Mugi to Olive (Wheat and Olive) is a pasta restaurant chain by the food company that also produces さんるーむ (Sunroom). According to their website, they care about the safety of food, and therefore use …
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I HATE vegetarians, with their sanctimonious, prissy, holier than-thou-attitude and determination to be as big a pain in the arse as they can be.
So wrote Nick Triggs on the opinion page of the Sydney Morning Herald this week. He explained that his wrath was provoked by, among other things, vegetarians making meat-serving hosts feel guilty, and the diet being a first world luxury (or ‘gluttony’).
The gluttony argument is just daft with all the info on how meat-eating affects the planet and poverty. And it seems to me that to make someone feel guilty, they have to be doing something they believe to be wrong. If some posh old buzzard tells me off for breaching an antiquated etiquette rule, I wouldn’t feel guilty, no matter how seriously they took it. And when someone tackles me about religion, I don’t feel guilty not believing what they wish to convince me of. So how can a man so assured that meat is not just a reasonable choice, but the morally right choice, feel guilt just because someone at the table has different views?
But buried in the nonsense is one interesting point. Triggs asks if it’s not better in the long run to eat free range meats — tilting the market away from factory farming and toward more humane methods. The argument won’t be persuasive to any vegetarian, for the obvious reason that there still must be a slaughter… but how about eggs? Read the whole story »
Here’s a quick and super simple vegetarian bibimbap (Korean mixed rice bowl). Vegans can drop the egg and it’ll still taste fine.
From the Beeb yesterday:
Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer but this does not apply to all forms of the disease, a major study has found.
The study involving 60,000 people found …
In Spain and Italy, lower rates of cardiovascular disease are linked to a diet rich in pulses.
Lentils are one per cent fat and 44 per cent insoluble dietary fibre, which helps eliminate blood …
On Sunday, with rain pouring outside and no desire to leave my apartment despite the grumble in my stomach, I picked through the limited contents of my fridge and pantry to see what I could …
These vegan/vegetarian celeb lists usually err on the side of ‘let’s include them, because they once declined a Big Mac’. Marc Bolan, included here, gave up being veggie and gorged on burgers and fried chicken. …
Two interesting, contrasting takes on vegetarianism in the Guardian. Both written by vegetarians.
An excerpt from the initial opinion piece from Hadley Freeman:
there is a problem, and that is the inherently tedious nature of evangelical vegetarianism. …
There’s something quite sick about a company that boasts of how many animals it has to kill to make a handbag. Hermes is proud that “it can take three to four crocodiles to make one …
A new indie movie form the UK follows the pork trade back from supermarket shelves to the corporate factory farms. Interestingly for an expose of factory farming, it’s aimed not at turning people off meat, …
The latest model for Peta: Lydia Guevara, granddaughter of Che. From AP:
NEW YORK – The granddaughter of Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara is at the forefront of another revolution — for vegetarianism.
Lydia Guevara poses …
The Times of London has a piece on how to cook vegetables for maximum health benefit. For the raw foodists out there, this will be sacrilege. For others it’s a useful guide to keeping nutrients …
Here’s a quick and super simple vegetarian bibimbap (Korean mixed rice bowl). Vegans can drop the egg and it’ll still taste fine.
