The Vegetarian Society

Friday 18 August 2006

WHAT IS THE VEGETARIAN SOCIETY?

The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom is the oldest vegetarian organisation in the world. It is an educational charity promoting understanding and respect for vegetarian lifestyles

WHAT DO YOU DO?

We offer expert advice on nutritional issues and provide free information to individuals, companies and organisations.
We keep vegetarianism in the news and feed the real facts to the press.
We give talks and presentations to schools, colleges and community groups.
We distribute teacher and student packs to ensure that vegetarianism is well represented in the Food Technology curriculum.
We teach ordinary people how to cook extraordinary veggie food and show professional chefs how exciting vegetarian food can be.
We set standards for what is truly vegetarian, then challenge perceptions with National Vegetarian Week.
We work behind the scenes with the food industry to improve provision; persuading food manufacturers and retailers to use free range eggs, to take the gelatine out of their yoghurts or to cook their veggie burgers separately from their meat.
We give vegetarians and vegans from all walks of life a louder, stronger, better-informed voice
We reward integrity within the vegetarian marketplace with the Annual Vegetarian Society Awards

To learn more - http://www.vegsoc.org/

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Hmmmm, now I like veggies, and some of the veggie burgers taste okay, but to become a vegetarian or even a vegan I think is nuts. You really need to have meat in your diet, and it can be argued over and over again in tons of different directions, but really now .. why else would we have all of these animals on this planet as if not to eat.

I grew up on a farm. You slaughter animals and you cook them for dinner. Perhaps if you were some little skinny pale and fragile person that never does any sort of physical labor besides tapping the keys and mouse on your pc, I think that you need that meat to boost your energy for working your ass off all day long. Veggies just aren't fulfilling no matter what kind of tricky shapes and forms they are in.:eek:

Whoo hoo!! Thanks FVROR, I cannot wait to give this site a look.

SS, I respect that you grew up on a farm, but please keep in mind most of your feelings about diet have been formed in you by pure propaganda. Some of the most powerful lobbies in the world are the Meat and Dairy council.

Sure veggies are not very filling, neither is meat. Grains are filling.

I am pale - I'm White and I'm proud - but I wouldn't say I'm weak. I am now because I'm out of shape, but a couple years ago I could lift double my own body weight.

The animals on this planet are not here for us to eat. They were here before us, we are just lucky enough to be able to enjoy them. 25% of the US population is vegetarian. Considering the fact I have yet to see a non-White at an animal rights gathering, please do not discount a group who can be very valuable to us.

Vegetarian for 13 years, and working on going Vegan,
IceQueen

PS- Thanks for the links 8Man. Some of the articles I had read, but some of them were new to me. Happy New Year everyone!

SS, I respect that you grew up on a farm, but please keep in mind most of your feelings about diet have been formed in you by pure propaganda. Some of the most powerful lobbies in the world are the Meat and Dairy council.



~Please keep in mind~ that I am not the average idiot that believes the common American proaganda bullshit. Never tell anyone 'what they think-believe and why' because that is way too "politician". I don't like to listen to politicians speak, they annoy and anger me.

I grew up on a farm. This is true. Everything is homegrown, organic, and the animals are fed from the crops we grow ourselves. We slaughter our own cattle, butcher our own hogs, and clean our own chickies. Hell, when I go hunting on our property the soybean fed deer and little bunny foo foos even taste better.

We work on a farm, it's hard physical labor, and when the guys come in from a long hot day in the fields you don't throw them a boca burger and veggie tray with soymilk on the side. They want meat with potatoes, milk, cheese, bread and lots of it.

Propaganda my ass, if you live on a farm then you live off of the farm. If ya don't wanna eat meat that's your own perrogative, but I guess that most of us are animal hating, cold blooded, murdering, meat eating, horrible human beings that are abnormal for taking our place in the food chain. I must be REALLY bad because I even make my own soap out of lard and tallow, what's in your soap? :rolleyes:

We are Omnivores, we need a balanced diet of meat, veggies and fruit. Too much of either is not good.

~Please keep in mind~ that I am not the average idiot that believes the common American proaganda bullshit. Never tell anyone 'what they think-believe and why' because that is way too "politician". I don't like to listen to politicians speak, they annoy and anger me.

I grew up on a farm. This is true. Everything is homegrown, organic, and the animals are fed from the crops we grow ourselves. We slaughter our own cattle, butcher our own hogs, and clean our own chickies. Hell, when I go hunting on our property the soybean fed deer and little bunny foo foos even taste better.

We work on a farm, it's hard physical labor, and when the guys come in from a long hot day in the fields you don't throw them a boca burger and veggie tray with soymilk on the side. They want meat with potatoes, milk, cheese, bread and lots of it.

Propaganda my ass, if you live on a farm then you live off of the farm. If ya don't wanna eat meat that's your own perrogative, but I guess that most of us are animal hating, cold blooded, murdering, meat eating, horrible human beings that are abnormal for taking our place in the food chain. I must be REALLY bad because I even make my own soap out of lard and tallow, what's in your soap? :rolleyes:

#1 - You do not need to be a jerk about it.

#2 - There is a HUGE difference between raising your own meat and FACTORY farmed meat. I am a vegetarian because I am against factory farming of animals. It leads to not only horrid condition for the animals, but disease and pollution. People who hunt and raise their own are fine by me.

#3 - As for my soap there are non-animal based varieties and that is what I use. Am I perfect in all respects? No, and I never claimed to be. I do what I can to help where I can - that is far more than most people can say.

If you want to eat meat that is your business and I never intended to suggest otherwise, but it was from my perspective, out of line for you to come into a thread about vegetarianism an assert your "authority" that we should all be eatting meat because YOU say so, and that is how YOU were raised.

#1 I don't believe I ever told anyone that they HAVE to eat meat. I believe I expressed that you do have the right to eat whatever in the hell you want, because your diet is none of my concern.

#2 You stated that none of the animals on this planet were put here to be eaten, I disagreed. I am against people factory farming animals, BUT we take a lot of our cattle to the auction where they are normally shipped off to the factory. We of course treat our cattle well with good food and nice shelter before they are sold. This is your only point I agree with.

#3 I make both types of soaps, normal & vegan. The vegan is nice made with vegetable shortening, but I don't think it makes you feel as clean washing with the normal lard soap. Another personal opinion, hell most people don't even know that their soap is made from animal fat, hahaha.

Oh yah ....
#4 I'm not a jerk ;)

#1 I don't believe I ever told anyone that they HAVE to eat meat. I believe I expressed that you do have the right to eat whatever in the hell you want, because your diet is none of my concern.

#2 You stated that none of the animals on this planet were put here to be eaten, I disagreed. I am against people factory farming animals, BUT we take a lot of our cattle to the auction where they are normally shipped off to the factory. We of course treat our cattle well with good food and nice shelter before they are sold. This is your only point I agree with.

#3 I make both types of soaps, normal & vegan. The vegan is nice made with vegetable shortening, but I don't think it makes you feel as clean washing with the normal lard soap. Another personal opinion, hell most people don't even know that their soap is made from animal fat, hahaha.

Oh yah ....
#4 I'm not a jerk ;)


You're more than free to disagree, I was never trying to change your opinion at all. Its easy for things to be missunderstood when speaking over the internet, I suppose I should have stated that I believe animals are here for MORE than just some people to eat. I choose not to eat them, but I do not look down on people who do.

You selling grown up animals is (Im sure you agree) in no comparisson what-so-ever to an animal spending its whole life on one of those farms.

That's almost the same as hunting - the animal lived its life and hopefully the end is swift.

a couple years ago I could lift double my own body weight.Then I definitely never want to get on your bad side. There's only a handful of women on the planet that can lift double their body weight. Maybe you mean bench pressing?

http://slam.canoe.ca/2000GamesBiosN2Z/turcotte.html

Then I definitely never want to get on your bad side. There's only a handful of women on the planet that can lift double their body weight. Maybe you mean bench pressing?

http://slam.canoe.ca/2000GamesBiosN2Z/turcotte.html

No, I do not mean by bench pressing. I was 115 a few years ago and I could put my 200lb ex on my shoulder and carry him a spell. ;) Like across the kitchen.

I could life myself, though, and most people can't even do that.

Mind you I can't now - I no longer work at a job that requires heavy lifting and I quit working out....so....... You know what happens then. :(

Adolf, friend to Animals (http://www.adolfthegreat.com/Trails-Talent/animals.html)

It is truly inhumane and revolting how MANY food animals are treated and dispatched prior to market.

Vegetarianism is one of the key tennets of socialism and little research is required to underpin this immutable fact. Most vegetarians, although not all, are deluded social(ist) misfits with a disturbingly distorted morality complex. The kind of tree huggers and worthless animal rescuers that will kill and maim, burn businesses and wreck livelyhoods, rob/desecrate graves, exhume dead corpses and terrorize innocent families of anyone not compliant with their twisted life agenda. Their smug self righteous view that anyone who consumes meat is some satanic barbarian whilst they are paragons of virtue somehow genetically superior to the caveman carnivore, is nauseating to say the least.

In the final resolve, just one more group of undesireable disfunctional subnormal hominids like their kin the religious fanatics and sexual deviants to be exterminated come the great and glorious new order together with their jew protagonistas.