XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, misc.rural   
      
   On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:47:10 +0000, Derek  wrote:   
      
   >On 25/02/2012 00:39, ToolPackinMama wrote:   
   >> My favorite food used to be chicken.  recently, while I was preparing   
   >> chicken for my family, I had an epiphany.   
   >>   
   >> I was handling the chicken parts with great caution.  I had vinyl gloves   
   >> on, and I was working hard to keep the process sanitary.  I am aware of   
   >> how unclean chicken meat generally is.   
   >>   
   >> It suddenly struck me:  "If I believe this has to be handled like toxic   
   >> waste, why am I feeding it to my family!?"   
   >>   
   >> It hit me like a bolt of lightning:  I believe that meat is unwholesome,   
   >> so why am I still eating it, and serving it to others!?   
   >>   
   >> I have always hated the cruelty that "food animals" were subjected to.   
   >> I had to not think about it, to be able to eat meat at all.  Well, I am   
   >> thinking about it now, and it makes the thought of meat even more repugnant.   
   >>   
   >> OK!  The solution seems simple:  vegetarianism.  However, the solution   
   >> has created a new problem for me... I don't know how to cook vegetarian   
   >> meals.   
   >>   
   >> I am asking you good people to post your favorite recipes.  Not the   
   >> fancy ones, but the every-day comfort foods ones that you rely on the most.   
   >>   
   >> Thanks a million!   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Laura   
   >   
   >Hiya, Laura. You've made a very good decision to go vegetarian, so   
   >don't let the naysayers here against it fool you into thinking otherwise.   
      
     · From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised   
   steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people   
   get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well   
   over 500 servings of meat. From a grass raised dairy cow people   
   get thousands of dairy servings. Due to the influence of farm   
   machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the flooding and   
   draining of fields, one serving of soy or rice based product is   
   likely to involve more animal deaths than hundreds of servings   
   derived from grass raised animals. Grass raised animal products   
   contribute to fewer wildlife deaths, better wildlife habitat, and   
   better lives for livestock than soy or rice products. ·   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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