap anything goes food that you get fat on of course.

[u4ea]

I am going to assume all the green labeled foods will double in price as all the real good food(organic etc) is already way out of my buget anyway!!!!

I cant afford takeaways ,they are a treat not a staple .
The local NZ garlic growers can't import decent seed so the imported chinese garlic is flooding the market.Bannanas aren't being grown in the same capacity(even though I have them growing in my back yard) so they will either be non existant or a "green" luxery item.

So I doubt it will alter what I already budget for in my weekly groceries and make me any healthier anyway.. DUM POLITITIANS..

and I aint no trendy arsed vegan vegetarian ..I am a leather wearing biker who loves meat pies

[mbazza]

Oh well, at least we'll understand the traffic light system 'they' intend to use to clasify our tucker!