Marilyn

Spoon -- you left out a 4th type of vegetarian: those who do not eat (red) meat for health reasons, e.g., high cholesterol.

gigi

Yeah, I think the whole food supply has been screwed-up. I'm not a vegetarian, but I try to eat only "organic" meat- free of antibiotics, hormones, etc. There is a huge difference in taste, and far less fat.<BR>I also make an effort to eat only organic produce, but this is difficult and very expensive to do all the time. It is frightening to think that drug and chemical companies have control over the world's food supply. How can one really be a vegetarian in the new GM world? They are splicing fish genes into tomatoes, and god only know what else they're doing. Europeans seem to be more educated about this issue. Here in Canada GM foods do not require special labelling. In fact, a major Canadian grocery chain has made it store policy to forbid food packaging that specifically identifies the product as non-GM (pressure from huge food corporations) For weeks my favorite soy milk had a big black marker line where the box read "non-GM", and now that brand is no longer available at that grocery store.<BR>Sigh. I wish I could afford to do all my shopping at health food stores.

bessie

mooooooooooooooooooth eat me and my kids i taste good- i make good steak and veal cutlets. dont feel sorry for me im breed for your enjoyment burp

kam

I figure that I've traveled to the UK tons of time since I was 17 and have always eaten beef ( I'm 57 now) So, I will continue to do so. But to "spoon" from someone whose best friend's mother died of CJS, please don't lightly refer to it as "bovine spongiform encephasomething or other." That's really making light of a terrible disease and very hurtful.

meateater

It's good to be at the top of the food chain.<BR><BR>Take a good look at your teeth. They were made for tearing apart flesh. Vegetarianism is not the way nature intended us to fuel our bodies.

spoon

To Marilyn,<BR><BR>I think if you eat white meat, although not red, you still qualify as a meat-eater, although I had a vegetarian friend who ate chicken because they were "technically vegetables"<BR><BR>To Kam, sincere apologies, no offence was intented, I simply couldn't remember the whole word.<BR><BR>On additives to meat, I was visiting some clients in Alabama, and one informed me that her father "grew" chickens. Being wary of Anglo-American linguistic differences, I asked if she meant "bred", or "reared" chickens, but apparently no...he grew them. It transpires that with the right chemicals in six weeks you can "grow" a one ounce chick into a 210 pound monster, probably with six legs. (OK so I'm exagerating)<BR><BR>To meateater, we're omnivores, check out your flat back teeth. While we can live on a vegetarian diet, we can't survive on meat alone.