tbh if you're going to take that attitude there's 'violence' at every step of every area of human endeavour. do you think i want to be sitting here at work day after day after day? it's violence or the threat of violence which keeps people at work.
Yeah. Like you said. "Uplift". Yeah.
there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Sex is not just for reproduction though is it.
but the social rituals of breaking bread together need not imply meat at all. OTOH you do have things like the ritual of the sunday roast which sort of implies meat although there is nutroast
the social ritual of breaking bread focusses on eating something but not the most valued foodstuff. that's why it's bread, which is a staple among many cultures, and not meat which in bygone times would not necessarily have been to hand and which might have necessitated a special hunting expedition to obtain.
there might be the coincidental benefit from firing the fields that some of the mice are simultaneously barbequed.
I've wrestled with this for years. Have been vegetarian and vegan on and off over the years too. Trouble unless I end up spending about twice as much on food as I can afford I get ill every time, or really overweight. I haven't given up but I think my life has to be a lot more stable before I can try again.
since finding out that, in theory, lobsters can live for ever (QI fact I think) I've not been able to touch lobster. which is fine, because my finances wouldn;t survive me eating lobster very often either.
I always meant to check that fact out but it just kept dropping off my list. So lobsters are fair game then :-p
sadly qi as honest as boris johnson
this may come as a surprise but all food spends some time in your body after you've eaten it.
if i served nutroast at my sunday lunch i'd be eating alone.
