More disruptive behavior from vegans,but you've just
gotta love the sign the butcher is holding up to camera......

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I can only suppose that the other protestor fell over 'cos he was too weak to stand - needs a bit of protein probably

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Sorry ME have only just gone back to this thread. To answer your question, not really I tend to eat Vegan at home (which on the whole is most enjoyable)

Having spent most of my working life in the food ingredients industry this is a subject close to my heart. The mantra there was "there are no bad foods, only bad diets"and this is true. Humans are not herbivores or carnivores. We are omnivores and able to survive and prosper on a variety of diets, which is clearly evidenced by the huge differences to be found around the world.

In my opinion there are many things that we need to reduce our consumption of before tackling meat, or all processed foods. The biggest concern for me is simply salt. We consume far too much salt than we need and as it encourages water retention it can help cause obesity and be a killer. We have become conditioned to expect it in our food because it has been used to preserve foods for centuries and enhances the flavour of poor quality ingredients. Stop adding salt to your cooking and add more herbs and spices and you will be much healthier.

Those vegans who don't eat meat because they love animals seem to me to miss the point. Those animals bred for meat depend on us eating them to have any life at all. You can argue that their welfare needs to be improved but not that you should not eat them.

Eat a varied diet, cut out the high salt levels and reduce the fat intake. Then don't worry too much. So long as you don't try to live on just a few things you will be fine. Food should be enjoyed and not over worried about. Eat as fresh as you can, but only because it tastes better fresh. Support sustainable farming as a sensible low cost method of production but ignore organic which is a big con trick played on the public. It just isn't any better for you and often gets flown in at great cost, using land that ought to serve local communities.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

We are all alive because we went against nature, antibiotics and cooking are against nature, diseases and death arn't. i say bollocks to nature, we are all here because somewhere down the line we realised we could cheat nature...

But there are no records pre say the 40s about cancer so surely it's been here for ever.
People topping themselves must be more than diet.
Society and stress I reckon must have an effect.