Cutting down meat consumption is a fair point and also the quality of meat

I would be interested to know how you'd plan on feeding the world if everyone was vegan

The feed we give to chicken is enough on it's own to feed 3 billion people

22 years eating a vegan diet. Perfectly happy and healthy on it.

Though it is not vegan, a lot of (most) people don`t realise Bovril has been veggie for more than a decade now.

Edited by lankygit (18 May 2017 11.14pm)

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Is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour? [Link]

Veganpower the druid has some good points. Firstly, the wasted farming land to feed the live stock. There is enough farmland to feed the world 3 or 4 times over. Second is the appalling state of industrial livestock farming. Even milk production is cruel to the animals, which need to be kept relatively stress free merely to be able to produce milk. Let alone how intensive beef production livestock is treated. Third is about your own health, high intake of red meat isn't so good for the average person. Unless you can use up all the extra protein and fat, your health will suffer.

Anyhow, I have no problem swatting flies. And I get extremely excited if the cat catches them pesky squirrels which invade my loft. And if it was legal to kill badgers and foxes......

I haven't eaten meat since 1981. I don't like the taste/texture.

I drink milk, eat eggs, shoot squirrels, and am applying for a gun licence to shoot deer (destructive fekkas).

Edited by Tim Gypsy Hill '64 (19 May 2017 12.20am)

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

Now you see you've lost this thread. You started off just asking if there were any other vegans (reading the thread I would guess the answer is not many) but now you're dictating to others what they must and mustn't do and for that my friend there is one simple response... f@ck right off!

Cynic or realist? It's a fine line!