Vybik Jon
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 09, 2006, 17:53
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Sorry, Dave. I thought it was a subtle dig at the alluring shanshee. If it was heartfelt, I apologise. No offence meant.
In that context, the tweezers are for sitting on the fence.
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handofdave
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 09, 2006, 17:56
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Vybik Jon wrote: Sorry, Dave. I thought it was a subtle dig at the alluring shanshee. If it was heartfelt, I apologise. No offence meant.
In that context, the tweezers are for sitting on the fence.
I can take a splinter in jest, no offense taken ;-)
As for sitting on the fence, can't help it. Gemini. I'm a two-headed monster.
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PMM
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Edited Oct 10, 2006, 00:40
Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 10, 2006, 00:39
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I started as a picky eater. I used my conscience to justify my vegetarianism.
Basically, I gave up meat because i was squeamish about the stuff they were putting into burgers and sausages, and what have you. After giving up these things, I found that I was eating hardly any meat any way, so the decision to stop was easy.
That was about 15 years ago. Since then I've cultivated a selective aversion to animal products. Being a veggie has led me to try to learn more about the issue, and as my stance hardened, I chose to give up eating fish about 4 or 5 years ago.
This was an evolution rather than a revolution. I cut down on fish pver 10 years, then chose abruptly to stop eating it entirely. Again, the dicision was easy because I was doing it so rarely. I'm a creature of habit. More so than most.
I can happily justify drinking non-vegetarian beers if a brand I'm sure is veggie is not avainlable, for example. My latent alcoholism is greater than my learned vegetarianism.
My point being that we weigh up the rights and wrongs.
If you believe that being a vegetarian benefits society as a whole, then you must surely believe that it must benefit you personally in the long run, even if that means taking things to the extreme that you believe it will benefit future genrations as much or more so than your own.
So I'm actually thnking about starting to eat fish again.
My moral compass is mainly directed inwards, and I'm not prepared to damage my own health, even in favour of what I know is an argument in favour of a greater and more sustainable good.
Thing is, I hate cruciferous vegetables.
That's cauliflower, sprouts, broccolli, cabbage, turnip, swede, and various others. The taste of which make me throw up. Or at least gag.
This may be a learned reaction. I suppose a person with more self discipline could learn to like such things, but I can't.
So there are holes that need filling. Those omega oils that you find in fish and sprouts are missing from my diet.
I'm not writing this to be combative. I want to do the right thing, but I don't know how.
This being the forum that it is, some intelligent and knowledgeable person will be able to point out a way of getting a balanced diet out of the following:
Potato, peas, nuts, pulses, mycoprotein, dairy products, asparagus, pot noodles, yam, cucumber and salad suff generally, garlic, ginger, tofu, couscous. Coca cola. Margarine. Capsicums and onions.
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FourWinds
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 10, 2006, 06:12
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PMM wrote: That's cauliflower, sprouts, broccolli, cabbage, turnip, swede, and various others. The taste of which make me throw up. Or at least gag.
That's why I gave up being vegetarian (although I do like sprouts)
PMM wrote:
the following:
Potato, peas, nuts, pulses, mycoprotein, dairy products, asparagus, pot noodles, yam, cucumber and salad suff generally, garlic, ginger, tofu, couscous. Coca cola. Margarine. Capsicums and onions.
I have the further problem of not liking any of the stuff in bold! I would love to become a vegetarian again, but I would simply die of malnutrition and food-boredom. Whn my partner knocks up a salad I look at it and desperately want to eat it. The dressings she makes are wonderful, but the stuff mixed up in it ... yuk!
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Father Sky
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 10, 2006, 18:18
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I once saw this guy give a talk about (amongst other things) eating crickets and grasshoppers. There were free samples at the end.
http://archive.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/1998/9/15/84343.html
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dee
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 11, 2006, 08:58
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I would rather eat ma own ass!!
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shanshee_allures
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 11, 2006, 08:59
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So would I (and I'm a meat eater). Anything for reduction's sake...
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Lupus
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 11, 2006, 09:31
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May her feet never touch the ground.
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dee
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 11, 2006, 09:54
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Ha ha!!
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Cleira
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Re: Vegetarians who eat fish..
Oct 11, 2006, 13:00
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I think the fish deserve to be left alone.
I love to eat fish, but I wont because there is too much fish eating going on, imo, even the so called sustainable fish stocks make me suspicious - surely they cannot be truly sustainable, and would never be if we all swopped over to eating them. And celebrity chefs don't help when they keep encouraging us to cook fish.
So I prefer to give fish a chance.
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