Comments on: Ethic Cleansing

By: Sweary

Sweary — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:05:17 +0000

"Being 100% ethical about your diet borders on the impossible" Medbh hits the defenceless baby lambeen on the head, here. But I'm not returning to the dark side, oh no, cookies or no cookies - and you'll have to get out of that marlarkey, Sparrow, they're called bikkies over here. And they're full up with refined sugar and battery eggs. Oh yes. I'm going to follow my own brand of ethical noshery from here on in, broadly defined as bordering on vegan but making the odd concession towards organic eggs and farmhouse cheeses. And possibly Green and Blacks choccy. I'm sure it'll last all of three days. Flann, being useless is not reason enough for killing and eating someone, however hard I wish it were. And Vince, true. If I could get fresh fish, I would EAT IT. I know fish have feelings too, but if I caught it and bashed its head in on a rock myself, I'd feel that I earned the right to eat it. So long as it wasn't farmed, it's had its chance at happiness. Now it's time to fill my tummy. HOOO YEAH.

By: Fat Sparrow

Fat Sparrow — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:39:07 +0000

“I give the fuck up.”

Yay, return to the Dark Side; we have cookies!

By: Rua

Rua — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:07:54 +0000

I like kebabs.

You’re thinking too hard.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:20:59 +0000

At least these days, what with Tesco Veg and Bean section you stand some chance of a full life.
But what I wish more than anything is if one could get Fresh Fish. You see if you get it that way it does not stink. It does not even smell. If they can ship the fucking stuff to Spain why not the 60 miles inland which would cover every cunt in the state. And you are correct, as is Conan, what they do needlessly on this Island to animals is just wrong. It also exhibits the unbelievable shortsightedness of some landowners.

By: Sniffle

Sniffle — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:14:42 +0000

An understandable slight of conscience Sweary, it was principle you meant to give up.

By: Flann O'Coonassa

Flann O'Coonassa — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:44:04 +0000

If God had intended us to be vegetarians he would have made vegetables taste good

Exactly. And also, if God hadn’t intended us to eat meat, then why did he make cows in the first place? Would we race them, like horses? Unlikely, given their sluggishness and clumsiness.

Would we employ them in the security industries? As an inveterate cat burglar, I can tell you that a Guard Cow would not deter my pilfering.

Guide Cows? I would regard your average bovine as too moronic to be entrusted with a member of the blind community.

Thus, in my opinion, it is no coincidence that cows are both tasty and useless. Their sole purpose is to be edible, and they do a terrific job of it.

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:04:12 +0000

Simple, all you have to do is keep your own animals for eating. That way you know they’ve had the best of care and husbandry and you can slaughter them humanely yourself.

It’s great when it comes to mealtimes because you can ask if anyone wants more Larry (the lamb), Pauline (the pig), or Barney (the bullock), or whatever names you give the lamb, bacon, or beef. Mmmmm…meat.

By: Medbh

Medbh — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:51:27 +0000

Sweary, I share your frustration.
My first stint as a veggie was from age 15-22 and then again I gave it up when I turned 29 and haven’t had meat since.
But I do eat seafood.
Being 100% ethical about your diet borders on the impossible.
I try to minimize the harm I take part in, but then you can only do so much before food becomes a punishment/problem rather than a lovely part of life.

Also, I cook and serve meat because it’s not my business to direct anyone else’s diet.

By: Sweary

Sweary — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:27:48 +0000

Why is it that the automatic response to the veggie is “Mmmm, yummy meat, it’s so YUMMY, MMMMM! MMMMM!”

I know meat is yummy. I actually quite like it. I love cheese. Basically what I don’t like is knowing how the stuff is produced. Ignorance is bliss, and delish, and makes you very fat.

If I ate only rabbits, I think my family would have me committed on top of everything else. Can you imagine me frolicking through the fields every morning on all fours, hunting down ze bunnies?

Unless you can buy them in SuperValu now.

By: AM in Belgium

AM in Belgium — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:19:16 +0000

Sauteed bunny rabbits are delicious. Or bunny rabbits with a nice kriek sauce.

But if you eat only rabbits, you’ll die of malnutrition: or so I heard on QI on the telly last year.

And only yesterday, I was gorging myself on a selection of French cheeses, sausages, salamies, and foie-gras. All washed down with yummy red-wine.