Re: Veggie diets

[Guest guest]

I bought Archie up as a vegetarian, and this was all going well until i took

him to an open day at the local firestation.

Fireman: Would you like to try my helmet on?

Archie: No thankyou, I'm a vegetarian

At the age of 5 or so he decided he wanted to try meat...I explained that it

was a dead animal, and he said, matter of factly, 'yes, i think you should

eat animals, especially chickens as they are ugly.'

At the grand old age of 7 he now demands rare steak in restaurants (he loved

the red sauce (ie blood) ) and when I'm picking herbs in the garden mocks

me, saying...I can hear it scream!!!

I was a veggie for about 10 years, but the bacon and salami cravings got too

much in the end...I still don't like cooking and touching raw meat though.

As for health, i don't think veggies are necessarily any healthier...most of

my friends live on quorn and mc Cartney stuff and gallons of cheese! :-)

Emma

[Guest guest]

>As for health, i don't think veggies are necessarily any healthier...most of

>my friends live on quorn

Are you bracketing Quorn with the other two? Probably fair enough if

you mean the prepared foods (burgers, sausages, tikka masala etc) but

not for the plain pieces or fillets.

> and mc Cartney stuff and gallons of cheese! :-)

I think the research evidence is that vegetarians are, statistically,

healthier - however, there hasn't been time for enough of those of us

who live on the aforementioned items to pop our clogs of anything (I

am enrolled as a subject in a Europe wide study, provided a fair bit

of data so far, but hoping not to provide that last bit for a while!)

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jennifer@...

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