"It's just not fair. It's a monopoly by
vegetarians," said Kiran Talwar, 49, a prosthetics engineer who has seen
vegetarianism take over restaurants and groceries all over his childhood
neighbourhood on posh Nepeansea Road. "If you step out to eat, there's
nothing for miles because everything around is veggie," he said.
bwuhahaha. now he knows how we vegetarians feel in many places of the world. besides it's not like you need to consume the decaying flesh of dead animals to have a good meal, anyways.
oh, for the day when the city i live in has so many vegetarians that supermarkets just stop carrying animal products. we apparently have the highest per-capita rate of veg restaurants of any major city in the country, so we're on our way there. it's only a matter of time. you meat eaters better start thinking about a strategy now. ;)
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Bah, I hate vegetables - texture-wise, I find it disgusting. Just can't do it. I'll garnish my steak with some veggies, put some raw carrots on the plate, or have a crapload of potato (well... its not really a vegetable anyway... it tastes too good!), but thats it.
The rest must be meat. Some form of cow, preferably. Can't really eat anything else.
Btw... Wade hasn't answered my email... has he been on IRC?
Just curious, how's Plasma progressing these days? I haven't seen anything about it on DOT and did not see that many commits in SVN. Or should we expect curtains rising any day now? :)
Vegetables have a life. Please stop the massacre!
bwuhahaha. now he knows how we vegetarians feel in many places of the world. besides it's not like you need to consume the decaying flesh of dead animals to have a good meal, anyways.
Eating meat raw and ah. "decaying" is not really recommended. Serving it beautifully cooked just-so with a little of mama's secret BBQ sauce definitely is! (mmmm....)
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Vegetables have a life. Please stop the massacre!
Exactly. Tomorrow is harvest day, and to them, it is, the holocaust*. Save our brothers, let the rabbits wear glasses!
*Quote from a song. Noone should get upset by the reference. So don't.
Interesting that they had problems finding any meat. Most of the restaurants that I when to in India had veg and non-veg sections. Even when I escaped Bangalore and visited some small towns there was always some meat on the menu. Only a few holy areas had a strict no non-veg policy. (the term "no non-veg" was on a sign the amused me)
Now it was not always meat that you wanted to eat. Some fish that I had in a town tasted like rotten + enough spice to almost drown it out. Also certain types of meat were hard to find. There was a lot of chicken and fish, but next to no beef.
Some of my co-workers that are vegetarians actually had problems finding food they liked. They are used to all of the fresh vegetables they can get in Calgary. In India it may be vegetarian but it is all stewed of fried.
Thanks for the pro-vegetarianism... I love that beeing a vegge my self. ;)
You know that you can eat vegetarian on every street corner in Taiwan and Singapore?
In asia vegetarianism has a lot to do with certian spiritual influences; mostly buddhism, hinduism and taoism.
Cies Breijs.
veggy food rules :) or should ;)
in my home town it's still very awkward to eat vegetarian food. A few years ago I went to india and it was really fun to be eating veggy and everyone finding it the most normal thing in the world :)
india is a great country
not counting corruption ;)
I'm not a huge fan of eating decaying vegetable matter either. Fresh food is so much nicer.
I second the thanks for the pro-vegetarianism. I *am* an Indian and in India. Here even non-veg people, when travelling, usually bring with them or buy only veg food. I just came back home after a month of travelling so I know this.
To those anonymi who said sarcastically that massacre of vegetables should be stopped too, why don't they start a SPCP -- after all there exists an SPCA.
The fact remains that killing plants and killing animals are two different things.
BTW, that remark about corruption here is sad, but true. Each election, the politicians keep promising a corruption-free government, and the corruption continues nevertheless. Don't know when our country will get rid of this blight...
the problem with veggy meals, is they are more work to cook. Otherwise I'd eat them much more often myself.
I've always wondered, if we're not supposed to eat animals why are they made of meat?
"besides it's not like you need to consume the decaying flesh of dead animals to have a good meal, anyways."
Maybe YOU don't, but for us omnivores a bit of dead flesh compliments the salad very nicely. ;)
" it's only a matter of time. you meat eaters better start thinking about a strategy now. ;)"
Personally, I plan to continue eating herbivores. If the only herbivores left are vegetarians.. the question is, what will YOU do when you find yourself on the menu?
@anonymous: i never considered the meat i ate to be decaying either until i'd been a vegetarian for about a year and then walked through a supermarket meat aisle. the stench, which i'd never noticed before, was nearly overwhelming. every time i go through a meat section of a store i can smell it. when you have it around all the time you don't notice it.
@shriramana: i wouldn't take the jibes of "don't kill the veggies" too seriously ;) you have to admit that there is a certain moral/ethical judgement made in becoming a vegetarian for most people. and such judgements are pretty uncomfortable to be confronted with. a lot of people deal with it with humour and don't mean anything by it. i think being able to laugh along with those jokes goes a long ways to people realizing that most of us veg's aren't radical fanatic crazy people.
and once they realize that it's not a fanatic thing, it makes it much harder to ignore and much easier to actually think about seriously.
i've even been known to say, jokingly, that the reason i'm a vegetarian is that i hate plants and they must all die! die! die! ;)
@Cies: yeah, buddhism really resonates with me on a lot of levels. particularly the zen sects. i don't think i'll ever "become" a buddhist per say, but i enjoy reading about that faith and learning about the cultures that have formed alongside it.
@max: actually, cooking veg is no harder than cooking w/meat and actually results in better food IME if done right. the biggest problem is that we aren't taught how to cook veg and so it's a really hard set of knowledge to come by.
if the militant vegans of the world (of which i am not one of) -really- wanted to make a difference, they'd put together a "cooking veg the easy way!" campaign and stop harassing people.
i'm of half a mind to do a cooking presentation at akademy ;)
my "metric ton nachos" are fast, easy, include a hamburger-like-substance that's much better (and safer) for you and are guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
and that's not even talking about killer stir fries, soups, burgers, sandwiches, salads (which have a bad name because most people have only had anemic pussy-grade salads), curries, sushi, roasts (yep, roasts), BBQs, pastas, etc, etc ....
ask zack rusin about my diet if you'd like a third party account of wanton veg carnage that is my consumption habits ;)
my strategy is to learn to enjoy the taste of vegetarians
i've been vegan for around 3 years and veggy since i was 11. Eating out is expensive, so I don’t normally. Eating at home is easy and enjoyable my kids love my cakes and many of our visitors don’t know that my cakes are vegan and comment on how yummy they are cooking vegan is no harder than cooking with eggs and milk but at least when my kids lick out the bowl I’ve no worries about the eggs not being cooked. if meat is so wonderfull why does it get drown in sauces.
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